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This industrial placement opportunity is for a period of 10 to 12 months, during which, you will have the opportunity to support our Early Careers Talent Acquisition team with the recruitment of early talent for Mott MacDonald across all business units, whilst delivering on our attraction strategy.
Our early careers team are responsible for the recruitment of graduates, apprentices, and placement students in the Europe region. Our team of eight are based across two locations: Birmingham and Croydon, so this role can be based from either office, as well as the opportunity for remote working. This industrial placement is key in providing an efficient and effective recruitment administration service to the business.
How we market our opportunities to students as their employer of choice is hugely important and directly impacts on our ability to attract and hire a high-volume of early careers talent each year. This is an excellent opportunity for a university student to gain industry experience in both early careers recruitment and marketing within a global engineering consultancy and a Times Top 100 Graduate Employer.
Your main responsibilities
- Recruitment: you’ll work closely with the team to create roles on our ATS, screen applications and organise interviews for candidates for various roles. Delivering an excellent candidate experience by ensuring queries are actioned efficiently. You’ll provide on-boarding support for all hires, including preparing documents for offer of employment and organising pre joining events. You’ll be responsible for admin tasks as required.
- Marketing: you’ll be supporting the team with the design and delivery of university career fairs during Autumn and school events throughout the year: booking events; liaising with our logistics company; ordering the merchandise; and sourcing volunteers to attend events. You’ll review our job adverts and, working with the business, make improvements where required, ensuring that all branding is consistent across our campaign. You’ll create and maintain engaging content for our digital and printed materials.
Candidate specification
To join us for an industrial trainee placement you must currently be at University or looking for a pre-university placement.
You’ll be working with graduates, experienced professionals, and other students so a placement with us is the perfect opportunity to learn from a variety of people while understanding our values and culture. It’s also a great chance to get involved with real projects while gaining relevant experience.
We do not have a formal structure for our placements, so you can really make the role your own. The more you get involved and the more questions you ask, the more you will gain from your experience with us.
As well as studying an undergraduate degree in humanities, marketing or similar, we are looking for students with the following characteristics:
- Organisational skills and able to prioritise tasks.
- The ability to use your initiative to undertake tasks efficiently and independently.
- Excellent verbal communication skills, which allow you to confidently liaise with the business, third party suppliers and candidates.
- Excellent written communication skills and attention to detail.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
We put equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they have the opportunity to contribute.
If you have a disability and would prefer to apply in a different format or would like us to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how to help.
Agile working
At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team and personal commitments. We embrace agility, flexibility and trust.
About our placements
We’re looking for highly motivated students who are passionate about learning from our industry experts. You’ll be given the opportunity to gain invaluable experience working on some of the exciting projects that are helping to shape tomorrow’s world.
We understand that to put your learning into practice it’s important that you’re given an accurate insight in to our innovative industry. With enough work placement experience under your belt you can get just that. Think of it as a worthwhile investment towards your future career.
We place a lot of emphasis on giving you a realistic view of our world, so you can decide if it’s the industry you want to work in.
Many of the employees that we recruit for our graduate schemes are students that have made an impression during their placements with us, so remember, this could be the start of a promising career for you with Mott MacDonald.
What we offer
You’re probably wondering what else is on offer.
Join us, and you’ll get:
- As a living wage employer, we offer our students a competitive salary which is above the living wage threshold - we ensure that you’re given a salary you deserve.
- Contributory pension up to 7% of your salary: we have the best people on our team, and we like to look out for them. With our support, you’ll have all the advice and options you need to be able to invest in your future.
- A flexible benefits scheme: our company is made up of a range of different people and we understand that different people want different things. That’s why with our flexible plan, you’ll have the ability to manage the range of benefits we have on offer, to suit your specific needs during the year you are with us.
Our social side
Being part of Mott MacDonald means more than just work, there’s a huge range of fun and exciting things that you can get involved in.
From the moment you join us, you’ll have the opportunity to expand your social and professional network, whether it’s meeting other placement students and graduates or joining forces with other members of staff from around the company at our annual sports day. Each of our offices have a sports and social committee which will give you the chance to be part of a variety of sports, social and charity events. We’re committed to promoting a strong culture of social responsibility and encourage our staff to play active roles in the local community.
It's worth noting that sports and social committees tend to vary from office to office, so as well as getting involved in what’s already on offer, don’t be afraid to suggest new events or initiatives that you think could be a great addition.
It doesn’t stop there. As well as events, you’ll also have access to discounts on cinema tickets, travel, fashion, utilities and much more as part of our company benefits which you can take advantage of the moment you join.
