The opportunity.

Octagon Professionals is recruiting an HR Generalist for an international aerospace engineering company. You’ll support the people behind specialist technology and manufacturing, taking responsibility for day-to-day HR, Technical recruitment and payroll coordination.

You’ll work directly with managers and engineers, understanding the capabilities their teams need and helping attract the talent to develop them. The role brings you close to the engineering work, alongside a wider international People & Talent function.

The business moves quickly, and its processes continue to evolve. You’ll have scope to improve how things work, with the expectation that you can identify what needs attention and move it forward independently.

Key responsibilities:

• Manage the employee lifecycle: Handle contracts, amendments, onboarding, offboarding, absence, leave, benefits, and day-to-day employee matters.
• Deliver technical recruitment: Define hiring requirements with managers, directly source specialist engineering and technical talent, conduct initial screening, and support offers.
• Apply Dutch HR and employment knowledge: Give practical guidance on people matters and help managers make informed decisions.
• Support team leaders: Work through performance, development, and employee relations matters with leaders across technical teams.
• Own monthly payroll coordination: Manage inputs and changes with an external provider, check outputs, and resolve discrepancies.
• Improve people processes: Adapt HR practices to changing business needs, collaborating with international People & Talent colleagues.

The experience you bring:

Your background may be in HR generalist work with recruitment responsibility, or in recruitment with practical HR experience. We’re interested in the combination: someone who can support employees and managers while actively finding the technical talent the business needs.

• Strong practical knowledge of Dutch HR practices and employment legislation.
• Experience in HR, recruitment, talent acquisition, or a combined People & Talent role, with hands-on responsibility for employee matters.
• Recruitment capability spanning hiring-manager briefings, direct sourcing, candidate screening, and support through to offer.
• Confidence building relationships with engineers and technical leaders, understanding their requirements, and translating them into hiring activity.
• Excellent professional English, written and spoken.
• The initiative to manage priorities independently and adapt as business needs change.

Useful, but not essential:

• A technical or 360° recruitment background, bringing proactive sourcing, stakeholder management, and ownership of the hiring process.
• Experience coordinating payroll with an external provider.
• Experience in aerospace, defence manufacturing, advanced manufacturing, engineering, or another fast-moving technical environment.

Ready for this new challenge? Apply now and let’s get in touch!

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