Industry: Engineering

Locations: UK

Business background: VNS

Service description: Managed Service provider

Skill areas: Highly experienced in technical engineering recruitment, Bespoke Client Management & Candidate Attraction.

The Challenge

Recruit12 has been working with Veolia Nuclear Solutions since January 2021, supporting the business with the recruitment of both permanent and contract employees to fulfil a wide range of business-critical roles. The rapid growth of VNS since 2016 has led to a recruitment drive to find highly skilled candidates with the bespoke and complex skills needed to fill the wide range of niche technical vacancies the business requires. After struggling with finding the right calibre candidates, VNS approached Recruit 12 to take advantage of our experience of recruiting into such roles, and to utilise our customised recruiting platform that would allow them to reduce their time to hire. Within the first 3 months of working with VNS, Recruit 12 had succeeded in filling 11 out of 12 complex vacancies which led to a Master Vendor agreement with Recruit 12 as their sole recruiter.

The Solution

• Using our VNS customised recruitment portal to eliminate the need for first round interviews and reduce time to hire by 50%.
• Attend Tiger Team meetings with the VNS
Senior Management Team to address candidate
feedback, VNS employee resignations and future requisitions.
• Giving VNS options on the diverse range of technical skills that can fill their roles to reach a wider candidate pool.
• Addressing the benchmarking of salaries to ensure that VNS remains a competitive employer.
• VNS branded marketing campaigns across industry specific job boards, through local Universities and professional Social Media networks such as LinkedIn to drive engagement for NS; highlighting the recruitment campaign and the opportunities of working with a world leading company in nuclear facility clean-up and treatment of radioactive waste.
• A dedicated Recruit 12 Account Manager ‘on-site’ working exclusively for VNS on a daily basis.

The Results

• Reducing VNS time to hire by up to 50%.
• Better access to more high-quality candidates with niche skills fitting the requirements of VNS bespoke roles.
• Candidates achieving promotion within a short space of time after demonstrating their wide range of technical and soft skills.
• Focused recruitment drive delivering a small, select handful of elite candidates with the skills needed to fulfil VNS roles.
• Eliminated
lengthy
interviews through recruitment portal.

Industry: Manufacturing

Locations: UK, USA

Business Background: Thermal Management

Service Description: Preferred Recruitment Partner

Skill areas: Highly experienced in manufacturing recruitment solutions across a wide variety of roles. Bespoke Client Management. Candidate Attraction.

The Challenge

The vast expansion of Grayson Thermal Systems meant that finding highly skilled and experienced employees who could hit the ground running was essential.

After encountering challenges in finding the right calibre candidates within their desired time frames, Graysons met with Recruit 12, requiring help initially to fill a Business Management System Manager position. The success in filling this role and significantly reducing their time-to-hire prompted Graysons to expand their partnership with Recruit 12 to find qualified candidates across various departments including Quality, Design and Engineering.

The Solution

• Conducting rigorous candidate screening and profiling to ensure potential candidates had the right skills and values.
• Working collaboratively with HR and individual Hiring Managers to deliver an exacting recruitment service, bespoke to the needs of Graysons.
• Providing options on the diverse range of skills that can fill their roles to reach a wider candidate pool.
• Addressing the benchmarking of salaries to ensure that Grayson Thermal Systems remain competitive.
• Creating bespoke marketing campaigns

The Results

• Access to a wider pool of high calibre candidates that have been thoroughly screened.
• Attracting candidates with specific skills fitting the requirements of the organisation’s roles.
• Increasing the business’s head count to achieve an increased turnover and Net profit.
• Extensive candidate profiling to ensure employee retention.

Client Testimony

We have had 100% success and the candidates are just brilliant. We have been working with Recruit12 for a while now and have not been disappointed! For every role we have given to them, we have had 100% success and the candidates are just brilliant! They understand who we are as a business and exactly what we want. The partnership we have created has been great and this has meant that they get every role right, first time! I cannot recommend the team at Recruit12 enough and look forward to working with them moving forward.

– Head of HR.

Industry: EV & Battery Technology

Locations: UK

Business Background: Technology and Engineering Services Business

Service Description: SLA

Skill areas: Highly experienced in technical engineering recruitment. Bespoke Client Management. Candidate Attraction.

The Challenge

Fortescue WAE is renowned for being a technology and engineering services business, applying world-class technical innovation, engineering, testing, a n d manufacturing services to deliver energy efficient performance.

