HR Coordinator

Oxinst; High Wycombe; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm seeks a Graduate HR Coordinator to support HR operations in High Wycombe. Responsibilities include employee engagement, generalist HR support, and payroll assistance. Ideal candidates are articulate, organized, and data-driven, with a proactive attitude towards learning. Enjoy benefits like 25 days of holiday, cycle-to-work options, and professional mentoring, all while working in a hybrid model that promotes work-life balance.

Benefits

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Cycle to work

Income protection

Employee Discounts

Life assurance

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Experience with HR systems or payroll data is helpful but not essential.
• Strong attention to detail and numeracy skills.

Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day operations of the HR function across Head Office.
• Engage in employee experience activities, events, and communications.
• Provide generalist HR support by contacting employees and managers.
• Manage HR projects including policy reviews and compliance activities.
• Assist with payroll support by preparing and validating inputs.

Skills

Articulate

Highly organised

Strong with data and Excel

Proactive

Professional and discreet

Education

Graduate degree in HR or related field

Job description

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At Oxford Instruments, we enable the world’s leading industrial companies and scientific research communities to image, analyse and manipulate materials down to the atomic and molecular level. With a sixty-year history, and fourteen Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, our world-class products and technologies are helping our customers to address the greatest challenges of the 21st century.

This role is ideal for an enthusiastic, people‑orientated and analytical graduate who is passionate about developing a career in HR, and enjoys working with people, working with data, improving processes, and contributing to a high‑performance culture. It provides a strong foundation for progression into HR generalist, people analytics, or talent development pathways.

The Opportunity

As our Graduate HR Coordinator, you’ll support the day‑to‑day operations of our HR function across Head Office — combining hands‑on people interaction with structured, detail‑driven work. You’ll develop broad HR expertise while building strong relationships across teams and gaining experience in:

• Employee experience: engagement activities, events and communications
• Generalist HR support: regular contact with employees and managers, supporting ER processes
• HR projects: policy reviews, SharePoint management, compliance activity
• Training coordination: managing programmes, providers and logistics
• Payroll support: preparing and validating accurate monthly payroll inputs

Payroll and data work will require confidence with numbers and attention to detail — but the heart of this role is HR, problem‑solving and working with people.

About You

You’ll thrive here if you are:

• Articulate, confident and able to build rapport at all levels
• Highly organised, reliable and proactive
• Strong with data, numeracy and Excel — comfortable ensuring accuracy
• Curious, motivated and eager to learn HR end‑to‑end
• Professional, discreet and trusted with confidential information

Experience with HR systems or payroll data is helpful but absolutely not essential.

Why Oxford Instruments

• Work for a company whose purpose is to accelerate the breakthroughs that advance our world
• Build a broad HR skillset with clear development pathways (HR generalist, people analytics, L&D)
• Gain CIPD support and strong professional mentoring
• Join a culture that values being Inclusive, Innovative, Trusted and Purposeful

At Oxford Instruments, we are proud of the environment that we have created. We hope that by joining us, you will discover why people stay with our business for so long and have such a significant impact on our globally growing success story.

This role is a hybrid role with the main location beingHigh Wycombe. We work from 8:00 am until 4:30 pm Monday to Thursday and finish at 1:00 pm on Fridays, allowing you to start your weekend early.

Other Benefits:

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Cycle to work
• Income protection
• Employee Discounts
• Life assurance

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.

Note to recruitment agencies: Oxford Instruments operates a Preferred Supplier List, and we do not accept unsolicited agency CVs. Please do not forward candidate details in response to this advert, or to any Oxford Instruments employees or other company locations. Oxford Instruments is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited CVs.