Recruiter

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About the role

Amazing infrastructure isn't the only thing that gets built here. Incredible careers do too!

Join our Resourcing Team as a Recruiter supporting our @OneAlliance project and you can build something to be proud of!

This is a part time role, 20 hours a week, Fixed term for 6 months.

What you'll be doing

As a Recruiter, you will have the following accountabilities:

Manage vacancies at all levels through the full recruitment life cycle from approval stage, through to offer and start date;

Build and maintain 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;

Manage 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;

Work 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

You will have the following skills & experience:

Proven track record of working as a 360 Recruiter, within an in-house Resourcing function;

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.

Why join us?

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’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.

From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

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 

We are 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: 

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