HR Advisor

Do you enjoy building relationships, fast-paced environments, and site travel?

We’re looking for a motivated HR Advisor to join our team, educating and supporting managers regarding best practice across Employee Relations, HR processes, compliance, and DE&I.

This multi-site role is predominantly based at the Ellesmere Port site, with regular site visits to our Grantham site (NG32 3HL).

About the Role As a trusted advisor, you will be the main HR contact for both sites, ensuring HR systems are accurate, capturing and monitoring employee documentation as required.

You will be involved in ER, absence management, recruitment and onboarding, Occupational Health, HR administration, and supporting with Payroll activities when required.

Employee Relations

You’ll assist with disciplinary and grievance procedures (including appeals), supporting ER meetings, and issuing appropriate letters to employees (e.g. invitations, outcome letters, etc.), maintaining these to ensure compliance and suitability.

We’ll rely on you to support welfare meetings too when they occur, guiding our managers appropriately on the most appropriate action.

Recruitment & Onboarding

You will assist recruitment of Grantham and Ellesmere Port roles, collaborating with Talent Acquisition. This includes issuing offers and contracts, and providing information to New Starters.

You’ll also be involved in delivering engaging HR inductions for New Starters!

HR Records & Documentation

We'll also rely on your expertise to ensure employees' records are accurately captured within our HR system, occasionally running reports.

You'll also issue access cards to Contractors and access fobs to New Starters.

Benefits

Company pension

Life assurance

Sick pay

Free company products

Free on-site parking

Food, retail, holidays, cinema, and gyms discounts

Wellness programmes, including Employee Assistance Program and OnDemand GP service

Free early access to pay scheme

Salary sacrifice schemes

Employee referral scheme

Requirements The qualities and strengths we're looking for:

Results-driven approach with attention to detail

Driven by competing priorities, with excellent time management

Proactive approach to prioritisation

Commercially aware and attuned to business performance/key drivers

The qualifications and experience we'll need from you

FMCG/Production/Manufacturing industry experience (in an HR capacity)

Supporting concurrent Employee Relations cases from initiation to conclusion

High volume processing of Starters and Leavers

Trusted advisor of policy and processes, and abreast with employment legislation

CIPD qualification

Proficient in everyday IT and HR systems (e.g. SilverCloud, Sage, Dayforce, etc.)