Talent Acquisition Partner - Fixed Term/Temp

Talent Acquisition Partner (Fixed Term / Temporary)

Location: Site Based - Staverton/Bishops Cleeve, Gloucestershire

Ontic, a leading licensor and manufacturer of complex engineering parts for the global aerospace and defence industries, are now recruiting for a Talent Acquisition Partner to join our Global Talent Acquisition team where you'll support us in delivering high-quality, strategic hiring outcomes across the business. This role is offered on a temporary basis initially, with the potential to become permanent for the right candidate.

Ontic is more than just a business, we're a community of innovators who pride ourselves on fostering a culture where talent thrives, ideas flourish, and careers are built. We're committed to excellence, driving us to continuously improve and adapt, ensuring that we remain at the forefront of our industry.

The Role:

As a Talent Acquisition Partner, you’ll take ownership of end-to-end recruitment activities, partnering closely with hiring managers and people teams to deliver consistent, equitable and effective hiring outcomes. You’ll play a key role in shaping recruitment strategies, supporting workforce planning, and ensuring a high-quality candidate experience across all touchpoints.

You’ll lead intake discussions to define role requirements and sourcing approaches, create compelling job adverts, and proactively build talent pipelines using a variety of channels. Alongside this, you’ll manage the full recruitment lifecycle, from screening and assessment through to offer management, ensuring clear communication and alignment with stakeholders throughout.

This role also involves providing regular insight on hiring progress, identifying potential challenges, and contributing to continuous improvement of recruitment practices. You’ll also support employer branding initiatives and collaborate with People teams to ensure a smooth transition from offer through to onboarding.

About you:

At Ontic, our culture is integral to making sure we enjoy our work and deliver for our customers. While we look for the right skillset, we're also looking for someone who will thrive within our recognition and empowerment culture.

To be successful in this role, you’ll bring proven experience across the full recruitment lifecycle, ideally within an in-house environment. You’ll be confident partnering with stakeholders, influencing hiring decisions, and managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced setting.

You’ll have strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and a proactive approach to sourcing and engaging talent. Experience using applicant tracking systems such as Workday, along with sourcing tools like LinkedIn Recruiter, would be beneficial.

Experience working with external recruitment partners and managing agency relationships would also be advantageous.

Experience recruiting for Engineering roles within aerospace or manufacturing environments would be highly beneficial.

Best place to work

We are more than the sum of our parts. And we’ve been recognised internally and externally for being so:

• We were ranked #9 in Best Companies’ Q3 leaderboard for Best Manufacturing Company based on our employee feedback
• 72.5% of employees who took part in our 2023 employee satisfaction survey said they are proud to work at Ontic

No day is the same at Ontic; we have doubled in size over the last couple of years and are still in rapid growth. We attribute our success to empowering colleagues to create the opportunity, fostering an environment of autonomy where we ask for forgiveness, not permission.

Our values

Our values are intrinsic to everything we do:

• We share a common sense - we’re a global family of specialists with a shared passion for precision.
• We have the freedom to choose - we’re challengers and innovators with the freedom to think differently and challenge the status quo.
• We create the opportunity - we’re change-makers with a clear direction and can-do spirit.

We are a fast-paced business with ambitious growth plans; so if you are dedicated, enthusiastic and always seeking ways to improve, you'll enjoy a career with us!