Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 120 offices worldwide.

Job Description

Turner & Townsend is seeking a proactive and driven Senior Recruiter to support talent acquisition across our fast‑growing European business. This is an exciting opportunity to join a global consultancy with ambitious regional growth plans. While the role is offered as an initial 12‑month fixed term contract, our expansion across Europe may create longer‑term opportunities for the successful candidate.

Based in Dublin, you will play a key role in attracting and hiring top talent for our Infrastructure team in Europe, while also supporting recruitment across other sectors as needed. This is a hands‑on, end‑to‑end recruitment role where you will identify, engage, and hire exceptional project managers, cost managers, and project controls specialists who help deliver world‑class infrastructure and construction projects.

You will collaborate closely with the Infrastructure Recruitment Team Lead and the wider European recruitment team, contributing to a high‑performing, fast‑paced environment. There is also scope for this role to include key account management as well as line management responsibility.

This role would suit an experienced recruitment profesional with corporate experience, ideally within a professional services environment, or agency recruiter from a construction background who is looking for more variety and responsibility in a corporate recruitment role within a thriving international consultancy.

Key accountabilities:

Lead and execute the end-to-end recruitment process for the area of responsibility
Responsible for identifying and sourcing active candidates
Understand and navigate the local market, promoting market activity and best practices
Responsible for ATS (SmartRecruiters) data accuracy and process compliance, from raising requisitions and job posting through to hiring
Engage with key programme, country, and regional stakeholders to understand the short-, mid-, and long-term recruitment needs, promoting a positive, proactive response to meeting demand
Work closely with the wider recruitment team, including coaching / mentoring / line managing colleagues as agreed
Ensure compliancy regarding CI and EDI of the European recruitment process

Qualifications

Minimum 7 years' experience in recruiting or talent acquisition, ideally with experience in the construction market recruiting project managers, cost managers or project controls specialists
Passion for recruiting and finding top talents in a challenging environment
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Fluency in English is essential for this role, other European languages are beneficial
Able to build relationships with stakeholders and candidates
Motivated, flexible and results driven
Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. We also encourage our staff to strive to ‘make a difference’ and become involved in various working committees and forums (for example, Inclusion Working Group, Social & Wellness, Learning & Development, Corporate Social Responsibilities and Net Zero Vision).

At Turner & Townsend we offer a competitive remuneration package and company benefits.

Turner & Townsend value greatly and have a focus on Corporate Responsibilities (CR), this includes a day’s leave entitlement to support a local charity or community activity along with the opportunity to participate in several office events that held throughout the year.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from people from all sectors of the community.

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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.

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Senior Recruiter / Talent Acquisition Specialist (Construction Sector) - 12-month Fixed Term Contract

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