Graduate HR Administrator

Salary: £highly competitive + valuable benefits

About the role:
This is a great first step to your career in HR. SOCOTEC UK are the UK’s number one testing, inspection and compliance organisation, this means our people are the core of our business. This role would ideally suit an individual that is people centric, someonewho cares about how we develop individuals and grow our teams. You will be ambitious, focussed and keen to learn. By joining our growing, dynamic and integrated HR Shared Services Centre you will gain a wide range of exposure to HR operational excellence.

Working closely with the existing HR Administration team, you will be providing professional HR support (administrative, transactional, procedural and advisory) to managers and staff covering all parts of the employee lifecycle.

**Responsibilities**:
Your responsibilities will include:
Assisting with key recruitment activities such as reviewing and posting job adverts, producing contracts/offers of employment and ensuring we have all of the necessary documentation for new starters
Administration of the end-to-end employee life cycle including on boarding, pay and reward, benefits, absence, performance management, flexible working and resignations etc.
Being a first point of escalation for line managers, employees and third parties to resolve HR related enquires (HR systems, policy, process and guidance)
Coordinating health screenings and training needs across the business including: booking training courses, arranging workplace medicals and tracking training/medical expiry dates
Assisting our in-house payroll function with various tasks as and when required.
About you

We’re looking for a professional, dynamic and motivated individual with the ability to work alone and as part of a team.

A desire to work in a fast-paced administration environment and working to tight deadlines
The ability to prioritise your own workload effectively, whilst managing multiple simultaneous tasks and maintaining outstanding customer service
A great attention to detail and focus on quality and continuous improvement
Be comfortable in maintaining and updating electronic and hard copy personnel records, including HRIS systems
Proficient IT skills in Microsoft Office with excellent numerical calculation skills
In return, we offer a competitive salary and all the benefits of working for a dynamic and growing organisation including generous holidays, company pension and discounts on high street shopping.

Our Benefits

We provide a competitive basic starting salary and operate a range of employee benefits, which include:
25 days annual leave plus all public/bank holidays
Life assurance x 3 annual salary
Contributory pension scheme
Employee assistance program to support and advise with well-being & any issues
Employee discount scheme (discounts on several major retail/leisure brands)
Gym membership discounts
Cycle to work scheme
Why work for SOCOTEC?

Joining SOCOTEC means developing a rewarding professional career alongside our increasingly diverse international group.

You can expect to be working with like-minded people committed to achieving excellence, using entrepreneurship and innovation, while taking accountability and being socially responsible.

Join us, and you’ll be part of a 1,800-strong team that helps the business carry out 7 million tests per year for 5,000 clients across the UK and Ireland. Working together to build confidence for a safer and more sustainable world.

Our employees are the bedrock of our business and we recognise that it is the calibre of the people that make up our teams, that differentiates us from our competitors. As such, we work hard to recruit, develop and retain the best talent in the industry,so when you grow, we grow.

Building a safer and more sustainable world is the core mission we set out to achieve at SOCOTEC, it is at the heart of everything that we do. We are committed to acting as a key player in society, investing in innovative solutions to ensure social and environmentalconcerns are at the forefront of all of our business operations.