Contract Recruiter - Construction [Remote]

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. 

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programs as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success. 

Our capabilities include program, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions. 

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier program, project and cost management offering in markets around the world. 

Job Description

Turner and Townsend is currently seeking a Contract Recruiter with experience identifying candidates in our market to support our rapidly growing business. This is a contract position that will manage recruitment for all levels and disciplines across the organization.

The Contract Recruiter will be responsible for partnering with management to guide candidates through the full recruitment process including sourcing, screening, interviewing, utilizing the Applicant Tracking System (ATS), and leveraging recruitment tools such as internet services, job board postings, networking, career fairs, and professional organizations.

This position plays an integral role in building the company's talent pipeline, requiring the Recruiter to possess strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build and maintain long-term candidate relationships. We are looking for someone who can strategically partner with management to ensure hiring needs are met while focusing on delivering high-caliber candidates in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities for this role include: 

• Manage the full life cycle recruitment process for your applicable requisitions.
• Ability to prioritize urgent requisitions and effectively manage your workload.
• Partner with hiring managers by providing consistent and clear communication.
• Schedule intake meetings and reoccurring recruitment meetings with your hiring teams accordingly.
• Collaborate with the recruitment coordinator to post job requisitions and interview scheduling.
• Review applicable candidate CVs / resumes in a timely manner.
• Source and build strong candidate pipelines.
• Screen candidates for your requisitions and assess relevant knowledge, technical capabilities, and soft skills. 
• Act as the point of contact for your candidates and guide them through the recruitment process.
• Clearly convey our brand to candidates through all facets of communication.
• Diligently enter screening notes and feedback into the applicant tracking system.
• Extend and issue offers with little to no guidance. 
• Coordinate with your recruitment coordinator to trigger references for new hires.
• Consistently seek feedback from your line manager and hiring managers for continued improvement.
• Support diversity and inclusion initiatives.
• Assist the wider recruitment team with administrative functions as requested, such as interview scheduling, special projects, documentation, job postings, initiating references, routing offers, and tracking requisitions. 
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable. 

Qualifications

 

• Must have a minimum of 3 years of recruitment experience as a sourcer or recruiter. 
• A bachelor’s degree is preferred but experience qualifies in lieu of a degree. 
• Demonstrates high emotional intelligence to interact effectively and cultivate relationships. 
• Proficient Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Prior experience utilizing an applicant tracking system.
• Proven success placing good candidates consistently.
• Excellent communication skills
• Proactive, constantly willing to learn and improve processes to increase efficiency. 
• Ability to exercise judgement and discretion with sensitive and confidential information.

Additional Information

*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs.

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.

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 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.