Senior Technical Recruiter

Technical Recruiter

Location: Remote (UK)

Compensation: £45K – £60K

About us

Scientific Safety Alliance, or SSA, exists to Accelerate Science. Delightfully. SSA is growing at an exceptional rate and is rapidly rising Inc Magazines 2024 and 2025 list of fastest growing privately held companies. How fast? In a little over 2.5 years, we have acquired 19 companies, and our growth is only accelerating.

Who do we serve? We serve the life sciences world, including pharmaceutical, biotech, hospital, and research facilities that rely on us to keep their controlled environments compliant and ready for discovery. Our mission is simple: remove the friction so our customers can focus on innovation.

What makes SSA special? SSA is a 100% founder and employee-owned company. Every team member has a stake in the outcome, and everyone’s performance directly impacts the value of their ownership. We have grown from a handful of regional teams into one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States through a network of specialised local service companies. Our people are highly motivated problem solvers who take pride in precision, responsiveness, and integrity. We do more than maintain equipment; we help enable the discoveries that shape modern medicine and science. Our goal every day is to build the best company in the world, one founded on sweat equity, collaboration, and shared success.

The Opportunity: Technical Recruiter

We are hiring a Technical Recruiter to own end-to-end, full-cycle recruiting for the technical talent that powers our branches. You will be the connective tissue between our national hiring needs and the field — partnering directly with hiring managers at our branches to understand what great looks like, then sourcing, engaging, and closing the Field Service Technicians, Field Service Managers, and engineering professionals who become our Scientific Safety Professionals.

This is a builder’s role for someone who loves the hunt — and holds a high bar. A large share of the best candidates in our niche are passive, employed, and not browsing job boards, so your mission is to find, engage, and win the A-Player talent that keeps SSA the best in the industry. If you want ownership, autonomy, and a direct hand in scaling a mission-driven company, read on.

How You Will Make an Impact

• Own full-cycle recruiting end to end. Run the complete hiring lifecycle — intake, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer, and close — taking personal accountability for filling every requisition with an A-Player.
• Hunt for A-Player talent. Proactively identify, engage, and attract the top 10% of technical talent in the market — the high performers who won’t apply on their own — and make SSA the destination for the best Field Service Technicians, Field Service Managers, and engineers in the industry.
• Partner with hiring managers at the branches. Collaborate with branch, regional, and division leaders across the UK to define role profiles, calibrate on must-haves, shape interview loops, and guide them to confident, timely hiring decisions.
• Source and engage passive technical talent. Use LinkedIn Recruiter, advanced Boolean and X-ray search, referrals, and competitor and acquired-company talent mapping to reach the technicians and engineers who are not actively looking.
• Build pipelines ahead of demand. Develop and nurture talent pipelines for hard-to-fill field and engineering roles, and map talent in new geographies to support our build-through-acquisition growth and market expansion.
• Tap the industry’s communities. Cultivate networks and sources within professional bodies such as ISPE UK, the Scottish Society for Contamination Control (S2C2), and the Institute of Measurement and Control, at industry events, and across the skilled-trades and field-service ecosystem.
• Guard the culture. Screen for both capability and values — Autonomy, Embracing change, Integrity, Openness, and Urgency — advancing only candidates who will thrive as owners in an empowered, decentralised environment.
• Deliver a delightful candidate experience. Give every candidate a fast, transparent, and respectful process that reflects our brand, whether or not they receive an offer.
• Support acquisition integration hiring. Partner with newly acquired branches to assess talent needs and hire quickly as they join the alliance.

Deliverables & Outcomes

• Time-to-fill targets met by level: entry-level roles filled within 30 days, mid-level within 45 days, and senior or managerial roles within 60 days from intake to accepted offer.
• 90%+ offer-acceptance rate on offers extended.
• 95%+ new-hire retention through the 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins.
• A healthy, active pipeline of at least three qualified, vetted candidates for every open branch requisition.
• 90%+ hiring-manager satisfaction on the quality of candidates delivered — every placement a values-aligned A-Player who ramps successfully in the role.

What We’re Looking For

• Full-cycle recruiting experience. 2–5 years owning end-to-end recruiting, with a strong track record hiring technical, field-service, skilled-trades, or engineering talent.
• Sourcing mastery. Demonstrated skill in proactive and passive candidate sourcing — advanced Boolean and X-ray search, LinkedIn Recruiter, and creative outreach that gets replies from busy, employed professionals.
• An eye for A-Players. Able to distinguish top-10% performers from the rest of the market and sell them on a mission-driven, high-performance, employee-owned culture.
• Hiring-manager partnership. Proven ability to build trust with and advise hiring managers, ideally across multiple sites or a distributed, field-based workforce.
• Industry familiarity (a strong plus). Exposure to field service, calibration/metrology, controlled environments, life sciences, medical device, industrial services, or a comparable technical domain.
• ATS fluency. Comfortable working in an applicant tracking system and using data to manage a pipeline and communicate progress.
• Ownership mindset. Self-directed, entrepreneurial, and energised by a fast-changing, high-growth environment — you take initiative and own your results.
• Values fit. You embody Autonomy, Embracing change, Integrity, Openness, and Urgency.

Benefits

• Equity ownership in SSA
• Workplace pension with employer contribution
• Generous holiday allowance plus UK bank holidays
• Parental leave