HR Advisor – Up to £40k plus excellent benefits – Permanent – Based near Wigan – Full-time on site, 40 hours per week.
Overview
Are you an HR professional who thrives in a fast‑paced, operational environment? Do you love being on the floor, building relationships, and making a real difference to the people around you? This is a well‑established, values‑led FMCG business based in the Northwest with a genuine commitment to doing right by its people. With around 270 employees across manufacturing, this is a business where HR really matters.
Responsibilities
- Managing ER case‑work end‑to‑end – absence, grievances, and disciplinaries up to final written warning.
- Coaching and empowering managers to have difficult conversations and manage their own people issues with confidence.
- Supporting Team Leaders with performance management and talent development.
- Leading recruitment and onboarding for operational roles.
- Contributing to a varied project agenda including wellbeing, engagement, early careers, and the apprenticeship programme.
- HR KPI analysis and reporting, and ensuring payroll accuracy for the site.
Qualifications
- Previous HR experience within FMCG, food manufacturing, or a similar fast‑paced operational environment – essential.
- Strong ER knowledge and the confidence to handle a full caseload.
- A natural relationship‑builder who can earn trust at all levels – from shop floor to senior leadership.
- Someone who can challenge, influence, and hold people to account – not just advise.
- Resilient, adaptable, and comfortable managing multiple priorities at pace.
- CIPD qualified or working towards.
- Full‑time on‑site working required – flexibility around shift patterns will occasionally be needed.
Benefits & Package
- 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays + option to buy 3 more.
- Pension with up to 10% company match.
- Life assurance.
- Health and wellbeing support including mental health and menopause provision.
- Heavily subsidised on‑site café.
- Annual all‑expenses‑paid company celebration.
- Ongoing development and project involvement from day one.
We are a proud equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and circumstances, including minorities and those with disabilities.
