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; it’s powered by the passion, creativity, and diverse expertise of 9,000 professionals worldwide. Whether you’re a finance wizard, a tech enthusiast, an operational powerhouse, an HR changemaker, or a trailblazer in materials development, you’ll 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 Avient’s 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 world. In 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 person’s 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 veteran’s 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, ApplicationAccommodation@Avient.com.