Lead Recruiter / HR Generalist

Leatherhead / Hybrid Working

6+ months

£30-35ph

Ultimately, the responsibilities of the Lead Recruiter are to ensure our company attracts, hires and retains the best employees while growing a strong talent pipeline and advising and building a close relationship with your business partners.
The position is based in KBR’s Leatherhead Campus with hybrid working.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead the recruitment team in achieving operational delivery targets
• Deliver weekly management information reporting and other ad-hoc reporting requests
• Attend and contribute to project and wider business resource meetings
• Act as business partner to your departments, understanding their recruitment needs and guiding them on the best course of action
• Drive and manage the end-to-end recruitment process, from needs assessment, recommendation of attraction and sourcing strategies, direct sourcing, application screening, interviews, and offer/resignation management
• Collaborate with the Communications & Marketing team to ensure we are using innovative and effective candidate attraction methods
• Direct sourcing and talent pooling to actively build talent pipelines for critical/niche skill sets
• Promoting KBR as an employer of choice
• Build and maintain excellent working relationships with preferred suppliers, and the wider recruitment and HR team
• Be an advocate for recruitment processes and encourage compliance whilst demonstrating knowledge of Employment Law
• Provide regular updates to stakeholders on recruitment progress with key data and metrics to support evidence-based decision making
• Comply with KBR’s Code of Business Conduct
• Participate in broader recruitment/HR initiatives

• Successful track record recruiting for the Energy industry, oil and gas experience is highly desirable
• Demonstrable experience of leading a recruitment team
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and management skills
• Adept at building trusted relationships with all levels within the business
• Attention to detail and comfortable doing hands-on operational recruitment at pace
• Proficient in Microsoft Office including Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint
• Prior experience using ATS systems e.g. Workday
• Self-starter able to utilize own initiative
• Numerical with the ability to extract, interpret and present relevant data
• A team player with a supportive approach
• Creative thinker willing to contribute ideas