HR Business Partner France

About the role

Aerospacelab, a vertically integrated small satellite manufacturer, is creating its first on-site HR position in Toulouse, where the site has around 25 employees and significant growth ahead. As HR Business Partner France, you will be the local HR point of reference for the site and the link to the Group HR team, covering HR administration, payroll, health and safety and social dialogue, reporting to Group HR in Belgium and working closely with site management.

Key responsibilities

• Act as the first HR contact for employees and managers on site
• Manage the full employee lifecycle: contracts, amendments, DPAE, onboarding to offboarding
• Coordinate payroll with the external provider: monthly variable elements, controls, payslips and DSN declarations
• Manage working time and absences (paid leave, RTT, sick leave)
• Ensure compliance with French labour law and the collective bargaining agreement, and anticipate headcount-threshold obligations
• Own health, safety and prevention: DUERP updates, prevention programme, occupational health service (SPST) and work accidents (AT/MP)
• Handle employee relations and social dialogue, including professional elections and social documentation
• Support site recruitment and local onboarding, and contribute to group HR cycles such as salary review, HRIS, comp & ben and international mobility
• Occasional travel to the headquarters in Belgium

Required profile

• 5 to 7 years in a generalist HR role in France, ideally in an industrial or tech environment
• Masters degree in HR, labour/social law or a related field, or equivalent by experience
• Solid experience of employee relations and social dialogue, including with a CSE
• Experience as a standalone HR person on a site, or the autonomy this requires
• Rigour, discretion and a hands-on mindset
• Fluent French and English

Nice to have

• Aerospace or other industrial/HSE-regulated environment experience
• Organising professional elections
• Fast-growing site or international environment experience
• Familiarity with Odoo (the HRIS)

What we offer

• A newly created role to build the HR function of Aerospacelab France
• A human-sized site with strong growth ahead
• Flat hierarchy, flexible ways of working and a salary package consistent with experience