Apprentice HR Generalist

Location: United Kingdom

Company

John Crane, a business of hirify.global, provides mission-critical flow control solutions for energy and process industries, including mechanical seals, couplings, bearings, filtration systems, and predictive digital monitoring technologies.

What you will do

• Act as a first point of contact for day-to-day UK HR queries and support employees and managers with HR policies and processes.
• Support recruitment, pre-employment screening, new starter documentation, onboarding, site inductions, and engagement check-ins.
• Maintain employee lifecycle records, HR data, reports, audits, and action tracking across HR systems.
• Support employee relations cases, absence management, meetings, documentation, and case records.
• Assist with employee engagement, diversity and inclusion activities, communications, and site events.
• Coordinate training programmes, learning initiatives, training records, and learning and development projects.

Requirements

• GCSE, A-level, or Level 3 CIPD qualification.
• Previous HR experience.
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and PivotTables.
• Excellent written and oral communication, interpersonal, organisation, and attention-to-detail skills.
• Ability to plan, meet deadlines, and take ownership proactively.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive workplace committed to equality, ethics, and diversity.
• Employee resource groups including Veterans, Pride Network, Black Employee Network, Women@Work Network, and Neurodiversity.
• Opportunities to participate in employee engagement initiatives and professional learning activities.
• Recognition through the annual Smiths Excellence Awards and Smiths Day celebration.