Senior / Lead Recruitment Consultant

Job Description:

Senior Recruitment Consultant -

Freelance Recruitment
(Engineering, Construction & Renewables)
Location: London or Kettering (hybrid/remote options available)
Salary: DOE + competitive commission scheme
Start: Q1 / Q2 2026

Turner Lovell is a specialist recruitment business established in 2008, supporting clients across the electricity, renewables and construction sectors. We recruit in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Belgium and parts of the Middle East. As our markets continues to grow, we're looking for Senior Recruitment Consultants to help scale our UK freelance and permanent recruitment team-making high volumes of placements by opening new doors and maximising the relationships we already have.

The opportunity:

This is a hands-on, client-facing role for someone who enjoys winning work, building long-term partnerships, and delivering fast, high-quality hires. You'll recruit across one of our specialist areas including:

• Construction & site delivery (Site Managers, Supervisors, Site Installation)
• Engineering (Electrical, M&E, Civil, Commissioning)
• Commercial & project support (QS/Commercial, Planners, HSE, etc.)

What you'll get

• Competitive basic + generous commission, in a supportive, high-performance environment
• Clear progression into team leader and management roles as the contract team expands
• The chance to grow a desk and team in a strong market, backed by warm relationships in electricity, renewables and construction
• Training and development (structured support, tools and coaching to help you level up fast)

The role

• Proactively developing new client accounts and expanding existing relationships to generate freelance vacancies.
• Running the full recruitment lifecycle: job qualification, search, shortlist, interview coordination, offers and close
• Building strong candidate pipelines using database, LinkedIn, job boards, referrals and networking
• Acting as a trusted advisor to clients-market insight, availability, rates, and delivery timelines
• Working collaboratively with the wider team to drive consistent weekly performance and placement volume
• Using our brand and sector footprint to open new doors across the UK infrastructure market

The ideal person

• Proven recruitment experience (ideally contract recruitment) with a strong delivery and BD track record
• Background recruiting in construction, engineering, civil engineering, manufacturing or technical/scientific markets
• Confident business developer-comfortable with client meetings, pitching, negotiation and account growth
• Proactive, organised, resilient, and motivated by high activity and high reward
• Team mindset-keen to contribute, share best practice and help build something

If you're a senior consultant who wants to build, win, and place-and you enjoy being out with clients as much as you enjoy closing deals-apply or contact Curtis Thompson or Rachael King for a confidential chat.