Job Description

Location: South Lanarkshire

Region: South Lanarkshire

Sector: FMCG Food Manufacturing

Job Type: Permanent

Salary: \xc2\xa334,000 - \xc2\xa337,000 per year DOE

Job Reference: JOB-88717

Published: 21-09-2023

Duration: Permanent

Expiry Date: 19-10-2023

Start date: ASAP

Country: United Kingdom

Scantec are working in partnership with a leading FMCG manufacturer in South Lanarkshire to assist them in hiring a HR Advisor for their site. This is a large manufacturing business, part of a group with sites across the UK. The site runs 24/7, which encompasses a culture of Teamwork, friendly and respectful leadership and a focus on Continuous improvement at all levels.

Hours of work:
Monday to Friday, 8.30am-5pm

They are passionate about investing in their teams and the role offers a fantastic opportunity to gain experience along with great opportunities for growth and development.

Your role as a generalist HR Advisor will be responsible for supporting the business with all aspects of HR, such as providing advice and guidance on best practice, legislation, Employee Relations, Recruitment, Coaching Managers, Employee Engagement and People focused projects at Group Level. It will report into the HR Manager, while working closely with Site Management to embed the culture and values that are key to the business, supporting local levels of management and employees to ensure the best performance in a motivating environment.

To be successful in this role, you\xe2\x80\x99d need to have a good understanding of employee relations and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, as you will be multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment and liaising with colleagues, unions and suppliers at all levels daily. The successful candidate will be confident and engaging as they will need to effectively challenge and work with stakeholders on site to deliver the people agenda. They will have strong administration and planning skills. They use various People IT systems, so strong IT skills and good attention to detail are important.

This is what you\xe2\x80\x99ll actually do!

As the HR Advisor you\xe2\x80\x99ll report into the Senior HR Advisor and will be working with the HR team to implement the Company\xe2\x80\x99s people strategy and companywide initiatives. You\xe2\x80\x99ll manage employee relations cases which include, but not limited to; disciplinary, grievance, performance management. In addition to administration this may include coaching, providing advice, considering best practice and evaluating risk in relation to the best course of action.

You\xe2\x80\x99ll support end to end recruitment, including salary benchmarking, recruitment briefs, advertising, job descriptions, person specification, interview scripts and social media recruitment campaigns. While ensuring the company applicant tracking system is accurate and maintained. You\xe2\x80\x99ll also offer coaching and support to line managers in line with the company recruitment and selection policy.

You will also build line manager capability by providing coaching to the line managers ensuring they work closely with Supervisors and Team Leaders to ensure that individual performance levels are achieved ensuring consistency of approach, providing guidance and support where appropriate. You will proactively work with your business area ensuring employee absence processes are being adhered to in line with the absence management procedure, work with the OH team in managing short and long terms cases to resolution.

Involvement in HR focused projects and implementing HR strategies is a key part of this role.

You\xe2\x80\x99ll have to opportunity to work cross functionally with the larger Group HR teams and other areas of the larger business.

Skills and experience required:

• Previous experience in a similar generalist HR position in a fast-paced working environment.
• CIPD qualification - or working towards (not essential)
• Ability to work well under pressure in a busy, fast paced environment. The successful candidate must be able to perform a variety of duties whilst being resourceful and maintaining flexibility.
• Confident with communicating with a wide range of stakeholders.
• A working knowledge of Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc.
• Highly organised and detail oriented, with good administration skills
• Passionate about HR

• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave to allow quality time with your new arrival!

• Enhanced Pension Scheme for our employees
• Death in Service Benefit
• Free Employee Assistance Programme (open to colleagues and their families)
• Retail discounts accessible via Benefits Hub platform!
• Company shop available at sites (heavily discounted, yummy products!)
• Refer a Friend Scheme (up to \xc2\xa3300 per referral \xe2\x80\x93 T&C\xe2\x80\x99s dependent)
• Employee Recognition Awards\xc2\xb7 Extensive Learning & Development opportunities (including opportunities for sponsored professional memberships and our own in-house development course!)
• An opportunity to be part of a fantastic, growing organisation.

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