Talent Acquisition Specialist

5 months ago


Harwell, United Kingdom SMS Environmental Full time

**Talent Acquisition Specialist**

**Hybrid - 3 days office, 2 days home**

**Salary £35,000 - £40,000 per annum, pro rata**

Here at SMS Environmental, people are the priority of our business. From our Water Hygiene Engineers in the field who deliver excelled water hygiene services to UK wide clients, to our leadership team driving continual growth of our organisation, our talent function is strategically centred to ensure excelled HR & talent support across our growing UK wide employee base.

In return, we offer lots of autonomy in your role, with mentoring support from an experienced Talent Partner within an exciting, growing company.

Our role is full time, working 37.5 hours a week Monday - Friday, based in our modern offices in Harwell Science Park, near Didcot.

**Your key responsibilities**:

- Proactive management of 360 recruitment process across sourcing, interviewing, pipelining and talent pooling for multiple engineering and HQ roles
- Lead vacancy briefs with Hiring Managers to scope role requirements and form successful recruitment campaigns
- Lead behavioural interviews from phone screening, face to face and virtual interviews with Managers
- Build talent pipelines and communications for current and future hiring requirements
- Raise our profile as an employer of choice, promoting vacancies through LinkedIn and other social media platforms
- Writing and posting engaging job advertisements and job marketing collateral
- Support the pre boarding and onboarding process for new starters

**Requirements**:
**Essential**:

- Bachelors degree education in HR, Business or related discipline
- Track record of managing stakeholder relationships across the recruitment lifecycle
- Knowledge of recruitment related law and best practice
- Skilled interviewer, able to create effective interview processes and coach managers on interview best practice
- Collaborative team member
- Professional, yet assertive approach, able to influence and build stakeholder relationships to set clear expectations

**Desirable**:

- Prior experience using Recruitment ATS

Applicants must be able to provide evidence of their Right to Work in the UK.

All roles at SMS require a DBS check; SMS Environmental will cover the cost of this if you do not already hold a valid DBS certificate.

**Background on SMS**:
For more than 22 years, SMS Environmental has been one of the leading water hygiene service providers throughout the UK, ensuring the public are protected from infectious diseases that can be carried through water systems. We provide essential services to an array of domestic and commercial clients including water testing, risk assessments, air sampling and air conditioning maintenance.

Our extensive skills and expertise in infection control and systems management have given us a key opportunity to drive the design and standardisation of Water Treatment education and training used throughout the industry today. We work closely with City & Guilds, CIBSE (CPD) Accreditation Board and UKAS to create, review and enhance modern water hygiene training course contents, materials and assessments to ensure they are fit for purpose and set high standards for the whole sector to aspire to.

All SMS employees are trained to the highest standard using a range of in-house training and external learning programmes that are accredited by City & Guilds. SMS Environmental has been awarded the Investors in People accreditation since 2011 and we continue to invest in our employees by supporting individuals to achieve their next step within their career.

SMS Environmental employs over 215 people from water treatment engineers and plumbers to office staff across our 4 nationwide offices based in Harwell, Derby, Wales and Scotland.

**Benefits**

**We offer**:

- Competitive salary
- 30 days holiday including bank holidays
- Contributory company pension scheme
- Enhanced sickness, maternity and paternity pay
- Employee Assistance Plan including a 24/7 free confidential helpline
- Employee discounts and cashback savings across hundreds of your favourite high street brands, online shopping, holidays, and days out
- Extra bonus holiday for birthday on completion of 2 years’ service
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free Mortgage and Financial advice
- Electric Car scheme through salary sacrifice
- Support to gain further training and qualifications



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