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About The Role
Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Recruiter to join our growing team.
Base location - Flexible (some travel required)
This role will support the Environmental and Suitability sector here at Balfour Beatty. You will be a true 360 recruitment specialist, confident in your ability to manage and deliver effective recruitment processes effectively, high level of operational
excellence and have impact and influence which creates respect with senior stakeholders and Hiring Managers in the business.
What you'll be doing
- Managing vacancies at all levels through the full recruitment life cycle from approval stage, through to offer and start date
- Building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders and act as the specialist point of contact for candidate sourcing
- Deliver a full 360 recruitment model, by partnering with Hiring Managers and conducting briefing meetings to provide advice and recommendations on recruitment policy, routes to market and direct sourcing methodology and agree timescales, in order to attract the best talent for all roles
- Participate in the candidate evaluation and selection process, including conducting in-depth screening of candidates and conducting interviews, as appropriate - in order to delivery accurate and tailored shortlists to Hiring Managers
- Proactively make direct approaches to active and passive candidates, networking across your specific sector, utilise internal referrals and the use of multichannel sourcing to attract a diverse pool of top talent
- As an experienced recruiter, own the candidate experience at all stages of the recruitment process
- Talent pooling – create internal/external talent pools for positions with niche/specialist skillsets for future requirements
- Managing external PSL recruitment agencies, ensuring they abide by a rigorous process and work directly with you, to provide CVs and a high-quality service
- Maintain the ATS, ensuring high quality data integrity, candidate tracking and role status updates, to enable accurate reporting
- Ensure all advertising channels are optimised by using the BBUK tone of voice, social channels are appropriately used and adopt a search and network approach to recruitment
- Working closely with your recruiting colleagues, to maximise our internal mobility and alumni strategy and approach for ensuring internal candidates and previous employees are redeployed where possible and as a priority
- Provide external market intelligence and research and be seen as a subject matter expert within your specialist area for recruitment
- Collaborate with colleagues within the Recruitment Team, on initiatives and projects which contribute to the overall recruitment strategy
Who we're looking for
The Following Qualities/experience Are Essential
- Proven track record of working as a 360 Recruiter, within an in-house Resourcing function
- You will be aligned to one of our key specialist areas and you are required to demonstrate considerable experience of recruiting into that sector and you are a true subject matter expert
- Experience of owning, maintaining and developing stakeholder/Hiring Manager relationships, including appropriate influencing skills
- A personable team player who works collaboratively with colleagues and demonstrates a willingness to ‘get the job done’
- Assertive, highly professional and willing to both challenge and be challenged and demonstrates self-awareness and emotional intelligence in your relationships with others
- Working knowledge of Applicant Tracking Systems, social media and recruiting process workflows
- Experience of developing creative resource planning tools and approaches for candidate attraction
- A good understanding of employment laws and regulations relevant to recruitment & selection
- Acts as an ambassador for Balfour Beatty, networking internally/externally, promoting Balfour Beatty as an Employer of Choice
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
About Us
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at:
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