Trades & Labour Recruitment Consultant
9 hours ago
Aylesbury
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