HR Advisor

Kepak is a global food company serving international retailers and food service household names with prime cuts of meat, on-trend food concepts and ready-for-market convenience foods.

Kepak Red Meat UK operates from three sites within the UK. McIntosh Donald, in Aberdeen, Merthyr Tydfil in Wales and our Bodmin site in Cornwall.

Our growing and developing site HR function are looking for an experienced HR Advisor to join the team. We are looking for someone who can drive a positive, engaging, and high performing culture. Someone who enjoys a fast pace where no 2 days are the same.

You will be based at our Kepak Bodmin site which is a single species (cattle) primary product and packing site, with approximately 300 employees and a 5 day operation.

Working hours are 37.5hrs per week, Monday to Friday, site based with some flexibility around home working and hours of work to ensure we support your work-life balance.

What we can offer?

• Opportunity to work for a leading food manufacturer in a fast paced, dynamic and production focused role, within a small HR Team, with operational excellence at the heart of what we do.

• As well as delivering on the day to day HR operations you will be working collaboratively with the HR Manager to support the site HR strategy. This will give you a great exposure to enhancing employee engagement, managing employee relations, and leading continuous improvement projects.
• Our company is dedicated to your growth and success! We offer a variety of training to help you reach your full potential and support your development and progression.

As an HR Advisor you will:

• Build effective relationships with stakeholders and become a trusted advisor to positively influence approaches and behaviours in line with site/company standards and best practice, escalating any complex queries to the HR Manager as necessary.
• Proactively work to build people management capability across the Site Management team to give them the tools and confidence to handle people issues.
• Manage Employee Relations cases end-to-end including investigation, disciplinary, grievance, capability, flexible working, absence and performance management, coaching line managers/supervisors and providing pragmatic advice throughout the process.
• Actively identify opportunities for process improvements and efficiencies within the department/site.
• Lead on assigned ad-hoc projects as required, including data gathering, research and analysis.
• Support the site with our early careers initiatives, employee events and engagement activities.
• Support the HR Manager with delivery of annual HR processes such as salary reviews, succession planning and employee surveys.
• Support the Recruiter as required with recruitment activities including utilising the recruitment system, including advertising, responding to applications, scheduling interviews/block tests, and being a member of the interview panel. Supporting with health surveillance/occupational health appointments.
• Support the Training Co-ordinator as required with new hire inductions, and other training needs identified as required.

Requirements:
• Previous experience in a HR Advisor role
• CIPD Qualified - Level 5 preferred, or qualified through experience
• Passionate about delivering a proactive, operationally focused and value-add HR service to the business
• Must be discreet, diplomatic and treat information within the department as highly confidential
• Meticulous attention to detail is essential
• Communicates well in written and oral form with multi-nationals on all levels
• Ability to multitask and work under pressure using own initiative to meet various deadlines
• Resilience when faced with ambiguity and changing priorities whilst maintaining a positive, ‘can-do’ attitude
• Relationship builder with influencing skills

Role Level

A role model for the Kepak values of Responsibility, Ambition, Passion for Food and Teamwork, you will be operating at Lead Self level and able to demonstrate our required core behaviour.

• Passion for Food at forefront of day -to -day performance
• Ambition to develop self to achieve personal and business goals
• Responsibility for positive contribution to business
• Teamwork across all levels, department and teams, willing to go the extra mile.

Benefits:
• Flexible working hours to suit you and the business
• 31 days annual leave (after probation)
• Employee Discount platform - All Kepak employees are entitled to access to the WrkIt platform, which offers significant discounts and cashback with hundreds of brands
• Refer a Friend Scheme - Get up to £500 for successfully referring a friend or family member to Kepak Group
• FREE access to Employee Assistance Program (Includes Free legal advice, counselling and mental health advice)
• Company Pension plan
• Death in Service benefit for all employees in the pension scheme
• Christmas hamper
• On-site parking - Our Kepak site has a dedicated staff car parking facility which is free to use for all of our colleagues
• Cycle to work scheme - You can buy a bike and safety equipment through a salary sacrifice scheme which reduces your taxable income – meaning you pay less tax!
• Subsidised Canteen - Our on site canteen is serving multiple hot food options during the day
• Free Lunch Once a Month
• Free hot drinks all day
• Employee engagement activities
• Long Service Award - we recognise, acknowledge and award the dedication and valuable contribution of long serving employees
• Ongoing Training and Development in the role