People Assistant

1 week ago


Runcorn, Halton, United Kingdom Wincanton Full time
An amazing opportunity has arisen to join our People Team on a permanent basis.

The Role will be reporting directly to the Site HR / People Advisor from our state-of-the-art distribution centre based in Daresbury.


DC5 Daresbury is the newest of the Distribution Centres within the contract and affords a unique opportunity to get stuck in with a recent start-up operation where teamwork and communication are at the core of driving our site to its fullest potential.

The role will see you work within a small dedicated People Team who are driven to enabling our people to be their best and nurture an inclusive culture that supports performance and growth across all our colleagues.


About the Role
You'll be an integral part of the Team providing administrative support for the site and be involved in a variety of HR duties including:

  • Generating letters and case packs
  • Administering HR related documentation, such as invite letters, meeting packs and maternity/paternity letters
  • Ensuring the HR filing systems are maintained, accurate and up to date
  • Staying up to date with the latest HR trends and best practices through networking and knowledge sharing across the network and contract
  • Scheduling meetings
  • Answering first line HR queries and providing general HR advice to support our management teams
  • Maintaining and updating trackers including absence reporting, lateness, return to work, flexible working, and ER case logs
  • Producing Weekly and monthly data reports to showcase trends in site absence percentages
  • Supporting the Managers and People Team with ER issues particular with low level complexity absence, disciplinary and grievance issues including advice, minute taking, supporting meetings, and writing or reviewing relevant correspondence
  • Supporting HR manager /HR Advisor with employee training needs and upskilling
  • New Starters /Leavers Process
  • Complete ORACLE onboarding process for new employees including the delivery of our People Team Induction and Equality & Diversity training to new starters and completion of digital onboarding tasks
  • Support to upload temp to perm packs, paperwork and right to work documents onto our requisition system via Oracle Wincanton
  • Internal
  • Getting involved in site engagement projects and activities and supporting our engagement champions to distribute communication, newsletters, and review employee recognition scheme nominations

About you

  • Ideally, you'll be currently working in a HR environment with some experience already under your belt or it may be that you've just completed or are working towards your CIPD (Level 3 min) and you're looking for the first step into the HR world.
  • Experience of Oracle Cloud systems (desirable not essential)
  • Confident communicator, able to build rapport and communicate to a variety of stakeholders
  • Proactive and have a solution driven approach
  • HR related qualifications (desirable not essential)
  • Passion to learn, develop and grow within HR
  • Organised nature with the ability to prioritise and manage tasks and workload
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Good IT skills to include Microsoft Excel and Office 36
  • Good problemsolving skills and ability to think proactively in a unique and fast paced environment
  • Experience keeping and maintaining employee records/files
  • Up to date Employment Law knowledge
Wincanton is a leading supply chain partner for British business, providing supply chain solutions up and down the country.

Through a wealth of experience and knowledge Wincanton provides business critical services including storage, handling and distribution; high volume eFulfilment; retailer 'dark stores'; two-person home delivery; fleet and transport management; and network optimisation for many of the UK's best-known companies.


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