HR Placement

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About Northern Rail

Northern plays a vital role in the north of England by connecting tens of thousands of people, and more every day, to work, leisure and education. Our aim is to connect people to opportunities by providing a reliable and friendly train service. We have made significant progress since we started but there is much more that we want to achieve.

HR Placement

The Northern Year in Industry Placement is a scheme that is designed to attract and develop talented young people into the Rail Industry; we will offer you an opportunity to spend 44 weeks working as part of our Human Resources team to help you get your career off to a great start. Northern offers a variety of placements across the business including opportunities to work in our Railway Operations, Finance, Engineering, Revenue, Stations. You will have the opportunity throughout the placement to work with our other Year in Industry students, to share your experiences.

During the programme we will provide you will gain exposure to a critical time in our People change agenda, benefiting from a broad experience of working with a number of HR teams and across a range of HR activities. This will encompass the opportunity to work within an HR shared services environment, leadership & development team and involvement in front facing operational HR activities gaining some practical HR operational knowledge and experience in our unique environment.

In addition, the placement will provide support to project work-streams that are delivering our new HR information system, new recruitment system, and other key prevailing projects and initiatives.
As you can see there are plenty of great opportunities within the placement to work with some great colleagues on some fascinating projects. We believe that will enrich your experience and could help you to become a great manager of the future.

Show us your great potential and we will show you a whole host of great growth opportunities that we can offer you.

About you

To apply, you will need to meet the following requirements:

• You will be working towards completing a Bachelor degree or Master degree
• Work experience is a plus, but not essential
• You possess leadership potential and/or technical knowledge
• You have strong communication skills and you are fluent in English
• You have a high-performance and achievement orientation
• You are interested in experimentation and innovation
• You are able to think creatively and outside the box

If you believe that you fit this profile, apply now and you may be one of the candidates to start the Year in Industry Programme.

It is necessary that you add your CV and motivation letter to the application. You may also add recommendation letters and other documents that you may consider relevant.

Our trains and stations operate 7 days a week across a whole range of different hours early morning and right into the night. So if your lifestyle enables you to work flexible shifts in line with our customer expectations over an average of 35 hours per week this could be the job for you.

Benefits and Rewards

By working as part of the Northern team, you will receive the following benefits:

• Free Travel on Northern services – for you and your family.*
• 75% discount on all other Train Operating Companies leisure services.*
• Pension Scheme
• A generous holiday entitlement.
• Maternity and Paternity Benefits – above the statutory minimum.
• Childcare voucher scheme.*
• Full uniform for frontline facing roles.
• High Street store discounts.
• 20% off many tourist attractions in the UK.
• Gym membership discounts.
• Employee Assistance Programme – operating 24/7, giving a wide range of advice, support and useful information for employees.
• And many more!

*Terms and conditions apply

How to apply

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