Construction & Engineering TA Team Lead | PH | Onsite - Ortigas
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Set-up and Location: ONSITE – Ortigas, Pasig City
Work Schedule: 6:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Employment Type: Full-time
Lead the Team. Build the Talent Pipeline. Drive Construction & Engineering Hiring.
If you know how to find great people in industries where the right talent can be hard to find, and you're ready to lead recruiters while staying hands-on with hiring, this could be your next move.
We're looking for a Talent Acquisition Team Lead for Construction & Engineering to lead a team of Talent Acquisition Partners while continuing to manage your own recruitment slate.
This is a hands-on leadership role focused on construction and engineering recruitment, where you'll balance people leadership, end-to-end recruitment, client management, and recruitment quality. You'll work closely with clients and hiring stakeholders to understand technical requirements, build targeted talent pipelines, and ensure the right candidates move through the recruitment process effectively.
You won't be stepping away from recruitment. You'll continue managing complex and specialised searches while setting the standard for how your team approaches sourcing, candidate assessment, stakeholder management, and hiring delivery.
As Team Lead, you'll also serve as a key escalation point for difficult searches, candidate concerns, client challenges, and complex hiring decisions. You'll help recruiters navigate hard-to-fill technical roles, strengthen their recruitment strategies, and identify opportunities to improve pipeline quality.
A big part of the role is developing recruitment capability. You'll coach Talent Acquisition Partners and Senior/Principal Talent Acquisition Partners, review candidate assessments and shortlists, identify development gaps, and help your team become stronger recruiters and trusted hiring partners.
You'll work closely with the Head of Talent Acquisition to ensure the team delivers against recruitment targets, follows Staff Domain's recruitment methodology, and provides a strong experience for both clients and candidates.
This role also comes with a commission structure that rewards recruitment performance and impact.
If you're ready to lead a recruitment team while remaining close to the market, the candidates, and the hiring process, we'd love to meet you.
What You'll Do
You'll be the kind of person who:
Team Leadership & Recruitment Delivery
- Lead and manage a team of Talent Acquisition Partners, Senior Talent Acquisition Partners, and Principal Talent Acquisition Partners supporting Construction & Engineering recruitment.
- Provide daily leadership, direction, and support to the recruitment team.
- Monitor active recruitment pipelines across construction, engineering, and technical roles.
- Conduct regular pipeline reviews to identify sourcing challenges, bottlenecks, and opportunities to improve hiring progress.
- Support recruiters in developing effective recruitment strategies for hard-to-fill and specialised roles.
- Ensure recruiters maintain high standards in candidate assessment, shortlisting quality, stakeholder communication, and candidate experience.
- Help the team prioritise multiple requisitions and manage recruitment workloads effectively.
- Take accountability for overall recruitment performance and delivery within the team.
Personal Recruitment Delivery
- Maintain an active recruitment slate, with a focus on complex, specialised, and hard-to-fill Construction & Engineering roles.
- Manage end-to-end recruitment for assigned client roles, from intake and sourcing through offer and pre-onboarding.
- Conduct intake calibration with clients and hiring managers to understand technical requirements, project needs, experience expectations, and candidate profiles.
- Develop targeted sourcing strategies for technical and industry-specific talent.
- Source, screen, interview, and assess candidates against both technical and behavioural requirements.
- Build and maintain strong talent pipelines for construction, engineering, and other technical positions.
- Manage client communication, recruitment updates, and hiring reports.
- Execute candidate control strategies and manage offer processes, including VOVAs and verbal offers.
- Demonstrate best-practice recruitment delivery and act as a role model for the team.
Construction & Engineering Talent Strategy
- Develop sourcing approaches for specialised and difficult-to-fill construction and engineering positions.
- Understand the talent market for technical professionals and identify where relevant candidates can be sourced.
- Build talent pools across relevant construction, engineering, project, technical, and support functions.
- Guide recruiters in assessing transferable experience, technical backgrounds, project exposure, certifications, and role-specific requirements.
- Partner with hiring managers to refine candidate requirements when talent market conditions make searches challenging.
- Provide market insights on candidate availability, salary expectations, sourcing channels, and recruitment challenges.
- Identify recurring talent gaps and recommend adjustments to sourcing and recruitment strategies.
- Stay informed on relevant construction and engineering talent trends and recruitment practices.
Recruitment Capability Development & Coaching
- Mentor and develop Talent Acquisition Partners and Senior/Principal Talent Acquisition Partners.
- Coach recruiters on sourcing strategies for technical and specialised roles.
- Provide constructive feedback on candidate shortlists, interview assessments, and recruitment strategies.
- Review recruiter approaches to technical candidate assessment and stakeholder communication.
