Engineering Recruitment Consultant

The Only Option; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

The Only Option is seeking an experienced Engineering Recruitment Consultant to join our growing team in Gauteng, South Africa. You will own a specialist engineering recruitment desk, identify top technical talent, and develop long-term client relationships.

This role goes beyond filling vacancies; you will drive business development, manage the full cycle from briefs to placement and aftercare, and shape the market by leveraging your network in mining, energy, and infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ engineering recruitment experience required.
• Strong understanding of technical and engineering recruitment.
• Proven business development and client relationship skills.
• Established engineering network with market contacts.
• Experience across Mining, Oil & Gas, Energy, Infrastructure, EPC/EPCM or Consulting Engineering.
• Strong sourcing, communication and negotiation skills.
• Commercially driven with a proven track record of delivering placements.
• Wants to build a market, not just inherit a desk.

Responsibilities

• Oversee full recruitment cycle: BD, client briefs, sourcing, assessment, placement and aftercare.

Skills

10+ years’ engineering recruitment

Technical engineering recruitment

Business development

Established engineering network

Mining, Oil & Gas, Energy, Infra, EPC/

Sourcing, communication, negotiation

Commercial drive, placements

Market-building mindset

Job description

We’re looking for an experienced Engineering Recruitment Consultant to join our growing team and take ownership of a specialist engineering recruitment desk. This is more than filling vacancies. We’re looking for someone who understands engineering, knows how to identify technical talent, and can build strong, long-term client and candidate relationships.

The Role:

You’ll manage the full recruitment cycle business development, client briefs, sourcing, candidate assessment, placement and aftercare.

We’re Looking For:

• 10+ years’ engineering recruitment experience
• Strong understanding of technical and engineering recruitment
• Proven business development and client relationship skills
• An established engineering network
• Experience across Mining, Oil & Gas, Energy, Infrastructure, EPC/EPCM or Consulting Engineering
• Strong sourcing, communication and negotiation skills
• Commercially driven with a proven track record of delivering placements
• Someone who wants to build a market, not simply inherit a desk

Why Join Us:

An opportunity to play a key role in building a specialist engineering recruitment business, with the autonomy to develop your market, grow client relationships and build something with long-term potential. If you know engineering recruitment, understand the market and have the network to make things happen, we’d like to hear from you.