HR Advisor in Sleaford, Lincolnshire

HR Advisor – Lincolnshire (Site-Based)

We're recruiting on behalf of a well-established food manufacturing business in Lincolnshire for an experienced HR Advisor to join a busy site HR team. This is a fantastic opportunity for a generalist HR professional who thrives on hands-on employee relations work and wants genuine scope to add value across the site.

About the Role: You'll act as the subject matter expert for employee relations, managing a varied caseload including absence, disciplinary and grievance, and capability cases, within a highly unionised environment. Alongside this, you'll support recruitment, wellbeing and engagement initiatives, and get involved in wider HR projects as the site continues to build on its people strategy.

Key Responsibilities

- Provide expert HR advice and support to managers on ER matters, including disciplinary, grievance, capability and absence cases
- Support delivery of key people metrics such as retention, turnover and absence
- Ensure HR policies, procedures and employment law requirements are applied consistently
- Maintain accurate HR systems, records and reporting
- Coordinate Occupational Health referrals and support wellbeing initiatives
- Support recruitment, onboarding, workforce planning and apprenticeship programmes
- Contribute to employee engagement activities, training compliance and communication forums
- Support ethical audits and health & safety initiatives

What We're Looking For

- Proven generalist HR experience, ideally within FMCG, manufacturing or a similar volume/unionised environment
- Strong, hands-on employee relations experience managing cases end to end
- Confident building relationships with managers, unions and staff at all levels
- CIPD qualified or working towards qualification (desirable)
- Good working knowledge of employment law and HR best practice


What's on Offer

- Competitive salary and holiday entitlement (25 days + bank holidays, with holiday purchase scheme)
- Pension scheme with employer contributions matched up to 10%
- Life Insurance / Death in Service cover (4x salary)
- Free on-site parking
- Employee Assistance Programme and staff reward/discount scheme
- Genuine opportunity to shape and improve the HR offering on site

NB: This is a site-based role, five days a week.