HR Advisor

Job Title: HR Advisor 

Location: March

Salary: Competitive

Job type: Full time, Permanent 

Monday to Friday 8.30am – 17.00

About us:

Knowles Logistics is trusted by some of the biggest and best-known businesses in the country to offer a broad range of warehousing and distribution services. Our focus today is epitomised by a drive to deliver the most efficient, high-quality logistics solutions to our customers, with long-term benefits for both parties. We aim to carry out our operations sustainably, and that's not just by minimising our environmental impacts but also by examining efficiencies across the business and fully embracing development opportunities.

The Role:

Provide support to the HR Manager on HR related matters and to the managers across functions including areas of resourcing, disciplinary investigations and absence management.

Supporting business strategy, development and continuous improvement, whilst maintaining employee engagement and welfare.

Must Have skills / experience 

• Minimum of two  years’ experience working in an operational HR capacity
• CIPD qualified or a minimum 3 years’ experience
• Confident and demonstrable  understanding of employment law
• Articulate communicator, both written and verbally to persons at all levels
• Flexible and adaptable in approach to ever changing workload and deadlines
• Examples of adding value as both an individual contributor and active team member
• Experience of dealing with challenging individuals
• Confidential and approachable to employees at all levels
• Ability to recognise, implement and review development plans for individuals – with support,
• succession planning.
• Ability to represent the Human Resource function internally & externally
• Continuous improvement, always looking for innovation to drive the team and business forward
• Methodical approach and ability to prioritise to enable standalone working
• Full Driving licence and vehicle to travel to other sites if necessary

Key Accountabilities

• Monitoring the HR policy data to engage employee talent to maximise employee resources, within the following areas:

• Absence management system
• Recruitment & selection strategy
• Retention strategy
• Succession planning processes
• Performance management and accountability structure
• Training & development practice and policy
• Disciplinary & grievance

Responsibilities 

• Give appropriate HR advice (employment law related and/or using Policies/Procedures) on key issues such as disciplinaries, grievances, and absence management.
• Support managers in investigations for disciplinary and grievance up to and including Written Warning level. This includes investigation, where appropriate, guiding and advising the Manager during the hearing, taking appropriate notes and confirming the outcome.
• Ensure all absence is monitored / track sickness absence and issue relevant management actions in accordance with procedure.
• Support managers in the recruitment and selection processes for resourcing  along with the resourcer  and ensuring a fair and effective process is followed to select the best candidate(s) for the business and role.
• Supports the managers by offering the most cost effective way of resourcing within each department
• Writing offer letters and contracts of employment.
• Managing the HR Employee database.
• Preparation of New Starter documentation and Induction Material and co-ordinating with the Driver Development Manager, QSH Manager and departmental heads.
• Conducting exit interviews for leavers to understand their reasons for leaving and to see if there are any trends which can be identified to reduce employee turnover. 
• Support the Appraisal process to ensure the maximum effectiveness of teams across the business and support improvement projects

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