About The Role
Join Our Rail Recruitment Team as a Talent-Focused Recruiter
Are you a proactive recruiter with a passion for connecting top talent with exciting opportunities?
We’re seeking a driven individual to join our Rail Recruitment Team, where you’ll be responsible for sourcing and hiring exceptional candidates for our rail projects. Your efforts will directly contribute to building diverse talent pipelines and supporting strategic recruitment initiatives that drive business growth.
In this role, you’ll leverage your direct sourcing expertise to identify and engage high-quality candidates through platforms like LinkedIn and other sourcing tools. Your attention to detail will ensure accurate recruitment data management, insightful reporting on key metrics, and the smooth execution of recruitment processes from start to finish.
What you'll be doing
Key Responsibilities
- Proactively source and engage candidates for a wide range of roles within the rail sector.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand hiring needs and provide timely recruitment support.
- Use LinkedIn and other tools to identify and attract a diverse range of candidates for open roles.
- Actively participate in internal recruitment projects aimed at improving talent pipelines and creating diverse pools of candidates.
- Track and report on recruitment activities, ensuring accurate and up-to-date data on candidate progress and market trends.
- Support the recruitment team in driving the efficient delivery of key recruitment campaigns across major projects.
- Foster a positive candidate experience from initial contact through to placement, ensuring clarity and professionalism throughout the process.
Who we're looking for
About You
- Solid experience in direct sourcing and recruitment, ideally within rail, construction, infrastructure, or engineering sectors.
- Strong proficiency in LinkedIn Recruiter and other sourcing tools to identify and engage potential candidates.
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to generate clear, actionable recruitment reports.
- Passionate about contributing to internal recruitment projects and helping to build diverse talent pools.
- Great communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with hiring managers and candidates.
- Organised, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- A team player who is keen to support the overall success of the recruitment team and business.
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.
Why join us?
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About Us
Balfour Beatty Group Enabling Functions are Legal, Finance, IT and Procurement, Communications, Health Safety and Environment, HR and Sustainability. Together, they support delivery of our Build to Last strategy whilst improving efficiencies and standardising our approach, systems and processes.
Diversity and inclusion
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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