Talent Acquisition Partner
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The Vacancy
Connect with people. Partner with purpose. Build WGM’s future workforce.
WGM Engineering, part of RSK Group, is looking for an experienced Talent Acquisition Partner to join our growing Resourcing team on a permanent, full-time basis. This role will benefit from hybrid working, with travel to WGM locations across the UK where required. Flexible working will be considered.
This is an opportunity to take ownership of recruitment across an aligned area of the business and play a visible role in the continued development of WGM’s Strategic Resourcing capability.
You will partner closely with hiring managers and business leaders, helping them translate current vacancies, secured work, project pipelines and future capability requirements into effective recruitment plans. You will manage recruitment from initial briefing through to accepted offer, while ensuring candidates receive a warm, honest and professional experience.
As WGM continues to grow, you will also help strengthen hiring-manager capability, embed consistent and evidence-based recruitment practice and support a wider cultural shift towards more proactive, accountable and inclusive workforce decision-making.
You do not need previous engineering-sector experience to be successful in this role. What matters is strong end-to-end recruitment experience, the ability to build credibility with stakeholders and the curiosity to understand unfamiliar roles, candidate markets and business requirements within niche and regulated environments.
WGM Engineering has been delivering practical engineering solutions for more than 40 years and is experiencing significant growth across the UK water, utilities and essential infrastructure sectors. We combine in-house technical expertise, off-site engineering capability and a strong self-delivery model to achieve safe, efficient and sustainable outcomes for our clients.
What you’ll be doing
- Partner with hiring managers and business leaders to understand current vacancies, future workforce requirements and business-critical capability needs.
- Lead structured vacancy briefings and develop effective recruitment strategies across professional, technical, operational and corporate roles.
- Manage the end-to-end recruitment process across your aligned business area, from approval and attraction through to selection and accepted offer.
- Screen and qualify candidates, exploring their experience, capability, motivation, behaviours, career aspirations, availability and salary expectations.
- Work with the Talent Sourcing Specialist to define target candidate profiles, sourcing priorities, talent-mapping activity and future pipeline requirements.
- Coach and guide hiring managers on recruitment process, interviewing, assessment, candidate feedback and fair, evidence-based selection.
- Provide constructive challenge where role requirements, salary, location or selection decisions may restrict attraction, create bias or increase recruitment risk.
- Provide clear market insight on talent availability, salary expectations, candidate mobility, competitor activity and recruitment lead times.
- Ensure recruitment activity remains inclusive, appropriately documented and compliant with employment legislation, UK GDPR, right-to-work requirements and relevant WGM and RSK policies.
- Use recruitment data and stakeholder feedback to improve direct hiring, candidate experience, manager capability and WGM’s wider Strategic Resourcing approach.
What you’ll bring
We are looking for someone who can demonstrate:
- Experience managing end-to-end recruitment from vacancy briefing and attraction through to selection and offer.
- Experience partnering with hiring managers or business leaders to define role requirements and recruitment plans.
- Experience managing multiple vacancies and competing stakeholder priorities.
- The ability to understand unfamiliar roles, ask informed questions and translate business requirements into effective recruitment strategies.
- Experience using applicant-tracking systems, recruitment platforms and candidate-sourcing tools.
- Practical understanding of UK employment law and recruitment compliance, including equality and discrimination, reasonable adjustments, UK GDPR, right-to-work requirements, candidate confidentiality and appropriate recruitment records.
- A warm, credible and professional communication style, with the confidence to coach, influence and constructively challenge stakeholders.
Previous in-house Talent Acquisition Partner or Recruitment Business Partner experience would be beneficial.
Experience within engineering, construction, infrastructure, utilities, manufacturing, energy, water or another technical environment would also be helpful, but is not essential.
Salary and Benefits
We are offering a competitive salary aligned to the skills and experience demonstrated for this role. Full salary banding is available on request.
At WGM, we offer a competitive benefits package designed to support our people both inside and outside of work. This includes:
- 32 days’ holiday, increasing to 36 days based on length of service
- Pension scheme, with WGM contributing 6%
- Life assurance scheme that pays 3 x salary
- Salary sacrifice options, including electric vehicle scheme, annual leave purchase and cycle to work schemes
- Flexible benefits programme, including health cash plan and discounted gym membership
- Remote and hybrid working options, subject to role requirements
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Company sick pay, available after a qualifying period
- Employee discount programme
RSK Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
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WGM and RSK will not accept unsolicited CVs from agencies other than PSL agencies.
About Us
Based in Scotland, we are an engineering business providing mechanical, electrical and civil engineering services to clients across the UK. We are one of the UK’s leading engineering solution providers, recognised for outstanding client service, quality solutions and our commitment to health and safety. From our HQ in Glasgow, we deliver sustainable solutions to the water and renewables sectors. Supplementary services include project management, technical engineering, design, and off-site modular build.
We have partnered with innovative technology providers in the renewables sector, including solar PV, hydroelectric and heat networks. We are a progressive, people-orientated business driven by our values to deliver workable and cost-effective solutions in the communities we work. When you work for WGM you join a dynamic team and have the opportunity to be part of our ambitious plans for future growth.
WGM is part of the RSK Group, a leading integrated environmental, engineering, and technical services business providing dynamic, multidisciplinary services to a wide range of sectors. RSK was founded in 1989 and has grown considerably since then.
At RSK, we operate as a group of businesses that work together seamlessly, aiming for growth through diversification. Our strategy helps us build a strong and resilient business, capable of weathering external challenges, while also providing greater value to our clients and more opportunities for our employees.
Since the beginning, our philosophy has remained the same: employ, develop and reward talented individuals. People are crucial to our company, and we recognise that our success hinges on our colleagues' growth. We're committed to preserving RSK's people-first culture, promoting innovation, and fostering a supportive and caring environment for collaboration. At RSK, we want you to be part of our successes and help you reach your career aspirations. We take pride in offering employees fulfilling and challenging careers by promoting ongoing growth and empowering individuals to excel.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We firmly believe that embracing and celebrating the diversity in our workforce makes us a stronger and more innovative company.
By providing workplace adjustments, we make it easier for people to confidently explore and pursue our career opportunities and recognise that flexibility is key to fostering a dynamic and thriving workplace. Many of our office-based positions benefit from a flexible working arrangement, allowing our team members to achieve a balance between professional and personal commitments.
We actively encourage applications from candidates of all genders, races, ethnicities, ages, neurotypes, religions or beliefs, sexual orientations, and those with disabilities.
If you're passionate about making a difference, join us as we work together to build a brighter, more equitable, and sustainable future for all. Do you have what it takes?
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