HR Generalist
HR Generalist
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Job Description
Our purpose at Avient Corporation is to be an innovator of materials solutions that help our customers succeed while enabling a sustainable world. Innovation goes far beyond materials science; its powered by the passion creativity and diverse expertise of 9000 professionals worldwide. Whether youre a finance wizard a tech enthusiast an operational powerhouse an HR changemaker or a trailblazer in materials development youll find your place at Avient. Join our global team and help shape the future with sustainable solutions that transform possibilities into realities. Your unique perspective could be the key to our next breakthrough!
Job Summary
Based in Knowsley Merseyside the HR Generalist will deliver a high quality HR service providing advice and support in all aspects of the employee life cycle. The role will assist in decision making processes and positively impact the results of the organization by recruiting retaining rewarding and developing talent.
Essential Functions
- Provide advice guidance and support to managers and employees on company policies employment law and best practice.
- Manage employee relations cases including investigations disciplinary and grievances.
- Support end to end recruitment processes from designing job adverts to onboarding activities.
- Support managers with performance and absence management as well as assisting in the development of training plans.
- Assist in local policy design implementation and development.
- Support the sites within your remit with employee engagement initiatives.
- Working with the payroll team to ensure data is timely and accurate supporting with the monthly process as well as annual processes such as P11D data collation.
- Coordination and delivery of mandatory compliance training across the direct workforce
- Maintain accurate HR records ensuring GDPR compliance.
- Develops fundamental knowledge of business units including customers competitors products markets and key business metrics.
- Gains exposure to manufacturing environments through regular visits to plants within the role remit.
- Support special projects and initiatives as requested.
- Other duties as assigned
Education and Experience
- Solutions focussed with a solid generalist background ideally gained within a fast paced environment (preferably manufacturing)
- CIPD qualified
- Knowledge of UK employment law and best practice
- Confident communicator with the ability to build relationships and influence at all levels
- Organised with the ability to manage multiple priorities
We believe that all of our global employees are leaders and that the six most important behaviors for driving our strategy and culture are the same no matter if an employee is a leader of self a leader of others or a leader of the business. By playing to win acting customer centric driving innovation and profitable growth collaborating seamlessly across Avient and motivating and inspiring and developing others and yourself you will accelerate your ability to achieve Avients strategic goals to meet our customer needs and to accomplish your career goals.
At Avient we believe a wide variety of thoughts ideas and backgrounds gives us the creativity to be successful in a rapidly changing support of this we stress equality of opportunity for all qualified individuals in accordance with applicable laws. Decisions on hiring promotion development compensation or advancement are based solely on a persons qualifications abilities experience and performance. Avient is an equal opportunity employer. We maintain a policy of non-discrimination in providing equal employment to all qualified employees and candidates regardless of race sex sexual orientation gender identity age color religion national origin disability genetic information protected veterans status or other legally protected classification in accordance with applicable federal state and local law. If you need an accommodation because of a disability to complete an online application please contact the Avient HR Team by emailing
Employment Type
Full Time
