HR Specialist

**Position Title**:HR Specialist

**Position Type**: Regular - Full-Time

**Position Location**:Scarborough

**Requisition ID**: 27089

There’s nothing beige about McCain
Except our potatoes — and we’re extremely passionate about them.

When you join McCain, you’ll be joining the biggest player in the frozen potato game, bringing people together around the nation for over 60 years by sharing simple, delicious planet friendly food.
We’ve partnered with thousands of the country’s supermarkets, pubs, restaurants, hospitals, and schools to change the way people see the humble spud. It’s all about elevation and creating something better.

So, come and make your career at McCain Foods.

**ABOUT THE ROLE.**

We have ambitious growth business plans at McCain, but we can’t achieve those without our people. Our HR team play a huge part in driving our winning culture and it’s the role of our HR Specialist to get under the skin of the people behind the potatoes.

As HR Specialist it's your job to work alongside your fellow HR Specialists and our people leaders across our Scarborough Manufacturing Plant to make McCain a great place to work. This covers many elements of HR including Employee Relations, Recruitment, and day-today HR Employee Lifecycle processes and compliance.
- Support our leaders and employees with employee and labour relations issues (which may include conducting investigations, managing appeals, addressing misconduct, issuing discipline, suspension and/or termination)
- Manage employee movement and contract management. Including the updating of personal information
- Share insights and trends with key stakeholders to drive more effective and efficient HR service delivery
- Ensure the employee experience is at the centre of everything you doidentify, and implement Continuous Improvement activities, to enhance our HR Processes.

We are a team of connectedness - which means you will create impactful relationships between HR Specialists and our Global Employee Experience Centre to provide a world class service to our employees. And because we have a one team approach you will also have the opportunity to ‘chip in’ and partner with other departments outside of your normal business areas.

This is a great opportunity for someone looking to grow their career in HR. We have a clear career path to HR Business Partner with opportunities locallyand globally. The ‘fries’ the limit at McCain

**ABOUT YOU.**

You’ll be a HR generalist ideally with experience in a manufacturing environment (FMCG would be advantageous) You will also have
- A professional HR qualification
- Experience of working within a FMCG Manufacturing plant
- Solid ER experience, with previous knowledge of managing conduct, absence etc..
- Strong stakeholder management
- Experience of working at pace in a high pressured, and demanding environment
- Strong recruitment experience. Has experience of talent attraction as well as experience of recruiting at pace and volume
- Good administrational skills with a knowledge of Microsoft Office particularly Excel
- The ability to work well on your own, and self-motivated. A self-start and able to work independently

**WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?**

You’ll be pleased to know we don’t pay you in ‘chips’. As well as a competitive salary we also have some ‘a-peeling’ benefits including:

- A great pension plan — and we’ll pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay
- Flexible holidays — with the option to buy & sell up to 5 extra days per year
- ‘Chips In’ Volunteering Day Off — to make a positive impact in McCain communities across the globe
- Optional health cash plan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Opportunities to relocate in the future — we’re a worldwide business, so the opportunities are there for those who seek them

**WHERE WILL I WORK?**

You’ll be based at our Scarborough plant in North Yorkshire. We opened this plant back in the swinging sixties, but it’s definitely not stuck in the past. It’s one of the largest French fry factories in the world and after a recent development, it’s also one of the most high tech. Our team of over 300 colleagues work hard to make sure the quality of our products keep our customers returning for more, for now and years to come

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- McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger._
- McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs._
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