Recruitment Consultant – Engineering Recruitment, Existing Client Accounts
Why Join Orion Electrotech?
Due to continued growth, we’re looking for an experienced Recruitment Consultant to join our successful Reading office.
If you’re an experienced Recruitment Consultant who enjoys the pace and excitement of recruitment but would prefer to focus on delivering for existing clients rather than cold business development, we’d love to hear from you.
Join a business that values relationships, rewards performance, and gives recruiters the tools and support they need to succeed.
The Opportunity
This is not a traditional recruitment role focused on cold business development.
You’ll inherit and manage a portfolio of established clients, acting as their dedicated recruitment partner and delivering high-quality talent into critical positions.
If you enjoy the candidate side of recruitment, building strong client relationships, managing multiple priorities, and working at pace, this is a fantastic opportunity to join a high-performing team with genuine earning potential.
We’re particularly interested in recruiters who thrive in a fast-moving environment, love speaking to people, and enjoy the challenge of balancing multiple vacancies, candidates, and client requirements simultaneously.
What You’ll Be Doing
Recruitment & Candidate Delivery
- Managing the full recruitment lifecycle for our clients vacancies
- Sourcing, screening and interviewing high-quality candidates
- Building and maintaining talent pools within engineering, manufacturing or technical markets
- Managing interview processes, offers, negotiations and placements
- Developing strong networks of Engineering candidates and industry professionals
Client Relationship Management
- Acting as a trusted recruitment partner to existing clients
- Understanding hiring requirements and workforce planning needs
- Providing market intelligence, salary benchmarking and recruitment advice
- Ensuring excellent service delivery across multiple accounts
- Building long-term relationships through consistent results
Recruitment Management
- Managing multiple live vacancies simultaneously
- Coordinating or onboarding and placement activity
- Maintaining accurate candidate and client records
- Delivering recruitment processes efficiently while ensuring an exceptional candidate experience
What We’re Looking For
Essential
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, target-driven environment with multiple moving parts
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
- Highly organised with strong attention to detail
- Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle
- Right to work in the UK (we cannot offer sponsorship)
Highly Desirable
- Previous engineering recruitment agency experience
- Experience managing client relationships and delivering against recruitment requirements
- Strong candidate sourcing and interviewing skills
What You’ll Get
- Competitive basic salary up to £45,000 DOE
- Uncapped commission structure
- Existing client base – no cold business development
- Award-winning training and ongoing development
- Clear career progression opportunities
- Hybrid working arrangements
- Early finish every Friday
- On-site parking
- Complimentary breakfast bar
- Gym membership or Private Healthcare after 1 year
- Long-service rewards
- Team socials and incentive trips
- 29 days holiday including bank holidays
- Dog-friendly office
Apply today to become part of our award-winning recruitment team.
Due to the volume of applications we receive, unfortunately, we are not able to respond to every application personally; therefore, if you have not heard back from us within 5 working days, please assume your application has been unsuccessful. To see our other available vacancies, please visit our website.
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