Talent Acquisition Partner

This Talent Acquisition Partner will report to the Talent Acquisition Manager and will work within HR based in our London, Elephant and Castle office. You will be a 12 month fixed term contract employee. This role can also offer blended working after the initial settling in period – 3 days in the office and 2 remote.

Benefits:

• Private Medical Cover
• Reservist Leave – Additional 18 days full pay and 22 unpaid
• Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
• Tenancy Loan Deposit Scheme
• Season Ticket Loan
• Tax efficient benefits: Cycle to Work, Home & Tech, and Green Car Leasing Schemes
• Occupational Health support
• Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers' products
• Discounted gym membership
• Employee Assistance Programme

Job Purpose:

To provide a full shared service activity to deliver all associated "end to end" recruitment for vacancies specifically within the engineering sector. To deliver customer satisfaction, raising the bar and improving performance.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Work with hiring managers to understand requirements for each open position and contribute to the development of new strategies to reach out to individuals with the necessary qualifications and experience.
• Use recruiting and sourcing tools (i.e. job boards, social media, database, search engines, networking) to build an ongoing candidate pipeline for both current and future job requisitions.
• Build a network of top talent, gain market intelligence and assess candidates to gauge talent alignment for engineering roles across our footprint.
• Attend specific industry-related events including tradeshows and networking events.
• Support Recruitment Coordinators where required in the scheduling and management of on and off site interviews, including: booking conference rooms, management of candidate expenses etc.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Must have recruitment experience either gained in-house or agency.
• Must have good knowledge and experience of the Engineering or Utility market.
• Collaborative working.
• Excellent Customer focus including, written, telephony, email, face-to-face.
• All completed activities follow best practice and any legislative requirements.
• Manage relationships with wider HR team and several Business Managers.
• Respond to all requests for information or support within an appropriate timescale.
• Support projects relating to new activities within the resourcing team.
• Ideally HR knowledge & experience.

Health & Safety Responsibilities:

Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment. Employees will ensure they understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.

Equal Employment Opportunity and Safeguarding Statement:

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Where applicable, this role is subject to safer recruitment processes and robust pre-employment checks.