HR Advisor

Join Refresco in Bridgwater as a Site-Based HR Advisor on a 6-month fixed-term contract, where you’ll play a key role in delivering impactful HR services in a fast-paced environment. You’ll support the plant by ensuring HR operations align with our high standards, working closely with managers and employees on performance management, recruitment, and employee relations. This is an excellent opportunity to make a significant impact on our people-focused initiatives and contribute to a positive, professional workplace. If you’re passionate about HR and ready to make a difference, Refresco is the place for you.

Site HR Advisor

6-month fixed-term contract

Bridgwater, Somerset

Monday – Thursday 8:30 am – 5 pm, Friday 8:30 am – 4 pm

About the Role:

Refresco, the world’s largest independent bottler, is looking for a dedicated Site HR Advisor to join our Bridgwater team. In this role, you will be pivotal in delivering an operational-focused HR service, ensuring that our plant operates smoothly while adhering to the highest standards of conduct, compliance, and employee engagement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage conduct matters, supporting line managers in investigations and ensuring timely resolution.
• Monitor absence levels, supporting line managers with absence management and escalating cases as necessary.
• Ensure annual appraisals and objective setting are completed on time.
• Proactively manage vacancies to minimize disruption to manufacturing.
• Support the recruitment process, onboarding new employees, and ensuring they receive feedback and support during their probation period.
• Conduct exit interviews to gather feedback and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Deliver training and workshops to ensure line managers are well-versed in company processes.
• Support the rollout of L&D initiatives across the plant.
• Support audits and ensure compliance with company policies and legal requirements.
• Advise and coach line managers on HR policies, maintaining positive employee relations.
• Ensure consistent application of policies and procedures across the plant.
• Participate in internal groups and committees, providing HR insights and support.
• Ensure timely communication with employees and support cyclical HR projects like “Great Place to Work.”

About you

The ideal candidate will have experience as an HR Advisor, a solid understanding of UK employment legislation, and proficiency in IT tools such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. They should possess excellent written and verbal communication skills, be capable of working collaboratively and flexibly in a fast-paced setting, and demonstrate strong problem-solving abilities while maintaining composure under pressure.

Benefits and rewards

A competitive salary, a good company pension scheme, 27 days + bank holidays, and access to a virtual 24/7 GP.

We also offer our employees access to GroceryAid, a support service offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical advice and counselling to people working in the grocery industry https://www.groceryaid.org.uk/, and Cheers, offering our employees discounts to many well-known brands.

About Refresco 

Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia. Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass. Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand.

Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees. www.refresco.com.

Our drinks on every table. That’s the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started.

We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers.

Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.

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