Human Resources Generalist

Job Title: Human Resources Generalist
Location: WMFTS - USA - Supply - Devens, MA
Location Type: On-Site
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When you join Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, a part of the Spirax Group, you will be integrated into a cooperative and encouraging team, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experience ongoing growth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential. Visit our website to learn more.

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Whowe are
Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions is part of Spirax Group, aFTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group withexpertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions,peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.
When you join us, you will be integrated into a cooperative andencouraging team, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experienceongoing growth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential. Visit ourwebsite to learn more.


Role Summary
The Human Resources Generalist supports site operations with strongemployee relations, recruiting, and onboarding execution. The role focuses ondaily HR support, employee engagement, and operational coordination across allfunctions. The HRG builds trust with employees, communicates with clarity,protects confidentiality, and delivers consistent follow-through. Strongorganization, judgment, and problem-solving drive success in this role.

Whatyou'll be doing

• Manage full-cycle hourly recruiting: sourcing, coordinating interviews, partnering with hiring managers, supporting selections, and driving onboarding and pre-hire steps.
• Serves as the primary point of contact for employees and managers, providing daily employee relations support, answering inquiries, directing employees appropriately, and escalating issues to HR Manager when necessary.
• Support internal investigations, corrective action processes, and documentation.
• Leads the coordination and delivery of new hire orientation and supports site-wide engagement events and activities.
• Support HR communications across the site through email, Connect, and posted materials.
• Maintain accurate employee data and documentation in Thrive and shared HR systems.
• Monitor attendance, leaves, and related documentation in partnership with managers.
• Assist with safety initiatives and reinforce safe work practices across departments.
• Build strong relationships with employees at all levels through visibility on the floor and proactive support.
• Follow issues from start to finish with timely updates and clear resolution.
• Support HR programs including performance reviews, IDPs, merit cycles, and training coordination.
• Maintain organized HR files, trackers, and workflows.
• Serve as a resource to managers by guiding them through HR processes.
• Uphold confidentiality and ensure compliance with company policy and regulatory requirements.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

This is what you'll need to be successful in this role

• Bachelor's degree in human resources, business, or another related field. OR 5+ years preferably in manufacturing.
• Experience managing hourly recruiting, onboarding, and employee engagement programs.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to build trust quickly.
• High attention to detail, strong time management, and follow-through.
• Ability to problem-solve, mediate conflict, and support employees with clarity and fairness.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.
• Proficiency in HRIS System like ADP, Thrive, Microsoft Office, and standard HR workflows.

This position offers a salary range of (USD 62,738.00 - 94,107.00 Salaried). Final salary offers are determined by multiple factors, including education, experience, internal equity, geographic location, and the candidate's expertise, and therefore may vary from the range listed. For roles based outside Massachusetts, the applicable salary range may be lower.

At Watson-Marlow, we believe in taking care of our colleagues. We offer a generous benefits package, including:

• Robust Retirement Plan: Benefit from a 5% employer 401K contribution, plus a 50% match on up to 3% of your contributions for added financial security, empowering your financial security.
• Comprehensive and Supportive Parental Leave: Experience our inclusive, gender-neutral parental leave policy, offering 16 weeks at 100% pay. Upon your return, enjoy a gradual transition with a unique 80% work schedule while still receiving 100% of your pay for the first 6 months, ensuring a balanced reintegration into the workplace.
• Generous Time Off: Enjoy ample time off to recharge and attend to life's circumstances with generous vacation and well-being day, 9 observed holidays, 1 floating holiday day, up to 15 caregiver days, and 80 hours of annual sick leave.
• Community Engagement Opportunities: Make a difference with 3 paid volunteer days each year, encouraging you to give back to the community and causes you care about.
• And Many More Benefits: Such as an offering of 3 healthcare plans with HSA contributions along with other benefits designed to support your well-being and professional growth. We invite you to explore all the ways we strive to create a fulfilling and rewarding work environment.

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone's contribution is valued across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. Learn more at Our Inclusion Commitments.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or other protected characteristics as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

Company Overview

At Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, we are driven by innovation and are dedicated to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is empowered to make a difference. As a world leader in manufacturing peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies for the life sciences and process industries, we offer a wide range of products, including tubing, specialised filling systems and products for single-use applications.

Watson-Marlow is part of Spirax Group, a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our inclusive culture and values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.