Talent Acquisition Specialist

Talent Acquisition Specialist – Arriva UK Train 12 month FTC

Location:

This is a hybrid position, with your base location aligned to the most suitable office based on your home address. The role will involve travel and, at times, overnight stays.

Are you an organised, solutions‑focused recruiter who enjoys working across a broad and varied role portfolio? We’re looking for a Talent Acquisition Specialist to support recruitment across our UK Trains businesses - including Arriva Train Care, ARTS, RTS Infrastructure and Grand Central. This role is ideal for someone who is confident managing end‑to‑end recruitment across a wide range of disciplines: from unskilled and skilled operational roles, to engineering, technical, professional services and other business‑critical vacancies.

If you enjoy building strong partnerships, delivering a great candidate experience and adapting your approach to different types of hiring needs, we’d love to hear from you.

• Manage job requisition workflows in our ATS - Workday. Ensure accurate governance, compliance and real‑time status updates. Maintain strong data integrity across all recruitment activity.

• Advertise roles across internal and external platforms, including Linked In Recruiter. Work closely with hiring managers to craft compelling, accurate job adverts tailored to each discipline.

• Review CVs and conduct initial screening where appropriate. Coordinate interviews and manage candidate communication throughout the process. Maintain compliant, accurate candidate records. Monitor application progress and support candidate system access when needed.

• Use a range of sourcing tools, talent pools, job boards and networks. Build and nurture pipelines across diverse role types and future workforce requirements. Engage passive talent to support long‑term attraction and strategic hiring.

• Proven experience recruiting across a range of role types (e.g., operational, technical, engineering, corporate, professional).
• Ability to adapt sourcing and engagement strategies based on the role discipline and its complexity.
• Experience with Workday or similar ATS platforms.
• Excellent organisational skills and strong attention to detail.
• Confident communicator with polished written and verbal communication.
• Ability to manage multiple vacancies at different stages with ease.
• Rail experience is desirable but not essential.

• 33 days paid annual leave inclusive of Bank Holidays.
• Arriva Workplace Pension Plan (AWPP)
• Access to ‘The Village’ – Arriva’s Reward Gateway offering discounts shopping, days out and more.
• Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Eyecare Vouchers

You’ll partner closely with operational leaders, engineering teams, HR colleagues, training teams and candidates across the UK Trains portfolio - helping to secure the talent needed to keep our services running smoothly. If you’re motivated by delivering a seamless candidate journey and enjoy recruiting across a truly diverse role landscape, we’d love to hear from you.

Arriva is a leading provider of passenger transport across Europe, employing around 34,400 people and delivering around 1.6 billion passenger journeys. With buses, trains, coaches, trams, water buses, bike-sharing systems, on-demand transport solutions and a rolling stock leasing company, Arriva proudly connects people and communities safely, reliably and sustainably across 11 countries, delivering these services in a better way, every day. The activities of Arriva are divided into four business units: UK Bus, UK Trains, The Netherlands and Mainland Europe.

Arriva has passenger transport operations in the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and the United Kingdom, and also operates a rolling stock leasing company in Romania.

Our expansion is opening up exciting prospects! As our team grows, we’re on the lookout for the brightest talent to join us. Our ongoing success hinges on this!