Talent Acquisition Partner - Engineering

The Vacancy

Partner with purpose. Hire with impact. Build WGM’s future workforce.

WGM Engineering, part of RSK Group, is looking for an experienced Talent Acquisition Partner – Engineering 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 our engineering business and play an important role in the continued development of WGM’s Strategic Resourcing capability.

You will partner closely with engineering and operational 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.

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.

• 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 for engineering, technical, project‑delivery, operational and specialist 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, assessing their technical experience, 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 skills 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.

• Recruitment experience within engineering, construction, infrastructure, utilities, water, energy, manufacturing or another technical environment.
• Experience managing multiple vacancies through briefing, attraction, selection and offer.
• Experience partnering with hiring managers or business leaders to define role requirements and recruitment plans.
• The ability to understand technical briefs and assess engineering experience across different disciplines, delivery environments and levels of responsibility.
• 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.

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