RecruitME
Human Resources Advisor
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Job Opportunity: HR Advisor
Are you an experienced HR Advisor, HR Officer, Employee Relations Advisor, or People Advisor with experience supporting transport, logistics, distribution, manufacturing, or another fast-moving operational environment?
RecruitME is recruiting for a confident and proactive HR Advisor to join the Agriculture division of a major UK food and farming business.
About the Role
The role is primarily focused on supporting the transport department, working closely with transport managers, operational leaders, drivers, and wider support teams.
You will be based near Sleaford, with occasional travel to other agricultural locations, approximately once a month.
You will join a small, friendly, and experienced HR team, supporting managers with employee relations, absence, performance, engagement, recruitment, and the wider employee lifecycle.
As HR Advisor, you will provide practical and legally compliant HR advice across a busy transport and agricultural operation.
You will work closely with the Senior HR Advisor and HR Business Partner while building strong day-to-day relationships with transport managers and operational teams.
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Key Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day HR advice to transport managers and operational teams.
- Manage and advise on investigations, disciplinaries, grievances, absence, and capability cases.
- Coach managers on employment law, HR policies, and consistent people management.
- Support absence management, return-to-work processes, and absence-reduction plans.
- Build effective relationships with drivers, managers, and operational colleagues.
- Maintain accurate case notes, HR records, correspondence, and employee documentation.
- Support recruitment, onboarding, and training-compliance activity.
- Assist with workforce planning, organisational change, and continuous improvement.
- Support employee engagement, wellbeing, and communication initiatives.
- Produce HR reports and maintain accurate information on HR systems.
About You
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You may currently be working as an HR Advisor, HR Officer, People Advisor, Employee Relations Advisor, ER Advisor, HR Generalist, or Site HR Advisor.
You will ideally have:
- Previous experience in an HR advisory or generalist HR role.
- Strong employee relations experience.
- Confidence managing investigations, disciplinary, grievance, absence, and capability cases.
- Good knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice.
- Experience coaching and advising operational managers.
- Strong organisation and case-management skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- A practical, resilient, and solutions-focused approach.
- Good HR systems and Microsoft Office skills.
- A full UK driving licence.
Experience within transport, logistics, distribution, fleet operations, warehousing, manufacturing, FMCG, food, agriculture, or another operational environment would be highly advantageous.
A CIPD qualification or current CIPD study would be beneficial but is not essential.
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