Recruiter (Sizewell C)

The Sizewell C Jobs Service supports local people into exciting, long-term careers across our Project.

Location: London (Hybrid, 2-3 days per week)

Contract: 12-Month Fixed Term Contract

Salary: Circa £45,000 (depending on experience)

Bonus: 5% Annual Bonus

Pension: Up to 7.5% employee contribution matched by up to 15% employer contribution

Holiday: 28 days plus Bank Holidays

Closing date - 26th August 2026

Help Build the Future of Clean Energy. Sizewell C is one of the UK's most significant and ambitious infrastructure projects, playing a critical role in delivering the nation's energy security and net zero ambitions. As we continue to mobilise and grow our workforce, we're looking for an experienced, resilient and commercially minded Recruiter to join our Internal Recruitment Team. This is far more than a traditional recruitment role. You'll be at the heart of one of the most complex workforce mobilisation programmes in the UK, partnering with senior leaders to attract and secure the talent needed to deliver a multi-billion-pound infrastructure project.

The Opportunity: As a Recruiter within the Sizewell C Internal Recruitment Team, you'll manage end-to-end recruitment activity across a diverse portfolio of professional, technical and specialist vacancies. Working closely with Hiring Managers, senior leaders and People teams, you'll develop innovative attraction strategies, provide market intelligence, directly source talent, and drive hiring processes from initial briefing through to offer acceptance and onboarding. You'll need to be comfortable managing multiple priorities, influencing stakeholders, and navigating a highly regulated environment whilst maintaining an outstanding candidate experience.

This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in one of the UK's most exciting and nationally significant projects.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Managing end-to-end recruitment across a varied portfolio of vacancies.
• Partnering with leaders to develop effective hiring and workforce mobilisation strategies.
• Leading detailed recruitment briefings to understand business needs and market challenges.
• Delivering recruitment campaigns across engineering, construction, project delivery, corporate and specialist functions.
• Developing innovative attraction strategies to secure hard-to-find talent.
• Providing market intelligence and recruitment expertise to support hiring decisions.
• Proactively sourcing passive candidates through LinkedIn, talent mapping and networking.
• Managing recruitment pipelines to ensure vacancies progress at pace.
• Coordinating interviews, assessments and selection processes.
• Negotiating offers and supporting hiring decisions.
• Delivering a seamless onboarding experience for successful candidates.

Stakeholder Partnership:

• Building trusted relationships with Hiring Managers and senior stakeholders.
• Acting as a strategic recruitment advisor and challenging constructively when required.
• Supporting workforce planning and organisational growth initiatives.
• Guiding stakeholders through recruitment governance and best practice.
• Providing regular updates on progress, risks, market conditions and delivery timelines.
• Driving accountability and momentum throughout recruitment processes.

Governance & Continuous Improvement:

• Ensuring recruitment activity remains compliant with policies, governance requirements and employment legislation.
• Maintaining accurate recruitment data and reporting.
• Supporting recruitment process improvement initiatives.
• Contributing to employer branding and attraction strategies.
• Working effectively within a highly regulated environment.
• Managing external recruitment suppliers where required.

Candidate Experience & Employer Brand:

• Delivering an exceptional candidate experience from first contact through to onboarding.
• Acting as an ambassador for Sizewell C in the external market.
• Supporting networking events, attraction campaigns and talent initiatives.
• Championing diversity, inclusion and equitable hiring practices.

What We're Looking For:

• Proven end-to-end recruitment experience gained within an in-house, agency or RPO environment.
• Experience recruiting across complex, fast-paced and high-volume environments.
• Strong stakeholder management experience, including partnering with senior leaders.
• Ability to manage multiple vacancies and competing priorities simultaneously.
• Strong direct sourcing and talent attraction capability.
• Excellent organisational and project management skills.
• Strong communication, influencing and relationship-building skills.
• Commercial awareness and understanding of recruitment market dynamics.
• Experience using applicant tracking systems and recruitment technologies.
• Strong understanding of recruitment compliance and governance.
• Resilient, proactive and solutions-focused approach.
• Experience recruiting within infrastructure, engineering, construction, energy or other regulated sectors.
• Experience supporting large-scale workforce mobilisation programmes.
• Understanding of governance-led recruitment environments.
• Experience working closely with People Partnering teams and workforce planning functions.

Why Sizewell C?

At Sizewell C, you'll be part of a project that will make a lasting contribution to the UK's future. You'll work alongside passionate and talented colleagues, influence hiring at a strategic level, and help build the workforce behind one of the country's most important infrastructure programmes. This is an opportunity to develop your career whilst contributing to a project of national significance. Join us and help build the team that was building Britain's energy future.

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.