HR Administrator / HR Apprentice

Lyon's A Bit Creative; Hull and East Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading safety solutions company in the UK is looking for a HR Administrator / Apprentice to join their People & Culture team. This hybrid position involves providing administrative support, maintaining personnel files, and delivering excellent customer service. Ideal candidates will have some knowledge of HR practices and be proficient in Excel and related tools. The role comes with competitive salary and extensive benefits including holiday, pension, and personal development opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive starting salary plus bonus

32 days holiday plus option to purchase more

Fully paid Community Volunteering days

Excellent pension plan

Employee discounts

24-hour Employee Assistance Programme

Health Cash Plan

Access to Learning Management System

Qualifications

• Some working knowledge of HR policies and procedures.
• Ability to work in a confidential HR environment.
• Demonstrable customer service skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide first-line support for HR queries.
• Review processes for efficiency improvements.
• Maintain accurate personnel files.
• Liaise with Payroll for accurate information.

Skills

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

SharePoint

Customer service

Job description

About The Role

Are you an experienced HR Admin, whos looking for a new, similar role in a successful and established business? Perhaps youre looking for your first role in HR, whether that be as an Apprentice, or moving from a career where youve 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 youre 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

• 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 UKs leading integrated health and safety experts, youll 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 were 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 Its 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.