HR Administrator / HR Apprentice

Arco; Hull and East Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading safety products firm in the UK is seeking an HR Administrator / Apprentice to support their People & Culture team. This hybrid role combines office and home working, requiring strong administrative skills and familiarity with HR processes. Candidates should possess experience with Excel and PowerPoint, along with an understanding of excellent customer service. The position offers competitive pay, generous holiday policies including community volunteering, and numerous additional benefits like a health cash plan and a comprehensive pension scheme.

Benefits

Competitive starting salary plus bonus

32 days holiday plus options to buy more

Community volunteering days

Excellent pension and life assurance

Cost of living discounts via Perkbox

Free Employee Assistance Programme access

Health Cash Plan

Learning Management System access

Long-term service awards

Qualifications

• Some working knowledge of HR policies, systems, procedures.
• Ability to work in a confidential environment.
• Experience in delivering excellent customer service.

Responsibilities

• Providing front-line support to colleagues in HR.
• Reviewing process efficiencies within the department.
• Maintaining accurate personnel files and liaising with Payroll.

Skills

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

SharePoint

Customer service practices

Job description

About The Role

Are you an experienced HR Admin, who’s looking for a new, similar role in a successful and established business? Perhaps you’re looking for your first role in HR, whether that be as an Apprentice, or moving from a career where you’ve picked up elements of HR but have never been in a full HR role. We’re currently recruiting for a HR Administrator / Apprentice to join our People & Culture team here at Arco. If you’re someone who enjoys and wants to provide administrative support, analysis of data, and process guidance all while ensuring precision in every task then we want to hear from you! Our HR Administrator / Apprentice role is a hybrid position, with a mix of working from our Head Office in Hull, and home-based working.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing first front-line support and advice to colleagues and line managers in all aspects or ER and contractual queries and challenges
• Continually reviewing process and procedure efficiencies within the department and make recommendations for improvement
• Delivering excellent customer service by dealing with all enquiries timely, accurately and in a friendly, knowledgeable, and professional manner
• Obtaining and maintaining a sound working knowledge of the systems, policies and procedures in HR.
• Maintaining a great working relationship with the HR Advisors. ensuring consistent advice and ways or working are adhered to at all times
• Providing the People & Culture team with administrative support
• Ensuring that all personnel files are accurately maintained in a timely manner
• Liaising with the Payroll team to ensure all colleague information is correctly maintained
• Working through own initiative with minimal supervision as well as working as part of the wider HR Shared Services team
• Being an expert on all modules of the My Arco system and if required make recommendations for any improvements

On top of working for the UK’s leading integrated health and safety experts, you’ll also receive:

• A competitive starting salary plus bonus
• 32 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays which rises with service, plus the option to purchase up to 5 more days each calendar year
• 2 fully paid Community Volunteering days every year
• An excellent pension (up to 8% Arco contribution) and x4 Life Assurance scheme
• A huge range of discounts to help with cost of living via Perkbox plus Employee Discount on Arco products
• Free, 24‑hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Health Cash Plan where we'll reimburse up to 100% of everyday healthcare costs
• Access to our Learning Management System, to support your personal and career development
• Long‑term service awards – we’re proud to have employees who have worked for us for 40 years

About you

• Experience in Excel / PowerPoint / Word/ SharePoint
• Some working knowledge of HR policies, systems, procedures and producing HR correspondence
• Ability to work in a confidential environment / HR Service Centre
• Knowledge of excellent customer service practices
• Highly focused on customer service with demonstrable understanding of excellent service delivery

About Us

With a 140-year legacy, Arco are recognised as the UK's leading safety experts. As the only integrated safety products and services business, our size, scale and reputation in the sector are why we have such an impressive portfolio of accounts and customers. We're the expert safety partner with a unique mix of specialist expertise and practical real‑life industry knowledge. We are now on a transformation journey to become more profitable and sustainable, with investment into our growing business to help achieve this. This is an exciting and demanding time for the business. There is opportunity to shape and challenge the transformation journey and future growth, while balance the pressure to deliver sales growth and financial targets that are necessary to support the future growth. Our behaviours; Care, Collaborate, Perform and Deliver, are embedded within our culture, to drive performance and ensure we succeed together and are rewarded for that shared success. Because It’s on us. To deliver. Together. Diversity and Inclusion at Arco means understanding everyone's views and giving colleagues a sense of belonging. We respect and value individuals for their unique skills, experiences and ideas; to ensure we can be at our best. By creating a supportive and inclusive environment we will be an organisation able to drive our strategic goals, attracting and developing great people to be a more profitable and sustainable business for generations to come. Be Safe, Be Yourself, Be Your Best.