Resourcing Advisor

Resourcing Advisor - The Civil Works Alliance

Location: Orwell Logistics Park, Ipswich (Hybrid: 2 days per week from home)

Type: Full-time, Permanent

Help deliver one of the UK's most complex and ambitious infrastructure programmes!

The Civil Works Alliance (CWA) — a partnership between Laing O'Rourke, Bouygues and Balfour Beatty — is delivering the full civils scope of Sizewell C, one of the UK's largest and most high-profile nuclear projects. As we scale up for Main Civils Works, we are expanding our internal recruitment team with this newly created role.

As a Resourcing Advisor, you'll support high-quality recruitment across a range of white-collar disciplines, including commercial, procurement, digital, delivery and civil engineering. You'll thrive in a growing, evolving environment where you can help shape processes and contribute to a professional, forward-thinking recruitment function.

Key Responsibilities

• Source high-quality candidates through direct recruitment channels, using advanced search techniques and proactive engagement.
• Manage high-volume, multi-disciplinary vacancies across the Main Civils Works portfolio.
• Influence and guide hiring managers, providing best practice and market insight.
• Build and maintain talent pipelines for key project roles.
• Create and publish compelling, inclusive job advertisements.
• Act as a brand ambassador, ensuring a professional and consistent candidate experience.
• Support improvements to recruitment systems and digital tools.
• Champion continuous improvement across processes and the EVP.
• Contribute to our diversity and inclusion agenda.

About You

• Proven permanent recruitment experience, ideally within construction, engineering, technical or energy sectors.
• Experience managing a fast-moving, high-volume vacancy portfolio (agency or RPO experience beneficial).
• Strong direct sourcing skills, able to find and engage talent in competitive markets.
• Confident building trusted stakeholder relationships and influencing hiring decisions.
• Highly organised and proactive, able to anticipate challenges and keep delivery on track.
• Comfortable in a start-up style environment where processes are evolving.
• Collaborative, improvement-focused and solutions-driven.
• Professional, resilient and able to represent the Civil Works Alliance with credibility.

Why SZC?

This is your chance to contribute to one of the UK's most ambitious infrastructure projects, shaping the future of energy while working in a supportive, dynamic environment. Be part of a team that values innovation, safety, and sustainability at every stage of the journey—from investment to construction and beyond.

About Us
Laing O'Rourke are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.

Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme and let us know if you require any adjustments for the interview process.

We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com