Talent Acquisition Specialist

Do you want to work within an inhouse recruitment team? Can you find key candidates to grow our organisation? Are you an experienced recruiter? Then, read on. This could be the perfect opportunity for you.

We are looking for a Talent Acquisition Specialist to join us. Working on roles with the infrastructure, transmission, M&E sectors, you’ll identify candidates to meet project requirements while advising stakeholders on resourcing needs.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle across positions within infrastructure, M&E, water and transmission engineering sectors.
• Partner with hiring managers and business leaders to understand workforce planning requirements, project demands and hiring priorities.
• Develop targeted recruitment strategies for hard-to-fill engineering and project delivery roles.
• Source and attract high-quality candidates through direct search, LinkedIn, job boards, networking, referrals and industry engagement.
• Conduct candidate screening interviews to assess technical capability, sector experience and motivation.
• Coordinate interviews, feedback, offer approvals and onboarding activities to ensure a smooth candidate experience.
• Support employer branding initiatives to improve the organisation’s reputation within the engineering and infrastructure sectors.
• Ensure recruitment activities comply with internal governance, equality and inclusion standards and relevant employment legislation.
• Work collaboratively with HR, project directors and operational teams to support strategic growth plans.

On top of that, you’ll have:

• Previous experience working in an internal recruitment or talent acquisition role, preferably within an engineering consultancy, infrastructure or technical environment.
• Experience managing end-to-end recruitment processes for technical and professional services roles.
• Good understanding of engineering disciplines and the ability to recruit for specialist technical positions.
• Demonstrated experience sourcing passive candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter and direct search methodologies.
• Effective stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to work with hiring managers at all levels.
• Experience managing multiple vacancies and priorities within a busy environment.
• Knowledge of recruitment systems and applicant tracking systems.
• Well-developed English communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Good time management skills and the ability to prioritise tasks whilst managing your own workload.

A place to work and so much more. At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers. We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun.

What we also offer:

• 28 days' holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays.
• Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities.
• Private health care, for you and a contribution from you for your immediate dependents.
• Flexible and hybrid working conditions.
• Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions.
• Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange.
• Life assurance.
• Maternity Leave: 1-20 weeks full pay, 21-26 weeks half pay, 27-39 Statutory (SMP) 40-52 weeks unpaid (eligibility criteria will apply).
• Paternity Leave: 12 weeks full pay (eligibility criteria will apply).

Optional benefits include:

• Electric vehicle lease.
• Annual Rail card (available for under 30s).

If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Ciaran Gilfedder at CIGI@COWI.COM. Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

Equal opportunity employer. COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.