Human Resources Apprenticeship in Coventry at Macfarlane Packaging

Salary£15,600 to £24,784.50 / year
Work typeIn person
LocationCoventry
Job typeApprenticeship Jobs
Closes16 Nov 2026
LevelAdvanced
Starts14 Dec 2026
Hours37.5 a week
Duration1 Year 6 Months

Job description

Summary

Launch your HR career with one of the UK’s leading packaging businesses. Based at our Coventry Head Office, you’ll gain hands-on experience across HR, recruitment and people administration while completing a Level 3 HR Apprenticeship with CIPD accreditation. Full training, mentoring and genuine long-term career opportunities included.

What you will do at work

  • Supporting recruitment administration, including advertising vacancies, arranging interviews and onboarding new colleagues
  • Processing new starter and leaver documentation, ensuring legal compliance and accurate record keeping
  • Maintaining employee records and HR systems to ensure information remains accurate and up to date
  • Supporting payroll administration and the preparation of employee data
  • Assisting with absence management administration and reporting.
  • Helping maintain HR policies, procedures and company documentation
  • Supporting training and development administration, including training records and communications
  • Assisting with management reporting and wider HR projects
  • Providing administrative support across the HR team and wider Central Services function
  • Supporting Head Office reception and switchboard cover when required

Training

  • Training to be held in the workplace, via virtual learning delivery with the allocated provider
  • Frequency of one-to-one catch ups every fortnight and allocated training sesisons monthly

Requirements and skills

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • IT skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience

About this employer

We’re dedicated to protecting what matters most – our people, our customers, our communities and the environment. At Macfarlane Packaging, our commitment to customer satisfaction, sustainability and continual improvement creates a highly collaborative, supportive and friendly workplace where you can unpack a career that grows.

 

With history stretching back over 75 years, we offer stability whilst always striving for continual growth. Our fast-paced, results-driven approach will challenge and stretch you, but it will also provide outstanding opportunities for personal and professional development. Every colleague has the chance to directly influence our success, leading to genuine job satisfaction at every stage of their career.

 

We provide competitive pay alongside flexible benefits that help your rewards package go further. Our business values commitment, teamwork, adaptability and a genuine desire to learn – so if you’re looking to build a long-term career, we’d love to hear from you.

After this apprenticeship

  • Whilst we cannot promise a permanent contract upon completion, this is our intention for the right candidate
  • We have a strong track record of welcoming HR apprentices at head office into our HR team on a long-term basis, whereby others have progressed into HR Advisors and the like

Things to consider

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Employee benefits

Alongside a competitive starting salary, you’ll enjoy a great range of benefits including 25 days’ holiday (rising with service), bank holidays, pension, holiday purchase scheme, free parking, wellbeing support, retail discounts, healthcare options, enhanced family-friendly policies, long service awards, EE discounts, eye care support and a generous referral scheme.

Employer

Macfarlane Packaging

Listed via Find an Apprenticeship

Training provider

Training provider
City Skills
Training course
HR support (level 3)
Working pattern
Monday to Friday, with a total of 37.5 hours per week. Our ideal work times would be a 9:00am- 5:30pm working day with one hour for lunch, although we can be somewhat flexible for the right candidate.

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Location

Siskin Parkway East
Middlemarch Business Park
Coventry, West Midlands
CV3 4PE
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