Onboarding Coordinator

We're looking for a **O**nboarding co-ordinator **to join our Devonport team based in Plymouth, Devon. Within this role you can enjoy 26 days annual leave, sharesave scheme, family friendly policies and even more.

**Location**: Plymouth, Devon
**Contract**: Fixed Term Contract 12 month maternity cover
**Salary**: Competitive + benefits

**Responsibilities**

Your day to day will include:

- Engaging with successful new employees & staff transfers and guiding them through the Devonport Dockyard onboarding process, including various levels of government security vetting
- Coordinating multiple new starts through various pre-requisite inductions and checks
- Responsible for conducting pre-employment checks and ensuring compliance at all times.
- Maintaining accurate diaries of all events happening and records of all new starts

**What do we need from you?**

This role of Onboarding Co-ordinator is great for you if:

- You'll have excellent communication skills (Both written and verbal), with either previous experience of working within an Onboarding role or a similar high-volume administration role
- You'll possess excellent customer focus: excelling at customer service and ability to build rapport
- You'll have good initiative and judgement skills with problem solving, ability to self-manage the workload with excellent time management skills, and an ability to meet tight deadlines
- You'll be confident and self-organised individual with a professional and responsible attitude who is adaptable and flexible in times of change
- You'll be IT Literate using Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel and Adobe Pro with attention to detail (compliant with right to work and compliance checks - though training will be provided).

**Benefits at Kier**

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.
- professional subscription - you will get one professional subscription funded to support your professional development.
- pension - you will be able to join the Kier Retirement Savings Plan (KRSP)
- Kier rewards - You will have access to discounted shopping including restaurants, insurance companies, and supermarkets.
- employee referral scheme - refer a friend or family member to work for Kier

**Who is Kier?**

At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.

**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.

**Closing Date: 28 August 2023