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Closing date

31/12/2026

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Spaces, 100 Avebury Boulevard,
Milton Keynes,
MK9 1FH

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Position:	People Manager
Reporting To:	Director of People
Base Location:	Head Office – Milton Keynes, with hybrid working offered and an expectation of 1–2 days per week in the office, with the remaining days worked from home. Occasional travel to our London office may also be required.
Start Date:	As soon as possible
Salary:	Dependant on experience
Type:	Full time, Permanent – Monday to Friday

About Eclipse:

With a company-wide ambition to outshine for our customers and partners, we are committed to continually raising the bar in how we work and what we deliver. Eclipse Power is a proud market leader in the UK energy sector, providing expert grid

consultancy and delivering private network and microgrid solutions, as well as operating as an OFGEM licensed Independent Distribution Network Operator (IDNO).

We offer specialised technical expertise at every stage of the customer journey, from advice and support on initial project viability, to design through to adoption and maintenance and everything in between. Our strong reputation, skilled workforce,

innovative digital technology, and established industry regulatory relationships underpin the service we provide, and we are passionate and committed to delivering safe, reliable and high-quality solutions for our customers and partners.

Our people are our most important asset. Rather than traditional company values, we have personalities, reflecting our belief that how we work and what we do truly matters. With a diverse talent pool, we benefit from many different ways of thinking. Our people have a strong work ethic, care for one another, and make sure we have some fun along the way.

Job Purpose:

This is a great opportunity for an experienced, hands-on HR professional to keep our

people service running smoothly day to day. Working closely with the Director of People, you’ll be the go-to person for managers and employees on everything from employee relations and policy to payroll data and reward, and acting as a number two in absence of Director, helping to make Eclipse a great place to work.

What you’ll be doing

Day-to-Day HR Operations

• Act as a trusted advisor to managers and employees, providing pragmatic and commercially focused HR guidance
• Look after the full employee lifecycle, from onboarding and probation to contract changes and leavers, keeping records accurate in Employment Hero
• Prepare and check monthly payroll data, working closely with Finance and our external payroll provider so everyone is paid correctly and on time
• Help answer employee queries on tax, National Insurance, statutory payments, pensions and salary sacrifice
• Keep our people data and monthly reporting accurate, spotting trends and suggesting practical improvements

Employee Relations & Organisational Change

• Manage employee relations matters, including performance, attendance, conduct, grievance and capability, fairly and consistently
• Carry out workplace investigations and support managers through hearings and outcomes
• Support long-term absence cases with occupational health, including reasonable adjustments
• Support organisational change, including restructures, TUPE and mergers and acquisitions, from consultation through to integration

Policy & Compliance

• Draft, review and update our HR policies, handbook and contract templates so they stay compliant and easy to use
• Keep up to date with employment law, including the Employment Rights Act 2025 changes, and help put them into practice
• Help us stay compliant on right to work, working time, UK GDPR, IR35 and the people side of health and safety, such as medical assessments and lone working

Reward, Engagement & Culture

• Support the annual pay review and our benefits and salary sacrifice schemes, working with Finance and providers
• Coach managers through complex people challenges, building leadership capability and confidence

• Contribute to talent, succession, learning, engagement and retention initiatives to build organisational capability
• Bring our wellbeing, diversity and inclusion activity to life, in line with our personalities
• Lead or support HR projects and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance employee experience and business performance

What you’ll bring

Experience & Qualifications

• CIPD Level 5 or above or equivalent HR qualification, or the equivalent of at least 5 years professional HR experience
• Solid, hands-on HR generalist experience, including at HR Manager level
• Experience managing complex employee relations cases and investigations, and supporting tribunal claims
• Experience working with payroll, preparing and checking data, with a good understanding of PAYE, National Insurance, statutory payments and pensions
• Experience of organisational change, including TUPE, redundancy and mergers or acquisitions
• Experience in policy writing, employment law and HR compliance, including IR35
• Confident using HRIS systems (Employment Hero is a bonus) and Excel

Skills & Approach

• Strong, up-to-date knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice
• Commercially aware, able to balance people priorities with business needs
• A warm, clear communicator who builds trust quickly and can influence and coach managers at all levels
• Organised, resilient and able to manage competing priorities with sound judgement and discretion
• Proactive and solutions-focused, with a great eye for detail and a love of making things work better
• Able to handle confidential and sensitive information with professionalism and integrity

We’re looking for people to join our team who can demonstrate their connections with our personalities, which are:

• Friendly Experts – It’s how we support others with our Our people are approachable and ready to help, we share knowledge generously and we build trust by guiding and empowering others
• Collaborative Solution Finders – The way we find solutions together. We collaborate across different teams in the business to achieve results, we look at different ways to solve problems together and we listen, respect and build on

each other’s ideas

• Naturally Curious – We love to learn new things. We stay curious and open to new ideas whilst seeking opportunities to grow and We also share what we learn to strengthen the teams around us
• Raising the Bar – It’s our ambition to continue improving and constantly raise the To do that, we challenge the norm to find smarter, better ways of working. We are forward thinking and think differently whilst creating positive impact through meaningful innovation
• Proactively Accountable – We take ownership and make things happen. We do this by anticipating needs and challenges to make smart, practical decisions. We deliver with integrity and pride in our work and we’re reliable – we keep our

promises.

Does this sound like you? If so, we look forward to receiving your application and learning more about how we can work together in the near future.

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