Fortescue has brave ambitions to deliver a zero-emissions mining fleet by 2030, by supplying innovative battery power systems and solutions; from battery modules to control systems, all of which are supporting decarbonisation in the off-highway sector.

Fortescue want the best engineers and the smartest brains to develop new, creative, and innovative technologies to change the world; always seeking new and better ways of doing things and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

Since forming a partnership with Fortescue, Recruit 12 has been tasked with finding experts in electrification and battery technology, aerodynamics and thermodynamics, performance, and specialist low-volume manufacturing across a wide range of sectors from automotive and motorsport, aerospace and defence, rail, off highway, and energy.

The Solution

• Recruit 12 had to adopt a streamlined, well-defined candidate screening and profiling process to source the highly skilled technical engineering staff Fortescue roles require.
• Working collaboratively with the Fortescue WAE hiring team to deliver an exacting recruitment service bespoke to the needs of Fortescue WAE.
• The resources to recruit across multiple sectors to fulfil Fortescue WAE’s profile of technical innovation, engineering, testing, a n d manufacturing services alongside innovative battery Power systems and solutions to support decarbonisation in the off-highway sector to deliver a zero-emissions mining fleet by 2030.
• Extensive marketing campaign to build a team of talented individuals across multiple disciplines.
• Addressing the benchmarking of salaries to ensure that Fortescue WAE remains a competitive employer

The Results

• Better access to more high-quality candidates with niche skills fitting the requirements of the organisation’s progressive roles.
• Increasing the business’s head count in order to achieve challenging 2030 climate targets.
• Extensive candidate screening and profiling to ensure employee retention.
• Focused recruitment marketing strategies that have increased the organisation’s engagement with highly skilled candidates

Client Testimony

R12 are approachable and put the candidate first. We have built an excellent relationship, and they have been instrumental help in fulfilling numerous automotive and off-highway positions, across technical departments and at wavering levels of seniority. Not forgetting candidate experience, actively listening, and making a real effort to understand the job description are stand out reasons I recommend Recruit12. You were a pleasure to work with. Organised, proactive and kind.

– Sophie Donnelly, Technical Administrator

Candidate Testimony

Scott wonderfully identified a fantastic new opportunity for me and was very supportive from first engagement until my starting date and onwards.

– Sophie Parker, Advanced Manufacturing Engineer @ Fortescue WAE

Industry: EV & Battery Technology

Locations: UK, Europe, USA

Business Background: Tier One Automotive

Service description: SLA

Skill areas: Highly experienced in technical engineering recruitment. Bespoke client management. Candidate attraction.

The Challenge

The rapid growth of Dana Corporation meant that finding highly skilled and experienced employees that could hit the ground running was essential. Dana had three recruitment companies on their existing PSL, who were failing to deliver the caliber or quantity of candidates Dana needed.

Dana needed to work with a knowledgeable recruitment company that had experience of filling a wide range of business-critical roles, in the UK, Europe and the US. With such a niche and fluid business model, the skills required from prospective employees needed to mold seamlessly across roles adding to the challenge of marrying technical skills with transferable soft skills.

Through their reputation of recruiting into Tier One Automotive Manufacturers, Recruit 12 was sought out by Dana Corporation to partner with them in their recruitment drive, and has been working collaboratively with them since January 2019.

Recruit 12 supports Dana Corporation with the recruitment of both permanent and contract employees to fulfil a wide range of business-critical roles from skilled technical engineers to Senior Leadership roles at the highest level.

The Solution

• Using our recruitment portal, customised to reflect the recruitment needs of Dana Corporation, we eliminated the need for hiring managers to carry out lengthy first round interviews which has resulted in a reduction in time to hire by 50%.
• Working collaboratively with hiring managers and the Senior Leadership team across several continents to deliver a precise and bespoke recruitment service that fits the organisation’s business model.
• The resources to recruit across multiple sectors including Off Highway, Aftermarket, Light Vehicle and Commercial Vehicle and from engineering roles through to commercial roles, middle management, and senior leadership team.
• Giving Dana Corporation options on the diverse range of technical skills that can fill their roles to reach a wider candidate pool and ensuring that transferable soft skills are present to match the fluidity of the business.
• Addressing the benchmarking of salaries to ensure that Dana Corporation remains a competitive employer.
• Gathering a pool of highly skilled, reliable niche contractors to fulfil urgent business-critical roles and bespoke one-off projects.

