Location: Kruibeke, Belgium

Work setup: Hybrid (3 days in the office)

About the role

Passionate about people, processes, and creating a great employee experience? Ready to combine operational excellence with a broad and hands-on HR role? We're looking for an HR Generalist to strengthen our HR team in Kruibeke.

In this role, you'll be the go-to person for a wide range of HR activities, including HR administration, recruitment, learning & development, and backup payroll support. You'll help ensure smooth HR operations throughout the employee lifecycle while contributing to HR projects, digitalization initiatives, and continuous process improvements.

If you enjoy taking ownership, working closely with employees and managers, and finding smarter ways of working, this role could be the perfect fit for you. You'll join an HR team that believes HR should be a true business partner, creating value for both the organization and its people through efficient, people-focused, and frictionless processes.

Expect real responsibility, the opportunity to make your voice heard, and the chance to work within an ambitious and forward-thinking team. You'll support an environment full of engineers, specialists, and problem solvers—people who value quality, collaboration, and getting things right. Whether you're coordinating recruitment activities, managing HR administration, supporting employee development initiatives, or acting as a backup for payroll processes, you'll play a key role in helping our people and organization succeed.

We'd love to hear how your expertise, energy, and ideas can help us build the next chapter of space together.

The responsibilities

• Guarantee compliance with Belgian social legislation and tax regulations.
• Act as the first point of contact for employees and managers regarding all sorts of people related questions and soft HR topics.
• Support the performance review Cycle.
• Manage HR administration focusing on contracts, healthy strategic balances, accurate financial data, etc.
• Take the lead in our L&D framework: developing learning paths and support defining our learning strategy.
• Support with onboarding/offboarding, absences, benefits, insurance etc.
• Act as backup for our hard HR expert, including acting as back up for our international payroll.
• Lead Recruitment of supporting roles (finance, IT, PMO,...) and act as backup for technical roles.
• Handle the necessary reporting to both global company levels and internal reporting.
• Work closely with HR colleagues and the business to optimize workflows and HR services.

Your background

• Minimum 3 years of experience in a HR generalist role
• Strong knowledge of Belgian social legislation.
• Experience in a scale-up or SME is considered a big plus.
• Comfortable with international and changing work environments.
• Familiarity with HR systems and automation, knowledge of Hibob is a plus.
• Strong Excel and data management skills.
• Fluent in Dutch and English is a must.
• Expert people skills, open minded and works in a structured way

What your team looks like

You’ll join a team of 5 HR/Comms colleagues working together across different HR domains. The team supports around 200 employees and consultants in Belgium, while also collaborating within a larger international group structure and supporting other European entities.

What your team looks like

You’ll join a team of 5 HR/Comms colleagues working together across different HR domains. The team supports around 200 employees and consultants in Belgium, while also collaborating within a larger international group structure and supporting other European entities.

Why join us

What makes this role unique is the combination of local impact and international exposure. You’ll work in a Belgian team while being part of a growing international organization, where HR plays a central role in supporting expansion across Europe — including setting up and coordinating new HR procedures in different countries. And perhaps most importantly: you’ll work in a company where people take pride in the fact that the technology they build actually ends up in space.