Site HR Lead

HR Lead (Food Manufacturing)

Humdinger, Bromborough (Wirral)

Monday - Friday 37.5 hours per week

Are you a HR professional looking for your next challenge? We are seeking a driven HR Lead to lead our HR operations and implement HR initiatives at our Humdinger snacking site in Bromborough. 

In this critical role, you’ll work closely with the site management team, providing insight into how HR can support and drive the achievement of site objectives. You'll play a key part in shaping best practices, ensuring legal compliance, and promoting a high-performance culture across the business.

As a mentor and coach to other HR personnel, both onsite and within the wider team, you’ll champion HR excellence and continuous improvement. You'll report into the Snacking HR Manager who works across all Humdinger locations in the UK.

If you’re ready to challenge the status quo and make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you!

• To work with the HR Advisor/HR Assistant to be a point of contact for all employees on site to answer queries in relation to their employment in a competent, respectful and confidential manner.
• To advise and support managers with grievances, disciplinary actions, absence management and performance management cases on site.
• To write or review all relevant notes and letters as required and sending them out in a timely manner.
• To support managers in ensuring that comprehensive return to work interviews with all staff take place.
• To coach managers, and more junior HR staff, with HR procedures and challenge any non-compliance.
• To ensure that all self-certification forms and doctor’s notes, where required, are provided by employees who are absent due to sickness.
• To actively monitor, and together with the relevant manager, manage all absence cases making referrals to occupational health as required - instigating formal proceedings where necessary.
• To lead on any site reorganizations or department restructures as required.
• To build and maintain strong productive relationships with site managers and attend appropriate meetings as required.
• To ensure accuracy and completion of any employee communications on notice boards, TV screens or email as required.
• To source any new employment legislation, identify potential risks, and apply it on site, if required.
• Ensure all leavers, starters, changes of employment details are processed correctly on site.
• Ensure the weekly and monthly KPI logs are kept up to date
• To assist with the design and delivery of development for the sites, such as performance reviews and management, discipline and grievance management as required.
• Work with site management alongside the L&D team to identify development needs and support the sourcing/delivery of training as required to ensure we have a skilled workforce.
• Drive the PDR process on site to achieve maximum completion.
• To work with management on the succession planning.
• Maintain both manual and computerized records for all employees – starters, leavers, transfers, time and attendance etc.
• Ensuring all site engagement and communications activity is delivered including companywide notices, briefings, employee representative meetings, employee surveys & follow up actions.
• Delivering on Recruitment, Induction & On-boarding, employee terms and conditions of employment, benefits and related processes.
• Providing full support to the site management team across all company HR policies & processes that deliver the entire ‘employee lifecycle’.
• To ensure we are prepared for any audits, with particular regards to ethical trading.

• Qualified to CIPD Level 5 or have equivalent demonstratable experience in a senior HR role, or ready to take on a 'Lead' position.
• Able to support change, influence and build relationships at all levels.
• Experience in similar role within fast paced FMCG.
• Ability to work flexibly to support business needs as required.
• Strong working knowledge of UK employment legislation.
• Able to demonstrate evidence of problem solving.
• Good level of numerical and analytical skill.
• Competent using computer-based packages, excel, word a MS Outlook and HRIS.
• Proven experience coordinating/assisting with H&S initiatives
• Excellent administrative and organizational skill with the ability to prioritize/multitask.
• Able to work on own initiative with little central support.
• Proactive approach to work and generating ideas - challenges the status quo suggest new ideas/processes of working.