Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

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We are seeking an experienced Senior Talent Acquisition Partner to enhance our service offering within our Ireland region. We are open to applicants from agency or in-house recruitment, but you must have significant experience of recruiting multi-discipline roles within the construction and engineering consultancy sector for the Ireland market. You will be based in our Dublin office and will be expected to spend 3-4 days a week in the office.

Reporting to the Talent Acquisition Lead for Buildings & Places, the key aim of this role will be to deliver fast and effective service to the business and provide innovative recruitment solutions to hire the best talent on time and in budget. You will become a key member of the established Talent Acquisition team, so you won’t be alone, we have a great team ethos and attitude and we work closely with our wider HR colleagues and business managers.

You will be working with hiring managers to understand their requirements and advise on strategy. You will be guiding candidates through our recruitment process, ensuring an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience. Whilst taking a consultative approach with the business on hiring decisions, you will work on the development of offers and negotiate with candidates on behalf of AECOM.

In this role, you will work directly with stakeholders across your region on workforce talent planning and recruitment. You will develop strong relationships across the organisation working collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders.

Job Duties:

• Consult with the business on staffing strategy, hiring and sourcing trends
• Provide an extensive breadth of market knowledge and expertise of talent acquisition process and strategies
• Participate in business meetings to stay up to date on what is happening in the line of business and geography in terms of new business, projects that are ending and skills needed
• Actively participate in recruitment meetings with the team and the stakeholders
• Optimise job postings for marketability for internal and external positions
• Utilise all sourcing tools available and provide innovative ideas on sourcing strategies when required.
• Screen and interview candidates, create the candidate funnel on requisitions to provide the hiring manager with a choice of candidates
• Participate in recruiting events when required
• Support the Recruitment Manager on Adhoc projects as and when required

Minimum Requirements

• Recruitment experience at a senior level focussing on multi-discipline roles within the Ireland engineering consultancy market is essential to this role, we are very unlikely to progress candidates who cannot demonstrate this experience
• Experience of recruiting across some of our core disciplines such as Project & Cost Management, Building Engineering and Transportation Engineering
• Extensive demonstrable stakeholder management experience
• Experience attracting technical/niche talent via social media
• Experience of creating and implementing impactful recruitment strategies that go beyond the norm

Preferred Qualifications

• Use of Smart Recruiters and/or Workday
• Strategic Workforce planning experience

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.