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- Competitive Salary
- Orlando, United States
- Permanent
Build your market, grow key client relationships and play a leading role in developing NES Fircroft’s Construction contract recruitment offering in Orlando.
This is a senior, hands-on recruitment role combining business development, account growth, candidate delivery and market development. You will take ownership of your specialist market, build relationships with new and existing clients, develop a strong contractor network and contribute to the continued growth of NES Fircroft across the US.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced contract recruiter who enjoys the commercial side of recruitment and wants the autonomy to build and develop a successful desk within an established global business.
What Youll Be Doing
- Growing a Construction Contract Desk: Take ownership of developing and growing a successful contract recruitment desk within the Orlando market.
- Winning New Business: Identify and secure new business opportunities across the Construction sector, building relationships with key organisations and decision-makers.
- Developing Client Accounts: Build long-term relationships with new and existing clients, identifying opportunities to expand our recruitment offering.
- Managing Contract Recruitment Delivery: Oversee the full recruitment lifecycle, from identifying client requirements and sourcing candidates through to placement and ongoing contractor management.
- Building Contractor Networks: Develop and maintain a strong pipeline of skilled professionals across your specialist market.
- Driving Revenue Growth: Work towards and exceed individual revenue, gross profit and placement targets while building a sustainable and profitable desk.
- Providing Market Intelligence: Develop a strong understanding of the Orlando and wider Florida Construction market, including key projects, clients, competitors and talent trends.
- Leading Commercial Negotiations: Manage rate, margin and commercial conversations confidently with clients and candidates.
- Supporting Team Development: Share market knowledge and recruitment best practice with colleagues, supporting the development of junior consultants where appropriate.
- Market Ownership: Take ownership of a specialist Construction market and build a successful contract recruitment desk.
- High Earning Potential: Benefit from a competitive base salary and uncapped commission.
- Growth Opportunity: Join a growing US business with significant opportunities to develop your market and career.
- Global Platform: Benefit from an established global brand, international client relationships and specialist recruitment expertise.
- Career Development: Access clear progression opportunities, including routes into leadership and broader commercial roles.
- Award-Winning Culture: Join a collaborative, ambitious and high-performing recruitment environment.
- Flexible Working Model: Enjoy a working model designed to support wellbeing, productivity and work-life integration.
- Industry-Leading Incentives: Access incentive trips, recognition programmes and international events.
- Comprehensive US Benefits: Receive medical, dental, vision and life insurance, alongside a 401(k), paid time off and wellness programmes.
- Contract Recruitment Experience: Ideally, you will have at least four years of recruitment experience and a strong track record within contract recruitment.
- Construction Market Knowledge: Previous recruitment experience within Construction or a relevant technical or engineering market is strongly preferred.
- 360 Recruitment Capability: Confidence managing the full recruitment lifecycle, including business development, client management, candidate generation and delivery.
- Business Development Success: Demonstrable experience winning new clients and generating recruitment opportunities.
- Commercial Mindset: A strong understanding of contract recruitment economics, including rates, margins, gross profit and overall desk profitability.
- Relationship-Building Skills: Confidence developing trusted, long-term relationships with clients and candidates.
- Proven Performance: A consistent track record of achieving recruitment, placement and revenue targets.
- Market Development Ability: An entrepreneurial approach with the ability to identify new clients, projects and areas of opportunity.
- Communication Skills: Confidence engaging with stakeholders at all levels, from candidates and hiring managers to senior client decision-makers.
- Principal-Level Mindset: The ability to operate independently, take ownership of a market and contribute positively to the development of the wider team.
NES Fircroft is a global leader in engineering and technical workforce solutions, supporting some of the world’s largest organisations across Power, Renewables, Infrastructure, Data Centers, Energy, Life Sciences, Mining, Chemicals and Technology. Our success is built on specialist market expertise, exceptional service and long-term partnerships that create opportunities for clients, candidates and employees to thrive.
Accessibility & Inclusion
NES Fircroft is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels respected, supported and able to succeed. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences. If you require a reasonable accommodation or additional support at any stage of the recruitment process, please let our Talent Acquisition team know.
