Recruitment Apprentice

We’re looking for a **Recruitment Apprentice** to join our Highways team. Within this role, you can enjoy a supportive team environment, excellent training and development, and a fast-tracked career.

**Location**: Hybrid - remote working, with occasional travel to the Rushden office

**Contract**: Permanent - flexible and part-time hours available if desired, just let us know

**Salary**: £18,525 per annum plus excellent benefits

**About The Role**

As part of the corporate HR function, the Kier Resourcing Team are responsible for helping the business find suitable and talented people to fill their vacancies.

With support from the team, this role will allow you to develop a broad range of skills to prepare you for a future in Recruitment.

As part of this role, you will be able to work towards a recognised Advanced Business Administration (level 3) apprenticeship. This is delivered through one of our selected training providers who will support you through your formal programme alongside the Kier Recruitment Team.

In addition to the formal training programme you will receive hands on experience, including mentoring and coaching from experienced members of the team.

This apprenticeship role is a permanent position with the opportunity to progress following successful completion of the programme.

**Responsibilities**

Your day-to-day will include:

- Management of the recruitment system; raising vacancies, advertising positions, filtering CVs and creating offers
- First point of contact for recruitment related enquiries
- General administration duties

**What are we looking for?**

This role of Recruitment Apprentice is great for you if:

- Desire to learn and create a career within recruitment
- Good standards of written and verbal communication
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Able to work in a team and use own initiative
- Able to work under pressure and to deadlines
- IT literate

**We’re proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include**:

- new and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance, and more
- A competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave.
- 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
- Kier’s Green Car Scheme
- A huge range of deals and discounts at many of your favourite brands

And so much more You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website.

**Who is Kier?**

As a leading UK infrastructure services, construction and property group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We take pride in bringing specialist knowledge, sector leading experience and fresh thinking to all that we do.

We are collaborative, trusted and focused, and we will empower you to achieve your career goals, and listen to your thoughts, ideas and challenges.

**Diversity and inclusion**

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We’re proud of the steps we’ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier’s diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives. You can see more about our D&I action plan here

Closing Date**:11**th** January 2023