Key Responsibilities
Recruitment Delivery
- Manage the full recruitment lifecycle for permanent, fixed-term, and contract positions across engineering, commissioning, and project delivery teams.
- Take detailed role briefs from hiring managers and support the creation of accurate job descriptions and role scopes.
- Source candidates using a mix of job boards, LinkedIn, talent pools, referrals, and proactive headhunting.
- Screen candidates for technical skills, project experience, cultural fit, and right-to work compliance.
- Coordinate interviews, assessments, and feedback with hiring managers.
- Support salary benchmarking and offer preparation to ensure competitive and consistent packages.
Talent Pipeline & Workforce Support
- Build and maintain active talent pipelines for key roles such as commissioning engineers, MEP engineers, QA/QC personnel, PMs, and site-based technicians.
- Maintain visibility of upcoming project staffing needs and ensure candidate pipelines align with resourcing forecasts provided by the Head of Talent.
- Support mobilisation activities for deployed personnel, ensuring documentation, compliance, and onboarding steps are met.
Process, Systems & Compliance
- Use the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to manage candidates, hiring workflows, and reporting accurately.
- Ensure all recruitment processes follow internal policies, including compliance checks, right-to-work verification, contractor documentation, and GDPR standards.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of recruitment processes, tools, and candidate experience.
Stakeholder & Supplier Management
- Build strong relationships with hiring managers across Operations, Engineering, and Project Delivery functions.
- Provide regular updates on vacancies, pipeline status, and risks to delivery.
- Liaise with recruitment agencies when required, ensuring competitive rates and high-quality candidate submissions.
Employer Brand & Market Engagement
- Help promote the company’s employer brand by ensuring consistent messaging and high-quality candidate interactions.
- Support social media hiring campaigns, job advert optimisation, and participation in industry events or networking activity.
- Stay updated on market trends, salary insights, and competitor hiring activity within the technical and data centre sectors.
Skills, Experience & Qualifications
Essential
- Experience recruiting in engineering, technical, construction, or data centre environments.
- Strong track record managing multiple vacancies in a fast-paced or scaling organisation.
- Ability to source and engage passive talent through proactive methods.
- Understanding of international hiring or experience recruiting across multiple European countries.
- Knowledge of right-to-work compliance, contractor documentation, and mobilisation requirements.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and interpersonal skills.
Desirable
- Experience supporting data centre commissioning or critical infrastructure recruitment.
- Experience with ATS systems in a growing organisation.
- Familiarity with European labour markets and basic employment regulations.
Personal Attributes
- Highly organised with strong attention to detail.
- Proactive, solution-oriented, and comfortable working with ambiguity.
- Collaborative team player with a commitment to delivering a positive candidate and manager experience.
- Confident communicator who can influence stakeholders at all levels.
- Able to balance speed of delivery with quality and compliance.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join one of the UK's fastest growing Commissioning Agency.
