Graduate HR Advisor Remote 2022

Our two-year Graduate Development Programme starts you on a journey to develop your career in a challenging, dynamic and supportive work environment.

As an integral member of our the Amey Consulting HR team, our graduate programme allows you to be home-based with the requirement for regular travel (approximately once a week) to various office locations throughout the UK, as our programme is designed to help you gain real experience from day one, aby providing invaluable exposure to and experience of many different aspects of HR. You will be fully supported by a team of experienced HR professionals to ensure that you can develop and succeed.

Amey Consulting is one of the UK’s leading engineering consultancies, inspiring change and driving improvements across the UK's critical infrastructure to create a positive impact on society. We want to make a genuine difference to people’s lives, whether we're using data to reduce delays across the road and rail network, designing carbon neutral schemes or delivering critical infrastructure projects. Our ambition is to leave a legacy of sustainable infrastructure for future generations. Our team of designers, engineers and consultants are transforming the way we design strategic assets - providing collective creativity to our clients, to keep the country moving, and supporting economic growth. Providing two core services within our portfolio - Consultancy & Design and Advisory & Analytics.

• During the programme you will be able to take advantage of a range of opportunities: Supporting our People Partners by working with accounts across the Amey Consulting business, this could include experience across employee relations, TUPE, organisational design, coaching and mentoring.
• The opportunity to both lead and support key People Plan priorities
• Working with our Learning and Development Business Partner on specific Talent initiatives including ownership of our annual talent cycle and the opportunity to develop targeted talent initiatives
• Working with our Resourcing team and Inclusion specialist, you will have the opportunity to get involved in progressing our EDI strategy
• Working as part of our Organisational Development practice within our Advisory business, tackling HR related challenges for our external clients

Over your first two years, you’ll cover personal development, business skills and business improvement techniques, developing your knowledge and skills to help fulfil your potential, enabling you to move into an operational HR management role at the end of your programme.

By joining Amey, you’ll be stretched, but always supported, surrounded by people who want you to thrive and embrace new challenges, recognising your hard work and looking out for your wellbeing.

We’re proud of what we do, because we’re all given the freedom to perform and given the flexibility to work in a way that suits you - it’s what makes a career with us unlike any other.

What Will You Bring

It's more your potential, motivation and behaviours, than previous experience that’s important to us. That goes for diversity too. We want a workforce as diverse as the communities we serve and value the individuality people bring to Amey.

We love our people to have a passion for customer service; people with drive and ambition, but who also understand that they have to treat others with respect to get the best out of them; people who have an innovative way of doing things and people who understand the importance of the commercial viability of their plans.

If you like the sound of that, then are just a few other things we hope you’ll bring:

• Minimum 2:2 degree (or equivalent) in HR, Psychology or a Business-related discipline OR currently studying a Masters in HR
• Available to join our programme from October 2022
• Drive and ambition, with a passion for continuously developing your knowledge and skills and desire to study towards the CIPD Level 7
• Effective communication and rapport-building skills with a collaborative approach to teamworking
• Highly numerate, comfortable analysing and using data to support management decision making
• Creative thinking and commercial acumen

So, if you possess the determination and initiative to become an expert in your field, with the passion and enthusiasm to create opportunities and question the accepted, our Graduate development programme could be for you.

In Return

We place great value on our people and the contribution they make to our business, so it’s important that our rewards make us feel valued here. If you’re happy, you’ll think better. It’s a simple formula but one that puts your wellbeing as a top priority, that’s why we recognise individual needs and offer a flexible reward and benefits package that puts you first, including;

• Starting salary of £26500
• Exceptional development and progression plan
• Support with further study through Professional Institutions
• 24 Days annual leave + Bank Holidays, Pension Scheme
• Choices: Our flexible benefits scheme is tailored by you, including buying additional annual leave, cycle2work scheme, charity giving and gym membership
• Save with Amey: Our online voucher portal gives you access to thousands of discounts from leading retailers to help you save on days out, or nights in
• Social Value: You’ll get a Community Involvement Day each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice and further opportunities to support fundraising initiatives for CRUK, or where eligible, participate in the DoE Gold Award

Why Amey

We’re big on making our diverse workplace a conducive environment for ideas to thrive and place a high importance on the culture, health, and well-being of our people. We have passionate ambassadors who lead our thriving affinity groups, specialist mental health and wellbeing ambassadors, access to a Health and Wellbeing App, an Employee Assistance Programme if you need confidential advice/support, Wellbeing Wednesdays, and dedicated pastoral care colleagues who proactively ensure you are getting all the personal and professional support that you need.

As part of our Early Careers community, you’ll join more than 300 other Graduates, Degree Apprentices, Apprentices and Placement students working across our entire Amey organisation. Being part of this community provides for excellent development, peer-to-peer networking opportunities, involvement in a range of social value and fun extra-curricular activities.

You’ll also be provided with a “buddy”, to assist you as you settle in, and an industry expert as a professional mentor, to help guide you towards achieving your professional qualifications/accreditation.

We encourage our people to bring their whole selves to work; meaning that you can be your true self. We believe true diversity of backgrounds and skills, create the best environment and opportunities. It means we ask the right questions to arrive at smarter solutions because we learn from each other’s perspectives. And this means smarter outcomes for our clients, our communities and ourselves. You’ll be empowered to play your part and achieve, encouraged to fulfil your own ambition as well as our shared one.

If you want professional development, accelerated career progression, an environment that encourages entrepreneurial spirit, it’s all here for you, at Amey.

In the meantime why not take a look at our Early Careers Hub where you can find out more about us, our various Programmes, the benefits we offer, our Social Value commitments, Wellbeing and Support Services, along with a whole host of other useful information about how you would be part of our Early Careers community here at Amey.

We hope that you’re excited about this opportunity and a potential career with Amey, but also appreciate that not every role will be suitable for you, so please visit our Careers Site as we post new roles all the time in different disciplines, locations or areas of our organisation.