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**HR Advisor - Refresco UK - Bondgate, Pontefract, West Yorkshire**

Full Time - Monday to Thursday 8.30 - 5.00pm, Fridays 8.30 - 4.00pm

**Competitive salary, performance bonus, life assurance, good company pension scheme**

Refresco, the world’s leading independent soft drinks manufacturer seeks an agile, passionate HR Advisor to join our HR team within our Bondgate Manufacturing plant. Refresco is always changing, always innovating, always growing, and if you are successfulin this role there will be all sorts of opportunity to grow your career within Refresco in future.

**About the Role**

You are part of a close-knit team, reporting to the Site HR Business Partner, but you will have a high level of autonomy, we don’t believe in micro-management at Refresco You will work as a key part of our team in order to strengthen and support the HRdepartment through providing an accurate, efficient and effective advisory service to the site.

You are, or have been, a HR Advisor, so you probably know what is involved, but to be transparent, here are some of your key tasks and responsibilities as a HR Advisor at Refresco:
PerPeformance & Absence Management
- Ensures all conduct matters are dealt with in a timely and efficient manner either through informal counselling or consideration through more formal route as appropriate by supporting line managers through investigations in line with company policies andprocedures
- Actively monitors absence levels and take the necessary steps for employee absence management (including sickness absence and capability), ensuring compliance against our policies and current UK legislation
- Supporting and coaching line managers through the company absence management procedures:

- Escalating cases to the HRBP where they have the potential of becoming long term
- Referring cases to Occupational Health in conjunction with advice from the HRBP
- Monitors and ensures that the annual appraisal and objective setting deadline is met
- Supports the HRBP with embedding the company behavioural competency framework locally

**Recruitment & Retention**
- Ensure that all Factory Operations vacancies are proactively managed (approvals, selection and offer) to ensure disruption to manufacturing as a result of manning is kept to a minimum
- Ensure accurate and timely offers and contracts are issued
- Write recruitment adverts and create detailed job profiles as requested
- Support the recruitment process for Hay graded roles in the plant as required
- Complete company induction for all new employees as part of an efficient and effective on boarding programme
- Ensure all employees receive timely and honest feedback during their monthly probationary review meetings and that all competence or conduct issues are managed within this period; escalating to the Plant HRBP where consideration is required to bring thecontract to an end.
- Ensure all leavers receive an exit interview in order to identify and document accurate reasons for leaving and opportunities for improvement either on a local or company wide basis

Learning & Development
- Undertake line manager briefing/training/workshops on both new processes and procedures and refreshers to ensure they are fully embedded into the business
- Complete the roll out of L&D initiatives as appropriate and necessary

Legal / Compliance
- In conjunction with the HR Business Partner, support and lead internal and external audits as required to support the Plant in achieving Blue audit status

EmEmployee Relations
- The site HR Advisor should be the first point of contact for all employee relation issues and have thorough knowledge and understanding of UK employment legislation
- In conjunction with the HRBP; work closely with line managers, providing them with advice, guidance and coaching in line with the company policies and procedures and employment terms and conditions of employment to ensure a consistent and fair approachis adopted at all times.
- Support the HRBP in maintaining positive relations with the Site SCC / Recognised Union (where applicable)
- Ensure that managers and staff are aware of the policies and procedures and able to operate them effectively; conducting briefing/training sessions as required.

General
- Ensure personal continued professional development is undertaken to keep abreast of latest legislative requirements
- Monitor specific budgets, for example - Training Budget, Staff Canteen Budget and Sports and Social Budget
- Support the Plant HRBP to ensure that employees receive accurate and timely communications
- Represent your plant HR Team and participate in various internal groups and committees as required.
- Provide KPI data to the Plant HRBP as required for the Plant Score Card.
- In addition, it will be a requirement to support cyclical projects such as Great Place to Work
- Ambassador of company behaviours, leading by example