Talent Acquisition Recruiter in Southampton

Join Trant Engineering and help shape the delivery of complex, high-impact projects. Trant Engineering is a leading EPC contractor with a strong reputation for delivering innovative engineering solutions across the UK and internationally. With over 1,000 employees and a £150m turnover, we’re growing—and now looking for a Talent Acquisition Recruiter to play a key role in our project delivery teams.

The Talent Acquisition Recruiter is responsible for delivering an effective end-to-end recruitment strategy to support central services, projects and operational sites across the UK. The role ensures the timely attraction and selection of high-quality talent across technical, professional, and site-based roles within multi-discipline sectors.

What You’ll Be Doing

• End-to-End Recruitment
  • Manage the full recruitment lifecycle from vacancy briefing through to offer and onboarding.
  • Deliver recruitment for a wide range of roles, including engineers, site operatives and support functions.
  • Screen, interview, and assess candidates in line with company and client requirements.
• Stakeholder Management
  • Build strong relationships with hiring managers across multiple sites and projects.
  • Provide advice on role requirements, market conditions, and realistic hiring timelines.
  • Coordinate interviews and selection processes efficiently.
• Candidate Attraction & Sourcing
  • Proactively source candidates through job boards, LinkedIn, referrals, and direct search.
  • Draft and manage job adverts aligned to the company’s employer brand.
  • Support early careers, apprenticeship, or graduate recruitment activity where required.
• Compliance & Onboarding
  • Ensure all recruitment activity complies with UK employment legislation, Right to Work, and GDPR.
  • Coordinate pre-employment checks, onboarding, and mobilisation to site.
  • Maintain accurate recruitment records on the ATS.
• Agency Liaison (where required)
  • Work with approved recruitment agencies to support hard-to-fill or specialist roles.
  • Manage agency candidates in line with agreed terms and processes.
• Reporting & Continuous Improvement
  • Track recruitment activity and provide regular updates on vacancies, pipelines, and time-to-hire.
  • Identify opportunities to improve recruitment processes and candidate experience.
  • Keep up to date with market trends within engineering, water, and energy.

What We’re Looking For

• Essential
  • Experience in an internal or agency recruitment role, preferably within engineering, construction, infrastructure, water, or energy.
  • Experience managing multiple vacancies across different sites or projects.
  • Strong knowledge of UK recruitment compliance, including Right to Work and GDPR.
  • Excellent communication, organisation, administration and stakeholder management skills.
  • Experience using an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and recruitment tools.
• Desirable
  • Membership of REC or working towards.
  • Experience recruiting within engineering, construction, utilities, water, or energy sector.
  • Experience recruiting for regulated or safety-critical environments.
  • Knowledge of IR35 and contractor recruitment.

Why Join Trant?

At Trant Engineering, we deliver complex, high-value engineering and construction projects across the UK. From process and water treatment to energy infrastructure upgrades, we play a key role in delivering and protecting critical national infrastructure—shaping the systems that communities and industries rely on every day. Our teams design and deliver full EPC solutions, combining technical excellence with practical, hands-on delivery. We offer end-to-end capabilities—from concept and design through to manufacturing, construction and commissioning utilising a continually evolving in-house expertise. This means you’ll work on projects that are varied, challenging and genuinely impactful. Our multi-disciplinary teams bring together specialists in civil, mechanical, electrical, process, instrumentation, and control & automation engineering, alongside our in-house manufacturing of control panels, MCCs, PLCs and SCADA systems. With over 1,000 people and a strong, growing pipeline of work, it’s an exciting time to join Trant. We are committed to helping our people succeed through our Career Development Association, providing structured support, mentoring and clear pathways to help you reach your full potential. Whether you’re starting out or looking to take your next career step, Trant offers the chance to develop, progress and make a real difference.

Our company benefits package includes:

• Competitive salary.
• 24 days holiday (increasing with service) + 8 bank holidays.
• Options to buy additional holiday via salary sacrifice.
• Company pension scheme.
• Flexible working based on a ‘core hours’ system.
• 1 x Professional membership paid annually.
• Hybrid working.
• Employee assistance program.
• Free onsite parking.
• Bike to work scheme.
• Discretionary annual bonus.

Ready to take the next step in your career? Apply now and be part of something bigger.