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HR Process Improvement Specialist
Location:RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.
Package: £35,950 - £45,000 (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience)
Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.
Let us introduce the role
AWE are currently recruiting for a HR Process Change Specialist to work within our Service Improvement Team to drive forward improvements to our HR processes and service. The ideal candidate would be able to proactively identify opportunities for change and improvement, assist in developing solutions, document process changes and support the implementation of these.
This role would also be ideal for an internal secondment for someone who is looking to gain experience within the HR Service Improvement team.
We have both permanent and fixed term opportunities.
You will be required to:
- Lead process and service improvement activities through discovery, design and implementation project phases
- Support the development of HR processes and services, ensuring they are properly implemented and maintained, partnering with HRIS, HR Governance and the wider HR team to embed process methodologies.
- Ensure that our HR processes are suitably documented and that all documentation is maintained and governed appropriately
- Manage HR improvement and change projects through the full project lifecycle
- Support the management of the HR Change Process
- Support HR governance activities related to process management
- Work with all stakeholders to ensure they are engaged with any changes
- Maintain positive working relationships with internal and external colleagues and customers
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
- Experience of HR change and improvement projects, particularly in terms of the operational readiness/implementation phases
- 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
- 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.
The 'Working at AWE' page on our website is where you can find full details in the 'AWE Benefits Guide'.
Hybrid working is available for this role on an informal, non-contractual basis. Typically 2 days onsite per week.
Please note that interviews will be taking place in January.
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