Overview
We’re looking for an experienced and proactive Recruiter to join our Automotive recruitment team, supporting the delivery of talent across a range of technical and specialist roles.
This is a great opportunity for a recruiter who enjoys tackling hard-to-fill positions, building strong relationships with stakeholders and becoming a trusted recruitment partner. While previous Automotive recruitment experience would be beneficial, it is not essential. What is important is having a solid recruitment foundation, strong sourcing capability and the confidence to ask questions, challenge assumptions and continuously build your knowledge.
You’ll join an experienced and supportive team who will help you develop your understanding of the Automotive sector, technical terminology and the specialist profiles we recruit.
What You'll Be Doing
As an Automotive Recruiter, you’ll be responsible for managing recruitment activity across a portfolio of roles and stakeholders. Your responsibilities will include:
- Managing the end-to-end recruitment process across a range of Automotive, Engineering and technical vacancies.
- Partnering with hiring managers and business stakeholders to understand their recruitment requirements.
- Proactively sourcing and engaging candidates for specialist, niche and hard-to-fill roles.
- Developing a strong understanding of different technical profiles, skills and terminology within the Automotive sector.
- Screening candidates and assessing their suitability against both technical and behavioural requirements.
- Presenting high-quality candidate shortlists to hiring managers and stakeholders.
- Managing candidate pipelines and maintaining consistent recruitment activity across assigned vacancies.
- Providing regular updates to stakeholders on recruitment progress, challenges and market conditions.
- Building strong relationships with candidates and delivering a positive candidate experience throughout the recruitment process.
- Working closely with colleagues across Recruitment, Sales and Project teams to support client requirements.
- Maintaining accurate recruitment information and ensuring candidate and vacancy records remain up to date.
- Using feedback and recruitment data to continuously improve sourcing and recruitment outcomes.
What We're Looking For
We’re looking for someone who brings:
- Previous recruitment experience, ideally within technical, engineering, specialist or similarly hard-to-fill recruitment environments.
- Strong sourcing skills and the ability to identify candidates beyond traditional applicant pools.
- Experience managing multiple vacancies and recruitment priorities simultaneously.
- Confidence communicating with hiring managers, candidates and other stakeholders.
- A proactive personality – someone who is comfortable speaking up, asking questions and seeking clarification rather than working in isolation.
- Strong curiosity and a willingness to learn new industries, terminology and technical skill sets.
- The ability to take feedback, apply it quickly and continuously improve.
- Strong organisation and attention to detail.
- A consistent, delivery-focused approach with the ability to take ownership of recruitment requirements.
- The resilience and persistence needed to recruit for niche and challenging vacancies.
Automotive Experience
Previous Automotive recruitment experience would be an advantage, but is not essential.
We recognise that technical Automotive recruitment has a learning curve. The team will provide support to help you understand the sector, terminology and different technical profiles.
For us, having strong recruitment fundamentals and the right mindset is more important than knowing everything about Automotive recruitment from day one.
The Person We're Looking For
You’ll thrive in this team if you are someone who:
- Gets involved and isn't afraid to speak up.
- Asks questions when something isn't clear.
- Takes ownership rather than waiting for direction.
- Enjoys finding candidates for roles others may consider difficult to fill.
- Builds strong relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.
- Learns from feedback and applies that learning across future vacancies.
- Is consistent, dependable and focused on getting the job done.
- Enjoys working collaboratively while being capable of managing their own workload.
Why Join the Team?
You’ll be joining a collaborative and experienced recruitment team with significant knowledge of the Automotive sector.
You’ll have the opportunity to develop specialist recruitment expertise, work on challenging vacancies and build relationships across Recruitment, Sales, Project teams and key stakeholders.
For someone who enjoys the challenge of finding the right person for a difficult role, this is an opportunity to become a true specialist within Automotive recruitment.
