Trades & Labour Recruitment Consultant
Location: Aylesbury
Salary: £28,000 – £32,000 basic
OTE: £45,000 – £55,000+
Sector: Construction Recruitment | Trades & Labour | Blue Collar Construction
£28k–£32k basic + £45k–£100k+ OTE — warm construction desk, live requirements, and a proper chance to build a Trades & Labour function in Aylesbury.
This is for a recruiter who knows temp markets, moves quickly, keeps candidates under control, and can fill bookings without needing their hand held.
About the role
Dara People is growing its Trades & Labour desk and needs a practical, high-activity Recruitment Consultant to help supply reliable blue-collar workers into construction clients across the UK.
You’ll be working live roles, building candidate pools, speaking to site contacts, arranging starts, taking references, handling no-shows, and keeping the desk moving day to day.
This is not a passive resourcing role. It suits someone from construction recruitment, trades and labour, industrial, logistics, driving, or another fast-paced temp recruitment market.
Key responsibilities
- Fill live trades and labour bookings quickly and accurately
- Speak to candidates daily and check availability
- Build reliable pools of labourers, groundworkers, plant operators, gangers, supervisors, decorators, plasterers and multi-traders
- Register candidates and complete basic screening
- Take references and check suitability before submission
- Keep clients updated before they need to chase
- Re-engage old candidates and lapsed client contacts
- Support existing accounts and help develop new business
- Manage starts, no-shows, replacements and daily issues
- Keep CRM records accurate and up to date
Requirements
- Previous recruitment experience
- Background in trades and labour, construction, industrial, logistics, driving or high-volume temp recruitment
- Strong phone manner and confidence making daily calls
- Good organisation, follow-up and attention to detail
- Ability to work at pace and manage multiple moving parts
- Confidence dealing with candidates, site contacts and clients
- Resilient, direct and comfortable working to clear activity targets
Desirable / nice-to-have background
- Experience filling blue-collar construction roles
- Existing understanding of site-based trades and labour requirements
- Temp desk experience with live bookings, availability checks and same-day issues
- Experience developing warm accounts or reactivating lapsed clients
What you’ll get
✅ £28,000 – £32,000 basic salary
✅ Realistic OTE of £45,000 – £100,000+
✅ Commission on delivered margin
✅ Warm construction client base
✅ Live roles and active requirements
✅ Direct support from an experienced recruitment business owner
✅ Clear targets and a simple operating structure
✅ Opportunity to take ownership of a growing Trades & Labour desk
About Dara People
Dara People supplies white-collar and blue-collar professionals into the construction and civil engineering sectors.
We work with construction businesses across groundworks, civils, data centres, infrastructure, refurbishment and specialist subcontracting.
Best-Fit Candidates / Useful Matching Context
This role may suit recruiters currently working as a Recruitment Consultant, Trades & Labour Consultant, Construction Recruitment Consultant, Industrial Recruitment Consultant, Driving Recruitment Consultant, Logistics Recruitment Consultant, Temp Desk Consultant, Resourcer or Account Manager.
Relevant backgrounds include construction recruitment agencies, blue-collar labour supply, industrial staffing, logistics recruitment, driving recruitment, facilities recruitment, civil engineering recruitment, subcontractor supply, temporary recruitment and high-volume candidate delivery.
Recommended LinkedIn posting skills
- Recruitment
- Temporary Staffing
- Construction Recruitment
- Candidate Management
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