Senior HR Employee (m/f/x)

An experienced HR professional who enjoys tackling complex HR issues, sharing knowledge, maintaining an overview, and contributing to excellent HR services.

For our dynamic HR administration/HR support team, we are looking for an experienced HR professional who is well-versed in HR operations and enjoys thinking along about various HR issues. You are a subject matter expert for colleagues and you enjoy getting your hands dirty. With a proactive outlook, you look beyond daily practice and see opportunities for process improvement. Do you recognize yourself in this and do you want to help build the further development of our department? Apply quickly!

What will you do?

Together with your HR colleagues, you ensure that the foundation of our HR administration is in order, but your added value lies primarily in handling more complex operational HR issues, supporting HR colleagues, and further developing our services together with the team leader. You are a subject matter expert for the HR team and a trusted point of contact for NLR employees and HR advisors.

As a senior HR employee, you have a versatile role where HR administration, service delivery, substantive expertise, and process improvement come together. Your HR colleagues are busy with daily HR processes, while you focus mainly on issues that require more experience, insight, and independence. Furthermore, you actively share your knowledge with colleagues, think along about a smart division of work, and contribute to the quality of our services.

Your tasks in brief:

• Expert for the HR team: you handle second-line HR issues concerning, for example, employment conditions, personnel regulations and HR processes, secondment, secondment and share your knowledge and support colleagues.

• Collaboration with the HR Team Leader: you work on HR projects, improve processes, and monitor progress, especially during peak times.

• Support for HR Advisors and managers: you assist with operational HR issues and ensure a good connection between HR processes and practice.

• Ensuring good HR service delivery: you monitor the quality of HR administration and have contact with employees. You contribute to correct and timely processing of personnel data and support with first-line questions where necessary.

• Building the HR department: you identify bottlenecks, think along about practical/operational improvements, help standardize work processes, and share your knowledge with colleagues.

What do you bring?

We are looking for someone who demonstrates seniority in both behavior and HR knowledge. You don't have to know everything, but you have a solid foundation, dare to take responsibility, and know when you can act independently and when coordination is needed. First-time right is the motto; we consider qualitative and careful HR administration and service delivery important.

Furthermore, you bring:

• Completed education in HRM or a similar field with at least five years of relevant experience within HR, preferably in a broad HR administrative role and knowledge of AFAS.

• You have solid knowledge of HR administration and support and experience in independently handling HR issues concerning, for example, employment conditions and personnel regulations.

• You are strong in communication, approachable, and customer-oriented. You easily make contact with employees and colleagues at various levels.

• You enjoy working collaboratively, dare to contribute your own perspective, and are open to feedback and other insights.

• You work meticulously, have an eye for detail, maintain an overview, and help colleagues complete tasks correctly and on time.

• You are accustomed to and energized by working in a rapidly growing and changing organization.

• You have a good command of Dutch and English, both spoken and written, at C1 level.

What do we offer you?

At NLR, you get the space to make an impact and develop yourself. You work in an innovative national and international high-tech environment where curiosity, collaboration, and craftsmanship are central. We believe that people perform best when they are given the freedom to take initiative, to continue developing, and to find a healthy balance between work and private life.

Furthermore, we offer you, among other things:

• A gross monthly salary between €4,400 and €5,000 (based on a 40-hour work week), depending on your knowledge and experience;

• 45 vacation days (based on a 40-hour work week);

• 8% holiday pay and a fixed year-end bonus of 8%;

• The costs for travel by public transport are fully reimbursed. Do you travel by your own transport? Then you will receive a mileage allowance for commuting.

• A healthcare allowance of €145 gross (based on a 40-hour work week) through our collective health insurance with OHRA as additional support for your healthcare costs;

• Additional paid parental leave;

• Plenty of opportunities to keep learning with courses, training, coaching, and other development opportunities;

• The possibility to work 32-40 hours per week, including working from home.

Your new work environment

You will become part of a broad HR team with various expertise, from HR advice and policy to recruitment and Learning & Development. We enjoy brainstorming with each other, keeping each other sharp, and inspiring each other to move forward. There is ample room for your ideas, knowledge, and initiative, with attention to each other and the collective result. Together we work on HR services that meet the needs of the organization and contribute to our strategic ambitions.

Our HR department is undergoing significant development and is working on further professionalization and improvement of processes and collaboration. This offers opportunities but also demands something from you. You will join an HR department where we are actively working to improve our services. We are introducing more structure, simplifying our processes, and working together more closely. This means that not everything is yet fixed, and there is room to think along and organize things more intelligently. Your work location is Amsterdam or Marknesse, but you will also regularly visit our other locations for consultations and collaboration with colleagues.

What does working at NLR mean?

For over 100 years, Royal NLR has been a leading knowledge institution for applied research in aerospace. Together with more than 1,000 professionals, we work on innovative solutions for a more sustainable, safer, and more efficient aerospace. We want everyone at NLR to have the space to be themselves, develop their talents, and contribute ideas. By valuing differences and learning from each other, we create an inclusive work environment together.

Want to know more?

Email Christel Bouwers (Recruiter) via Our colleagues are happy to tell you what it's like to work at NLR. Don't forget to take a look at our social media, such as our YouTube channel.

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