Senior Recruitment Consultant

Senior Recruitment Consultant

Leicester – £30k-£35k basic, £55k OTE

We're looking for a recruiter who enjoys complex searches, values depth over volume, and is eager to work closely with clients who expect a thoughtful and consultative approach.

Precision People is a specialist engineering and technical recruitment consultancy with established Permanent and Contract teams. Within the Perm division, we focus on placing high-level consultants into engineering consultancies across manufacturing, food, aviation, electronics and other technically demanding sectors.

Specialist and high-impact roles, including:

• Electrical Engineers
• Compliance Consultants
• Engineering Safety Consultants
• Forensic Specialists
• Materials Engineers
• Explosives Consultants

Typical salaries range from £60k-£90k
, with fees averaging £10k-£20k
. This is search-led recruitment, built on accuracy, depth, and credibility not volume.

• Building strong relationships with clients and understanding how each operates
• Running detailed job-intake and onboarding conversations
• Conducting structured search work using Linked In, referrals, job boards, and targeted headhunting
• Interviewing candidates thoroughly
• Managing retained assignments and delivering to agreed timelines
• Developing your own patch within a long-established market with warm clients ready to engage

• Experience in a white-collar search or specialist recruitment market

or

• A solid recruitment foundation and the desire to step into a more technical, consultative environment

You should be comfortable dealing with detail, confident speaking with technical professionals, and motivated by building a long-term career rather than simply filling roles.

With established retained clients and strong average fees, a realistic first-year OTE is around £55k
.

• A proven specialist market built over 12 years
• A professional, straightforward culture
• Genuine investment in your development
• A mapped client base with warm relationships already in place
• Supportive leadership with no micromanagement
• A commission scheme that rewards performance