HR & Recruitment Assistant - Placement

HR & Recruitment Assistant - 12 Month Placement 2026

Responsible for working closely with the HR Team to support and deliver the best candidate and employee experience in a leading dairy cooperative. Our ideal candidate is passionate about making a difference, is an excellent communicator, is highly organized, and willing to go the extra mile to provide the best experience.

Reports to: HR Business Partner

Location: Based in Head Office, Belfast with flexibility to travel to any of our company locations

• Support the HR Team and hiring managers on the recruitment process. This will include, advertising roles, screening applications, arranging interviews and tracking candidates.
• Advertising positions on our company website, Linked In and other sites where appropriate.
• Working with hiring managers to coordinate interview schedules, room bookings, preparation and filing of interview information, and issuing regrets.
• Learn, develop and execute online candidate search campaigns using a variety of internet-based resources, including Linked In.
• Arranging temps for the business when required.
• Delivering constructive and on-time feedback to candidates.
• Making the candidate experience enjoyable and positive.
• Developing extensive relationships with key stakeholders to enable good communication and smooth implementation and improvement of processes.
• Delivery of company induction information to new starts and managers, and maintaining all induction records.
  
  Support with recruitment activities such as careers fairs, University visits and outreach programmes.
• Tracking progress of the yearly recruitment plan, providing regular status updates, and supporting with the interview processes when required.

• Support the HRBPs in sending Offer letters, Contracts, and new start documentation via Docusign.
• Administration of our HR System – Success Factors, including adding new employees, updating internal job move information, removal of leavers, etc.
• Ensure all relevant data is captured in our HR systems, and our recruitment platform is kept up to date.
• Reference requests for all new starts.
• Support on ad-hoc data requests.
• Reviewing job descriptions and writing compelling job adverts for our company website.
• Manage out employee reward scheme – Rewarding the Legen’dairy

• Support the HR team on any project related work when required.
• Supporting the HR team with delivering and coordinating Employee onboarding.

• The successful candidate should have a strong academic record and be working towards a relevant degree in Human Resources, Business Management, or related subject.
• Proactive and able to prioritise tasks and manage workload.
• Excellent attention to detail, and confident in communicating to all levels of stakeholders within the business.
• Excellent IT and administrative skills, including Microsoft office (e.g., Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Maintain a positive working environment.
• Fluent in English, and knowledge of an additional European language is an advantage.

This is a challenging role, and we are looking for energetic and enthusiastic applicants who are comfortable working both independently and within a team. Applicants must have a positive, pro-active and can-do attitude, and will be flexible to travel to any of our sites and should hold a clean current driving licence and have access to your own transport.