Talent Acquisition Partner

Are you a proactive, enthusiastic and adaptable recruitment professional with strong experience in engineering or utilities recruitment? UK Power Networks is looking for a Talent Acquisition Partner to join our HR team in London, Elephant and Castle, on a fixed-term contract. Reporting to the Talent Acquisition Manager, you will play a key role in delivering end-to-end recruitment activity for engineering vacancies, helping to raise standards, improve performance and deliver a high-quality service to hiring managers and candidates.

This role offers the opportunity to work within a customer-focused HR function where accuracy, collaboration and service excellence are central to success. You will provide a full shared service recruitment activity, delivering all associated end-to-end recruitment for vacancies specifically within the engineering sector. The successful candidate will use their talent acquisition experience to quickly understand customer needs and provide proactive, accurate and practical recruitment solutions. You will also contribute to the success of the function by supporting change, maintaining a professional, efficient, courteous and confidential approach, and striving to achieve high levels of customer satisfaction.

In this role, you will work with hiring managers to understand the requirements for each open position and contribute to developing new strategies to reach individuals with the right qualifications and experience. You will use recruiting and sourcing tools, including job boards, social media, databases, search engines and networking, to build an ongoing candidate pipeline for both current and future job requisitions. You will build a network of top talent, gain market intelligence and assess candidates to gauge talent alignment for engineering roles across our footprint. You will also attend industry-related events, including tradeshows and networking events, and support Recruitment Coordinators where required in the scheduling and management of on-site and off-site interviews, including booking conference rooms and managing candidate expenses.

We are looking for someone with recruitment experience gained either in-house or within an agency environment, alongside good knowledge and experience of the engineering or utility market. You will be collaborative, customer focused and confident communicating in writing, by telephone, by email and face to face. You will ensure all completed activities follow best practice and legislative requirements, manage relationships with the wider HR team and several Business Managers, respond to requests for information or support within an appropriate timescale, and support projects relating to new activities within the resourcing team. HR knowledge and experience would be advantageous.

You will attract a salary depending on experience and a 7.5% bonus.

If you are a methodical, accurate and customer-focused recruitment professional who enjoys building strong relationships and sourcing talent within engineering or utilities, we would like to hear from you.

Applications close on 12/07/2026