Recruitment Advisor
Pertemps Glasgow Perms
This is a varied recruitment role, combining niche, specialist recruitment with fast-paced, high-volume recruitment. You’ll be responsible for identifying and attracting specialist engineering and construction talent, while also managing a busy pipeline of volume vacancies across the wider business.
The successful candidate will have previous recruitment experience within the engineering or construction sector and will be comfortable working in a fast-paced, site-based environment where priorities can change quickly.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the end-to-end recruitment process across both specialist and high-volume engineering and construction vacancies.
- Work closely with hiring managers to understand recruitment requirements, role profiles and workforce plans.
- Source candidates for niche and hard-to-fill positions using LinkedIn, job boards, direct sourcing and networking.
- Manage high-volume recruitment campaigns, ensuring vacancies are filled efficiently and within agreed timescales.
- Build and maintain strong talent pipelines across engineering, construction and other relevant disciplines.
- Screen and interview candidates, assessing both technical capability and cultural fit.
- Coordinate interviews, offers and onboarding activities.
- Develop strong relationships with candidates and internal stakeholders.
- Provide regular updates on recruitment activity, pipelines and market conditions.
- Use a range of recruitment strategies depending on the vacancy, from targeted headhunting through to high-volume attraction campaigns.
- Ensure a positive candidate experience throughout the recruitment process.
- Support the wider HR and People team with recruitment projects and initiatives as required.
You’ll ideally have:
- Previous recruitment experience within the engineering or construction sector – essential.
- Experience recruiting for both specialist/niche and high-volume roles.
- Strong candidate sourcing and attraction skills.
- Experience managing multiple vacancies and priorities simultaneously.
- The ability to work at pace without compromising on candidate quality.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
- Confidence working with hiring managers and stakeholders at all levels.
- A proactive, organised and solutions-focused approach.
- The ability to work independently and take ownership of your recruitment workload.
- A genuine interest in understanding the business, its culture and the people it needs to succeed.
- The flexibility to work 5 days per week on site in Motherwell.
- Competitive salary, depending on experience.
- A varied in-house recruitment role covering both specialist and volume recruitment.
- The opportunity to work directly with an established organisation.
- A role with genuine ownership and responsibility.
- The chance to build strong relationships across the business.
- A fast-paced and collaborative working environment.
- The opportunity to make a real impact on the growth of the organisation.
Application opens at the source listing. Free for jobseekers.