Senior HR Generalist & Talent Development

John Crane, a business of Smiths Group, is a global leader in mission-critical flow control solutions for energy and process industries that enable efficient and sustainable operations. Our products include mechanical seals and systems, couplings, bearings, filtration systems, and predictive digital monitoring technologies. 

We have a global network of more than 200 sites in over 50 countries and employ more than 6,000 people worldwide. We partner with our customers to help them keep their operations safe, reduce downtime, improve efficiency, and meet the latest environmental standards. 

John Crane is part of Smiths Group. For over 170 years, Smiths has been pioneering progress by engineering for a better future. We serve millions of people every year, helping to create a safer, more efficient, productive, and better-connected world across four global markets: energy, security & defence, space & aerospace, and general industrial. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs approximately 16,000 colleagues in over 50 countries. 

Purpose:

Provide support & advice in all areas of people management & development, focus on the improvement of early career talent progression rates, leadership diversity, and sustained improvements in high potential talent retention & be responsible for HR operation activities. The role will be responsible for supporting & coordinating a wide variety of HR activities including resourcing, onboarding, employee relations, disciplinary action, talent Management and development, Early Careers, legal matters of the site, performance management, policy procedure interpretation, and employee recognition.

Key Activities:

• Collaborate with division Global HR Directors and Region HR Business Partners to identify high potential talent across the division.
• Collaborate with division Global HR Directors and Region HR Business Partners to identify new/existing high priority positions in the region where a vacancy is expected, and available internal high potential talent pools suitable to review for those position.
• Work with functional manager/s: manage the delivery and administration of HR processes such as Employee relations, Compensation, Wage & Benefit and performance management
• Actively participate in region talent reviews and succession planning discussions and provide organizational leaders with high potential talent recommendations.
• Ensure assistance is available to counsel employees and managers to resolve grievance issues such as policy and procedure interpretation, performance expectations, absenteeism, discipline, and workplace harassment and discrimination.
• Conduct monthly status meetings with the Global HR Directors and Region HR Business Partners to review progress on identified high potential talent.
• Provide consultation, resources and training assistance to department and division management to assess and address ongoing training and development needs for early career employees.
• Provide support and oversight to ensure the entire early career cycle is successfully implemented with relevant milestones recognized and documents in collaboration with the functional SPOC.
• Design and implement programs to support the professional development of early career talent within the organization.
• Continuously monitor the diversity and progress of our early career (i.e., DISCOVER) and technical career (i.e., SUMMIT) talent pipelines and ensure their long-term readiness and development is being considered in region succession plans for high priority positions.
• Delivers site/functional communications in accordance with group/divisional/functional communication strategies. Collects and analyses feedback from communications and works with constituents to develop recommended actions.
• Manage recruitment process and ensure compliance with prevailing regulations. Conduct new employee orientations.
• Assure company compliance with all applicable regulations and respond to questions regarding regulations, consulting legal counsel when necessary.
• Manage recruitment process and ensure compliance with prevailing regulations. Conduct new employee orientations.

• Master’s degree in human resources or related field with minimum 10 years of experience of which at least 8 years in HR Generalist role in a Manufacturing or Engineering Services environment preferred but not essential.
• Ability to shape and lead human resource programs to maximize support for company strategic business goals.
• Ability to build relationship as trusted advisor to management, proactively managing the stakeholders within Smiths organization.
• Excellent influencing, communication and people management skills with the ability to interact with all levels of staff.
• Highly motivated with initiative and drive; results-oriented and customer-focused.

Key Metrics:                                                   

• Thorough knowledge of concepts and practices within the human resource function
• Current knowledge of national and regional legal and regulatory environments and requirements
• Ability to negotiate and lead discussion with managers, employees, employees’ representatives
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Can work independently and possesses good decision-making skills.  
• Ability to handle multiple priorities.

With colleagues stretching across the globe, we are proud of our diversity. To foster inclusivity, we run employee resource groups (ERGs) to provide a safe space for employees to connect and support each other. Our cross-business ERGs include Veterans, Pride Network, Black Employee Network, Women@Work Network, and Neurodiversity. 

Across our company, we recognize excellence, culminating in the Smiths Excellence Awards, our annual celebration of the most extraordinary activities, people, and projects that best showcase our strengths and help drive our business forward. We announce these on our annual Smiths Day, a global celebration of Smiths around our network. 

Join us for a great career with competitive compensation and benefits, while helping engineer a better future. 

We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.

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