About Us: https://www.nesfircroft.com
Meet The Team: https://www.nesfircroft.com/contact-us
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NESFircroft
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nes-fircroft/
- Competitive Salary
- Orlando, United States
- Permanent
Build your market, grow key client relationships and play a leading role in developing NES Fircroft’s Construction contract recruitment offering in Orlando.
This is a senior, hands-on recruitment role combining business development, account growth, candidate delivery and market development. You will take ownership of your specialist market, build relationships with new and existing clients, develop a strong contractor network and contribute to the continued growth of NES Fircroft across the US.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced contract recruiter who enjoys the commercial side of recruitment and wants the autonomy to build and develop a successful desk within an established global business.
What Youll Be Doing
- Growing a Construction Contract Desk: Take ownership of developing and growing a successful contract recruitment desk within the Orlando market.
- Winning New Business: Identify and secure new business opportunities across the Construction sector, building relationships with key organisations and decision-makers.
- Developing Client Accounts: Build long-term relationships with new and existing clients, identifying opportunities to expand our recruitment offering.
- Managing Contract Recruitment Delivery: Oversee the full recruitment lifecycle, from identifying client requirements and sourcing candidates through to placement and ongoing contractor management.
- Building Contractor Networks: Develop and maintain a strong pipeline of skilled professionals across your specialist market.
- Driving Revenue Growth: Work towards and exceed individual revenue, gross profit and placement targets while building a sustainable and profitable desk.
- Providing Market Intelligence: Develop a strong understanding of the Orlando and wider Florida Construction market, including key projects, clients, competitors and talent trends.
- Leading Commercial Negotiations: Manage rate, margin and commercial conversations confidently with clients and candidates.
- Supporting Team Development: Share market knowledge and recruitment best practice with colleagues, supporting the development of junior consultants where appropriate.
- Market Ownership: Take ownership of a specialist Construction market and build a successful contract recruitment desk.
- High Earning Potential: Benefit from a competitive base salary and uncapped commission.
- Growth Opportunity: Join a growing US business with significant opportunities to develop your market and career.
- Global Platform: Benefit from an established global brand, international client relationships and specialist recruitment expertise.
- Career Development: Access clear progression opportunities, including routes into leadership and broader commercial roles.
- Award-Winning Culture: Join a collaborative, ambitious and high-performing recruitment environment.
- Flexible Working Model: Enjoy a working model designed to support wellbeing, productivity and work-life integration.
- Industry-Leading Incentives: Access incentive trips, recognition programmes and international events.
- Comprehensive US Benefits: Receive medical, dental, vision and life insurance, alongside a 401(k), paid time off and wellness programmes.
- Contract Recruitment Experience: Ideally, you will have at least four years of recruitment experience and a strong track record within contract recruitment.
- Construction Market Knowledge: Previous recruitment experience within Construction or a relevant technical or engineering market is strongly preferred.
- 360 Recruitment Capability: Confidence managing the full recruitment lifecycle, including business development, client management, candidate generation and delivery.
- Business Development Success: Demonstrable experience winning new clients and generating recruitment opportunities.
- Commercial Mindset: A strong understanding of contract recruitment economics, including rates, margins, gross profit and overall desk profitability.
- Relationship-Building Skills: Confidence developing trusted, long-term relationships with clients and candidates.
- Proven Performance: A consistent track record of achieving recruitment, placement and revenue targets.
- Market Development Ability: An entrepreneurial approach with the ability to identify new clients, projects and areas of opportunity.
- Communication Skills: Confidence engaging with stakeholders at all levels, from candidates and hiring managers to senior client decision-makers.
- Principal-Level Mindset: The ability to operate independently, take ownership of a market and contribute positively to the development of the wider team.
NES Fircroft is a global leader in engineering and technical workforce solutions, supporting some of the world’s largest organisations across Power, Renewables, Infrastructure, Data Centers, Energy, Life Sciences, Mining, Chemicals and Technology. Our success is built on specialist market expertise, exceptional service and long-term partnerships that create opportunities for clients, candidates and employees to thrive.
