Process Improvement and Change Specialist

Atomic Weapons Establishment; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

9-day fortnight

Pension scheme (contributory)

Family-friendly policies (Maternity/P’

Professional development funding

Employee assistance programme

Life Assurance

Discounts (employee offers)

Special Leave for volunteering/govern/

Job summary

Atomic Weapons Establishment is seeking a Process Improvement and Change Specialist to join the HR Service Improvement team in Reading. Hybrid working (three days on site in a long week and two days in a short week) with a 9-day fortnight and generous leave.

You will deliver HR process and systems changes as part of the HR Digital Roadmap, leading change, engagement, and adoption across the function. Ideally you will have experience in leading HR change and improvement projects, focusing on

Qualifications

• Experience leading HR change and improvement projects with emphasis on operational readiness.
• Ability to manage stakeholders and drive adoption of changes.
• Experience with HR systems changes (Workday/ServiceNow) and process design.

Responsibilities

• Drive programme work from a business perspective within HR Service Improvement.
• Coordinate SME input and engage stakeholders at the right times.
• Consolidate feedback into a single aligned business position.
• Drive decisions and manage issues, escalate when needed.
• Lead end-to-end design, build, test and implementation of changes.
• Review deliverables and ensure required inputs are provided.
• Support business readiness, change management and adoption.

Skills

HR change management

Stakeholder engagement

Project management

Business process design

Operational readiness

Change adoption

Data and business rules

Workday

ServiceNow

Excel (MS)

Office 365 tools

Education

Experience in HR change projects

Tools

Workday

ServiceNow

MS Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Visio

Office 365 apps

Job description

We are looking for a Process Improvement and Change Specialist to join the HR Service Improvement team. Location: Reading, with free onsite parking. Working Pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight, with every other Friday as a non-working day. This role is eligible for hybrid working, meaning employees typically spend three days on site in a long week and two days on site in a short week. Let us introduce the role AWE are currently recruiting for a HR Process Improvement and Change Specialist to work within our Service Improvement Team to deliver process and systems changes as part of our HR Digital Roadmap programme of work. Ideally, we would like you to have experience in leading HR change and improvement projects, particularly in terms of operational readiness, change management and adoption.

You will be required to:

• Drive forward your area of the programme from a business perspective
• Coordinate SME input and ensuring the right stakeholders are engaged at the right time
• Consolidate feedback into a single, aligned business position
• Drive timely decisions and resolving or escalating issues where needed
• Drive changes forward through design, build, test and implementation
• Review and sign off key deliverables and design outputs
• Ensure required business inputs (e.g. process detail, data, business rules) are provided
• Support business readiness, change management and adoption of agreed changes
• Be the focal point for external partners where required

Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we’d like you to have experience in some of the following:

• Implementing Process and Systems Change
• Designing and documenting processes and ways of working such as user guides and work instructions
• Good stakeholder management skills, able to influence and engage others
• Delivering change through a project management approach
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Basic analytical capabilities and knowledge of the use of metrics
• Experience of using Workday and ServiceNow within an HR environment
• Working knowledge of MS Excel at intermediate level
• Working with Word, PowerPoint, Visio and other Office 365 applications

Some reasons we think you’ll love it here: AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include:

• 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
• Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
• Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
• Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.

You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.

Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.

We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process.

We strive to create workplaces where we recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and our employees feel able to be themselves at work. We create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants. Any inclusion information you provide will be stored in accordance with GDPR and kept separate from your application form and CV, and the information will not be shared with anyone involved in interviewing or making hiring decisions.

Please note that you must be a British Citizen to apply for a role with us.

We are at the start of a once in a generation - possibly two generations - programme to design and produce a replacement warhead for the UK's continuous at sea deterrent. We will do this while continuing to deliver the Trident programme as well as managing ambitious state-of-the-art capital and construction projects - some of which have never been done before. Find out more on our website.

Service Leavers, Veterans and Reservists We are an Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award Employer. Visit the Service Leavers page to find out more.