Reporting to the Recruitment Manager, the Recruiter is responsible for assisting in and facilitating the recruitment of staff on the project.
We will be experience a high volume of recruitment for the HS2 London Tunnels Contract and require a competent Recruiter to assist with the end to end recruitment process.
This role is part of the SCS People team delivering all HR, education, employment, EDI and recruitment to the project.

Flexible working: We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need. This might be part-time, remote working, or compressed hours for example. Anyone who applies for a role can ask about flexibility at interview. In return, we will explore what is possible for the role.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage applications through the Applicant Tracking System (Tribepad).

• Advertise vacancies with appropriate Job Brokerages.

• Discuss and agree Shortlisting Criteria with hiring managers for authorised vacancies.

• Assist Recruitment Manager and the Skills, Employment & Education team with recruitment efforts with local councils and organisations, recruitment fairs etc.

• Arrange interviews and gain CV / interview feedback from hiring managers.

• Attend and contribute to resourcing meetings.

• Build and develop strong relationships with hiring managers.

• Assist in delivering Fair Recruitment & Selection Training for hiring managers.

• Understand the Client and Joint Venture Partners’ Environment and Sustainability Policies, Processes and statutory requirements as they affect the company’s operations and ensure that the requirements, as applicable within their discipline, are implemented on the project.

Please note the above list of activities is not a full and complete and is viewed as a guide to the role’s responsibilities.

About You

• Experience in a similar role, either within an agency or in-house environment.

• Strong understanding of the recruitment process, screening and reviewing CVs and interview techniques.

• Understanding of fair recruitment practices and unconscious bias and its effects on the recruitment process.

• Some technical knowledge of the industry would be beneficial although not essential.

• Ability to communicate effectively (written and verbal) with people at varying levels of seniority.

• Demonstrable stakeholder management skills and experience.

• Strong organizational and prioritisation skills, able to manage own time.

• High attention to detail.

• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, high-pressured and changeable environment.

• Experience using Applicant Tracking Systems.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

About Costain

Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

Your application

Should you require any adjustments to support you in your application, please do not hesitate to contact us: careers@costain.com

We welcome all applicants regardless of age, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, socioeconomic background and physical or neurological disabilities.

We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need for dynamic working. Such as, working part-time, remote working, or compressed hours. In return, we will explore what is possible.

To find out more about our Inclusion strategy, please visit our ED&I page:

https://www.costain.com/our-culture/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/

Right to Work & Security Checks

Understandably given the nature of our business, everyone who is employed at Costain must undergo thorough referencing checks. We will need different information depending on the job we have offered you. For all roles, we’ll carry out a criminal record check and we’ll ask to see evidence that you have the legal right to work in the UK.

For some of our roles, you may be required to obtain and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (or SC clearance). To satisfy the requirements, you will need to have been a legal UK resident for a minimum of 5 years and have successfully complete all stages of the vetting process.

Closing date

Please note that Costain reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend at you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
For more details please go to the Disability Confident website:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/disability-confident-campaign