Internal Recruitment Partner

Job Title: Recruitment Partner

Company Overview: The Airedale Group is the market-leading design, installation, and maintenance provider for commercial kitchens in the UK hospitality and food service industry. We work alongside clients from the initial designs through to bespoke fabrication and installation. Coupled with the largest body of professional maintenance engineers in the country, we offer the complete end to end solution to our extensive client base. We have long-standing relationships with many of the biggest multi-site brands in the UK.

Job Overview:

As a rapidly growing organisation, we are expanding our Internal Recruitment team, with an experienced Engineering Recruiter. A newly created role, offering the scope to bring new ideas and work towards improved processes. The role will suit a highly motivated professional, who demonstrates a solid understanding of talent management and candidate attraction within the engineering sector. We are looking for a proactive approach, proven success in high-volume recruitment and the ability to work in a paced business environment.

Hours: Full time, Monday to Friday; 8:30am – 5pm

Benefits: Competitive salary, Hybrid working and excellent career opportunities

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Work alongside Hiring Managers to determine qualifications and criteria for the various engineering vacancies we recruit.
• Conducting a full search and shortlisting process to identify suitable candidates.
• Advertise job openings on careers pages, job boards, and social networks utilising all avenues and network opportunities.
• Collaborate with Hiring Managers to ensure job specifications are kept up to date.
• Conduct the initial screening of candidates to ensure they fit the criteria prior to interview stage.
• Guiding Hiring Managers throughout the recruitment process, providing industry advice where necessary.
• Work towards building a sufficient candidate database.
• Update with candidates through the hiring process, ensuring they always receive an excellent service.
• Manage the booking of candidate interviews at the various hiring stages.
• Support in the development of ideas towards recruitment, inductions and candidate attraction.
• Managing stakeholder expectations on the recruitment timeline and level of assistance that’s required from them.

Experience Required:

• Previous recruitment experience within the engineering sector.
• A good understanding of Microsoft Excel and Outlook.
• Previous experience of working with applicant tracking systems.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Highly organised and ability to work within a fast-paced organisation.
• Adaptable and eager to learn.
• Excellent team player.
• Ability to engage well with stakeholders and provide regular updates to senior hiring managers.

The Airedale Group is expanding rapidly, employing circa 700 people across multiple locations in the UK. This is a fantastic time to be joining the business with opportunities for career progression.