Recruitment Team Leader- Fixed Term Maternity Cover (Hybrid)

Job Description Recruitment Team Leader (Fixed- Term Maternity Cover) with Stork:

Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
Reporting To: HR Director

At Stork, we believe our people are key to achieving our ambition to be the industry reference—every day, everywhere. To support our mission in attracting top talent, we’re excited to welcome a Recruitment Team Leader to our dynamic Aberdeen team on a fixed-term basis until January 2026. This opportunity has arisen to cover a period of maternity leave.

What You’ll Do:

As our Recruitment Team Leader, you will play a pivotal role in driving talent acquisition within your designated business lines. Working closely with line managers, you will be responsible for delivering top-tier recruitment strategies that align with our organisational goals and policies. In this role, you’ll lead and support a small team consisting of a Recruiter and a Recruitment Administrator. You will be hands on with delivering excellent recruitment support.

Tasks and Responsibilities as Recruitment Team Leader:

Shaping Policy:

• Implement and refine recruitment and selection policies, continuously improving processes and tools.

Business Planning & Reporting:

• Budget Management – Ensure the effective execution and allocation of the recruitment budget, following approval from the HR Business Line Director.
• Weekly Recruitment Reporting – Generate and share weekly reports detailing recruitment progress and updates, providing valuable insights to HR Managers and key stakeholders, including local MT members and hiring managers.

People Management:

• Provides direction and leadership to Recruiters to ensure operational efficiency of their respective areas of control to ensure best levels of service and delivery.
• Manages the recruitment team’s time and progress, and constantly focuses on delivering maximum added value.
• Ensures and implements adequate resources and structure to fill positions effectively and efficiently.
• Ensures effective collaboration and cooperation within Recruitment team in order to achieve commitment and effective implementation of recruiting practices.
• Ensure that technical knowledge is retained and developed in HR Recruitment team

Recruitment Excellence:

• Collaborate with operational leaders to anticipate future talent needs.
• Design and execute recruitment programs to attract top talent.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to ensure job profiles align with team requirements.
• Proactively source candidates through diverse channels and carry out initial screenings.
• Facilitate a smooth candidate handover to management and HR, maintaining clear and constant communication.
• Staying informed about industry trends and attend relevant events, including Careers Fairs

Selection & Assessment:

• Conduct in-depth CV and application reviews.
• Coordinate assessment tests, including IQ and personality evaluations (leveraging external testing agencies when needed).
• Lead interviews and advise managers on the suitability of candidates.
• Optimise the selection process for efficiency and effectiveness.

Building Relationships:

• Develop and nurture strategic partnerships with recruitment sources, including universities, training institutes, and professional bodies.
• Maintain strong relationships with local service providers, agencies, and external recruitment partners

Administrative Leadership:

• Oversee recruitment administration, ensuring accurate record-keeping and compliance.
• Provide essential administrative support to HR, managing candidate documentation and correspondence efficiently.
• On-boarding suppliers and reviewing terms  

JOB REQUIREMENTS

What You’ll Bring:

We are looking for someone with solid recruitment experience, ideally within a fast-paced environment. Experience in the oil, gas, or chemical sectors would be an advantage.

You should possess proven skills in interviewing and candidate selection. Experience with posting and marketing job advertisements via approved social media platforms or other nominated job boards, including in-depth knowledge of LinkedIn Recruiter. Experience utilising innovative sourcing strategies, from passive search to active networking in order to build and maintain talent pipelines.

We understand that our people are key to achieving Storks ambition to be the Industry reference every day, everywhere and we are proud to have been awarded the Investors in People Gold standard in recognition of our strong employee engagement focus.

WORKING CONDITIONS –

At Stork, we offer an exceptional work environment that values our employees. Here are just a few reasons why you’ll love working with us:

Competitive Benefits

We are committed to attracting and retaining skilled, customer-focused professionals by offering a comprehensive benefits package. This includes a variety of contractual and voluntary benefits, along with access to exclusive corporate discounts. Depending on your role and location, your benefits may include:

• Life Assurance
• Income Protection
• Private Medical Insurance

Flexibility and Work-Life Balance
 

We understand the importance of flexibility in today’s working world. That’s why we provide a Flexi Friday arrangement, allowing you to manage your work hours effectively.

Location and Hours

Location: Dyce, Aberdeen
Hours: 37.5 hours
Contract:  Fixed-Term contract until January 2026

Working Arrangements: hybrid working is available, 3 days a week working in the office is the minimum requirement

COMPANY INFORMATION 

Stork, a Fluor company, is an expert provider of maintenance, modification and asset integrity services to the global oil and gas, chemicals and process, metals and mining, power, and manufacturing industries. We are dedicated to improving asset performance, safety and cost efficiency for our Clients throughout the complete asset life cycle. 

With a team of 19,000 employees in over 100 countries, we serve more than 4,000 Clients across 6 continents. 

Stork is dedicated to reducing risk, assuring safety and reducing environment impact through our award-winning value driven HSEQ platform; Safer together Whilst safety will always remain our core value, the platform not only communicates on Safety but also on Health, Environmental and Quality issues too.  We are committed to our transparent, employee-led approach to HSEQ.

One Team, One Stork

As one Stork, we treat all people with dignity, respect each other’s perspective and share knowledge and resources to achieve excellence, deliver value and grow individually and collectively. 

We are fully committed to the elimination of unlawful and unfair discrimination and value the difference that a diverse workforce brings to the organisation. Stork recognises that providing equality of opportunity, valuing diversity and promoting a culture of inclusion and flexibility to our employees is vital to our success.

From school leavers and university graduates to transitioning military veterans, we provide career opportunities with targeted development programmes. 

Going above and beyond for our wider community

Stork is dedicated to ensuring we are a socially and environmentally responsible employer and undertake a range of activities to give back and support the communities in which we live and work – from various charity work to working with schools as part of Developing Young Workforce.

CONTACT - 

Are you the person we're looking for? We're looking forward to receiving your CV and motivation letter. For more information please contact the Recruiter on Careers@stork.com.