Recruitment Apprentice
Rubix M&E
SUFFOLK (IP6 0AJ)
Closes in 18 days (Saturday 28 November 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 10 November 2026
Contents
Summary
A leading mechanical and electrical recruitment agency in Ipswich is looking for a recruiter apprentice to join their growing company. The job involves supporting a team of experienced recruitment consultants with all aspects of finding and placing workers, via job posting, CV searching and social media advertising.
- Wage
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£18,000 a year
- Training course
- Recruiter (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 08:30 - 17:30, with one late night until 7pm.
This is a fully office-based role with no working from home.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 December 2026
- Duration
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1 year 2 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
The Role
This is not a back-room delivery seat. You will fill live roles, and you will speak to the clients behind them.
You start on a warm desk. We have over 500 live vacancies, perm and contract, worth over £2m in GP, ready to work from day one. Your job is to fill them, and to build the client relationships that keep them coming.
What you will do
- Source, qualify and place engineers and installers across our live vacancies
- Take briefs directly from hiring managers, not second-hand
- Speak to clients every week with updates, feedback and shortlists
- Build a contract book and make permanent placements
- Spot new roles, new sites and new contacts within the accounts you work on
- Own the process end to end, from the first call to the first day on site
- Support the end-to-end recruitment process, from sourcing candidates to managing placements
- Screen CVs and conduct initial telephone interviews with potential candidates
- Learn company procedures and policies, including using our recruitment software
- Develop a deep understanding of the industry and the roles you recruit for
- Taking detailed job specifications
Where you'll work
7B HILLVIEW BUSINESS PARK
CLAYDON
SUFFOLK
IP6 0AJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
RM TRAINING (UK) LIMITED
Training course
Recruiter (level 3)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
What you'll learn
Course contents
- Identify, progress, and convert leads into new candidates, placements, or clients.
- Source vacancies in line with stakeholder requirements and organisational policies and procedures.
- Manage and maintain stakeholder relationships and their role within the recruitment process.
- Interpret and apply regulation and legislation, share best practice, and advise stakeholders on their application.
- Plan and manage recruitment campaigns to attract candidates, including agreeing objectives with stakeholders and monitoring performance.
- Research, identify and attract candidates using methods to satisfy job requirements, including those with transferrable skills to move from the legacy carbon economy to green economy jobs.
- Process, review, and progress candidate applications.
- Create and present diverse short lists of candidates to stakeholders.
- Inform and advise candidates on the outcome of their application at the individual stages of the recruitment process, including those that have been unsuccessful.
- Manage the recruitment and selection process for candidates, including those who require reasonable adjustments.
- Communicate information through different media, for example face-to-face or online meetings, emails, reports, and presentations.
- Engage with stakeholders to review recruitment processes and identify opportunities for continuous improvement and improving own performance.
- Review services provided and implemented improvements based on stakeholder feedback.
- Place candidates into roles that match their skills and stakeholder requirements.
- Use technology and software tools to manage information, ensuring compliance with organisation and legislation requirements.
- Challenge poor practice and non-compliance with the recruitment process and escalate where appropriate.
- Identify future changes in the sector that may impact the organisation, for example technology advances.
- Interpret policies to support and promote the delivery of equity, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace, and monitor their impact on recruitment activities.
- Identify and apply sustainable and greener methods of working, for example reducing energy and paper consumption, managing diaries to reduce carbon emissions (hold virtual meetings or attend multiple external meetings on the same day), considering greener options when booking venues for assessment centres or planning recruitment campaigns.
- Identify and maximise opportunities to support the organisation’s business strategy, for example growing client or candidate pipelines.
- Manage resources within budget requirements.
- Respond to stakeholder complaints and escalate where appropriate.
- Identify, progress, and convert leads into new candidates, placements, or clients.
- Source vacancies in line with stakeholder requirements and organisational policies and procedures.
- Manage and maintain stakeholder relationships and their role within the recruitment process.
- Interpret and apply regulation and legislation, share best practice, and advise stakeholders on their application.
- Plan and manage recruitment campaigns to attract candidates, including agreeing objectives with stakeholders and monitoring performance.
- Research, identify and attract candidates using methods to satisfy job requirements, including those with transferrable skills to move from the legacy carbon economy to green economy jobs.
- Process, review, and progress candidate applications.
- Create and present diverse short lists of candidates to stakeholders.
- Inform and advise candidates on the outcome of their application at the individual stages of the recruitment process, including those that have been unsuccessful.
- Manage the recruitment and selection process for candidates, including those who require reasonable adjustments.
- Communicate information through different media, for example face-to-face or online meetings, emails, reports, and presentations.
- Engage with stakeholders to review recruitment processes and identify opportunities for continuous improvement and improving own performance.
- Review services provided and implemented improvements based on stakeholder feedback.
- Place candidates into roles that match their skills and stakeholder requirements.
- Use technology and software tools to manage information, ensuring compliance with organisation and legislation requirements.
- Challenge poor practice and non-compliance with the recruitment process and escalate where appropriate.
- Identify future changes in the sector that may impact the organisation, for example technology advances.
- Interpret policies to support and promote the delivery of equity, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace, and monitor their impact on recruitment activities.
- Identify and apply sustainable and greener methods of working, for example reducing energy and paper consumption, managing diaries to reduce carbon emissions (hold virtual meetings or attend multiple external meetings on the same day), considering greener options when booking venues for assessment centres or planning recruitment campaigns.
- Identify and maximise opportunities to support the organisation’s business strategy, for example growing client or candidate pipelines.
- Manage resources within budget requirements.
- Respond to stakeholder complaints and escalate where appropriate.
Training schedule
- Recruiter Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard
- 14 months office-based training at the employer's location
- Functional skills maths and English (if required)
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Customer care skills
- Team working
- UK driving licence
- Confidence on the phone
- Hunger to earn
- Work ethic
- Ambition
Other requirements
Own transport is essential due to the location of their offices.
About this employer
Rubix M&E is a specialist mechanical and electrical recruitment agency. We supply engineers and installers nationwide across gas, heating, plumbing, electrical, renewables and smart metering.
Our customers span social and private housing, energy suppliers, commercial FM and construction. We are a close team of 20+, built from the ground up over 11 years.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Possibility of a full-time position after successful completion of the apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
RM TRAINING (UK) LIMITED
Katie Barton
katie@rmtraining.co.uk
01702 782001
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000063455.
Apply now
Closes in 18 days (Saturday 28 November 2026 at 11:59pm)