- Identify individual and team development gaps and provide targeted coaching.
- Lead recruitment training sessions focused on sourcing, candidate assessment, interviewing, technical recruitment, and client management.
- Support the development of future Senior and Principal Talent Acquisition Partners within the team.
Escalation Management & Advanced Recruitment Decision-Making
- Act as the first escalation point for difficult recruitment searches, client concerns, and candidate issues.
- Support recruiters managing hard-to-fill construction and engineering roles.
- Provide guidance on complex candidate assessments, technical requirements, compensation alignment, and role calibration.
- Help resolve candidate fallouts, offer negotiations, and recruitment process challenges.
- Review recruitment strategies when pipelines are not generating the required quality or volume of candidates.
- Manage client escalations relating to recruitment delivery or candidate concerns.
- Escalate strategic issues to the Head of Talent Acquisition where required.
- Ensure recruitment challenges are addressed quickly and professionally while maintaining strong client and candidate relationships.
Recruitment Quality Control
- Review candidate shortlists and interview assessments to ensure alignment with client requirements.
- Ensure recruiters understand technical requirements before commencing searches.
- Maintain high standards for candidate experience throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
- Review the quality of technical candidate profiles, assessments, and submissions.
- Identify trends affecting quality of hire and work with recruiters to improve recruitment outcomes.
- Ensure all recruitment activity and candidate information is accurately captured in Zoho.
- Promote consistent recruitment standards and methodology across the team.
Performance Management & Reporting
- Track recruitment OKRs, including jobs filled, time to hire, pipeline health, and recruitment performance.
- Monitor team performance across active Construction & Engineering requisitions.
- Provide regular performance updates to the Head of Talent Acquisition.
- Identify performance gaps and implement appropriate improvement plans.
- Support performance reviews and development discussions for team members.
- Use recruitment data and pipeline insights to identify opportunities to improve sourcing effectiveness and hiring delivery.
- Monitor recruitment activity and ensure recruiters are progressing roles according to agreed priorities and timelines.
Compliance & Process Adherence
- Ensure recruitment activity complies with organisational procedures, recruitment processes, and data privacy standards.
- Maintain candidate ownership and control protocols.
- Ensure Zoho records are accurate, complete, and up to date.
- Promote consistent adherence to Staff Domain's recruitment methodology and operating standards.
- Ensure recruitment processes are consistently applied across all Construction & Engineering searches.
Requirements
What You Bring
We're looking for someone with:
- Strong end-to-end recruitment expertise, particularly across Construction, Engineering, Technical, Infrastructure, or related industries.
- Demonstrated leadership experience within an agency, RPO, BPO, or in-house recruitment environment.
- Strong understanding of recruiting specialised and hard-to-fill technical positions.
- Advanced candidate assessment and interviewing capability, with the ability to assess both technical experience and overall suitability.
- Strong client management and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Proven ability to coach and develop recruiters at different experience levels.
- Strong sourcing knowledge, including LinkedIn, job boards, talent databases, referrals, networking, Boolean search, and other proactive sourcing methods.
- Strong understanding of construction and engineering talent markets, recruitment challenges, and candidate availability.
- Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills in fast-paced recruitment environments.
- Strong understanding of recruitment tools, sourcing platforms, and ATS systems, with Zoho experience preferred.
- Ability to balance individual recruitment delivery with team leadership and operational responsibilities.
- Strong communication, organisation, and prioritisation skills.
- A genuine interest in developing people and improving recruitment capability.
Experience
- Minimum 6 years of recruitment experience, with significant exposure to Construction, Engineering, Technical, Infrastructure, or related recruitment.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring, supervising, or leading recruitment professionals.
- Proven experience recruiting specialised, technical, or hard-to-fill positions.
- Experience managing multiple complex recruitment searches simultaneously.
- Experience partnering with clients, hiring managers, and technical stakeholders.
- Experience managing recruitment escalations and difficult hiring requirements.
- Experience working with recruitment performance metrics, pipelines, and hiring targets.
- Agency, RPO, BPO, or multi-client recruitment experience is an advantage.
- Experience recruiting for the Australian construction or engineering market is highly desirable.
Benefits
Why You'll Love Working Here
- HMO, Dental, and Life Insurance for you and one free dependent from day one, with the option to enroll additional dependents.
- Paid Leaves: Birthday, Vacation, Medical, and Maternity. Up to 6 Vacation Leaves are convertible to cash on your anniversary.
- Employee Engagement Activities: Year-End Party, Family Day, Team Building, and more!
Let's Talk
If you're thinking, "I'm ready to lead, but I still want to recruit," this could be the role for you.
Click apply. We can't wait to meet you.