Talent Specialist

Elgin Values

Core behavioural responsibilities for all employees
 

Agility	We Lead with Agility
Integrity	We Act with Integrity
Excellence	We Empower Excellence
Care	We Value Care

 
Integration of our three core values into our employment processes and frameworks allows Elgin to recognise and respect individual employees for their personal contributions to their roles, their colleagues, stakeholders, and ultimately to the renewable energy sector. We see sustainability as every employee’s responsibility and weaving sustainable practices into our values is paramount to the culture we seek to create.

Job Description

The Role:
The Talent Specialist will be responsible for identifying, attracting, and hiring top Talent. The Talent Specialist will work closely with hiring managers and other stakeholders to understand the hiring needs, develop sourcing strategies, and manage the full Talent lifecycle. Job Responsibilities 

• Support recruiting activities and portions of Talent Acquisition projects, processes, and programs to fulfill business needs and organisational priorities.
• Understand the candidate's journey and the moments that matter to ensure best in class experiences.
• Ensure all Talent Acquisition protocols are effectively administered in a transparent way.
• Coordinate and administer end to end processes of acquisition including diary management and communications with candidate/manager/agency and business.
• Utilise Behavioural Interview Guides to ensure consistent questioning and assessment.
• Explore all routes to attraction/identification of appropriate Talent for roles.
• Collaborate with the People & Culture team and hiring managers to conduct moderately complex offer negotiations and finalize the hiring process.
• Champion the brand through effective advertising aligned to the Purpose & Values and collaborate with Hiring Managers to ensure consistency in our approaches.
• Demonstrate our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion through the full acquisition process, attraction, application, screening, interview, selection, contract terms & onboarding.

Your profile

What you will need

• 4 years technical recruiting experience in an in-house or RPO/MSP environment, preferably in the engineering or construction field.
• Must have strong experience sourcing, screening, and recruiting. 
• Technical understanding and willingness to learn are more important.
• Relationship builder and advocate for candidate experience.
• Must have strong organisational skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

About us

Elgin Energy is a full-service, utility scale, solar+storage platform bringing projects from origination through to energisation. Elgin is active across the project lifecycle from project origination through to construction management and operational asset management. The company has over 12GW of solar and storage projects across our three key markets of the UK, Australia, and Ireland.

As of 2022, Elgin Energy agreed to sell the UK’s largest solar PV transaction to date consisting of a portfolio of 12 projects with a combined capacity of 519MW of projects including 70MW of collocated energy storage capacity to Scottish Power Renewables (UK) Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of global utility Iberdrola Group.

In 2021, Elgin Energy secured financing with Berenberg Green Energy Fund for the development of solar PV projects totalling 1.36GW in the UK and Ireland and also raised £25 million via Focus Capital Partners to fund its growth strategy across its core markets. In 2020, the company partnered, in separate transactions, with both Foresight Group and Metka-EGN in relation to two portfolios to deliver a total of 276MW of UK solar development projects and was successful with two Irish solar projects in Ireland’s first solar auction, RESS-1 – Renewable Energy Support Scheme (RESS). In addition to the above, Elgin Energy delivered 21 solar projects, totalling 230MW, before the UK Government’s Renewables Obligation (ROCs) scheme ended in 2017.

Elgin Energy works with long-term strategic partners to deliver projects to the energization and provides asset management services through their operational life. The company has expanded internationally over the last 14 years with a professional team of engineers, accountants, and lawyers located in its London, Dublin, and Sydney offices. Elgin has a 98% success rate through planning across all its markets.

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