HR Advisor

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**HR Advisor - Head Office Crewe**

As a HR Advisor for NWF Fuels, you will be reporting into the Head of HR and providing best practice and operational advice to support our Depot and Head Office Functions. This will include employment law and HR policy and procedural practice, Ideally CIPD Level 5 qualified.

You will respond to complex casework and play a key and visible role in employee relations issues. Experience of working in a multi-site business would be highly advantageous, but not essential.

HR Advisor is able to quickly establish effective relationships with key stakeholders, promote best practice and have a good working knowledge of employment law.

**Role Responsibilities**
- Manage HR day-to-day transactions accurately and effectively including updating MyHR.
- Ownership of HR policies, conducting annual reviews and ensuring legislation updates are captured.
- Supporting and coaching managers on HR issues ensuring compliance to policies, procedures, and Employment Law.
- Creating, reviewing, and updating contracts of employment, job descriptions and role profiles.
- Proactively identify performance issues with line managers and recommend a best practice approach, providing appropriate support.
- To prepare and issue written correspondence in relation to disciplinary and grievance cases and be active in dealing with process stages where and when required.
- Advising and supporting managers on recruitment and selection processes collaboratively alongside our Recruitment Manager.
- Coordinate and support the talent pipeline with Managers.
- Ensure employees are onboarded positively and effectively.
- Monitoring and reporting HR metrics including turnover and retention rates.
- Supporting managers with informal and formal team development including appraisals.
- Provide HR advice, information and coaching on personal development plans, succession planning, identifying skills gaps and supporting training needs.
- Play an active role in employee engagement initiatives, promoting company values and behaviours, embedding them into the organisational culture.
- Promote HR best practices looking at ways to adopt and implement progressive changes.

**Essential Requirements**:

- Up to date knowledge of employment law and best practice
- HR generalist experience in a fast-paced environment
- Confident communicator and solution focused
- Ability to work and remain calm under pressure
- Proficient in MS Office, particularly Excel
- Excellent attention to detail & analytical skills
- Highly organised and ability to balance multiple priorities
- Flexible to adapt to the demands of an ever-changing business environment
- Ideally CIPD Level 5 qualified

If you think you have the skills, knowledge and experience to make an immediate positive contribution and enjoy an exciting challenge in a fast-paced work environment that will allow you to own areas of work which support the on-going growth of our business then please get in touch today

**What is on offer**:

- 25 days holidays + bank holidays
- Contributory Pension Scheme
- Health Cash Plan
- Onsite parking

With a modern fleet of over 155 fuel tankers and a strategically located depot network, NWF Fuels supplies a comprehensive range of fuel-related products coast-to-coast throughout England and Wales to Domestic, Agricultural, Commercial and Retail customers. A focus on service and the customer is what differentiates NWF Fuels in the market and it is the attitude of the people within NWF Fuels which drives this difference. The business has grown both organically and through acquisition and is the third-largest fuel distributor in the UK. NWF Fuels is part of the AIM’s listed NWF Group listed on the London Stock exchange.