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McGinley Support Services is a specialist recruitment agency providing the infrastructure industry with permanent, contract and temporary staff at all levels. Consulting and recruiting for nearly four decades, they have customers in Airports, Energy, Metro, Ports, Rail, Roads, Telecoms, Waste and Water, and can supply staff and labour nationally.

We are currently looking for an experienced bluecollar rail Labour Manager/Recruitment Consultant to work in our Wessex rail team in the day to day running of a very busy rail team working on a high volume contract. Ideally you will have a proven track record in the bluecollar rail labour supply sector or in a similar highly regulated high volume business. This role requires extensive travel during the working week across the southern part of the Wessex region based from the Eastleigh region however those who are in a daily commutable distance will be considered.

The role of the Labour Manager/Recruitment Consultant is to supply, coordinate and manage rail operatives to optimise contract profitability through the provision of the required labour resources for project execution and safe and effective management, delivering to time and to the satisfaction of our clients.

Key responsibilities:

Labour Management

Partner all projects within the area of responsibility to ensure the right quantity, quality and skills mix of operatives are provided within agreed time lines - both at site set up and during the full life cycle of the project;
Manage the transfer of labour between projects, locally and nationally;
Visit each customer project / location in accordance with your teams servicing plan;
Collect timesheets when necessary;
Deliver or collect PPE / tools / equipment when necessary;
Carry out allocated on-call duty as allocated by line manager;
Review worker performance weekly and take necessary action regarding client and operative;
Complete Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) reports weekly and send to clients where appropriate.

Sales/ Account Management

Create and develop business opportunities with both existing and new clients;
Focus on selling all grades of workers and support services supplied by the company, on temporary hired, contract hired workers or permanent placement fee basis, as agreed with your line manager;
Maintain contact, build and maintain a good working relationship with existing clients by way of pro-active telephone contact and 'face to face' meetings;
Recruit various grades of operatives as and when required by the needs of the contracts you are managing or the company;
Arrange regular site visits with operatives, increasing interaction at the workface;

Essential requirements for this position include:

Previous recruitment experience within high volume resourcing;
Attention to detail;
Excellent communication with strong language skills, both written and verbal;
Good organisational skills;
MS Office packages and preferably RDB Pro database experience;
An interest in infrastructure services;
A willingness to help other members of your team on a flexible basis.
PTS ACDC/DCCR card is desirable.

We have a fair and comprehensive selection procedure .We regret that if you have not been contacted within ten working days that your application for this position has been unsuccessful. However, please check your junk email folder to ensure that an email from us hasn't been blocked by your spam filter. We receive many CVs and are unable to enter into telephone conversations until we have completed our initial selection procedure.

McGinley Support Services is committed to equal opportunities and actively seeks applications from all sectors of the community irrespective of gender, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, having responsibility for dependants, age, religion/beliefs, or any other reason which cannot be shown to be justified.

McGinley Support Services is committed to making reasonable adjustments in order for all candidates who are successfully put through to the interview stage to be able to attend.

We have a fair and comprehensive selection procedure. We regret that if you have not been contacted within five working days that your application for this position has been unsuccessful. However, please check your junk email folder to ensure that an email from us hasn't been blocked by your spam filter. We receive many CVs and are unable to enter into telephone conversations until we have completed our initial selection procedure. As an equal opportunities employer, McGinley is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join McGinley. McGinley Support Services is committed to making reasonable adjustments in order for all candidates who are successfully put through to the interview stage to be able to attend