Recruitment Coordinator - 12 month FTC

Smiths Group; Hemel Hempstead; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent training

Career growth opportunities

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Smiths Detection in the United Kingdom is seeking a highly organised Talent Acquisition Coordinator to support recruitment activities across our Transformation Plan. You will act as a central point of coordination between Talent Acquisition, Hiring Managers, HR teams and external recruitment partners, ensuring requisitions are handled effectively from start to onboarding.

You will manage trackers, produce regular updates, and coordinate agency engagement while ensuring data accuracy and audit

Qualifications

• Previous experience in Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Coordination, Resourcing, HR Administration or a similar coordination-focused role.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Raise and coordinate recruitment requisitions, ensuring information is complete, accurate and compliant with internal processes.
• Provide day-to-day administrative and coordination support across transformation recruitment activities.
• Monitor recruitment progress and ensure actions are followed through to completion.
• Maintain accurate recruitment records and documentation throughout the hiring lifecycle.
• Create and maintain central recruitment trackers to provide visibility of vacancies, requisition status, agency activity and onboarding progress.
• Produce regular updates and reports on recruitment activity, outstanding actions, risks and dependencies.
• Ensure recruitment data remains accurate, up to date and audit-ready.
• Act as a key point of contact for recruitment agency partners supporting transformation hiring.
• Coordinate agency engagement, communications and recruitment activities.
• Support the onboarding of new recruitment suppliers, ensuring all required documentation and processes are completed efficiently.
• Coordinate contractor onboarding activities, ensuring all necessary requirements are completed prior to start dates.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders to remove delays and ensure a smooth onboarding experience.
• Partner with Hiring Managers, HR teams, Talent Acquisition colleagues and external providers to ensure recruitment activity runs smoothly.
• Proactively follow up on outstanding actions and escalated issues where required.
• Support a consistent and professional hiring experience across multiple functions and locations.

Skills

Recruitment coordination

Stakeholder management

Data tracking & reporting

HR administration

Agency coordination

Contractor onboarding

Tools

ATS

Excel

MS Office

Outlook

Teams

Job description

Every minute of every day, Smiths Detection’s threat detection and security screening technology helps to protect people and infrastructure, making the world a safer place.

Smiths Detection is a global leader in the development, manufacture and management of security and detection solutions designed to make the world a safer place. Our technology provides threat detection and screening solutions for customers in our key markets: aviation, ports and borders, defence, and urban security.

Our expertise spans 21 global offices, seven manufacturing sites and five R&D centres, with a global network of 3,500 dedicated colleagues contributing towards over 40 years at the frontline of advances in safety and security.

This results in careers built on variety and the opportunity to work on a range of state-of-the-art solutions, where you can develop your knowledge and experience every day.

Job Description

Smiths Detection is undergoing a significant transformation programme designed to strengthen our organisation, accelerate growth and position us for future success. As part of this journey, we are seeking a highly organised and proactive Talent Acquisition Coordinator to support the delivery of recruitment activity across the Detection Transformation Plan.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with recruitment, resourcing, talent acquisition or HR coordination experience who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys bringing structure, organisation and efficiency to complex hiring programmes.

You will act as a central point of coordination between Talent Acquisition, Hiring Managers, HR teams and external recruitment partners, ensuring recruitment activity is managed effectively from requisition through to onboarding and closure.

What You'll Be Doing

Recruitment Coordination & Administration

• Raise and coordinate recruitment requisitions, ensuring information is complete, accurate and compliant with internal processes.
• Provide day-to-day administrative and coordination support across transformation recruitment activities.
• Monitor recruitment progress and ensure actions are followed through to completion.
• Maintain accurate recruitment records and documentation throughout the hiring lifecycle.

Recruitment Tracking & Reporting

• Create and maintain central recruitment trackers to provide visibility of vacancies, requisition status, agency activity and onboarding progress.
• Produce regular updates and reports on recruitment activity, outstanding actions, risks and dependencies.
• Ensure recruitment data remains accurate, up to date and audit-ready.

Agency Management & Coordination

• Act as a key point of contact for recruitment agency partners supporting transformation hiring.
• Coordinate agency engagement, communications and recruitment activities.
• Support the onboarding of new recruitment suppliers, ensuring all required documentation and processes are completed efficiently.

Contractor Onboarding

• Coordinate contractor onboarding activities, ensuring all necessary requirements are completed prior to start dates.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders to remove delays and ensure a smooth onboarding experience.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with Hiring Managers, HR teams, Talent Acquisition colleagues and external providers to ensure recruitment activity runs smoothly.
• Proactively follow up on outstanding actions and escalated issues where required.
• Support a consistent and professional hiring experience across multiple functions and locations.

Why Join Smiths Detection?

This role offers the opportunity to play a key part in one of the most significant hiring programmes within Smiths Detection. You'll gain exposure to senior stakeholders, global recruitment activity and large-scale transformation initiatives while developing your expertise within a collaborative and supportive Talent Acquisition team.

Join us and work for a world-leader, with the benefits and training to reward your dedication and skills. Be part of a team where we are making the world a safer place.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Coordination, Resourcing, HR Administration or a similar coordination-focused role.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to maintaining accurate data and documentation.
• Experience creating and maintaining trackers, reports and administrative processes.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience coordinating activities involving multiple stakeholders and dependencies.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Outlook and Teams.
• Comfortable working with recruitment systems, HR platforms or Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS).
• A proactive approach with the confidence to chase actions and drive progress.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• Experience within a complex, multinational or matrix organisation.
• Previous experience using ATS and HR systems.
• Experience coordinating recruitment agency activity.
• Experience supporting contractor recruitment and onboarding.
• Exposure to transformation, change or high-volume recruitment programmes.

Additional Information

Join us and we’ll help build your career, with excellent training and opportunities for career growth across the business, both locally and globally. You’ll experience an inclusive environment, with strong leadership and a focus on safety and wellbeing. You’ll also have the flexibility to choose from a wide range of benefits to suit your lifestyle, offering you and your family support from a health and wellbeing, financial andlifestyle perspective.

We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.