HR & Training Advisor at Refresco in GB

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an HR & Training Advisor to join our site team in Milton Keynes. Working closely with the HR Business Partner, you will play a key role in supporting both the site and HR department in a busy, fast-paced, and varied environment. This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to develop their HR career while making a real impact across people, training, and operational activities

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HR & Training Advisor

Permanent

Refresco – Milton Keynes

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Benefits:

• Annual bonus and regular pay reviews
• Early Friday finish to kick‑start your weekend
• 28 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• Option to purchase additional leave, increasing your allowance to 31 days plus bank holidays
• Life assurance coverage
• 24/7 virtual GP access for you and your family
• Free eye‑care vouchers and discounted glasses
• Employee referral scheme with bonuses for successful referrals
• GroceryAid support services offering financial, legal, wellbeing and practical guidance
• Cheers benefits platform providing discounts, free perks, and wellbeing tools
• Free onsite parking and discounted products

Key responsibilities of the role:

• Deliver a professional and proactive HR service across the site, providing expert guidance and coaching to managers on employee relations, performance management, conduct, absence, and company policies to ensure a fair and consistent approach.
• Lead and support end-to-end recruitment and onboarding activities for site-based roles, ensuring vacancies are filled efficiently, offers and contracts are issued accurately, and new starters receive a positive onboarding experience.
• Drive performance and attendance management processes, supporting managers with investigations, absence reviews, appraisals, objective setting, and occupational health referrals while ensuring compliance with company procedures.
• Coordinate and support learning and development initiatives, including line manager training, policy briefings, training records management, and maintenance of training matrices to improve capability across the workforce.
• Support compliance, audit, and governance activities, ensuring HR processes, documentation, and corrective actions meet business, legal, and internal audit requirements.
• Act as a trusted HR ambassador within the plant, promoting company values and behaviours, supporting employee engagement initiatives, delivering effective communication, and contributing to a positive workplace culture and continuous improvement.

The ideal candidate would have:

We are looking for a proactive and professional HR practitioner with experience in a fast-paced manufacturing, FMCG or similar operational environment. You'll have a strong understanding of UK employment legislation, excellent communication and problem-solving skills, and the ability to build credible relationships with managers and employees at all levels. Organised, adaptable and customer-focused, you'll be confident managing multiple priorities, supporting recruitment and employee relations activities, and driving HR best practice. A CIPD Level 5 qualification, or equivalent experience, is desirable, alongside a commitment to continuous professional development and a passion for delivering a high-quality people service.

Ultimately, we encourage everyone to role model our core values of agility, responsibility, passion, excellence, and entrepreneurship as we believe these are what has made Refresco successful so far.

Find out more about the Refresco Values here: https://www.refresco.co.uk/uk/about/our-values

If you fit this profile and are excited by this opportunity, we would be delighted to hear from you!

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. http://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.

Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.