Job Title: Recruitment Adviser (FTC)
Job Location: Cheltenham, UK
Job Location Type: Hybrid
Job Contract Type: Contract
Job Seniority Level: Mid-Senior level
Location
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (hybrid working), Fixed Term Contract until September 2026.
We are looking for applicants who have a short notice period or are immediately available.
Role Overview
Join our team as a Recruitment Advisor and play a pivotal role in shaping an exceptional hiring experience across our organisation.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Oversee and maintain the Applicant Tracking System (Cornerstone), ensuring requisitions move smoothly through approval and all data remains accurate and up to date.
* Manage and update our Recruitment Master Document, tracking requisition progress and enabling reliable recruitment metrics to inform business decisions.
* Build strong, collaborative relationships with hiring managers to understand their needs and challenges, providing one‑to‑one coaching and training to promote best‑practice recruitment.
* Act as the first point of contact for recruitment queries, offering clear, robust advice and escalating to HR Business Partners where appropriate.
* Support hiring managers in effectively using the ATS to review and progress candidates.
* Ensure job descriptions and job adverts are inclusive, well‑written, and aligned with our Group values.
* Encourage hiring managers to prioritise direct and internal recruitment pathways, supporting our commitment to our Diversity Goals.
* Liaise with recruitment agencies when necessary, ensuring adherence to our Preferred Supplier List.
* Create and maintain user‑friendly toolkits, templates, and guidance materials that enable consistent and effective recruitment practices.
* Partner closely with HR Business Partners and hiring managers to align recruitment activity with broader people strategies.
* Safeguard a positive, professional candidate experience from application through to onboarding.
* Act as an escalation point for pre‑boarding queries, ensuring a smooth transition for new starters.
Your Experience
* Experience in in‑house recruitment, either in a dedicated recruitment role or as part of a wider HR position.
* Experience using Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and other recruitment technologies.
* Strong understanding of confidentiality, data protection principles, and handling sensitive information.
* Experience writing inclusive job adverts and promoting equitable hiring practices.
* A proven ability to coach, advise, and support managers on recruitment best practice, candidate experience, and ATS use.
* A commitment to championing inclusivity at every stage of the recruitment process.
Your Skills
* Alignment with our Company Core Values in everything you do.
* Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and coach stakeholders at all levels.
* A proactive, solution‑focused mindset and passion for continuous improvement.
* Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
* Excellent analytical and problem‑solving abilities.
* A well‑organised, structured approach to managing tasks and priorities.
* A clear understanding of how recruitment impacts the wider business.
About Our Company
The Steam Thermal Solutions business is one of three businesses within Spirax Group. Spirax Sarco and Gestra, are our two brands that form Steam Thermal Solutions and are global leaders in the supply of engineered solutions for the design, provision and maintenance of efficient industrial and commercial steam systems. Steam Thermal Solutions has global coverage across 67 operating units (called OpCos), organised into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, Gestra.
Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi‑national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.
Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!
Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.
Benefits
You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts’ portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below.
Everyone is Included at Spirax Group
We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.
We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.
We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender‑neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause‑friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at https://www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments.
We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.
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