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Graduate Associate HR Business Partner Development Programme 2023

We are looking for a Graduate Associate Human Resources Business Partner to join our 2023 development programme and help us shape the future within our Building Services team.

The Opportunity:

You will be part of the Human Resources Operations team who provide support and advice to our colleagues within our Mechanical, Electrical and Public Health (MEP) contracts. These teams help to design, install and maintain MEP for a range of buildings, from film studios and schools to laboratories and railway stations.

This generalist role will see you create a true partnership with our project teams and lead on our people plan. You will guide people leaders to manage and lead their teams effectively, support resourcing and talent succession plans, engagement plans, and work closely to support Employee Relations issues.

Our two-year graduate programme will help you build on your degree and establish a career where you’ll have the freedom to learn, achieve your ambitions, and leave your mark on the communities in which we work.

The programme provides a pathway to develop a complete skill set developing both technical and interpersonal skills. This includes courses, on-the-job learning, working in teams to solve business challenges, and building a strong professional network, all while improving the business.

Location: You will be based at Skanska’s modern London office in Moorgate.

What you will do:

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  Manage resource forecasting with a focus on onboarding
• Support the HR Director to execute all annual events effectively to promote performance related remuneration
• Effectively champion the engagement survey and outputs to leverage engagement levels across the projects
• Contribute towards Learning & Development plans where relevant
• Drive talent review process for functional areas and work with teams to ensure succession plan in place for key roles
• Support the HR Director to identify areas of skill shortages and any demographic trends of concern
• Ensure that the projects and teams are utilising relevant corporate initiatives to build a diverse and inclusive talent pipeline
• Manage employee relations matters effectively to promote a high-performance culture

Who you are:

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  Have knowledge and keen interest in employment law
• Ability to build credible working relationships
• Resilient - able to face challenges proactively
• You will be comfortable dealing with senior management
• Able to work as part of a team; demonstrates the ability to network effectively up, down and across the business
• Strong interpersonal skills with the right balance of empathy, rigour and energy
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills, as well as comfortable to deliver presentations

What we offer:

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  Clear learning and development opportunities to build your knowledge, skills, and behaviours to prepare you for your career at Skanska
• Professional networks and mentoring to ensure success
• The opportunity to work towards membership of your chosen professional body
• Project management and leadership development mentoring
• Opportunities to volunteer at least one day per year
• Flexible working
• London travel allowance

You’ll be a welcomed member of the project, with opportunities to take on additional responsibility (e.g., Mental Health First Aider), join any of our employee networks (Ability, Pride, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Military, Origins Nationality Ethnicity (O.N.E.), Womxn), and participate in cultural and social events (e.g., STEM ambassador, Volunteering).

Your personal and professional development is important to us. We welcome a discussion about how we can support you with exploring future career paths, further study, or professional membership or attainment.

Skanska:

Skanska, one of the world’s leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.

Drawing on our Scandinavian heritage, we are green, innovative, and progressive. We bring together people and technology, as part of our objective to make construction a safer and more collaborative industry.

At Skanska, we believe in our Purpose: we build for a better society. Through our Values of care for life, commit to customers, be better – together, and act ethically and transparently you will enable us to deliver our Purpose.

Programme start date: September 2023

Get in touch with us for more information or apply today!

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

Flexible working

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Reasonable adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using [email protected] if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More information about the role

Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us: [email protected]

Closing date

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.