Collaborative L&D Specialist - UK (Hybrid)

Ready to make a real difference in how our people grow? Join our small, collaborative L&D team, where you'll have the autonomy to shape learning that makes a real difference. From the moment a stakeholder says, "We need something on this," you'll own the journey - challenging the brief, designing engaging solutions, testing what works and continuously improving the experience so people genuinely learn and grow.

We are Laminar Projects! We are an award-winning consultancy that implements technology to improve the delivery of complex construction projects. Improving construction strengthens the very foundation of human civilisation. We also have a separate product team, Shape Construction, that takes the deep understanding of the projects we work on to develop construction management software products.

The core of all this is our true secret sauce; people. We only recruit kind and authentic people who are fast learners. We are deeply focused on designing a new type of place that is optimised for the flourishing of the people in the team first and foremost. This approach has allowed us to grow from just 2 people in 2017 to over 220 today and we are still very much at the beginning! Joining us isn’t just some “job”, we challenge you to be your best self in all aspects of life.

Our Vision Is Designed To Align How We Operate With The Fundamental Aspects That Enable Anyone To Have a Fulfilled Life:

• Connects us with meaningful relationships
• Inspires us to develop ourselves to become better humans
• Empowers us to pursue our own learning adventures

4 core values for a good life: We believe a life of human flourishing is all about meaningful relationships with others and challenging yourself to create a positive impact. Our four core values are grow yourself, care about people, execute to greatness and build civilisation.

The Role Purpose of the role: As our L&D Specialist, you'll own learning and development projects from end to end. You'll partner closely with stakeholders to understand what they actually need (not just what they first ask for), design learning experiences built around how people really learn, pilot solutions, and continuously refine them based on feedback and results.

Alongside project work, you'll help keep our learning management system (Thrive) running smoothly, supporting users, managing learning content and using data to understand what's working and where we can improve. You'll also be comfortable using AI as part of your day-to-day work, exploring how it can help us design, develop and deliver high-quality learning faster and smarter without compromising quality.

Your top three objectives:

• Design and deliver impactful learning solutions that build capability and help all Lamineers to flourish
• Build trusted partnerships with stakeholders to identify learning needs and create the right solutions
• Commit to continuous improvement by embracing new ways of working, growing your own capability and contributing to the development of others

Your Top Five Responsibilities:

• Partner and challenge: Work closely with stakeholders to explore growth opportunities. Ask thoughtful questions, challenge assumptions and help shape the right learning solution.
• Design, test and improve: Create engaging, discovery-led learning experiences. Pilot ideas before scaling, gather meaningful feedback and continuously refine solutions to maximise their impact.
• Support our learning ecosystem: Keep Thrive running smoothly by maintaining content, supporting users, monitoring learning data and reporting on what's working and where we can improve.
• Use AI with purpose: Embrace AI as part of your everyday workflow, identifying practical ways it can help us design, develop and deliver learning more efficiently, while applying critical thinking to ensure quality always comes first.
• Facilitate and contribute: Facilitate learning sessions, including our Laminar Way series, and contribute to a wide range of L&D initiatives, building your facilitation skills and broadening your impact over time.

Your Capabilities: You’ll thrive in this role if you're curious about how people learn and enjoy designing learning solutions that make a real difference. You're comfortable taking ownership, asking thoughtful questions and navigating ambiguity to find the best way forward. You enjoy variety and working across different parts of the L&D cycle.

As a Candidate, You Should Have:

• Must-Have (The fundamentals): 2-4 years' experience in L&D, training design, facilitation, coaching, people development or consultancy. Understands what makes learning effective, from uncovering the real need to designing experiences that people can apply in their work. Curious about learning technology and excited by the potential of AI to design and deliver learning more effectively.
• Communication: Builds relationships easily and asks good questions to get to the real need behind a request. Communicates clearly, listens well, and adapts to the audience.
• Leadership: Takes initiative rather than waiting to be asked. Comfortable working through ambiguity, makes decisions within their remit, knows when to elevate, and is keen to grow in confidence and capability over time.
• Impact: An experience in taking ownership of projects and improving processes, and a genuine interest in growth.

Nice to have (or areas you'll develop with us): Experience designing learning using Rise 360 and working with a Learning Management System. Some experience facilitating learning sessions, whether through training, workshops, coaching, teaching or knowledge-sharing.

Laminar isn’t the place for you if any of the following is true:

• You want an easy, chilled-out role without much challenge
• You like to be the smartest person in the room
• You don’t like continuously receiving honest candid feedback
• You prefer to do your own thing rather than work with a team

Benefits:

• Health Insurance Scheme: Comprehensive private health coverage - for you and your family.
• Pension Scheme: A competitive plan to help you plan for the long term.
• Bonus Scheme: As a permanent member of the team, you’ll share in our success.
• Professional body membership: One fee covered per year.
• Cycle to Work Scheme: A tax-efficient way to get wheels.

The Life-Changing stuff:

• In-house coaching: Regular 1:1 coaching sessions, fully confidential.
• Flexibility: Getting things done is what really matters.
• Grow your whole self: Our leaders are more like coaches.
• Be surrounded by the best: We only hire and retain the very best people.
• Long-term impact: We are focused on solving the biggest issues in construction project delivery.