Early Careers Co-ordinator

Hydrock, now Stantec, are passionate about fostering the growth of future talent, so we have an exciting opportunity for an Early Careers Coordinator to join our Talent Acquisition team in Leeds.

Early Careers sits within the Talent Acquisition team to attract talented future engineers and consultants into the company, as well as support colleagues within their Early Careers requirements. The team works closely with other People functions to deliver a proactive and efficient early careers service. Reporting to the Talent Acquisition Partner – Early Careers, you will work collaboratively across the team to deliver the Early Careers strategy across the UK, including recruitment attraction and selection, career progression and development interventions, to ensure a strong cohort of newly qualified colleagues starting their career journey with Hydrock, now Stantec.

Your Role

As an Early Careers Coordinator your day-to-day remit includes:

• Delivering a high-quality recruitment support for Apprentices and other Early Careers Programmes against a set of agreed KPIs (for example direct sourcing, cost and time to hire)
• Support the design and implement creative apprentice and graduate recruitment advertising and attraction campaigns and an appropriate assessment process.

• Support the design, planning and running of multiple school outreach activity, assessment processes, work experience events, insight days and engagement activities related to graduate and apprenticeship activity.
• Manage and develop third party outreach provider and school relationships.

• Work with internal and external stakeholders to source, attract and hire graduate applicants across a diverse background to support our EDI agenda in a competitive market
• Complete offer, decline and feedback processes with candidates and ensure contract documentation is requested and dispatched in a timely fashion
• Work with others in Talent Acquisition and people teams to ensure new hires experience a smooth, seamless pre boarding and on-boarding experience and support in their learning and progress reporting as appropriate
• Maintain core sets of data, documents and reports to support the Early Careers Talent Acquisition Partner in their work, including ensuring recruitment and development data is updated in a timely and accurate fashion, and collating benchmarking and other data requests at key times of the year.
• Act as a technical expert on all aspects of Apprenticeship administration including training provider registration and qualification processes, experience requirements when training and other technical matters
• Responsible for internal and external comms relating to apprenticeships including social media, internal intranet and website

Your Skills and Experience

• A proven track record of working with or recruiting apprentices and / or graduates
• You must be able to demonstrate a good understanding of working effectively with senior stakeholders, and have strong stakeholder management skills
• Experienced at sourcing and approaching suitable future talent candidates through schools, outreach providers, universities, events.
• Highly organised, with the ability to plan, manage and deliver the full apprentice or graduate recruitment life-cycle in line with the ambitions of the Hydrock, now Stantec brand and experience.
• Very resilient, a self-starter with drive and passion for apprenticeships.
• Willingness to travel nationally for assessments and events
• Engaging, able to collaborate and bring colleagues on board with events where required.
• Confident presenting / hosting an event essential.
• Creative mind to constantly seek new ways to attract students including use of social media and new technology.
• Be able to demonstrate high performance against KPIs in previous roles.
• Experienced in the use of an ATS to manage vacancies and candidates preferred

What's great about Hydrock, now Stantec

We are an integrated multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy of over 900 staff in 21 offices across the UK. Our driving motivation is to be a ‘Force for Good’, as it is our aim to improve the quality of people’s lives from our employees to our clients, through to the communities we work in and our planet as a whole through the work we do.  

From the buildings that surround you, the roads and bridges you cross, all related to the infrastructure that we create, we aim to offer the most sustainable possibilities to shape the places, communities and society that we live in through meeting our client’s needs. Through the path we are on to delivering a green future, the result is something that everyone can be proud of. 

Named as Building’s Engineering Consultant of the Year in 2023, we’re known for delivering outstanding sustainable projects for our communities, planet, and society.

Some of these projects have recently received industry accolades, including Cleveland Pools winning the Conservation and Regeneration category at the Construction Excellence South West Awards 2023; Bay Technology Centre named Commercial Project of the Year at the British Construction Industry Awards 2022; YGG Tan-y-Lan picked out in the Integration and Collaborative Working category at Construction Excellence Wales Awards 2022; The Deaf Academy singled out for its Universal Design at the Civic Trust Awards 2022; and Bristol’s iconic waterfront Wapping Wharf Living sweeping up at the Bristol Property Awards.

Take a look at our 2023 end of year film and get a feel for what we’re all about. 

What we can offer you: 

• Inspiring and supportive colleagues 
• Reward for progression and hard work 
• An opportunity to develop your soft skills, as well your technical skills
• Competitive starting salary 
• Excellent health benefits 25 days of holiday (buy/sell up to five days), accrue 1 day extra every 2 years, with bonus holidays too!
• An earlier finish on Friday (4pm!) 
• An opportunity to give back: “Day off for good cause” (on a workday) 
• A huge range of flexible benefits, including climate perks and an EV car leasing scheme

A place to feel included

We champion diversity, equity and inclusion. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we commit to supporting our employees and ensure we create a safe environment that nurtures you to perform at your best. Offering our people flexibility is an important factor in achieving this aim.  

We consider all application individually with the required qualifications and knowledge without regard to any of the protected characteristics. We would like to provide everyone with a fair selection, assessment and employment experience so we ask with are made aware of any physical or neurodiverse condition within your application for which appropriate reasonable adjustments can be made by us. 

Looking for the next steps? 

Once you have completed your application through our careers site, we aim to review and respond to you as soon as your application’s been reviewed.

If shortlisted, a member of our Talent Acquisition Team will call you for an initial pre-screen by phone (typically 30 minutes) to help us assess your motivations and interest in the position and Hydrock, now Stantec.

If you progress following this telephone pre-screen, you will be invited to attend a formal interview by video conference (Microsoft Teams) or in our offices. 

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