Recruitment Specialist

Are you an experienced 360 Talent Acquisition Specialist, looking to join a successful HR team in our growing, expanding company, for a role working 37.5 hours a week, offering the chance to work from home 2 days per week? Are you able to work within our modern offices in the Harwell Science Park, South Oxfordshire?

People in our business mean everything to us, from our Water Treatment Engineers on the road providing vital water treatment services to our customers, to our Head Office teams driving excellence across our business, our HR team is a small, collaborative, and friendly team, offering the best for our people across SMS Environmental.

**What experience will you have?**
- Strong experience within direct hiring recruitment models
- Possess extensive stakeholder management experience, demonstrating true partnerships with stakeholders to build key relationships and coach through recruitment process
- Strong sourcing experience through direct hiring methods across job boards, sourcing tools, networking, referral schemes or social channels
- Experience using social tools to promote employer branding, with ability to create engaging job adverts to entice talent
- Ability to prioritise, juggle many hats and contribute to Talent Attraction projects to achieve the best recruitment outcomes
- Degree level education, ideally from a Business, HR or similar discipline
- Start Up or SMS Experience would be desirable

**Why Join us?**

In return, you will join an experienced Talent & HR team, who are collaborative, share ideas and have fun whilst doing it You will report into an experienced Talent Manager, who can offer career development, coaching and support. We also offer the following company benefits:

- 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
- Private healthcare plan or cash alternative plan on completion of 2 years' service
- Extra bonus holiday for birthday on completion of 2 years’ service
- Long term service rewards and peer nominated recognition scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free Mortgage and Financial advice
- Electric Car scheme through salary sacrifice
- Support to gain further training and qualifications

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.

**Salary**: £30,000.00-£40,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Bereavement leave
- Company car
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Employee mentoring programme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site gym
- Private dental insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Store discount

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

**Education**:

- Bachelor's (required)

**Experience**:

- Recruiting: 2 years (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Didcot