The Results

• Reducing Dana Corporation’s time to hire by up to 50%.
• Better access to more high-quality candidates with niche skills fitting the requirements of the organisation’s bespoke roles.
• Increasing the business’s head count in order to achieve an increased turnover and Nett profit.
• Focused recruitment marketing strategies that have increased Dana Corporation’s engagement with highly skilled candidates.
• Eliminated lengthy first stage interviews through a customised recruitment portal.

Client Testimony

Dana Corporation has worked exclusively with Recruit 12 for over 5 years, recruiting for a wide variety of roles from complex technical engineering positions to senior-level commercial directorships across the UK, Europe, and the US. Their experience and knowledge mean that they consistently deliver on time and to the highest standard, offering us a bespoke recruitment service that caters to our business needs.

– Karen Shears, European HR Manager.

Industry Sector: Advanced Technologies (Defence and Space)

Locations: Hastings / Blackwood

Business Background: Communication systems, Cybersecurity, Intelligence systems, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Electronic Warfare.

Service Description: Exclusivity to work on finding FPGA engineers

Skill areas: Highly experienced in niche technical engineering recruitment where a bespoke solution is required, tailored to the client’s needs. Exclusive access to working the roles in FPGA engineering

The Challenge

Advanced Technologies were struggling to find FPGA engineers in certain locations where despite being heavily populated areas of the UK, the niche skill set they required was scarce. Having not used a Recruiter for permanent staffing solutions for many years, Advanced Technologies needed a recruitment partner who understood their business and the specific skills they required, with ready access to a talent pool to help them fill their vacancies swiftly.

The Solution

• Recruit 12 were approached to help Advanced Technologies find them a suitable candidate for an FPGA Engineer vacancy to assist with their special projects.
• Any candidates needed to be SC Clearable due to the highly confidential nature of the projects.
• We worked closely with Advanced Technologies to formulate a recruitment strategy, provided feedback on market conditions and come up with a solution to find these engineers, whilst incorporating variables such as salary range, working styles and patterns into our strategy and search criteria.

The Results

• Throughout the project, we collated a document to track the progress of the role which included information on how many potential candidates were spoken to, how many didn’t meet requirements, and the feedback/reasons for rejection from all candidates.
• This helped us to recruit for the role at pace whilst keeping Advanced Technologies informed at all stages of the recruitment process.
• As this project progressed, we sourced 3 highly skilled Engineers at Engineer, Senior and principal level within a short time scale.

Industry: Nuclear

Locations: UK Wide

Business Background: Nuclear Industry/Technical Engineering

Service Description: Talent Advisor and Partner

Skills Areas: Highly experienced in technical engineering recruitment. Bespoke Client Management.

The Challenge

Many listed companies on the global stage have a remit of increasing gender diversity, particularly in engineering where, according to Engineering UK, women make up only 16.5% of all engineers. The completion of a gender pay gap reporting initiative by Veolia Nuclear Solutions (VNS) revealed an inadequate senior female representation, creating an urgent focus to rectify the inequality identified, and to reach a target of 50% female leaders. Recruit12 was engaged. Collaborating as talent advisor and partner, we recommended and deployed multiple initiatives.

The Solution

Publicising VNS’ diversity programme externally and attracting woman through a targeted engagement strategy to the passive female community, our successfully delivered diversity programme included:

• Inclusive language to promote a thriving and diverse work culture.
• Championing female internal mobility, providing application support and workshops to senior women already in the organisation.
• Generating referrals from female professionals – tracking diversity throughout a newly implemented referral programme monitoring submissions diversity.
• Evaluating pay parity between all members of teams for new hires.  Eliminating bias during attraction, selection and hiring through diversity training workshops to managers.
• One-to-one bespoke support sessions to aspiring female leaders.

The Results

Against a target of 50% we:

• Increased the percentage of females achieving interviews to 57%
• Drove female hiring to an average of 65%

Our recommendations focused on reaching a larger professional audience and internally, on female mobility and upskilling teams on inclusive recruiting, unconscious bias and reporting –ensuring diversity recruiting could be sustained in the future.

Client Testimonial

The Recruit 12 team worked with us not only to exceed our target, but supported us in cresting a plan to sustain our diversity hiring in the future

– Laura Youngman – HR Manager