Centurion: Recruitment Specialist – Telecommunications

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Recruitment Specialist to join our team in Centurion, Gauteng. As a key member of our recruitment function, you will be responsible for managing the full recruitment lifecycle and sourcing niche candidates across telecommunications technical roles.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-End Recruitment: Manage the full recruitment lifecycle from role briefing through to offer stage.
• Advertise roles, screen candidates, coordinate interviews and manage offers.
• Ensure time-to-fill and quality-of-hire targets are met.
• Telecommunications Talent Sourcing: Source and attract niche candidates across telecommunications technical roles including Network Engineers, RF Engineers, Transmission Engineers, Network Operations and NOC specialists, Core Network, and Technical support and infrastructure roles.
• Candidate Screening: Conduct initial candidate interviews and assess technical background and industry experience.
• Coordinate technical interviews with hiring managers.
• Talent Pipeline Development: Build and maintain candidate pipelines for telecommunications and technology roles.
• Maintain a strong network of industry candidates.
• Recruitment Coordination: Work closely with hiring managers to understand recruitment needs, track recruitment progress, manage external recruiters, and maintain recruiter governance.
• Stakeholder Management: Partner with Hiring Executives/Managers, ensure clean executive-ready shortlists, structured interview coordination, and provide weekly hiring updates.
• Recruitment Governance & Reporting: Enhance and maintain a centralised recruitment tracker or dashboard (Excel / Power BI aligned), report on time-to-fill, pipeline health, recruiter performance, and ensure compliance with POPIA, EE targets, and internal approval processes.

Minimum Requirements

### Education and Experience

• Degree/Diploma in Human Resources, Industrial Psychology, Business Administration or related field.
• 5–10 years proven recruitment experience.
• At least 3–5 years recruiting within telecommunications, ISP, or technology sectors.
• Experience recruiting technical or engineering roles is preferred.
• Experience working with hiring managers/executives.
• Exposure to recruitment analytics/dashboards.

Key Skills

• Attention to detail.
• Technical recruitment capability.
• Strong coordination & ownership.
• Strong sourcing and headhunting skills.
• Stakeholder management at executive level.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Ability to manage multiple recruitment processes simultaneously.
• Analytical & process-driven mindset.