Accessibility & Inclusion
NES Fircroft is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels respected, supported and able to succeed. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences. If you require a reasonable accommodation or additional support at any stage of the recruitment process, please let our Talent Acquisition team know.
About Us: https://www.nesfircroft.com
Meet The Team: https://www.nesfircroft.com/contact-us
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NESFircroft
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nes-fircroft/
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
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- Technology & Software
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in principal technical recruiter jobs.
- 7 or more years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience at high-growth companies
- Proven ability to close senior and staff-level software engineering roles independently
- Deep familiarity with applicant tracking systems and sourcing tools across multiple platforms
- Experience partnering directly with engineering directors and VPs on hiring strategy
- Demonstrated ability to build and optimize structured interview processes across technical teams
- Bachelor's degree in human resources, business, psychology, or a related field preferred
Tips for Your Principal Technical Recruiter Job Search
Quantify your recruiting pipeline metrics
Your resume should show concrete outcomes like time-to-fill improvements, offer acceptance rates, and volume of technical roles closed per quarter. Principal-level recruiters are expected to own outcomes, not just activity, so frame every bullet around impact on hiring goals.
Highlight your technical depth on paper
Hiring managers for principal technical recruiters want to see that you can assess engineering candidates credibly. Call out specific stacks, job families, or org types you've recruited for, such as backend infrastructure, ML, or staff-plus engineers at high-growth companies.
Target companies in active hiring cycles
Filter openings by companies that have recently raised a round, launched a new product line, or announced headcount growth. Principal technical recruiters are brought in when demand is real, so joining at the right moment gets you the most ownership and visibility.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists principal technical recruiter openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare for a sourcing strategy exercise
Many principal-level interviews include a live or take-home exercise where you map out how you'd build a pipeline for a hard-to-fill role. Practice articulating your sourcing channels, outreach sequencing, and how you'd adjust if initial response rates are low.
Negotiate scope before discussing compensation
At the principal level, your influence on team structure, tooling decisions, and hiring process design is a negotiable part of the offer. Confirm what decisions you'll own before anchoring on a number, since scope shapes both your comp ceiling and your day-to-day leverage.
Principal Technical Recruiter Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most principal technical recruiters?
The most active employers for principal technical recruiters right now are Amazon, Capital One, and WD, and the most openings are in Virginia, New York, and Washington, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand tends to concentrate at companies scaling their engineering org past a certain headcount threshold.
How many principal technical recruiter jobs are remote?
About 100% of principal technical recruiter openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting broad flexibility at this seniority level. Roles focused on strategic program ownership and cross-functional partnership tend to have the highest remote availability, while positions tied to specific site buildouts or new office launches typically require more in-person presence.
How do you become a principal technical recruiter?
Start by building several years of full-cycle recruiting experience at a company that hires engineers at scale, so you develop genuine fluency with technical job families and hiring bar calibration. From there, take on scope beyond individual requisitions, such as designing interview processes, mentoring junior recruiters, or owning a critical pipeline. Principal roles go to recruiters who can operate as strategic partners to engineering leadership, not just sourcers who fill seats.
Can you get a principal technical recruiter job without direct principal-level experience?
It is possible if you can demonstrate principal-level impact in a senior recruiter title. Hiring managers look for evidence that you've owned hard-to-fill pipelines end to end, influenced hiring process design, and built relationships with VP or director-level stakeholders. Document any work you did above your formal title, such as running a hiring committee, training interviewers, or leading a critical search, and lead with those examples in your resume and interviews.
What does the principal technical recruiter interview process look like?
Most processes include a recruiter screen, a hiring manager conversation focused on scope and strategic fit, a cross-functional panel with engineering and people leadership, and a practical component such as a sourcing case study or a discussion of a past complex search. Expect questions about how you've influenced hiring bar decisions, handled competing priorities across multiple requisitions, and partnered with skeptical or hard-to-reach hiring managers. Final rounds often include a presentation or structured debrief.
Where can I find and apply to principal technical recruiter jobs?
You can find and apply to principal technical recruiter jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from companies across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience level, industry focus, and preferred location or remote setup, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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