180 Recruitment Consultant (Civil Engineering)

180 Recruitment Consultant

Fully Remote | UK Market |


Join a High-Performing UK Recruitment Team

Are you an experienced 180 Recruitment Consultant who thrives on building candidate networks, uncovering opportunities, and creating placements through proactive market engagement?

We're looking for a driven and commercially minded recruiter to join our fully remote team, supporting the UK market across technical sectors. This is not a traditional resourcing role. You'll play a key role in generating opportunities by identifying exceptional candidates, taking them to market, and converting conversations into placements.

If you're confident on the phone, enjoy candidate engagement, and know how to spot a highly placeable candidate, this could be an excellent opportunity to further develop your career within a specialist technical recruitment environment.

What You'll Be Recruiting For

You'll focus on sourcing and delivering talent across a range of technical and professional disciplines, including:

Civil Engineering & Construction

• Site Managers
  
• General Foremen
  
• Project Engineers
  
• Civil Engineers
  
• Construction Professionals
  
  

Commercial

• Quantity Surveyors
  
• Senior Quantity Surveyors
  
• Commercial Managers
  
• Commercial Leads
  
  

Health, Safety & Quality

• HSE Advisors
  
• HSQE Managers
  
• Health & Safety Professionals
  
• Quality & Compliance Specialists
  
  

Key Responsibilities
Candidate Sourcing & Delivery

• Proactively source and engage high-quality candidates across technical markets.
  
• Conduct detailed qualification calls to assess:
  • Project experience
    
  • Responsibilities and scope
    
  • Project values and package ownership
    
  • Technical expertise
    
  • Motivations for moving
    
• Build strong relationships with candidates throughout the recruitment process.
  
• Manage candidates through interview, offer, and placement stages.
  

Candidate-Led Business Development (Spec-Out Campaigns)

This is a core part of the role.

• Identify and qualify Most Placeable Candidates (MPCs).
  
• Create targeted lists of relevant UK employers and contractors.
  
• Produce compelling candidate marketing summaries.
  
• Present candidates directly to hiring managers.
  
• Follow up consistently to generate interviews, vacancies, and placement opportunities.
  
• Convert candidate-led activity into live recruitment opportunities.
  

Market Mapping & Research

• Conduct detailed market mapping across civil engineering, construction, infrastructure, engineering, and technical sectors.
  
• Identify key businesses, hiring managers, and decision-makers.
  
• Build structured target lists and talent pipelines.
  
• Monitor market trends, hiring activity, and competitor movements.
  
• Support strategic recruitment campaigns through research-driven insights.
  

Relationship Building & Phone Engagement

• Conduct high-volume candidate qualification calls.
  
• Present candidates confidently to prospective clients.
  
• Generate opportunities through proactive outbound calling.
  
• Build and maintain long-term candidate and client relationships.
  
• Spend a significant portion of the day engaging with candidates and hiring managers by phone.
  

Pipeline & CRM Management

• Maintain accurate candidate records and activity logs.
  
• Track spec-out campaigns, outreach activity, and recruitment pipelines.
  
• Re-engage warm candidates and existing networks.
  
• Ensure CRM data remains up to date and well-organised.
  

Commercial Contribution

• Assess candidate suitability and marketability.
  
• Identify target companies with hiring potential.
  
• Support campaign planning and recruitment strategy.
  
• Contribute to overall team delivery and placement success.
  
  
  
  

Requirements

Essential Requirements

You Must Have:

• Previous experience working in a 180 Recruitment Consultant, Delivery Consultant, Resourcer, Talent Partner, or Candidate-Focused Recruitment role.
  
• Recruitment experience within one or more of the following sectors:
  • Civil Engineering
    
  • Construction
    
  • Engineering
    
  • Architecture
    
  • Mining
    
  • Infrastructure
    
  • Technical Recruitment
    
• Proven market mapping experience, including identifying target companies, decision-makers, talent pools, and hiring trends.
  
• Strong candidate sourcing and headhunting experience.
  
• Excellent telephone communication and relationship-building skills.
  
• Experience conducting detailed candidate qualification interviews.
  
• A proactive and commercially driven mindset with the ability to create opportunities rather than wait for them.
  
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to work independently in a fully remote environment.
  
• Availability to work aligned to UK business hours.
  
  

Highly Desirable

• Previous UK recruitment experience.
  
• Experience running candidate-led business development or spec-out campaigns.
  
• Experience recruiting within the infrastructure or built environment sectors.
  
• Track record of generating opportunities through candidate marketing activities.
  
  
  
  
  

Benefits

What Success Looks Like

• Consistent generation of high-quality candidates.
  
• Successful execution of spec-out campaigns.
  
• Opportunities created through proactive candidate marketing.
  
• Strong conversion of calls into interviews and placements.
  
• Well-managed candidate pipelines and CRM records.
  
• Development of specialist networks within your chosen market.
  
  

Why Join Us?

• Fully remote working environment.
  
• Opportunity to work within established UK technical markets.
  
• High-impact role with significant autonomy.
  
• Collaborative and supportive team culture.
  
• Clear opportunity to develop specialist market expertise.
  
• Performance-driven environment where proactive recruiters can thrive.
  

Is This Role Right for You?

You'll be successful in this position if you:

✔ Enjoy speaking to candidates and building relationships

✔ Are proactive and commercially minded

✔ Know how to identify a strong candidate and create opportunities

✔ Thrive in a target-driven recruitment environment

✔ Take ownership of your results

✔ Enjoy market research, headhunting, and candidate-led business development

Please note: This is not an administrative or passive sourcing role. We're looking for a recruiter who enjoys being on the phone, proactively engaging talent, and creating opportunities through market knowledge and candidate advocacy.