About you:
Join us. Unleash your energy within.

If you have world-class ambitions to reach the stars while keeping your feet on the ground, we’re the team for you. We've created a new breed of company – future-focused with reimagined ambition across all disciplines within the energy sector.

We love people who know their own potential and are not afraid to use it. We know that together, we’re far more than the sum of our parts. So, we celebrate people who want to grow and develop as we work together on some of the largest projects on the energy world stage.

We are committed to our diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. From day one, we offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and abilities.

We’re a disability-friendly employer and can make adjustments to support you to perform at your best during the recruitment process.

Our purpose and beliefs:
As Kent, we’re tackling the greatest challenge of our time - to bring our world the energy it needs in the most responsible way ever imagined.

It’s the energy of every member of our team driven by our beliefs that is making this happen. Whatever our skill, our language, or our culture. These beliefs define and direct us every day to be the very best - for ourselves, our clients, our key stakeholders, the communities we operate in and the planet:

We PLAY BIG
We thrive on EMOTIONAL AGILITY
We are FANATICAL ABOUT PERFORMANCE
We are built on INFINITE THINKING

Read more about the Purpose, Beliefs and Guiding Principles that drive us:

Our vision for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging:
We recognise that diversity & inclusion are catalysts for success. We’re heightening awareness on the benefits of people diversity, diversity of experiences and diversity of our perspectives. Creating a culture of inclusivity where all employees feel a sense of belonging.

Our combined energy is fueled by different nationalities, across 6 continents and 24 countries. Our commitment is to celebrate character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability.

About the job:

Kent is hiring a Temporary Recruitment Advisor for the UK Engineering and Consulting business on a 3-month PAYE basis contract. The Recruitment Advisor will be required to contribute to the Talent Acquisition strategy for employees and contingent workforce that enables our UK business to provide technical and professional resources to our customers in a highly responsive way. The role will report to the UK Recruitment Manager. This role is a hands-on position and will be responsible for sourcing, market mapping and increasing candidate across the UK business.

Your responsibilities:

• Identify, attract, pre-screen and shortlist candidates to meet the current and future recruitment needs for the Engineering and Consulting business.
• Manage a portfolio of requisitions, facilitating the full recruitment process.
• Actively look for opportunities that will maximise the diversity of new hires joining the UK.
• Identify new sourcing attraction methods that will expand our pool of potential candidates.
• Support the aims of the regional Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Strategy in respect of Talent Acquisition.
• Deploy best practice to hiring managers via interview and selection methods including, but not limited to, accountability for legal compliance, minimising risks and striving for achievement of diversity aspirations.
• Understand KPIs and contribute to the recruitment team’s performance metrics such as time to fill, source of hire and other recruitment related KPIs.
• Utilise and manage tools (job boards) as appropriate. Leverage what is already in place and introduce enhancements as appropriate.
• Maintain strong working relationships with recruitment agencies to create a partnership that yields success and credibility.
• Ensure recruitment best practice and are compliant with relevant legislation.

Your knowledge/skills, education, and experience:

• ​​​Experience in managing Engineering recruitment campaigns.
• ​Hands on experience with sourcing, recruiting, interviewing, evaluating, and hiring staff and contingent workers.
• ​Experienced in developing high level recruitment reports.
• ​A focused and dedicated approach to providing effective customer service.
• ​Ability to always maintain confidentiality with a strong understanding and adherence to GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations).
• ​Demonstrated cross-cultural competencies.
• ​The demonstrated ability to perform and prioritise multiple tasks in a fast paced, high-volume environment.
• ​Ability to be professional, calm, flexible, resilient, solution oriented, and creative.
• ​Strong understanding of all UK labour legislations (including IR35).
• ​Demonstrated sensitivity and discretion when handling confidential information.
• ​Demonstrated ability to be professional, calm, flexible, resilient, solution oriented, and creative.
• ​Proficiency in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams).​