Role: Internal Recruiter
Hours: 36.5
Days: Mon-Fri
Salary: Up to £35K p.a.
Passion is the difference between having a job and building a career. We’re looking for people who bring that passion, energy, and drive — and in return, we guarantee a career that challenges you, rewards you, and pushes you to grow.
Steel has shaped our nation’s history — now you can help shape its future. Join British Steel as an Internal Recruiter and play a key role in bringing exceptional talent into a business with deep heritage, strong values, and an exciting future.
As an Internal Recruiter, you’ll manage a high‑volume portfolio of vacancies across a range of technical, operational, and professional functions. You’ll partner closely with hiring managers, guiding them through every stage of the recruitment lifecycle while ensuring a seamless and positive candidate experience.
What you need to know about the role
As an internal recruiter, you will:
- Lead and deliver end-to-end recruitment campaigns for multiple business areas, taking full ownership of delivery. Including, but not limited to, scoping campaigns, advertisement, screening and sifting candidates, supporting with interviews on occasion, candidate communication, offer and onboarding.
- Build trusted relationships with site leaders, recruiting managers, and HR colleagues, as a recruitment subject‑matter expert.
- Advise managers on role design, skills availability, pay benchmarking, and attraction challenges specific to our market.
- Deliver a professional, transparent candidate experience that reflects the organisation’s safety, values, and employee‑first culture.
- Build and maintain strong talent pipelines through proactive sourcing and partnership development.
- Ensure best practice, compliance and consistency across all recruitment activity.
- Contribute to recruitment metrics (time to hire, campaign performance, source quality) and use insight to improve hiring outcomes.
- Support innovative attraction strategies and employer brand initiatives.
What we need to know about you
You’ll have:
- Proven experience managing high-volume recruitment within technical, operational and functional environments.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- A track record of delivering consistently high customer service for all stakeholders
- Excellent organisational and time management abilities
- Proficiency with ATS platforms and Excel for tracking and reporting (iTrent/MHR would be an advantage)
- The ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
You’ll have a visible passion and drive for identifying and securing high-quality candidates and you’ll be a pro-active, forward-thinking individual, with an ability to translate attraction and recruitment strategy into delivering the right person for the right role each time.
What we can offer you
We know our employees are our greatest asset and alongside the great benefits packages we offer, we continue to invest in their careers by providing a huge range of training and development opportunities.
Whatever your stage in life, you'll find a range of benefits to complement your work-life balance. The benefits you'll enjoy include:
- Defined contribution company pension scheme
- 27 personal annual leave days + statutory bank holidays
- Early Finish Fridays
- Life Assurance
- A comprehensive Company sick pay scheme
- Health Cash Plan via our partnership with Simply health
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Family friendly benefits including enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
What you need to know about us
British Steel is a leading European steel manufacturer, supplying premium long products around the world.
We take great pride in our history and heritage. Not many companies can claim to have generations of families dedicating their working lives to one company; one industry. Steel gets into your blood, and this drives the passion of our people to deliver.
British Steel has a bright future and we want you to be part of it.
British Steel is an armed forces friendly company, and we actively encourage applications from ex-Armed Forces Personnel, Reservists, Armed Forces Veterans and military spouses/partners.
For more information about us and our journey please visit – www.britishsteel.co.uk.
