Engineering Recruitment Consultant

Proactive Personnel Ltd; Telford; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave + birthday off

Company car allowance

Health Plan (after qualifying period)

Free car parking

Dress down Fridays

Full training and ongoing development

Job summary

Proactive Personnel Ltd is seeking an Engineering Recruitment Consultant in Telford to connect skilled engineers with UK employers. You’ll build a network of maintenance engineers, assess their ambitions, and place candidates with a range of manufacturing and engineering firms.

You will develop relationships with clients, source vacancies, and manage end-to-end recruitment from outreach to placement, while benefiting from full training and strong earning potential through uncapped commissions.

Qualifications

• Engineering knowledge or degree preferred.
• Recruitment or sales experience desirable but not required.
• Willing to work in the UK and travel as needed.

Responsibilities

• Build a network of skilled maintenance engineers and engineering professionals.
• Speak with engineers to understand their experience, skills, ambitions and career goals.
• Develop strong relationships with engineering and manufacturing businesses.
• Identify new vacancies and match the right candidates to the right opportunities.
• High volume outbound sales to prospective clients.
• Network engineering talent to clients within the UK.
• Manage the recruitment process from initial conversation through to placement.
• Advertise roles and proactively source candidates.
• Keep up to date with the engineering and manufacturing market.
• Develop your own client and candidate portfolio.
• Work towards personal and team targets, with excellent earning potential.
• Use CRM system and follow recruitment processes to maintain compliance.

Skills

Engineering knowledge

Communication skills

Sales skills

Networking

Tools

CRM software

Job description

Engineering Recruitment Consultant

Help Great Engineers Find Their Next Opportunity!

Location: Telford (Head Office)

Salary: Starting Salary £26750 + Uncapped Commission

Job Type: Full-time

Are you an engineering graduate, junior engineer, or someone with genuine hands‑on knowledge and enthusiasm for the engineering industry who is looking for a new challenge?

Proactive Personnel Ltd are looking to expand their established Permanent Division with an Engineering Recruitment Consultant to specialise in the recruitment and placements of maintenance engineers and engineering professionals across the UK.

You’ll use your understanding of engineering to identify great candidates, build relationships with clients and match skilled engineers with companies that need their expertise.

What you’ll be doing

• Building a network of skilled maintenance engineers and engineering professionals
• Speaking with engineers to understand their experience, skills, ambitions and career goals
• Developing strong relationships with engineering and manufacturing businesses
• Identifying new vacancies and matching the right candidates to the right opportunities
• High volume outbound sales to prospective clients
• Networking engineering talent to clients within the UK
• Managing the recruitment process from initial conversation through to placement
• Advertising roles and proactively sourcing candidates
• Keeping up to date with the engineering and manufacturing market
• Developing your own client and candidate portfolio
• Working towards personal and team targets, with excellent earning potential
• Using CRM system and following recruitment processes to maintain compliance

Engineering experience or knowledge is important to us. Recruitment and sales experience would be desirable but not essential.

As an Engineering Recruitment Consultant you could be:

• An engineering graduate looking to put your technical knowledge to use in a commercial career
• A junior engineer with around 2 years’ industry experience who wants to explore a different career path
• Someone who has worked around engineering, manufacturing or maintenance and has a genuine understanding of the industry
• A technically minded individual who has a strong interest in engineering and enjoys talking to people
• An existing recruiter who already understands the engineering sector

Most importantly, you'll be driven, confident, curious and commercially minded, with the ability to build genuine relationships with people.

Why join Proactive Personnel?

This is an opportunity to build a career where your engineering knowledge becomes your competitive advantage.

You’ll receive full training and support in recruitment, business development and candidate management, while working alongside experienced consultants who know the industry.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary + excellent commission
• Full training and ongoing development
• Clear career progression, salary reviews and company car allowance can be achieved due to proven success
• The opportunity to specialise within the engineering sector
• Working with a successful billing team
• The chance to build your own successful desk and client base
• 25 days annual leave + birthday off
• Health Plan (after qualifying period)
• Employee and reward platform after probation period
• Free car parking
• Dress down Fridays
• Hours of work M-F 8.00am – 5.00pm 1 hour lunch