HR Manager - Manufacturing

Job description / Role

Charterhouse are supporting a leading manufacturing group experiencing significant growth across the UAE. Our client is looking to hire an experienced HR Manager who will work closely with the Managing Director and Departmental Heads to drive HR excellence across all business operations.

The HR Manager will oversee end-to-end HR services, ensuring that effective structures, processes, and best-practice frameworks are embedded throughout the organisation. A key focus will be workforce planning, managing the full recruitment cycle, and developing employee engagement strategies that support long-term retention.

As the business continues to expand, this role will lead transformation projects that enhance HR operations, implementing clear productivity metrics and best-practice initiatives designed to support a high-performance workplace culture. Acting as a trusted HR Business Partner to senior leadership and will collaborate with departmental heads to monitor performance, as well as address employee development and training needs. The role will also ensure full compliance with UAE Labour Laws and JAFZA regulations while maintaining accurate, up-to-date HR records.

To be considered for this role, candidate must bring strong HR management experience within the UAE manufacturing sector. Demonstrated success in employee relations, high-volume recruitment, and leading change initiatives is essential. The role requires someone confident, adaptable, and capable of building trusted relationships across all levels of the organisation, with strong stakeholder-influencing abilities.

The ideal candidate will be commercially minded and solutions-oriented, with experience navigating a dynamic and evolving business environment and designing HR initiatives that are fit for purpose.

Salary:
AED 22,000 to 28,000 per month inclusive of fixed allowances.
Additional benefits: Plus Benefits

About the Company

Charterhouse Middle East was formed in 2004 following the successful launch of Charterhouse Australia in 2003. Following its initial success, Charterhouse has established itself as a reputed recruitment specialist in its industry with footprints in Asia (Hong Kong and Singapore), Australasia (Sydney and Melbourne) and the Middle East (Dubai). We offer professional and bespoke contingency and retained search services across a variety of industrial sectors as well as bespoke RPO services tailored to service to our clients specific requirements. Charterhouse Labour Solutions which provides Employee Outsourcing, HR solutions and Payroll Services, making Charterhouse one of only a handful of organisations within the UAE able to offer this service with a license issued through the Economic Development Department.

One of the keys to our success is our staff, they possess a track record of recruiting in both the regional and international markets, with a specialised understanding of their market space. This, we believe, offers the best platform of service to our client and candidate base. In addition, our team is offered the strongest candidate generation and marketing tools, an exceptional database and support from an experienced administration and research team, to ensure that we can provide the best possible service levels. We strive to achieve excellent levels of service. Our consultants are specialists within their respective markets and hence are able to provide specialist market insights, salary trends, and are able to network with candidates who are both active and passive opportunity seekers.

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