HR & Admin Officer

Location: Leeds
Hours: Full-time

An enormous need exists to dramatically reduce energy use and carbon-emissions globally. The ambitious targets set by governments across the world mean that businesses, large and small, need to act and deploy strategies and technology to optimise their processes, assets, and buildings.
About Hark
Hark is an award-winning Energy Analytics and Industrial IoT company based in Leeds. Known for the innovative technology in our subscription cloud platform, were on a mission to improve efficiency, maximise yield and reduce waste.
The Hark Platform is helping alert Energy Managers and Asset Operators, through machine learning and advanced statistics, to abnormalities across their estate, informing actions such as preventative maintenance, regulatory compliance, asset control and energy management.
With the ability to connect to existing assets such as Building Management Systems, Energy Systems, Process Automation Controllers (used to power factories and industrial systems) the Hark Platform is enabling intelligent solutions across large estates connectivity, visibility, and intelligence.
Hark have deployed successful solutions within the Life Sciences sector for cold chain monitoring, a nationwide rollout of real-time energy monitoring capability for UK Supermarkets across 600+ locations, as well as licensed the technology to Fortune 500 companies in the industrial space.
Hark are controlling assets such as Lights, HVAC systems and Energy Storage assets for a varied set of purposes which creates future business opportunities, as these solutions use the same technology and same underlying core platform.
We are working with 2 of the top 4 supermarkets (Sainsburys and Asda) and have solutions deployed across retail, life sciences and manufacturing. The Hark Platform is helping alert Energy Managers and Asset Operators to abnormalities across their estate, informing actions such as preventative maintenance, regulatory compliance, asset control and energy management.
We are a thriving company run by a passionate team, striving to be thought and industry leaders. The team is focused on delivering maximum impact in a supportive, fast paced environment, driving innovation and best practice in everything we do by following our core values:
Good by default
Open to new ideas
Always improving
As a member of the team, you will have:
Flexible working hours with the ability to work remotely
The ability to take ownership, drive change, and grow our culture and company
Quarterly social activities and team building exercises such as escape rooms and paintballing
About The Role
The role of HR & Admin Officer at Hark works together with our senior leadership team to run day-to-day HR activities of the business to ensure the team have the best possible experience.
Someone who is well organised, passionate about growing relationships, engaging with people, creating award winning work experiences, and is keen to stay up to date with industry news and trends is ideal.
This role involves processing employee data, updating and communicating company policies and assisting in the hiring process.
Must haves
You are an enthusiastic, positive person
Work experience as an HR & Admin Officer, HR Administrative Assistant or similar role
You understand HR systems and applicable legislation such as Employment, Health and Safety, Equality, Data Protection.
You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and would be comfortable presenting to a small team.
You like to get stuck in and are not afraid of asking questions
You take pride in producing top-quality work and hold extremely high standards
You like to try new things and learn new skills
Youre organised and dont fear last minute changes
Youre looking for a long-term career with a healthy work/life balance
You believe in using technology to make the world a more sustainable place and grow a diverse, talented team.
Nice to haves
Experience using spreadsheets and Microsoft Excel
Familiarity with HR software and its capabilities such as People HR and Perkbox
A degree in Human Resource Management or equivalent
Youve got an eye for building relationships and partnerships
Responsibilities
As a HR & Admin Officer at Hark, you'll need to:
Maintain physical and digital personnel records such as employment contracts
Update internal databases with joiners, leavers and movers information
Create and distribute guidelines and FAQ documents about company policies
Collect and manage payroll data like bank accounts and working days
Publish and remove job ads
Schedule job interviews and contact candidates as needed
Prepare reports and presentations on HR-related metrics like total number of hires by department
Develop training and onboarding material
Respond to employees questions about benefits (for example, number of annual leave days theyre eligible for)
Direct applications only, no recruitment agencies, thank you.