Join Refresco as a HR Business Partner and be at the heart of our site operations, supporting and developing our people every day. This is a hands-on role where you’ll work closely with site colleagues and managers, shaping the employee experience, driving performance, and helping build a positive, high-performing culture. You’ll be part of a small, friendly HR team with the backing of our Central HR function, giving you the chance to make a real impact and grow your career in a dynamic, people-focused environment.
HR Business Partner (site)
Monday to Friday – 38 hours
Permanent
Pontefract, UK
Reward & Benefits:
* 12.5% Annual bonus
* Personal healthcare
* 6% pension
* 28 days annual leave + bank holidays
* Purchase 3 additional holidays per year
* Free on-site parking
* GroceryAid – a support service offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical support, advice and counselling
* Cheers – a benefits platform offering discounts, free perks, and well-being tools for all Employees
About the Role:
As HR Business Partner, you’ll deliver our people strategy at site level, ensuring it reflects the values and behaviours of the business. You’ll identify local HR priorities, provide practical solutions, and support managers across the full employee lifecycle. This is a hands-on role within a small, friendly HR team on site, with additional support from our Central HR function.
As the HR Business Partner here are your key areas of focus:
* Performance Management: Support annual appraisals, objective setting, and competency frameworks, coaching managers to embed performance standards.
* Recruitment & Retention: Facilitate approvals, support local hiring, manage agency relationships, and ensure smooth onboarding of new employees.
* Legal & Compliance: Provide HR advice in line with company policies and employment law, ensuring audit and compliance obligations are met.
* Employee Relations: Advise and coach managers, maintain positive labour relations, and support fair and consistent application of policies.
* Absence Management: Lead long-term sickness cases, manage absence KPIs, and coordinate with Occupational Health as needed.
* General HR Support: Manage site HR budget, communicate key business updates, monitor HR trends, support HR projects, and contribute to best practice across the HR function.
We’re looking for a candidate who:
* Can convey information effectively and succinctly to diverse audiences.
* Is confident using IT systems, including databases, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
* Has current knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practices.
* Brings proven experience in HR management or as an HR Business Partner.
* Ideally has experience in FMCG and holds a CIPD qualification (or equivalent) at Level 7.
Ultimately, we encourage everyone to role model our core values of agility, responsibility, passion, excellence, and entrepreneurship as we believe these are what has made Refresco successful so far.
Find out more about the Refresco Values here: https://www.refresco.co.uk/uk/about/our-values
If you fit this profile and are excited by this opportunity, we would be delighted to hear from you!
About Refresco:
Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia.
Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass.
Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand.
Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees. www.refresco.com.
Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started.
We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers.
Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.
Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.