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Recruitment and Onboarding Manager

Job Category:  Construction Logistics
Contract Partner Company:  Wilson James
Employing Company:  Wilson James

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Recruitment and Onboarding Manager
Wilson James


Salary: £65,000 - £85,000PA

Permanent


The Recruitment and Onboarding Manager will lead the delivery of a high-quality, compliant, and efficient end-to-end recruitment and onboarding service at Hinkley Point C, one of the UK's most significant infrastructure projects.


This is a hands-on leadership role in a highly regulated, safety-critical environment. You will be responsible for ensuring the right people are recruited, cleared, and mobilised on time to support operational delivery, while leading and developing an on-site recruitment team. You will also collaborate with both internal and external stakeholders to support Wilson James.


The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills and a natural ability to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders.

 

What we can offer you: 

•    Salary starting from £65,000 per annum, depending on experience, plus a guaranteed monthly bonus of 8.65% of your gross salary while working at HPC
•    Annual leave: 25 days per year plus Bank Holidays
•    Shift pattern: 9 days across 2 weeks (Monday - Friday on week one, then Monday - Thursday on week two)
•    Life assurance scheme
•    Company sick pay, upon successful completion of probationary period
•    Pension Scheme with 5% employer contribution
•    Access to an industry leading Employee Benefits Platform offering lifestyle savings and discounts on most high street retailers, a Reward and Recognition programme
•    The opportunity to develop your career with access to training and development programmes
•    Employee Assistance Programme that provides a health and wellbeing support service, including access to an Online GP
•    As an employer of choice, we focus on wellbeing, training, and career progression
•    Employee Referral Scheme

 

Qualifications

•    Professional Qualification (preferably L5 CIPD, or willing to work towards), or a Degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline
•    CITB Health, Safety & Environment Test (to be obtained before start date)

 

What we need from you:

•    Proven experience managing recruitment and onboarding services in a complex or regulated environment
•    Strong knowledge of UK employment legislation and pre-employment screening requirements
•    Demonstrable experience leading and developing teams
•    Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
•    Strong analytical skills with experience using recruitment data and KPIs
•    Confidence using recruitment systems, Microsoft Office, and digital recruitment tools
•    Experience using social media and digital channels for attraction
•    Practical understanding of AI and technology within a recruitment or service setting
•    A positive and dynamic approach to challenges faced and the ability to set high expectations
•    Champion a strong Nuclear Safety Culture and role model Wilson James' safety behaviours

 

Site Specific Information:

•    Ability to provide a minimum 3-year work history and pass HPC vetting
•    Ability to obtain and maintain an HPC site pass
•    Role is fully site-based at Hinkley Point C (45-minute bus journey required)

 

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

The HPC Jobs Service supports local people into exciting, long-term careers across our Project.

Recruitment and Onboarding Manager
Wilson James


Salary: £65,000 - £85,000PA

Permanent


The Recruitment and Onboarding Manager will lead the delivery of a high-quality, compliant, and efficient end-to-end recruitment and onboarding service at Hinkley Point C, one of the UK's most significant infrastructure projects.


This is a hands-on leadership role in a highly regulated, safety-critical environment. You will be responsible for ensuring the right people are recruited, cleared, and mobilised on time to support operational delivery, while leading and developing an on-site recruitment team. You will also collaborate with both internal and external stakeholders to support Wilson James.


The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills and a natural ability to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders.

 

What we can offer you: 

•    Salary starting from £65,000 per annum, depending on experience, plus a guaranteed monthly bonus of 8.65% of your gross salary while working at HPC
•    Annual leave: 25 days per year plus Bank Holidays
•    Shift pattern: 9 days across 2 weeks (Monday - Friday on week one, then Monday - Thursday on week two)
•    Life assurance scheme
•    Company sick pay, upon successful completion of probationary period
•    Pension Scheme with 5% employer contribution
•    Access to an industry leading Employee Benefits Platform offering lifestyle savings and discounts on most high street retailers, a Reward and Recognition programme
•    The opportunity to develop your career with access to training and development programmes
•    Employee Assistance Programme that provides a health and wellbeing support service, including access to an Online GP
•    As an employer of choice, we focus on wellbeing, training, and career progression
•    Employee Referral Scheme

 

Qualifications

•    Professional Qualification (preferably L5 CIPD, or willing to work towards), or a Degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline
•    CITB Health, Safety & Environment Test (to be obtained before start date)

 

What we need from you:

•    Proven experience managing recruitment and onboarding services in a complex or regulated environment
•    Strong knowledge of UK employment legislation and pre-employment screening requirements
•    Demonstrable experience leading and developing teams
•    Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
•    Strong analytical skills with experience using recruitment data and KPIs
•    Confidence using recruitment systems, Microsoft Office, and digital recruitment tools
•    Experience using social media and digital channels for attraction
•    Practical understanding of AI and technology within a recruitment or service setting
•    A positive and dynamic approach to challenges faced and the ability to set high expectations
•    Champion a strong Nuclear Safety Culture and role model Wilson James' safety behaviours

 

Site Specific Information:

•    Ability to provide a minimum 3-year work history and pass HPC vetting
•    Ability to obtain and maintain an HPC site pass
•    Role is fully site-based at Hinkley Point C (45-minute bus journey required)

 

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Why Join Us?

For more than 60 years, nuclear power stations in the UK have been quietly keeping Britain fuelled with massive amounts of home-grown energy.

Our teams up and down the country are proudly continuing to serve the nation – but they also have an eye on the future.

EDF is leading the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C and plans for a new power station at Sizewell C in Suffolk.

Nuclear power is the most reliable, low-carbon energy source currently available to the UK. EDF is playing a key role in the development of nuclear sites, while Hinkley Point C will provide low-carbon electricity to meet 7% of the UK demand. The project is already making a positive impact on the local and national economy as well as boosting skills and education.

We’re not just building new nuclear power stations. We’re developing careers, upskilling generations and creating thousands of employment and apprenticeship opportunities across a variety of skills areas.

It takes a special kind of person to work in the nuclear energy industry and although we have thousands of them there’s always a need for more.

Our industry has a mind-boggling range of opportunities and more jobs, and in more places, than you might think. But it’s also an industry which is changing.

We’re a responsible business and proud to be Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. With size, age and experience, we believe we can do even more.

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