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Moving into a Manufacturing HR role

Mark

Hello,

I've got the opportunity to work as an HR Advisor in a high volume manufacturing company (retail products) with approx 3000 employees. 

I'd welcome any comments or observations about an HR role in this environment as I haven't worked in manufacturing before. My backgroud has been in telecoms / IT as well as Public sector (Local Govt and |NHS) - both in HR Advisor and Business Partner roles. 

Thanks in advance for your comments. 

Kind regards, 

Mark.  

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  • Hi Mark,
    I have spent a lot of my HR career in manufacturing and logistics and agree with all the other replies so far.
    As others have shared, you tend to spend the majority of time managing absence, performance and conduct issues. What you may find is that the managers are under a lot of pressure to meet the KPIs of the operation and people management becomes something that does not get the attention or effort required. So I would really make an effort to learn the operational side of things and build good relationships with the managers, and understand what the managers are responsible for, so if you do get faced with absence not being managed or conduct cases being delayed, you have a good relationship to be able to have effective conversations when the people side of things are not going as well.
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  • Hi Mark,
    I have spent a lot of my HR career in manufacturing and logistics and agree with all the other replies so far.
    As others have shared, you tend to spend the majority of time managing absence, performance and conduct issues. What you may find is that the managers are under a lot of pressure to meet the KPIs of the operation and people management becomes something that does not get the attention or effort required. So I would really make an effort to learn the operational side of things and build good relationships with the managers, and understand what the managers are responsible for, so if you do get faced with absence not being managed or conduct cases being delayed, you have a good relationship to be able to have effective conversations when the people side of things are not going as well.
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