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HR Advisor – Hyde | Manufacturing Environment
If you’re an HR generalist who thrives where the pace is real and the impact is tangible, this role belongs on your radar.
We’re looking for a credible, hands‑on HR Advisor to strengthen people operations across a high‑performing manufacturing site. You’ll partner directly with the HR Business Partner to improve people metrics, embed best practices, and elevate the employee experience end‑to‑end.
This is a role for someone who wants breadth, responsibility, and genuine influence—not admin disguised as HR.
What You’ll Own
* Employee Relations: Managing conduct, capability, grievance, and disciplinary cases with confidence, fairness, and legal integrity.
* People Metrics & Planning: Driving KPIs, including absence, retention, turnover, and agency usage. Partnering with Ops, Talent, and L&D to deliver people plans that actually move the dial.
* Guiding managers through policy, compliance, and risk: Ensuring decisions are consistent, pragmatic, and aligned to UK employment law.
* Absence Management: Leading sickness processes end‑to‑end and supporting improvement plans.
* Ethical Compliance & Audits: Supporting customer, ethical, and SEDEX audits to maintain strong standards and documentation.
* HSE initiatives, training compliance, wellbeing, and engagement activities: Championing HSE initiatives, training compliance, wellbeing and engagement activities.
* Recruitment & Onboarding: Partnering with Hiring Managers and Talent teams to ensure smooth, high‑quality hiring and induction.
* Projects & Continuous Improvement: Driving HR projects, improvement activity, and commercial decision‑making that supports site performance.
What Good Looks Like
1. Proven experience in an HR Advisor / HR Generalist role
2. Strong grounding in UK employment law
3. Confident supporting managers at all levels
4. Skilled in HR systems, data accuracy, and documentation
5. Practical, solutions‑driven, and comfortable supporting a manufacturing workforce
6. Desirable: CIPD qualification and experience in food manufacturing
The Behaviours That Matter
You take ownership. You follow through. And you care about creating a fair, safe, and engaged environment.
Why This Role?
You won’t just “support HR”. You’ll shape culture, reduce risk, strengthen performance, and directly influence outcomes that matter to both people and the business.
Seniority level
Associate
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Human Resources
Industries
Food and Beverage Manufacturing
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