Learning and Development Consultant - Built Environment Division in Barnburgh

Help us shape careers, inspire growth, and build a learning culture people love. Are you passionate about creating brilliant learning experiences? Do you love translating complex needs into practical, engaging development solutions? If you’re energised by shaping career paths, improving onboarding, and partnering with leaders to help people shine — this is the role for you.

We’re looking for an L&D Consultant who brings creativity, curiosity, and confidence to a fast‑moving operational environment. Someone who can switch effortlessly between strategic design and hands‑on delivery — and who genuinely enjoys building relationships across all levels of the business.

Some of the key deliverables will include:

• Designing brilliant development tools: Develop, promote, and continually refine interactive career path frameworks that show colleagues how they can grow, stretch, and progress. Create engaging tools that support skills gap analysis, great development conversations, and confident manager-led coaching. Review and align our Training & Skills Matrices to ensure everything fits together seamlessly.
• Creating exceptional onboarding experiences: Support operational managers to deliver onboarding that feels welcoming, structured, and inspiring — with one‑to‑one coaching where needed. Work with the wider HR team to design interactive, multi‑format onboarding content (digital, video, toolkits… we’re open to your creativity!).
• Driving quality through strong project leadership: Build and maintain clear project plans that keep stakeholders informed and confident. Present data, insights, and progress in polished, professional formats that tell a compelling story.
• Partnering across the business: Build strong relationships with the Senior Leadership Team, operational managers, and Subject Matter Experts — keeping them engaged, supported, and accountable. Collaborate with People Services and Operational Training Coordinators to secure smooth admin and logistical support for all L&D activity, acting as the senior escalation point when needed.
• Championing excellence in L&D: Support the L&D Partner and wider team to achieve accreditations, awards, and audit success — strengthening the reputation of our learning offer.

What we’re looking for:

• Previously been in a Learning and Development role or similar.
• Naturally collaborative, with strong relationship‑building skills.
• Creative and curious, always looking to improve how people learn.
• Confident designing and delivering learning tools and content.
• Comfortable juggling multiple projects with clarity and calm.
• Excited by the chance to shape division‑wide development programmes.
• Combines practical L&D expertise with a passion for helping people grow.

Ideally, you’ll have:

• A recognised learning qualification, such as CIPD Level 3 in Learning & Development Practice (or an equivalent teaching and learning qualification).
• Professional membership with a relevant body — for example CIPD, LPI, APM, or a similar institution that reflects your commitment to continuous improvement.
• A coaching qualification aligned to an established body such as EMCC, ILM, IOL, CMI, AC or ICF, with confidence coaching managers and supporting individual development.

If you’re working towards any of these or have comparable experience and a real passion for L&D, we’d still love to hear from you.

Why join us? You’ll be part of a supportive, forward‑thinking HR/L&D community that genuinely values innovation, partnership, and helping people reach their potential. You’ll have the space to create, influence, experiment — and deliver things that make a real difference.

Next Steps: As a business, we’re on a journey to build on our culture where everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. This starts with recruitment and how we bring people into the organisation. We’ll do our best to outline the recruitment process to you ahead of time with plenty of notice. If you require any accommodations to participate in the application or interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure your needs are met.

About Us: We are one of the leading independent engineering and services businesses in the UK. Founded in 1921, with a turnover of £500m and 3000 employees, we are proud of our history of developing great people through our investment in training. Working across a variety of sectors within the building and infrastructure industry, our innovative, responsible and forward-thinking approach allows us to work on fantastic ground-breaking projects, providing solutions using the latest tools and technologies. Progression is something we value, and we will make sure that when you join us you have a clearly defined development path, supported by regular reviews, training and ongoing support to enable you to be the best you can be.