The posting
📍 Athens | 🏡 Hybrid | ⏱️Full-time
Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world
WSP, including Ricardo, is one of the world's leading professional services firms, bringing together expertise in engineering, environmental consulting, advisory services, and technical solutions to address some of the most complex challenges facing clients and communities. With approximately 73,000 professionals across more than 50 countries, WSP delivers innovative and sustainable solutions across the built environment, energy, transportation, water, environment, and infrastructure sectors. Drawing on a global network of experts and deep local knowledge, WSP helps clients achieve their strategic, operational, and sustainability objectives while contributing to a future-ready, resilient, and sustainable world.
Your Impact
The HR Officer provides high-quality, practical HR support to employees and managers across our Greece business. Working within an international engineering and professional services environment, the role supports the full employee lifecycle, ensuring HR processes are delivered accurately, efficiently and in accordance with Greek employment legislation and company policies.
The role works closely with local business leaders and the wider regional HR organisation, including Talent Acquisition, Payroll, Learning & Development and HR Centres of Excellence. It combines strong HR administration with increasingly independent employee and manager support, making it an excellent opportunity for an HR professional looking to broaden their HR expertise and develop towards a more advisory or HR Business Partner role.
Your responsibilities will include
1. HR Operations & Employee Lifecycle
- Coordinate onboarding, employment changes, promotions, transfers and offboarding within agreed timelines.
- Prepare and maintain contracts, amendments, employee letters and statutory HR documentation accurately and on time.
- Maintain accurate and complete employee records and HRIS data.
- Ensure payroll and compensation changes are submitted accurately by payroll deadlines.
- Track probation periods, contract expiry dates and other employee lifecycle milestones.
- Produce scheduled and ad hoc headcount, turnover, absence and workforce reports.
- Maintain HR documentation and records in line with applicable Greek employment and data-protection requirements.
- Support HR compliance reviews and audits, ensuring required documentation is complete and available.
2. Employee & Manager Support
- Manage and track employee and manager HR queries through to resolution or escalation.
- Coordinate documentation, correspondence and case tracking for absence, performance, conduct and employee-relations cases.
- Monitor completion of required HR processes and documentation by managers.
3. Recruitment & Onboarding
- Coordinate offers, contracts, pre-employment requirements and onboarding for new hires.
- Track completion of induction and probation activities for new employees.
- Provide workforce and recruitment data to support hiring plans.
4. Performance & Development
- Coordinate annual performance and development cycles, tracking participation and completion rates.
- Coordinate local learning activities and maintain participation and completion records.
- Track identified development needs, internal mobility and succession activity.
5. HR Systems & Continuous Improvement
- Produce regular HR metrics including headcount, turnover and absence.
- Track and resolve HR data-quality issues.
- Document HR processes and maintain employee and manager guidance materials.
- Identify and implement improvements that reduce administration, processing time or errors.
- Deliver assigned activities within regional HR projects and change initiatives, including the go-live of our new ERP system and the alignment of HR policies and procedures.
What You'll Bring
- Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, Law or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- 2–5 years' HR experience, including HR administration and generalist/advisory responsibilities.
- Working knowledge of Greek employment practices and HR administration.
- Experience managing employee lifecycle processes, including onboarding, contractual changes and offboarding.
- Experience preparing HR documentation and maintaining employee records.
- Experience supporting employee relations, performance or absence-management cases.
- Experience using an HRIS or people-management system.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
- Fluent Greek and professional-level English.
Desirable
- Experience in a multinational, professional services, engineering or other project-based environment.
- Experience with HR reporting, organisational change and process improvement.
- Experience working with regional or global HR teams.
- Experience with enterprise HR systems such as Oracle, Workday or SAP SuccessFactors.
Life at WSP
When our people thrive, our projects thrive. At WSP, you will be supported to build your career, take on meaningful challenges and learn from talented professionals across a global network. We encourage flexibility, new ideas and growth in ways that reflect different career paths and ambitions.
Local benefits
In addition to base salary, we offer a local benefits package designed to support wellbeing, flexibility and professional growth.
- A working environment inspired by diversity, driven by inclusion.
- Our flexible working policy - We recognise the importance of work-life balance and encourage you to find yours.
- WSP is about making the world around us a better place, including the environment, transport infrastructure, buildings and land use.
- Excellent career prospects. We're growing fast, and every day we strive to outdo ourselves. We are open to your ideas and want to try new things. We have a supportive environment that invests in your development and training.
- WSP is about embracing a culture of collaboration with colleagues who stand out for their skills. Come and discover our fantastic team!
Our partnership approach
We see recruitment as a two-way conversation. Our process is designed to be transparent, collaborative and respectful of your time.
Our recruitment process
- Telephone interview: We'll start with a telephone interview to get to know you better and discuss your experience.
- HR/Manager Interview: You will meet with our TA team and the department manager to assess your technical and cultural skills.
- Interview with the Business Unit Director: A meeting with the Business Unit Director to discuss your potential role and our strategic vision.
Come as you are
We are building teams that reflect the diverse communities we serve. If you see yourself in this role but do not meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Your background, perspective and experience might be exactly what we need to move forward.
All applications will be treated with confidentiality and considered under equal opportunities principles.
Our partnership approach
We see recruitment as a two-way conversation. Our process is designed to be transparent, collaborative and respectful of your time.
Our recruitment process
- Telephone interview: We'll start with a telephone interview to get to know you better and discuss your experience.
- HR/Manager Interview: You will meet with our TA team and the department manager to assess your technical and cultural skills.
- Interview with the Business Unit Director: A meeting with the Business Unit Director to discuss your potential role and our strategic vision.
Come as you are
We are building teams that reflect the diverse communities we serve. If you see yourself in this role but do not meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Your background, perspective and experience might be exactly what we need to move forward.
All applications will be treated with confidentiality and considered under equal opportunities principles.
Ready to help shape what’s next?
If you are looking for a role where you can learn, contribute, lead or expand your impact, we would love to hear from you.
Apply now and discover what you can achieve with WSP.
Accessibility and adjustments
We want our recruitment process to be inclusive and accessible. If you need any reasonable adjustments during the process, please let us know so we can support you.
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