Location: Dartford
Contract Type: 6-Month Fixed-Term Contract (FTC)
Role Overview
We are seeking an Assessment Centre Facilitator on a 6-month fixed-term contract to oversee our graduate and apprenticeship assessment processes. You will ensure assessments are conducted fairly, consistently, and inclusively, challenging assessor decisions where necessary to uphold our Diversity & Inclusion standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Bring energy, positivity, and professionalism to the assessment centre experience.
- Facilitate and oversee the Assessment Centre process, ensuring exercises run smoothly and efficiently.
- Observe assessors during competency-based interviews, group exercises, presentations, and tests.
- Challenge assessor decisions constructively to ensure fairness, consistency, and inclusivity.
- Ensure all assessment activities adhere to Diversity & Inclusion principles and organisational policies.
- Support assessors in calibration discussions, scoring, and providing feedback.
- Provide guidance on best practices for fair and inclusive assessment.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of assessment centre processes and materials.
Key Skills And Competencies
- Confident and high-energy, able to lead and maintain momentum throughout assessment days.
- Strong understanding of fair assessment practices and Diversity & Inclusion principles.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with confidence to challenge decisions diplomatically.
- Ability to maintain impartiality and objectivity while supporting assessors.
- Organised, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple activities in a structured manner.
- Knowledge of graduate or apprenticeship recruitment processes is desirable.
- Strong communicator with the confidence to challenge decisions constructively.
- Experienced in HR, L&D, recruitment, or assessment facilitation (desirable but not essential if you have the right personality).
- Passionate about Diversity & Inclusion and ensuring every candidate has a fair experience.
About Us
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com 
