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Are you a hands-on learning and development professional with the energy, curiosity, and creativity to make a real difference? Do you want to work in a team that's evolving, dynamic, and committed to doing things differently?

At Laing O'Rourke, we're on an exciting journey to transform how we grow our people. As a Talent & Leadership Partner, you'll play a central role in evolving our learning and development offering - building on strong foundations to create future-ready, high-impact programmes that accelerate growth, leadership, and performance.

The Role:

Location: Dartford HQ (with national travel to offices and project sites)

In this pivotal role, you'll design, deliver, and manage end-to-end talent and leadership programmes that empower our people to grow, lead, and thrive. This role is perfect for someone who wants to make learning meaningful and future-focused - not just deliver what's always been done.

• Design and deliver engaging, forward-thinking learning and leadership programmes.
• End to end programme management of the current suite of talent and manager development programmes, which support career growth, leadership, and skills enhancement.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to co-create tailored solutions that align with business strategy and individual aspirations.
• Champion innovation - bring new ideas, tools, and technology into our learning strategy.
• Use data and feedback to measure impact, continuously improve, and demonstrate the value of learning.

About You:

• A natural collaborator with strong stakeholder and relationship-building skills.
• A structured and hands-on programme manager, with a keen eye for detail and delivery.
• An engaging facilitator, confident in leading sessions and energising groups.
• Curious, confident, and resilient - someone who asks questions, speaks up, and thrives in a changing environment.
• A genuine passion for people, learning, and performance.

Skills & Experience

We value skills and capability above all, but you'll ideally have:

• 3-5 years in a learning, talent, or leadership development role.
• Experience in programme design and delivery aligned to performance and business outcomes.
• Familiarity with digital tools such as Microsoft Suite, Power BI and psychometrics).
• Strong analytical, organisational, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ideally, industry insight into construction or similar large-scale, project-based environments.
• CIPD or equivalent professional L&D or HR accreditation.

CVs only tell us so much and so do job adverts.We'dwelcome an informal chat via Emma Woodall (Resourcing Partner) to discuss ewoodall@laingorourke.com or 07350368883.

About us:

Laing O'Rourke is dedicated to being a recognised leader in innovation and excellence in the construction industry. We focus on delivering projects that leave a lasting positive environmental legacy, driven by technical excellence in design, manufacturing, and construction.

We offer a competitiveremunerationpackage (base salary + car/travel allowance) with access to Private Medical Insurance; enhanced pension and parental leave schemes; Life/Dental/Critical illness insurance and income protection; 33 days holiday inc. bank holidays + 1 paid day for volunteering;professional development opportunities and more!

We are committed to making our recruitment process accessible to everyone. As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we enable access for candidates with long-term health conditions and disabilities through the 'Offer an Interview Scheme', which supports applicants meeting the essential criteria by offering an interview for the position. If you need the application form in an alternative format or have any questions about our process, please contact resourcingteam@laingorourke.com.

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We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

“As an engineering enterprise, Laing O'Rourke is committed to playing a vital role in building a stronger and more sustainable economy that benefits society in general.”

– Ray O’Rourke KBE, Chief Executive Officer

Our Origin Story:

Diversity & Inclusion:

Laing O'Rourke is committed to inclusion; an employer that maintains the highest standard of employment practice and one which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse society in which we live and work.

Laing O'Rourkebelieves that when we go to work, we should feel we are going to a place where we are accepted, understood and valued and that we should make others we work with feel this way too.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION SUBCOMMITTEES

Laing O'Rourke have ten Diversity & Inclusion Subcommittees. The purpose of the diversity and inclusion sub-committees is to offer a safe and supportive environment to listen and share personal experiences and insights, as well as play a sympathetic role for each other.

The sub-committees help to drive education, events and initiatives across the organisation as well as help colleagues to understand their purpose.

Current subcommitteesinclude Dis-Ability, Carers, Ethnicity, Gender, Families that live abroad,LGBTQ+, Women & Menopause, & Working Families.

Support for Disabled Employees:

• LOR recruitment, HR Teams, Leadership and management have undertakendisability awareness trainingand are eager to provide an inclusive and accessibility experience to job applicants and new colleagues
• LOR Dis-ABILITY Subcommitteeis an Employee Network Group of colleagues passionate about disability inclusion. Its aims are to raise awareness and remove barriers around disability, neurodiversity and long term health conditions to support creating an inclusive and diverse workplace for everyone.
• Disability Confident Leaders– We are using the requirements of the government scheme to create an inclusive environment for disabled job applicants and existing colleagues.
• LOR are members of theBusiness Disability Forum, giving access to a wide range of resources and information. Our line managers have access to their best practice guides and confidential support line.
• LOR are partnering withEven Breakto have access to exemplary advice around disability inclusion.

Sustainability:

In April 2021 Laing O’Rourke announced new global sustainability targets. These include:

• To be a net zero company by 2050
• By 2033 to achieve equal gender balance across currently 5,500 international staff

Rewards andBenefits:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension – basic and enhanced schemes
• Health and Wellbeing
• Virtual GP
• Health Assessment (Age 50+)
• Phased return to work (80% of working week for 100% pay)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 5 days leave extra can be purchased
• Employee Discounts
• Allowances – car or transport allowance, depending on role/grade

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