Resourcing Advisor

ENGINEERINGUK; Leiston; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a dynamic Resourcing Advisor to join a newly established recruitment team for a groundbreaking nuclear power project. This role offers the opportunity to shape recruitment processes and drive talent acquisition for high-impact roles in the construction industry. With hybrid working flexibility, you'll engage with diverse stakeholders and contribute to a streamlined hiring process that supports the UK's energy future. If you're passionate about sourcing top-tier talent and making a significant impact, this is the perfect opportunity to kick-start your career in 2025!

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Enhanced Pension Scheme

Parental Leave Schemes

Life/Dental/Critical Illness Insurance

Income Protection

33 Days Holiday

Professional Development Opportunities

Car/Travel Allowance

Qualifications

• Proven experience in permanent recruitment, ideally within construction or engineering sectors.
• Demonstrated ability to manage high-volume vacancies effectively.

Responsibilities

• Source high-quality candidates to meet project requirements.
• Support Senior Recruitment Advisors in managing a multi-disciplinary vacancy portfolio.
• Contribute to improving recruitment efficiencies and processes.

Skills

Recruitment

Talent Sourcing

Organizational Skills

Relationship Building

Diversity and Inclusion

Education

Experience in Recruitment

Agency or RPO Experience

Job description

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View more categories | View less categories | Sector: Human Resources, Recruitment | Role: Specialist | Contract Type: Permanent | Hours: Full Time

Resourcing Advisor

Location: Ipswich Project Office

Join a newly established project Recruitment Team tasked with recruiting the workforce for Sizewell C, a groundbreaking new nuclear power station project that will provide low-carbon electricity to power 6 million homes!

Are you an experienced Recruiter passionate about sourcing top-tier talent in the construction industry? Are you adept at managing high-volume recruitment across a range of disciplines and stakeholders? Does the idea of a newly created role and team with direct impact on shaping recruitment processes excite you? Kick-start your 2025 with this dynamic and rewarding opportunity!

The Role

As a Resourcing Advisor within the Civil Works Alliance - an alliance between leading Tier 1 industry contractors - you'll join a close-knit internal recruitment team of four. Reporting to the Senior Resourcing Advisor, your primary responsibility will be supporting recruitment efforts for white-collar roles across a range of disciplines including commercial, procurement, HSE, logistics, civil engineering, and finance.

You'll play a key role in developing talent pipelines, driving recruitment efficiency, and contributing to a streamlined hiring process. The position offers hybrid flexibility, allowing you to split your time between the Ipswich Project Office and remote working.

Key Responsibilities

• Source high-quality candidates through direct recruitment channels to meet project requirements.
• Provide expertise in talent sourcing, selection, and the creation of talent pipelines.
• Identify opportunities to improve recruitment efficiencies and processes.
• Support the Senior Recruitment Advisors by managing a high-volume, multi-disciplinary vacancy portfolio while empowering and educating hiring managers to meet recruitment needs.
• Assist with managing and publishing a high-volume of job advertisements across multiple job boards.
• Maintain and enhance recruitment systems, supporting ongoing digital transformation initiatives.
• Develop and promote an effective employment brand and Employee Value Proposition (EVP).
• Contribute to supporting and advancing our diversity and inclusion agenda.

About You

• Proven experience in permanent recruitment, ideally within construction, engineering, technical, or energy sectors.
• Demonstrated ability to manage a high-volume vacancy portfolio, suited for someone with agency or RPO experience.
• Strong administrative and organisational skills, with the ability to pre-emptively address potential challenges.
• Quick to establish trusted, collaborative relationships with hiring managers.
• Confident and adaptable in a start-up environment, where processes are still evolving.
• A collaborative and solutions-focused mindset with a drive to continuously improve.

Apply Now

If you're excited about being part of a key project that will play a crucial role in the UK's energy future, apply now and help us deliver the workforce that will power Sizewell C into the future!

We offer a competitive remuneration package (base salary + car/travel allowance) with access to Private Medical Insurance; enhanced pension and parental leave schemes; Life/Dental/Critical illness insurance and income protection; 33 days holiday including bank holidays + 1 paid day for volunteering; professional development opportunities and more!

We are committed to making our recruitment process accessible to everyone. If you need the application form in an alternative format or have any questions about our process, please contact our resourcing team at [e-mail].

Company

We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East, and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people, and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

“As an engineering enterprise, Laing O'Rourke is committed to playing a vital role in building a stronger and more sustainable economy that benefits society in general.”

– Ray O’Rourke KBE, Chief Executive Officer

Our Origin Story:

Diversity & Inclusion:

Laing O'Rourke is committed to inclusion; an employer that maintains the highest standard of employment practice and aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse society in which we live and work.

Laing O'Rourke believes that when we go to work, we should feel we are going to a place where we are accepted, understood, and valued, and that we should make others we work with feel this way too.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION SUBCOMMITTEES

Laing O'Rourke has ten Diversity & Inclusion Subcommittees. The purpose of these sub-committees is to offer a safe and supportive environment to listen and share personal experiences and insights, as well as play a sympathetic role for each other.

The sub-committees help to drive education, events, and initiatives across the organization as well as help colleagues understand their purpose.

Current subcommittees include Dis-Ability, Carers, Ethnicity, Gender, Families that live abroad, LGBTQ+, Women & Menopause, & Working Families.

Support for Disabled Employees

• LOR recruitment, HR Teams, Leadership, and management have undertaken disability awareness training and are eager to provide an inclusive and accessible experience to job applicants and new colleagues.
• LOR Dis-ABILITY Subcommittee is an Employee Network Group of colleagues passionate about disability inclusion. Its aims are to raise awareness and remove barriers around disability, neurodiversity, and long-term health conditions to support creating an inclusive and diverse workplace for everyone.
• Disability Confident Leaders – We are using the requirements of the government scheme to create an inclusive environment for disabled job applicants and existing colleagues.
• LOR is a member of the Business Disability Forum, giving access to a wide range of resources and information. Our line managers have access to their best practice guides and confidential support lines.
• LOR is partnering with Even Break to have access to exemplary advice around disability inclusion.

Sustainability

In April 2021, Laing O’Rourke announced new global sustainability targets. These include:

• To be a net zero company by 2050
• By 2033, to achieve an equal gender balance across currently 5,500 international staff

Rewards and Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension – basic and enhanced schemes
• Health and Wellbeing
• Virtual GP
• Health Assessment (Age 50+)
• Phased return to work (80% of working week for 100% pay)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 5 days leave extra can be purchased
• Employee Discounts
• Allowances – car or transport allowance, depending on role/grade

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