Have you ever worked somewhere where the people around you genuinely inspire you?
Great people like working with other great people. And that's exactly the environment we're building at One Way Group.
A team of ambitious people, given autonomy and trusted to take ownership, working together to grow a small family-founded business into a £100m engineering services company.
We're now looking for a Talent Acquisition Manager to join us on that journey.
This is one of the most influential roles in the business.
Right now, our biggest constraint isn't winning work.
It's finding exceptional people to help us deliver it.
We already have opportunities to grow. We already have customers who trust us. We already have ambitious plans.
What we need are more exceptional people to help us achieve them.
Your mission is simple:
Ensure One Way Group always has access to the people required to achieve its growth ambitions.
If we get this role right, we grow faster.
If we get it wrong, growth slows.
Few roles have a more direct impact on the future success of the business.
The Role
Most businesses recruit reactively.
A vacancy appears. An advert is posted. Applications arrive. A hire is made.
We want to do things differently.
We're looking for someone who is obsessed with finding great people and building relationships long before a vacancy exists.
This is not a traditional recruitment role.
Yes, you'll manage active recruitment campaigns and hiring processes.
But more importantly, you'll build talent pipelines, develop industry relationships, identify future hires and help create the workforce capacity required to support ambitious long-term growth.
You'll work directly with the business owners and leadership team, helping solve what is arguably the single biggest challenge facing our growth ambitions: access to exceptional people.
What You'll Be Doing
Talent Acquisition
- Identifying and engaging high-quality passive candidates
- Building relationships with engineers, supervisors, project managers and future leaders
- Conducting proactive LinkedIn outreach and headhunting activities
- Developing talent pipelines for future hiring requirements
- Maintaining regular contact with high-potential candidates
Recruitment Management
- Managing live recruitment campaigns
- Screening applicants and coordinating interviews
- Supporting hiring managers throughout the recruitment process
- Delivering an exceptional candidate experience
- Continuously developing and testing candidate analysis stages
Workforce Development
- Building and maintaining a network of labour-only subcontractors
- Developing relationships with specialist engineering resources
- Tracking workforce availability and future hiring requirements
- Supporting workforce planning activities across the business
Talent Intelligence
- Monitoring competitor activity and local talent markets
- Understanding salary trends and workforce movements
- Identifying opportunities to strengthen our talent pipeline
- Becoming the business's expert on where great people can be found
About One Way
We're a specialist electrical engineering services company delivering design and installation projects, planned maintenance and reactive support across the UK.
We work directly with organisations that own and operate facilities across manufacturing, logistics, recycling and energy, keeping their electrical infrastructure safe, compliant and operational.
- £2.5m+ annual turnover and growing
- 40%+ gross margin
- Strong reputation for quality and reliability
- Significant expansion opportunity within our existing client base
And we're just getting started.
Our Culture
One Way isn't for everyone.
We move fast, set high standards and embrace progress, experimentation and radical transparency.
If you prefer slow-moving organisations where the goal is simply maintaining the status quo, this isn't the right fit.
Before applying, please read our Ten Guiding Principles:
www.onewaygroup.co.uk/about/principles
What We're Looking For
We're far more interested in how you work than where you've worked.
You may currently work in:
- Talent Acquisition
- Recruitment
- Executive Search
- Engineering Recruitment
- Construction Recruitment
- Technical Recruitment
What matters is that you genuinely enjoy finding great people and building relationships.
- Proactive and highly self-motivated
- Enjoys networking and starting conversations
- Confident speaking with people at all levels
- Commercially minded and relationship-driven
- Comfortable using LinkedIn and direct outreach
- Organised and capable of managing multiple recruitment processes simultaneously
- Driven by long-term success rather than short-term transactions
Based within reach of our Staffordshire office. We're an in-person team.
If you're motivated by finding exceptional people, building meaningful relationships and helping shape the future of an ambitious business, we'd love to hear from you.
Pay: £40,000.00-£55,000.00 per year
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: In person
