We’re looking for a Learning & Development Coordinator to join our Transportation team based in Brixworth, Northampton. Within this role, you can enjoy a competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family plus even more.

Can you imagine a world without transportation links via land, sea or air? Nor can we! Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference. Supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

Location: Brixworth, Northampton with hybrid working available

Contract: Permanent, Full time (part time hours available if desired, just let us know)

Salary: Up to £30k + 26 days of annual leave + Benefits

Responsibilities

As Learning & Development Coordinator, you’ll ensure that the contract employees are safe, legal and have the correct skills and qualifications for the role they are carrying out. You will also assist with the development of the skill set in the contract by engagement events and working closer with the corporate teams.

Your day to day will include:

• Ensure that compliance training is delivered to people across the contract in the most cost effective and efficient way, to the highest standards utilising the contract trainer and with contracts in the region

• Assisting with the engagement sessions with the advisors on the contract to help employees see the development opportunities from them

• Sourcing cost effective training with preferred suppliers and maximising the numbers on courses

• Carry out day to day duties relating to the co-ordination of training requirements including the maintaining of the training database and collating all training information

Who are we looking for?

This role of Learning & Development Coordinator is great for you if you can:

• Work with a range of stakeholders and manage relationships effectively

• Able to utilise Microsoft Excel, Outlook and Teams to log information, create reports and provide data

• Familiarisation of the training requirements for the highways business

We’re all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So even if you don’t tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat. We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communities to get in touch with us.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at [email protected] to discuss and arrange these.

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

• Wellbeing resources

• Life assurance

• A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands

And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website: www.kier.co.uk/careers/rewards-benefits

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 focussed 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: https://www.kier.co.uk/media/6668/di-roadmap-2021.pdf

Closing date: 11 September 2023

Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.