Senior Recruiter

Department: Group Services

Location: Scotland

Description

OCU have an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Recruiter to come and join us in Glasgow.

We’re looking for an experienced recruitment professional who is passionate about finding and attracting talent who will help power our growth, deliver on our ambitions and shape the future of our business for RJ McLeod and OCU Group across Scotland.

We are looking for an experienced and Senior Recruiter who knows how to find exceptional talent across Utilities and Engineering, build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and deliver results, even in the most challenging recruitment markets. You will combine strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, using your market knowledge, creative sourcing and a proactive approach to attract talent that will help drive our business forward.

This is an opportunity to take real ownership of complex, specialist and business critical recruitment, working across RJ McLeod and the wider OCU Group in Scotland. You will combine strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, using your market knowledge insight, creative sourcing and a proactive approach to attract talent that will help drive our business forward. connect the right people with the right opportunities.

If you’re a trusted recruitment partner who enjoys solving difficult hiring challenges, influencing decisions and challenging the status quo to make recruitment better, then we’d love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the recruitment journey. Take full responsibility for your vacancies, from initial briefing and sourcing through to offer; delivering pace, quality and a great candidate experience.
• Become a trusted talent advisor Build credible relationships partnerships with hiring managers and senior stakeholders, using your recruitment expertise and market knowledge to influence decisions, challenge thinking and shape effective hiring strategies.

Find talent others can’t. Get hands-on with proactive headhunting. Develop innovative attraction and sourcing strategies, market mapping and, talent pipelining to engage hard to reach candidates.

Champion fair and inclusive hiring. Challenge traditional approaches, widen talent pools and support hiring managers in making fair, informed recruitment decisions

Turn insight into impact Use recruitment data, market trends and performance metrics to identify risks, anticipate talent challenges and influence workforce decisions. You’ll also help improve our processes, systems and ways of working.

Raise the bar for the whole team Share your expertise, coach and support junior colleagues, and champion best practice across the recruitment function. You’ll collaborate across OCU’s wider business areas, helping us maintain consistent, high-quality recruitment delivery as our business continues to grow.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

We are looking for someone who combines recruitment expertise with commercial awareness, confidence and a genuine passion for finding great people.

You Will Bring

• Proven senior recruitment experience, with a strong track record of delivering complex, specialist, senior or business-critical appointments end to end.
• Industry knowledge and market understanding, ideally within construction, utilities, engineering, infrastructure or another technical, field-based environment.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence senior leaders, provide constructive challenge and advise on realistic hiring strategies.
• Advanced sourcing expertise, including proactive headhunting, market mapping, competitor research and building talent pipelines for hard-to-fill roles.
• A data-led mindset, using recruitment analytics and market insight to identify trends, manage risk and support better hiring decisions.

A commitment to inclusive recruitment, with the ability to coach hiring managers and promote fair, accessible selection processes.

A collaborative leadership style, with the ability to share knowledge, develop colleagues and drive continuous improvement.

A proactive, adaptable approach, thriving in a fast-paced environment where priorities can shift and creative problem-solving is essential.

Above all, you’ll be a confident recruitment professional who takes ownership, builds trusted relationships and cares about delivering results without compromising candidate experience or hiring quality.

Job Benefits

At OCU, we believe that meaningful work should come with meaningful support. That's the principle behind Careers with Purpose, our commitment to ensuring every person at OCU feels supported, developed, and valued, not just in their role today, but throughout their career with us.

Alongside the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most significant infrastructure projects, we offer a benefits package that we are continuing to develop as we grow, and the kind of career acceleration that only comes from being inside a business moving at this pace.

As a rapidly growing organisation, there are genuine opportunities to progress, broaden your experience, and build a long-term career within OCU Group.

For a confidential conversation about this opportunity, please contact Dee Reid at [email protected]

Our vacancies are typically advertised for two weeks; however, we reserve the right to close applications early should we receive a sufficient number of suitable candidates. We therefore encourage early applications.

To ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to join our team, please inform us if you require any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment and interview process is, by emailing [email protected].