HR Adviser EMEA
Your role Are you passionate about creating a great employee experience and helping people thrive at work? Join us as an HR Advisor EMEA, General Vacuum, part of the Atlas Copco Group; Vacuum Business Area, where you'll play a key role in uniting 240+ employees across 17 countries into one cohesive, high-performing European GV Customer Centre. Working closely with the HR Manager, you'll deliver high-quality HR support, drive impactful people initiatives, and help strengthen our employer brand across the region. You'll be part of a collaborative HR team shaping the future employee experience across EMEA. This is a role for someone who thrives in a fast-moving, multicultur.al environment, enjoys working with people at all levels, and wants to make a genuine impact on culture, capability, and engagement
Key Responsibilities
- Be a trusted HR partner delivering high‑impact, timely support across the EMEA Customer Centre.
- Champion a positive, inclusive employee experience, with consistent and engaging onboarding journeys.
- Shape the future of talent by supporting talent management, learning programmes, and leadership development.
- Bring development to life by coordinating training, tracking impact, and helping build clear, motivating career pathways.
- Partner closely with managers on performance, career conversations, and high‑performing teams.
- Lead and support end‑to‑end recruitment across the North & East regions, Early Careers, and global mobility.
- Own data quality and insight—maintaining accurate HR records, supporting KPI reporting.
- Contribute to competitive reward practices, including benchmarking and quarterly recognition initiatives.
- Drive continuous improvement through HR process enhancements, audit follow‑ups, and compliance activities.
- Play a key role in annual HR cycles, regional and global projects, while building strong, trusted employee relationships.
To succeed, you will need
- Strong experience delivering HR operational support in a fast-paced, changing environment.
- CIPD qualified (full/part) or working towards it.
- Experience in manufacturing or engineering environments (preferred).
- Strong talent management background across development, training, and resourcing.
- Confident user of HR systems with a proactive, solution-oriented approach.
- Thrives in complex, matrix organisations.
- Empathetic communicator with a commercially focused mindset.Self-motivated and independent, with good judgement on when to seek support.
- Highly organised, able to prioritise, multitask, and adapt in a fast-changing environment.
- Detail-driven, reliable, and consistently delivers accurate, timely outcomes.
- Collaborative team player committed to continuous learning.
- Fluent in English; additional European languages are an advantage
We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. We value diverse experiences and perspectives and are excited to see what you bring to the role. In return, we offer
- Culture of trust and accountability
- Lifelong learning and career growth
- Innovation powered by people
- Comprehensive compensation and benefits
- Health and well-being
Job location This role offers remote or a hybrid working arrangement depending on location, allowing you to split your time between working remotely and being on-site at our site in Burgess Hill, Edward Vacuum. Contact information Talent Acquisition Team: Sarah Rebecca Cogswell Uniting curious minds Behind every innovative solution, there are people working together to transform the future. With careers sparked by initiative and lifelong learning, we unite curious minds, and you could be one of them.