Senior Recruiter - Early Careers

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The scope and opportunity for your talent and ambition.

Job Title: Senior Recruiter - Early Careers
Location: Agile - can be based from any of our Kier locations (but travel to Rushden for large team meetings)

Business Area: Kier Group Services
Contract: full time, permanent. Able to consider part time working and job share. Please specify on your application form what hours / days you are ideally looking for


Kier Group has long believed that we all have the potential to shape our world - and leave a lasting legacy. So bring your talent and ambition to our team and you’ll be given the scope and opportunity to achieve just that - investing in your own future, building your expertise and contributing to a diverse culture that’s helping shape the world of tomorrow.

Job responsibilities

We are looking for a Senior Recruiter to join our centralised Resourcing Team in the Early Careers space. In this role you will be involved in delivering a proactive recruitment service on a day-to-day basis, ensuring that all live roles have an agreed recruitment plan which is delivered to a high standard. An essential part of this position is to be responsible for recruiting the right person into the right job within an agreed timeframe. You will be communicating with all parties involved in the process and will look to significantly drive down recruitment costs, focusing on a direct sourcing approach and deliver a first-class service to customers at all levels across the business unit. Candidates should go away from their interaction with us, regardless of outcome, feeling positive and inspired by Kier and its opportunities.

What do we need from you?

You will have a previous Early Careers experience, having recruited for vacancies within an in-house team or for a recruitment agency and will be able to work in a fast-paced environment. You’ll be familiar with managing high volumes of recruitment with end-to-end coverage. In addition you will understand and have previous experience coaching and developing hiring managers around "best in class" and be their subject matter expert for resourcing. If you have a proactive approach, strong stakeholder management skills, experience within the construction industry and looking to enhance your recruitment career, then this is the role for you!

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Kier is committed to creating supportive and inclusive opportunities for all our applicants and employees. We appreciate applicants from all backgrounds and we specifically encourage those from underrepresented communities to apply. Take a look to learn more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion. If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please let us know so we can discuss and arrange these by emailing .

Closing Date: Monday 13th June 2022

Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.

Recruitment agencies - we are unable to accept unsolicited CVs and communications from external recruiters. The recruitment team will engage with agencies who have signed up to our PSL should we require assistance. For further information, visit our .