Senior Recruitment Consultant

Senior Recruitment Consultant Houston, Texas, USA NES Fircroft | Full-Time | Permanent Ready to take ownership of your own market, build lasting client partnerships, and accelerate your recruitment career with a global workforce solutions leader? Join NES Fircroft as a Senior Recruitment Consultant and become part of a high-performing team supporting the Energy, Engineering, Life Sciences, and Technology sectors. As a Senior Recruitment Consultant, you'll take full responsibility for developing your own desk, managing client relationships, delivering exceptional recruitment solutions, and driving business growth. This entrepreneurial role offers the autonomy to build your market while benefiting from the support, resources, and reputation of a globally recognised brand. What You'll Be Doing Full-Cycle Recruitment: Recruit, interview, assess, and place highly skilled technical professionals on contract, contract-to-hire, and permanent assignments. Candidate Attraction & Sourcing: Develop innovative sourcing strategies to identify, engage, and attract top talent within your specialist market. Candidate Assessment: Conduct detailed telephone, virtual, and face-to-face interviews to evaluate technical capabilities, motivations, and suitability for client opportunities. Talent Pipeline Development: Build and maintain a strong network of qualified professionals, creating a sustainable pipeline of talent for current and future vacancies. Relationship Management: Develop long-term relationships with candidates, providing career guidance, market insights, and ongoing support throughout their professional journey. Contractor Care: Maintain regular communication with contractors and recently placed candidates to ensure service excellence, gather feedback, and generate referrals. Client Account Management: Manage and grow existing client relationships while delivering exceptional service levels and recruitment outcomes. Business Development: Generate new business opportunities through networking, referrals, market mapping, lead generation, and client outreach. Strategic Client Partnerships: Build trusted relationships with decision-makers through both virtual and face-to-face meetings, becoming a valued recruitment partner. Commercial Growth: Identify opportunities within existing accounts and develop strategies to increase market share and revenue generation. Compliance Excellence: Ensure all recruitment activities comply with NES Fircroft quality standards, employment legislation, client-specific requirements, and health & safety regulations. Mentorship & Team Support: Contribute to the development of junior team members through coaching, knowledge sharing, and support with time management best practices. Why NES Fircroft? Entrepreneurial Freedom: Take ownership of your desk with the autonomy to build and grow your market. Uncapped Earning Potential: Competitive base salary combined with a highly rewarding commission structure. Global Brand: Work alongside one of the world's leading technical workforce solutions providers. Career Progression: Clearly defined progression pathways with opportunities to advance into leadership and management positions. Industry-Leading Training: Continuous learning, mentorship, and professional development programmes designed to help you succeed. International Opportunities: Access to a global network of clients, candidates, and career opportunities. Collaborative Culture: Join a supportive, high-performance environment where success is recognised and celebrated. Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and wellness initiatives designed to support you and your family. Recognition & Incentives: Annual awards, sales competitions, incentive trips, and team celebrations. Long-Term Growth: Build a rewarding career with a business committed to investing in its people and future success. What We're Looking For Recruitment Experience: Minimum 3+ years of agency recruitment experience, preferably within a technical, engineering, energy, life sciences, manufacturing, or professional services environment. Sales & Business Development Skills: Proven success developing new business opportunities and managing client relationships. Relationship Builder: Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to influence, engage, and build credibility with clients and candidates. Results-Driven Mentality: Demonstrated success working in a target-oriented environment and consistently exceeding performance expectations. Commercial Awareness: Strong understanding of recruitment metrics, pipeline management, and business development activity. Highly Organised: Ability to manage multiple recruitment assignments, client priorities, and business development initiatives simultaneously. Resilient & Ambitious: Motivated by success, personal achievement, and continuous professional growth. Confident Communicator: Strong presentation, negotiation, networking, and relationship management skills. Problem Solver: Proactive in identifying challenges and delivering solutions to clients and candidates. Team Contributor: Willingness to mentor others, share knowledge, and contribute positively to team success. Who We Are NES Fircroft is more than a recruitment business. We are a global workforce solutions partner connecting exceptional talent with industry-leading organisations across Energy, Engineering, Life Sciences, and Technology markets. With decades of specialist expertise and a global footprint spanning multiple countries, we deliver workforce solutions that support some of the world's most complex and innovative projects. Our success is built on long-term partnerships, technical expertise, entrepreneurial thinking, and an unwavering commitment to excellence. If you're ambitious, commercially minded, and ready to build something of your own within a supportive global organisation, we'd love to hear from you. Accessibility & Inclusion At NES Fircroft, we're committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to achieve their full potential. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including people with disabilities and those who are neurodiverse. If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know and we'll be happy to support you. NES Fircroft – Powering People. Delivering Projects. #J-18808-Ljbffr