Talent Acquisition Partner

T E S 2000 LTD; Colchester; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

TES 2000 LTD is seeking a proactive Talent Acquisition Partner to join the People & Culture team. You will support recruitment of safety-critical roles across the UK, combining hands-on talent acquisition with workforce planning, onboarding and retention.

The role focuses on fair processes and candidate experience, in a compliance-driven railway environment. The successful candidate will manage national campaigns, build strong talent pipelines, and work with managers to ensure robust recruitment

Qualifications

• CIPD Level 3 or working towards it.
• Strong in-house recruitment experience in a regulated environment.
• Experience delivering national recruitment campaigns and managing multiple vacancies.
• Confident use of an ATS to manage workflows, records and reporting.
• Knowledge of employment law, data protection and pre-employment screening.
• Understanding of social value and inclusive recruitment.”

Responsibilities

• Manage national recruitment campaigns from vacancy brief to offer and onboarding.
• Advise hiring managers on fair selection, workforce priorities and compliance.
• Own candidate activity in the ATS and coordinate pre-employment checks.
• Ensure timely vacancy delivery, quality of hire, and positive candidate experience.
• Maintain accurate system data and progress against recruitment and social value objectives.

Skills

CIPD Level 3

In-house recruitment

Compliance knowledge

Stakeholder management

Employment law

Education

CIPD Level 3 qualification

Job description

About The Opportunity

Be Part of Something Meaningful

TES is looking for a proactive and people-focused Talent Acquisition Partner to join our People & Culture team supporting the recruitment of safety-critical roles across the UK. This is a varied role combining hands-on talent acquisition with workforce planning, onboarding, retention and inclusive employment pathways. You will work closely with hiring managers, colleagues and external partners to build strong specialist talent pipelines and deliver a fair, professional candidate experience from first contact through to a successful start.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced in-house recruiter who is passionate about talent management and understands the demands of recruiting safety-critical personnel within a compliance-driven and heavily regulated industry. You will enjoy building relationships, improving processes and helping people access meaningful careers while ensuring recruitment activity consistently meets organisational, legal and rail-industry requirements.

What Will You Do?

You will manage national recruitment campaigns for safety-critical and other specialist roles from vacancy brief through to offer and onboarding. Acting as an internal recruitment partner, you’ll create inclusive adverts, proactively source candidates and advise hiring managers on fair selection, workforce priorities and compliance requirements. You’ll take ownership of candidate activity within our in-house applicant tracking system, and coordinating pre-employment, right-to-work and role-specific compliance checks. Success will be measured through timely vacancy delivery, quality of hire, candidate and hiring-manager experience, compliance standards, pipeline strength, accurate system data and progress against agreed recruitment and social value objectives.

About You

Who Are We Looking For?

• CIPD Level 3, or currently working towards it.
• Strong in-house recruitment or talent acquisition experience within a compliance-led, regulated or safety-critical industry.
• Experience delivering national recruitment campaigns and managing multiple vacancies.
• Confident use of an applicant tracking system to manage workflows, candidate records and recruitment reporting.
• Sound knowledge of employment law, equality, data protection, confidentiality and pre-employment screening.
• Understanding of social value, inclusive recruitment, local community engagement and accessible routes into employment.
• Strong communication, organisation and stakeholder-management skills.
• Sound judgement, effective prioritisation and confidence escalating people, policy, safeguarding or wellbeing concerns.

Desirable

• Experience recruiting safety-critical roles within rail or another highly regulated sector.
• Knowledge of Sentinel, rail competency requirements and compliance-led pre-employment checks.
• Experience of social value reporting, inclusive employment programmes and recruitment process or applicant tracking system improvement.

About Us

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well-established company and work with a dedicated team of rail professionals.
At TES we are committed to creating safe railway working environments and offer a wide range of professions and occupations within the Railway sector. Our continuing success depends on our people, which is why we are committed to attracting, retaining and developing our people with the skills, knowledge and experience to ensure an excellent delivery of our services.
TES is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. No worker or candidate will be discriminated against regardless of their gender, gender reassignment, age, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, religion and belief. This information is kept fully confidential, and accessibility is strictly limited in accordance with the Data Protection Act.