Senior Recruiter / Talent Acquisition Specialist (Construction Sector)

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

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Job Description

Turner & Townsend is seeking a proactive and driven Senior Recruiter to support talent acquisition across our fast‑growing European business. This is an exciting opportunity to join a global consultancy with ambitious regional growth plans.

Based in Copenhagen, you will play a key role in attracting and hiring top talent for our Industrial, Science & Technology team in Europe, while supporting recruitment across Data Centre, Life Science and Manufacturing projects in the Nordics.

This is a hands‑on, end‑to‑end recruitment role where you will identify, engage, and hire exceptional project managers, cost managers, and project controls specialists who help deliver world‑class construction projects. You will collaborate closely with the wider European recruitment team, contributing to a high‑performing, fast‑paced environment.

This role would suit an experienced recruitment professional with corporate experience, ideally within a professional services environment, or agency recruiter from a construction background who is looking for more variety and responsibility in a corporate recruitment role within a thriving international consultancy.

Key accountabilities:

• Lead and execute the end-to-end recruitment process for the area of responsibility.
• Responsible for identifying and sourcing active candidates.
• Understand and navigate the local market, promoting market activity and best practices.
• Responsible for ATS (SmartRecruiters) data accuracy and process compliance, from raising requisitions and job posting through to hiring.
• Engage with key programme, country, and regional stakeholders to understand the short-, mid-, and long-term recruitment needs, promoting a positive, proactive response to meeting demand.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders and successfully liaise with functions such as HR, Business Operations, Global Mobility, Hiring Managers, and Country MDs to ensure a seamless hiring process.
• Guide candidates through the recruitment process, ensuring a positive candidate experience through proactive communication, timely updates, and professional stakeholder management.
• Act as a trusted recruitment partner, providing market insights and guidance to stakeholders throughout the hiring process.
• Work closely with the wider recruitment team, including coaching, mentoring, and line managing colleagues as agreed.
• Ensure compliance regarding CI and EDI within the European recruitment process.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years' experience in recruiting or talent acquisition, ideally gained within a corporate/in-house talent acquisition function or a recruitment agency with a strong focus on permanent placements.
• Experience in the construction market recruiting project managers, cost managers, project controls specialists and and other related disciplines.
• Passion for recruiting and finding top talents in a challenging and competitive environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communicator.
• Strong team player who builds positive relationships across functions
• Fluency in English is essential for this role, a Nordic language (Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, or Danish) would be considered a strong advantage.
• Highly developed organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Commercial Awareness, with the ability to balance business objectives, project requirements, and market conditions.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. We also encourage our staff to strive to ‘make a difference’ and become involved in various working committees and forums (for example, Inclusion Working Group, Social & Wellness, Learning & Development, Corporate Social Responsibilities and Net Zero Vision).

At Turner & Townsend we offer a competitive remuneration package and company benefits.

Turner & Townsend value greatly and have a focus on Corporate Responsibilities (CR), this includes a day’s leave entitlement to support a local charity or community activity along with the opportunity to participate in several office events that held throughout the year.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from people from all sectors of the community.