Recruitment Leader

Job description / Role

Position Description

KBR Sustainable Technology Solutions provides holistic and value-added solutions across the entire asset life cycle. These include world-class licensed process technologies, differentiated advisory services, deep technical domain expertise, energy transition solutions, high-end design capabilities, and smart solutions to optimize planned and operating assets.

We are looking for a talented Recruitment Leader to work on permanent staff roles across a variety of functions and locations within KBR Saudi Arabia.

You will require knowledge of energy, engineering, infrastructure, and contracting industries and have a good network of contacts in the local market. Our ideal candidate will have in-house experience of hiring permanent staff, gained within a fast-paced and complex organization.

Ultimately, the responsibilities of the Recruitment Leader are to ensure our company attracts, hires, and retains the best employees while growing a strong talent pipeline and advising and building a close relationship with your business partners. You will manage recruitment activities across multiple sites and projects across KSA.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead the recruitment team in achieving operational delivery targets
• Deliver weekly management information reporting and other ad-hoc reporting requests
• Attend and contribute to project and wider business resource meetings
• Act as business partner to your departments, understanding their recruitment needs and guiding them on the best course of action
• Drive and manage the end-to-end recruitment process, from needs assessment, recommendation of attraction and sourcing strategies, direct sourcing, application screening, interviews, and offer/resignation management
• Collaborate with the Communications & Marketing team to ensure we are using innovative and effective candidate attraction methods
• Direct sourcing and talent pooling to actively build talent pipelines for critical and niche skill sets
• Promote KBR as an employer of choice
• Build and maintain excellent working relationships with preferred suppliers, and the wider recruitment and HR team
• Be an advocate for recruitment processes and encourage compliance whilst demonstrating knowledge of Employment Law
• Provide regular updates to stakeholders on recruitment progress with key data and metrics to support evidence-based decision making
• Comply with KBR's Code of Business Conduct
• Participate in broader recruitment and HR initiatives

Skills / Experience:

• Successful track record recruiting for the energy, oil and gas, engineering, construction, and infrastructure sectors is highly desirable
• Demonstrable experience of leading a recruitment team
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and management skills
• Adept at building trusted relationships with all levels within the business
• Attention to detail and comfortable doing hands-on operational recruitment at pace
• Proficient in Microsoft Office including Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Prior experience using ATS systems e.g. Workday
• Self-starter able to utilize own initiative
• Numerical with the ability to extract, interpret, and present relevant data
• A team player with a supportive approach
• Creative thinker willing to contribute ideas

Beneficial Experience:

• Tangible evidence of adoption of innovative recruitment tools

Qualifications:

• Degree in HR or Business or equivalent
• 10+ years of experience in recruitment with 5+ in KSA market

About the Company

We deliver science, technology and engineering solutions to governments and companies around the world. KBR employs approximately 28,000 people performing diverse, complex and mission critical roles in 34 countries.

KBR is proud to work with its customers across the globe to provide technology, value-added services, and long-term operations and maintenance services to ensure consistent delivery with predictable results. At KBR, We Deliver.