L&D Business Partner

VolkerWessels UK; Hoddesdon; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction and engineering firm in Hoddesdon is seeking a Learning and Development professional to manage training delivery and support early careers development. This role requires proven experience in L&D, strong interpersonal skills, and effective stakeholder engagement. The company offers competitive salary and benefits, including private medical care and training opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Additional day off on your birthday

Private medical care

Comprehensive training opportunities

Employee Assistance programme

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering in-house training across multiple sites.
• Experience designing classroom and online content.
• Strong relationship-building skills across operational areas.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the training delivery and evaluation.
• Support early careers development across various placements.
• Contribute to talent management and succession planning.

Skills

Experience in L&D roles

Stakeholder engagement

Interpersonal skills

Communication and influencing skills

Designing training content

Education

Relevant psychometric qualifications

CIPD qualification

Job description

Overview

VolkerWessels UK is a market leading contracting group of five closely linked businesses. We provide integrated and ground-breaking solutions for the civil engineering and construction sectors, with specialisms in rail, highways, airports, marine, defence, energy, water, and environmental infrastructure. Please note that this role is based at our Hoddesdon head office (4 days minimum onsite), with travel to our projects and sites.

About our role

Training delivery

Youll own the VolkerFitzpatrick Training Plan and ensure delivery of training with appropriate evaluation and return on investment, manage our Induction and input into onboarding process, as well as support the delivery of Group-wide training initiatives such as Leadership or Manager programmes.

Stakeholder Management

Youll also build relationships across business unit to understand the requirements of each operational and functional area.

Early careers / emerging talent

Youll support the development of our early careers (apprentice / graduate / ITP / Work experience placements), through to supporting business requirements for local commitments.

Development and Performance Reviews

Youll own the competency frameworks and career pathways and work closely with our functional lead of each job family to ensure they remain up to date and fit for purpose.

Talent and Succession

Youll contribute to the talent management and succession planning activities within VolkerFitzpatrick.

About you

• youll have proven experience within a L&D role with experience of delivering inhouse training (ideally across multi site operations), coupled with experience of stakeholder engagement and management.
• youll have experience from designing classroom content through to online webinars and videos.
• youll have strong interpersonal, adaptive, collaborative, communication and influencing skills.
• Relevant psychometric qualifications and a CIPD qualification are highly advantageous.

If your past experience doesn't match perfectly with every requirement of the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for us.

Why work with us?

VolkerWessels UK operate through five separate, but complementary businesses, working in collaboration and using our specialist skills to deliver an integrated service for our clients. At any one time, our people are working on our sites or in our offices, for around 250 projects across the UK. Everyday we overcome challenges, fulfilling our commitments, no matter what. That's what our business is about, that's how our people find satisfaction in their jobs.

We offer competitive rewards and benefits, recognising the value we place on our employees.

We offer a range of benefits, including:

• Competitive salary
• Competitive annual leave and an additional day off on your birthday
• Option to buy additional annual leave
• Private medical care
• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Shopping and restaurants vouchers, rewards, and discounts
• Training and development opportunities-comprehensive skills-based training
• Family friendly polices including enhanced maternity benefits
• Employee Assistance programme
• Mental health, physical health, and financial support
• 24/7 Virtual GP service

Fairness, inclusion and respect

We believe in pushing boundaries in the pursuit of fairness, inclusion and respect. So, our teams can be comfortable that, whatever their background, VolkerWessels UK is a place where they can be themselves and thrive.

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Additional information

Note for Recruitment Agencies:

Our preference is to hire directly, and we will reach out to our Preferred Supplier List (PSL) agencies if this particular role qualifies for release.

We kindly request that you refrain from sending speculative CVs. In the event of speculative CV submissions, no fees will be applicable, and we kindly ask that all inquiries to be directed

VolkerWessels UK is committed to maintaining healthy, safe and productive working conditions for its entire staff and therefore a drugs & alcohol screening is mandatory for all.