Costain Group
People Coordinator
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CMDP+ is looking to strengthen their people team with a People Coordinator / HR Coordinator.
CMDP+ is a joint venture between MWH Treatment and Costain and will deliver a range of schemes to maintain and improve Southern Water’s water supply and wastewater treatment works across its region (Kent, Hampshire, East & West Sussex).
As a People Coordinator, you will be reporting directly into the HR Business Partner and play a pivotal role in supporting the day to day running of the People function. We’re looking for a highly organised and detail-driven People Coordinator to join a busy People team. This fully onsite role is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys the operational side of HR and takes pride in keeping everything running smoothly behind the scenes.
Responsibilities
- Be the backbone of our People function, always ensuring confidentiality and integrity
- Coordinate recruitment, onboarding, and probation processes
- Manage new starter packs and maintain accurate ensuring all files are accurate and up to date.
- Drive engagement and communication initiatives across the site
- Organise interviews and inductions, ensuring a seamless candidate and onboarding experience including new starter communications and employee experience feedback surveys.
- Provide day-to-day administrative support across the People function
- Drafting engaging job adverts and job descriptions
- Managing the applicant tracking system and advertising roles across careers pages, job boards, and social media (including LinkedIn)
- CV searching and screening against role requirements
- Conducting first-stage telephone interviews
- Coordinating interviews and communicating outcomes to candidates
- Ensuring a positive, professional, and inclusive candidate experience at every stage
- Proactive Brand Ambassador including posting to LinkedIn and managing the recruitment page of the CMDP Webpage.
- Attending all local Recruitment Events, Job Fairs, and Open days
- Liaising closely with operational staff to source, screen, interview, offer, and onboard candidates in line with Recruitment Policy and Guidelines
- Provide regular and well-documented recruiting reports
- Acting as a key point of contact and building positive and engaging candidate & hiring manager relationships
- Acting as a key point of contact for MWHT and Costain TA/recruitment teams.
- Opportunity to develop HR knowledge and skills across recruitment, learning and development, employee relations, and organisational development.
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Knowledge, Skills, and Experience
Essential
- Previous HR experience as a HR Administrator, HR Coordinator, HR Assistant, or similar role
- Keen to develop their HR knowledge
- CIPD Level 3 qualified (or working towards)
- Knowledge of recruitment and onboarding
- Excellent communication skills and proficiency in Microsoft Office (especially Excel)
- Proactive, organised, and able to juggle multiple priorities
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation, and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising, and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation, or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading-edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
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CMDP is a joint venture between Costain and MWHT and delivers a range of schemes to maintain and improve Southern Water’s water supply and wastewater treatment works in the eastern half of its region (Kent & Sussex).
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