Job Description

What we offer

Everything must recycle. It’s what we stand for.

Together we turn today’s materials into tomorrow’s possibilities. Today’s old into tomorrow’s new. Used to useful. Waste into something worthwhile. You could be at the centre of change that will be felt for generations to come, keeping valuable resources in circulation and helping to make circular materials the standard for global industry.

Work this important deserves proper pay and proper benefits.

• Competitive pay rates and a bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus option to buy or sell
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Employee support - including life assurance and critical illness pay
• Wellbeing scheme - giving colleagues and dependents unlimited access to GPs and counselling, and cash back on health and wellbeing
• 24/7 anonymous health and wellbeing advice
• Financial support - including affordable loans, savings plans, advanced earned pay and education
• Money off shopping, utilities, entertainment and more
• Cycle 2 work scheme
• Get stuck in but never get stuck – ongoing training and development plans tailored to how you want to progress

Applying to a new job is a big decision – even when the company you’re applying to has been voted a Great Place to Work for four years running and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in Manufacturing, Production and Transportation.

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About Our Opportunity

We’re looking for a HR Support Apprentice to join our People Team while completing a Level 3 HR Support apprenticeship with Associate membership of the CIPD.

Working alongside experienced HR professionals, you’ll gain practical experience across the employee lifecycle, supporting HR administration, onboarding and offboarding, HR systems, payroll, colleague queries and People projects. You’ll apply your apprenticeship learning in the workplace while building your HR knowledge, confidence and professional skills.

The assessment day for this role will be held in Warrington on Wednesday 9th December 2026

What You Will Be Doing

• Providing administrative support across a range of HR activities and maintaining accurate employee records.
• Supporting onboarding and offboarding, including pre-employment checks, contracts, HR documentation and exit processes.
• Responding to routine colleague and manager queries, providing a helpful and professional service and escalating more complex matters when required.
• Maintaining accurate employee information within HR systems and supporting routine reporting and system queries.
• Providing administrative support to Payroll, reward, recognition and benefits activities.
• Supporting People projects, governance, compliance and process improvement initiatives.
• Handling confidential and sensitive information professionally and in line with data protection requirements.
• Identifying opportunities to improve HR processes and the colleague experience.
• Working collaboratively with the wider People Team and business stakeholders.
• Completing apprenticeship learning activities and assessments, seeking feedback and applying your learning in the workplace.
• Taking on additional responsibilities as your knowledge, skills and confidence develop.

About You

• An interest in building a career in Human Resources/People.
• Good written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to ask questions when unsure.
• Basic IT skills and confidence using Microsoft Office, with a willingness to develop your HR systems knowledge.
• Strong organisation, attention to detail and accurate record-keeping skills.
• Able to maintain confidentiality and handle personal and sensitive information appropriately.
• A positive, professional and customer-focused approach.
• Able to work collaboratively, manage priorities and meet deadlines.
• A willingness to learn, take on feedback and develop new skills.
• Practical problem-solving skills, with the ability to resolve straightforward issues and escalate when necessary.
• Previous administration, customer service or office-based experience is desirable.
• Experience using Excel or other systems to organise information is advantageous.

If you’re enthusiastic about starting a career in HR and want to gain recognised qualifications alongside valuable hands-on experience, we’d love to hear from you.

Who we are:

The products we’ll all need tomorrow depend on us making the most of today’s end-of-life metals, plastics and other materials.

Take a car at the end of its life - most people just see a…car at the end of its life.

We see steel, aluminium, copper, plastics, rubber, glass, parts, fluids, costs, risks, markets and – most importantly - possibilities.

Now, multiply that by thousands of cars – we recover, reuse and recycle all those valuable materials and put them back to work as low-carbon materials for manufacturing, infrastructure, energy and transport.

And that’s just one thing we recycle. Add buildings, factories, ships, railways and industrial equipment. That’s all our hard work – the gritty, practical, commercial, difficult work our 4,000 global colleagues do every day.

Anything from a can to an aircraft carrier can become anything from a bicycle to a building and, at the same time, we help to avoid 19 million tonnes of carbon and 10 million tonnes of waste to landfill, protecting nature, resources and the next generation’s future.

Which is all well and good for us to say, but this is what the real people behind the really hard work think:

“The people who work here are from varied backgrounds and have a variety of beliefs, all of which are accepted and respected.”

“I’m encouraged to keep a healthy work-life balance so that I can be performing at my best.”

“I’ve been supported every step of the way in my career progression.”

‘‘EMR offers a fantastic and inclusive environment; collaboration across the whole business, humility and hard work.”

Four years as a certified Great Place To Work is no small feat. Oh, and don’t forget one of the UK’s Best Workplaces in Manufacturing, Production and Transportation. That’s pretty good too.

But we can do better. We’re aiming for a place in the top 60 companies in the UK – not for the accolade but for the improvement. A journey you should probably join us for.

If you want to be part of something bigger than yourself, have a role that really makes a difference and work with likeminded people towards the same purpose, this is the role for you.

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We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List (PSL) and do not accept speculative CVs. Any unsolicited CVs, whether related to a specific position or submitted speculatively, will not be considered.