HR Assistant

UNAVAILABLE; Launceston; On-site; GBP 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food processing company is seeking an HR professional to join their team in Launceston. This role involves supporting various HR functions such as recruitment, employee relations, and performance management. The successful candidate will work closely with the HR team and engage with a diverse workforce, contributing to a positive workplace environment.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in HR or strong transferrable skills.
• Assertive, resilient, and highly organized.
• Professional conduct with confidentiality.

Responsibilities

• Support HR policies and processes in line with best practices.
• Assist with the full recruitment process including onboarding.
• Engage with a diverse workforce on-site.

Skills

Attention to detail

Effective communication

Organizational skills

Emotional intelligence

Proactivity

Job description

Overview

The Dawn Meats Group is one of Europe’s leading food processing companies and operates as Dunbia in the UK. This is an exciting opportunity to join a company who have a desire to produce better food naturally.

We have an exciting opportunity for an existing HR professional or someone with a desire to progress into an HR role to join our busy factory site team. You’ll have the support to develop, building on your prior experience or transferrable skillset. The main focus of the role is to effectively contribute to the HR function across our Southwest division providing support to the existing onsite HR teams and employees. This will include recruitment, disciplinary and grievance support, absence management, employee relations and engagement, performance management and all site generalist HR administrative support.

The successful candidate will report to the Regional HR Manager. Standard hours would be 8.30 - 17.00 Monday to Friday. Salary £26,000 per annum.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the HR team to support the delivery of all people policies and processes (i.e, performance management, employee relations, disciplinary, grievance, absence management) in line with best practice and legislative requirements.
• Supporting the HR function with the full recruitment process including interview, pre-employment checks and onboarding including the delivery of site inductions.
• Supporting internal and external enquiries and requests relating to the HR function
• Supporting the payroll function through provision of relevant documents and checks
• Using internal data systems to record relevant HR data
• Daily on-site interaction and employee engagement with a multi-cultural and diverse workforce.
• Supporting the business through the delivery of site absence management processes
• Notetaking in formal meetings including but not limited to disciplinary and grievance hearings
• Help support, organize, and deliver onsite Occupational Health surveillance visits, ethical audits, and other such initiatives.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in the HR field or strong transferrable skills considered.
• Assertive, resilient and highly organised.
• Excellent attention to detail
• Emotionally intelligent
• Professional conduct with the ability to maintain a high level of trust and confidentiality.
• Effective communicator, able to build trust and influence.
• Proactive and able to work under own initiative.
• Keen and enthusiastic attitude to learning.
• Ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks and stakeholders.

INDMP

No company sponsorship is available to overseas applicants for this position