Base Location: You'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in our Perth office.
Salary: £30,684 - £36,666 + a range of benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing.
Working Pattern: 12 month Fixed Term Contract | Full Time | Flexible First options available
The role
At SSE, people are at the heart of everything we do. As an HR Administrator, you'll play an important role in creating a positive and supportive experience for employees and workers throughout their journey with us. Working as part of our collaborative HR Services team, you'll help deliver high-quality, accurate and efficient HR support across a wide range of employee lifecycle activities. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys building relationships, solving problems and continuously improving processes, while ensuring the highest standards of safety, confidentiality and care in every interaction.
You Will
- Provide HR administrative support across the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, contractual changes, transfers, leavers and retirement activities.
- Deliver a responsive and customer-focused service by managing queries through shared inboxes and service channels, ensuring colleagues feel supported and valued.
- Maintain accurate employee records, carrying out quality checks and audits to safeguard data integrity and compliance.
- Support recruitment and benefits administration activities, including interview coordination, pre-employment checks and employee communications.
- Collaborate with colleagues, managers and external partners to continuously improve processes while promoting safe, secure and compliant ways of working.
You Have
- Experience delivering high-quality administrative support within a busy operational or customer-focused environment.
- Excellent attention to detail, with the ability to handle sensitive and confidential information accurately and responsibly.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining high standards of quality and safety.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with a collaborative and supportive approach to working with others.
- Confidence using Microsoft 365 applications such as Outlook, Word, Excel and Teams, alongside a proactive mindset focused on continuous improvement.
What's in it for you?
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing HR Services function supporting colleagues across SSE. You'll gain experience across a wide range of HR activities, develop your knowledge of employee lifecycle processes and play an important role in delivering an efficient and professional service to the business.
About SSE
SSE’s purpose is to be restless every day until we make electricity clean, affordable and available for all.
We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. This includes electricity transmission and distribution networks, onshore and offshore wind farms, hydro-electric power and flexible thermal generation. We also provide products and services for businesses and other customers.
Our investment plan will see SSE invest £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure to 2030.
Over 14,500 brilliant people work together to power change at SSE. Our Human Resources (integrated Services) teams help make sure they're getting and giving their best. They design the people strategies that make SSE a great place to work. And they empower our teams to meet the demands of our business today, and tomorrow.
Flexible benefits to fit your life
Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme. As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.
Work with an equal opportunity employer
SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact [email protected] to discuss how we can support you.
We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.
Ready to apply?
Start your online application using the Apply Now box on this page. We only accept applications made online. We'll be in touch after the closing date to let you know if we'll be taking your application further. If you're offered a role with SSE, you'll need to complete a criminality check and a credit check before you start work.
