Human resources advisor

Job Description

HR Advisor – Food Manufacturing

Sunderland | £30,000 | Site-Based


If you’re looking for an HR role where you can genuinely make an impact — not just push paper and chase signatures — this could be a good fit.


You’ll be working closely with a proactive HR Business Partner and site leadership team, supporting around 250 people in a busy food manufacturing environment. It’s hands-on, varied, and fast-moving — the kind of place where no two days are the same, and that’s exactly what you like about HR.


What you’ll be doing:


* Managing low-to-mid-level ER cases — absence management, investigations, disciplinaries — the real people stuff.
* Supporting recruitment and onboarding: interviews, offer letters, right-to-work checks, inductions, and everything in between.
* Keeping HR data clean and accurate across systems like SuccessFactors and Kronos (because numbers that don’t add up drive you mad).
* Handling payroll changes, queries, and ensuring everything runs smoothly for month-end.
* Supporting training coordination and tracking compliance.
* Getting involved in engagement activities — surveys, comms, events — the bits that make work a bit more human.