HR Advisor

HR Advisor – Poole, Dorset

We are looking for an experienced HR Advisor to join our leading manufacturing company that designs, manufactures and supplies products to both B2C and B2B markets. The company has been established for over 35 years, employs around 650 staff across its brands and operates a wide range of high‑quality, in‑demand products.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive administrative support to the HR team, ensuring smooth day‑to‑day operations.
• Manage a wide range of employee relations cases, including disputes, disciplinaries, grievances, absence management, retirement and redundancy.
• Lead end‑to‑end recruitment activities – crafting job descriptions, preparing interview questions, coordinating interviews, conducting assessments and delivering constructive feedback.
• Oversee all employee documentation, including contracts, onboarding packs and formal letters, ensuring full compliance with employment legislation.
• Prepare onboarding materials, organise induction schedules and deliver engaging new‑starter introductions.
• Manage the full employee lifecycle, from onboarding through to offboarding.
• Maintain and update the HRIS with accurate employee data and generate reports when required.
• Administer company benefit schemes, ensuring accurate records and effective communication.
• Track probation periods, support managers with policy guidance, and issue probation outcome letters.
• Advise on sickness and statutory absences, ensuring consistent and fair application of policies.
• Monitor holidays and absences, maintaining accurate records.
• Support the delivery of HR projects, new procedures and organisational initiatives aligned with business strategy.
• Apply sound HR and commercial judgement to support effective decision‑making.
• Provide accurate payroll‑related information to ensure timely processing.

Qualifications

• HR experience including employee relations experience.
• Employment law knowledge.
• Excellent communication skills, ability to build rapport and work relationships across the business.
• The ability to liaise within the business maintaining confidentiality.
• High level of organisational skills including the ability to prioritise workloads.
• Full driving licence (travel required between sites).

Benefits

• 23 days holiday (increasing to 28 days after 5 years’ service + bank holidays) + option to buy up to 4 additional days of holiday every year.
• Free car parking.
• Discounts available for shopping, cinema, gyms etc.
• Death in service scheme.
• Welcoming team environment.
• Regular social events.

Contact

For more information about this brilliant opportunity please contact our Recruitment Team on (phone number removed) or send your CV. Those who have the right skills and experience, our aim is that you will hear back from us within 24 hours but due to the high number of applications we are receiving at present, we are unable to respond to every application individually. If you do not hear from us within 3 days, please assume that your application at this stage has not been successful. As new positions arise, we will review any applications already made to us and may contact you about other suitable roles.

Resource Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to a policy of treating all its employees and job applicants equally. It is the policy of the Company to take all reasonable steps to ensure that each applicant is assessed only in accordance with their qualifications, skills and abilities to perform the relevant duties without prejudice in regards to background, religion, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability or gender.

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