HR Advisor

📍 Location: Netherlands

Statute: This role is offered on a 0.7 FTE basis.

Are you well-versed in HR practices and employment legislation?

At James Walker, we engineer world-class sealing solutions for the most demanding applications across oil & gas, power generation, chemical processing, marine, and heavy industries.

We’re looking for an experienced HR Advisor who plays a key role in supporting managers and employees across the full employee lifecycle, providing practical and compliant HR guidance in line with employment legislation and company policies.

What You'll Do – Your Mission:

As an HR Advisor, you’ll be partnering closely with stakeholders to deliver effective HR services, supports onboarding, absence and performance management, and contributes to payroll, reporting, and HR systems administration.
With a strong focus on accuracy, confidentiality, and collaboration, the HR Advisor also supports continuous improvement initiatives and people projects that align with the wider business and people strategy.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Provide practical HR advice and guidance to managers across employment law, employee relations, performance management, and people policies, ensuring compliance and risk mitigation.

• Support managers with disciplinary, grievance, absence, and performance cases, including coordination with occupational health and external partners where required.

• Manage and coordinate recruitment activities in collaboration with internal and external partners, supporting the full recruitment and onboarding lifecycle.

• Maintain accurate HR data and systems (e.g. HCM, Exact, LMS), ensuring timely reporting and high data integrity.

• Support payroll and salary administration processes, acting as a point of contact for payroll-related queries and ensuring deadlines are met.

• Produce regular HR and people-related reports for HR, Operations, and Finance, supporting workforce planning and audits.

• Build strong working relationships with stakeholders across the business to ensure effective HR service delivery and continuous improvement of processes.

• Contribute to HR projects, audits, and wider people initiatives, and provide general HR administrative support as required.

What You Bring:

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Creative and hands-on, with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal

• Clear and effective communicator, able to adapt communication style to different stakeholders

• High level of integrity and discretion

• Strong empathy and interpersonal sensitivity

• Accurate, detail-oriented, and conscientious

• Proactive and decisive, with a solution-oriented mindset

• Objective, neutral, and realistic in judgment and approach

• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel)

• In-depth knowledge of social and employment legislation

• Applicants must have native-level proficiency in Dutch and professional knowledge in English

Preferred:

• Experience with payroll software is an asset

Why James Walker?

We’re a globally trusted name with over a century of engineering excellence. At James Walker, you’ll:

• Join a market leader trusted by major global industries

• Get autonomy, flexibility, and real ownership over your job

• Have access to training, support, and career advancement opportunities

James Walker Values and Behaviours

Our values and ethos are central to the way we do business. They help to shape the culture of James Walker by defining the behaviors we expect from each other and guiding us in how we make decisions.

Treat others as they would like to be treated

Share your experiences and always welcome feedback

Earn people’s trust; see things from their point of view

Never stop learning; recognise failure and celebrate success

Understand our customers and what they need

Be an expert in what you do

Give your work the personal touch, showing people, you enjoy what you do

Deliver great service and make someone’s day

If something goes wrong, amaze people with a dazzling recovery

Make things happen and give it your best

Get it right first time and never pass on a fault

Keep your promises

Inspire others by the way you do things

Never be afraid to try something new

Ask yourself, “is this my best?”

🚀 Ready to Elevate Your Career?

If you’re ready to take your experience to the next level in a dynamic, industrial environment, we want to hear from you.

📩 Apply HERE