Graduate HR Assistant

SME Graduate Employment Ltd; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A national Construction business seeks a passionate HR graduate for a role at their head office in Leicester. You will support diverse HR functions from payroll to recruitment, help manage apprentices, and work on policy writing and succession planning. This position offers a great learning opportunity in a supportive environment with career growth potential, particularly with the retirement of a current director in a few years. Occasional travel to other sites is also involved.

Qualifications

• Recent graduate in Human Resources or a related field.
• Willingness to learn and take on various HR duties.
• Ability to manage relationships and handle sensitive situations.

Responsibilities

• Assist in payroll processing and recruitment activities.
• Manage onboarding processes and maintain the HR database.
• Support policy writing and succession planning.

Skills

Human Resources Knowledge

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

Education

Degree in Human Resources or related field

Job description

Are you a Human Resources graduate who is looking to develop a career as a HR generalist? This Leicester based role at the head-office of a national Construction business could be ideal.

There are 3 people in the HR team, including a Director who will be retiring in 2027. The person who is being developed to replace her started as a graduate 4 years ago, and has done very well.

You’ll be taking over a lot of duties that she no longer has time for, as her role develops further.

You will be learning a wide range of HR duties : from payroll to recruitment; onboarding to managing the database. There will be some work on the strategic side too, and maybe some projects. You’ll be writing policies, managing relationships, looking at succession planning, and lots more. And you’ll be helping the Training manager to look after the business apprentices.

There will also be some of the less nice parts of the job too, such as disciplinaries.

This really is a fantastic opportunity, with a business that sees great value in graduates (there are Directors of other departments who also started as graduates). You’ll be learning a lot, from good people who know a lot about HR.

There will be some occasional travel to other sites (once or twice a month)