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Your Trusted Recruitment Partner for the Built Environment

From individual hires to large-scale project mobilisation, Skilled Careers provides specialist recruitment solutions across Construction, Property and Engineering.

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We build long-term partnerships with contractors, consultancies, and developers. Working across 11 specialist areas, our teams connect organisations with the skilled professionals they need – from interim and contract roles through to senior leadership.

Our experienced team takes the time to understand the role you’re looking to fill: the project, the team, the salary, the timescale, and the kind of person you want.

From there, our construction recruitment specialists source and screen candidates, keeping you updated throughout.

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Recruitment Solutions That Scale With Your Business

Whether you're filling a single specialist role or mobilising an entire project team, our solutions are designed to support every stage of your hiring journey.

Permanent Recruitment

Our permanent recruitment services are designed to help you find high-quality candidates for long-term roles within your organisation. We handle the entire recruitment process, from sourcing and screening to interview coordination and final placement.

Our goal is to match good-fit candidates with the right skills and experience, to your company’s culture and values. This service is ideal for companies looking to build a stable, long-term workforce.

Contract & Freelance Recruitment

Contract and temporary staffing works best when your hiring demand is urgent, project-based, or likely to change. We provide access to screened candidates across the construction, property, and engineering sectors, including labour, trades, technical staff, commercial teams, and project support.

We handle the candidate search, screening, rate conversations, and relevant employment admin. You get a faster way to bring in capable people.

Executive search

Our executive search service finds senior leaders who can drive your company’s vision and strategy forward. We use a thorough and confidential search process to identify top-tier talent, often reaching out to candidates who may not be actively seeking new opportunities.

Our consultants work closely with your leadership team to understand the role’s requirements and deliver the highest-calibre candidates ready to take on strategic leadership positions.

Project mobilisation

If your company is undertaking a large-scale project, our project mobilisation service helps you assemble the right teams of specialists quickly and efficiently. Whether it’s a construction project or any other large initiative, we recruit highly skilled professionals to meet your project’s specific needs.

From project initiation to completion, we make sure you have the right talent needed to your project on time and within budget.

Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)

When your internal team needs more recruitment capacity, outsourcing can take the pressure off. We can step in to support candidate sourcing, screening, market outreach, interview scheduling, feedback, offers, and onboarding.

It works well for high-volume hiring, project mobilisation, regional growth, or specialist vacancies that need more than an advert. You keep control of the final decisions, while we handle the time-heavy parts of the recruitment process.

Managed Services (MSP)

Our managed recruitment service is designed for employers who need regular access to temporary, contract, or freelance talent. We help coordinate the recruitment process, manage candidate flow, support compliance, and keep communication clear across the hiring chain.

It’s a great option for contractors, consultancies, and developers who need flexible labour but don’t want the supplier headache that often comes with it. You get one team keeping the detail organised.

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Confidence Through Compliance

The right hire is only the right hire when they're fully qualified, fully compliant and ready to work.

Our compliance specialists verify professional qualifications, certifications and right-to-work requirements before placement, helping clients reduce risk and maintain project momentum.

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What happens when we step in

"I have worked with Skilled Careers on various roles over the years. I find their approach highly professional and they know their market very well. They engage with their candidates and always keep them informed and communicate with them throughout the process. I have always found the calibre of Skilled Careers’ candidates to be consistently of a high standard and all the Consultants I have dealt with are transparent and a pleasure to deal with."
Recruitment Advisor – Facilities Management
"Having worked with Skilled Careers since 2014 I have always found them to be diligent and attentive. They consistently provide a good calibre of candidate for our design and technical roles which more often than not lead to employment offers being made. I would not hesitate in recommending their services to the remainder of the Group."
Associate Director – Construction Main Contractor
"I worked closely with Skilled Careers for a number of years and was continually impressed by the quality of the candidates they put forward and their thoroughness in reviewing the candidates before sending them through. I could not recommend them more."
Director – Construction and Civil Engineering Main Contractor
"Just want to say Skilled Careers really came through for me this week. They got me guys in London and Kent at really short notice. And of particular importance the candidates were really good and of a high quality."
Partner Delivery Manager – National Utility Contractor

FAQs

Hiring in construction, property and engineering takes time, especially when the role is specialist, urgent, or tied to a live project. We help take that pressure off your internal team by handling the search, screening, candidate conversations, interview coordination, and offer process.

As a construction recruitment agency, we’re already speaking with candidates across the built environment. That gives you access to people who may not be applying through job boards, but could be right for your vacancy.

Our job is to save you time, cut down weak CVs, and introduce candidates who have been properly checked against your brief.

A temporary worker is supplied to your business for a set period, assignment, or project requirement. In construction, engineering, and property, this could include trades and labour, site support, technical staff, commercial teams, supervisors, managers, or project-based specialists.

We manage the entire recruitment process, speak with suitable temporary contractors, confirm availability, and agree the rate with you before the assignment begins.

Temporary recruitment is often a good option when you need experienced people quickly, but don’t want to commit to a permanent hire straight away.

A permanent employee is hired directly into your business on an ongoing contract. They become part of your team, and your business takes responsibility for their salary, holiday, sickness pay, and other employment costs.

We provide permanent construction recruitment services across construction, property, and engineering, helping employers find long-term hires for commercial, technical, operational, management, and leadership roles.

Before we introduce anyone, we look at the job brief, salary, location, project requirements, team fit, and long-term potential. A permanent hire should do more than fill a seat.

Our construction recruitment specialists work in dedicated markets, so they understand the roles, salary expectations, and candidate pools behind each vacancy. That’s important when you’re hiring for roles where a generic search won’t cut it.

We take the brief, speak with relevant candidates, assess experience, check suitability, and prepare candidates properly before the interview. You get a shortlist with thought behind it, rather than CVs sent across just to fill your inbox.

We also help with the final stages of the process, including feedback, salary conversations, offer details, notice periods and start dates.

Contract recruitment is often about speed, but it still needs care. If someone is joining a site, project team, or technical department for a short period, they still need the right experience, availability, rate expectations, and attitude.

We supply contract and temporary staff across construction, engineering, and property, including trades and labour, technical roles, site teams, commercial roles, and management positions.

Our consultants check the details before candidates are introduced, so you’re not spending time on people who are unavailable or not a good fit for the role.

A temp-to-perm arrangement starts with a candidate working for your business on a temporary basis. If the person is a good fit for the role and the team, you might choose to offer them a permanent position.

This can work well in construction, property, and engineering when you want to see how someone performs before making a long-term offer.

We’ll explain the terms clearly before the assignment begins, including any fee that may apply if the temporary worker becomes permanent within an agreed period.

Temporary staff are charged at a pre-agreed hourly rate, plus VAT. The rate depends on the role, location, contract length, skills required, experience level, and current market conditions.

We confirm the rate with you before the assignment begins, so you know the cost before anyone starts. The agreed rate can also include employment administration connected to the worker, like PAYE, National Insurance, and holiday pay where applicable.

For temporary construction recruitment, this gives you a clear cost, a faster route to skilled people, and less admin for your internal team

Send us the vacancy details or speak with one of our specialist recruitment consultants. We’ll ask about the role, project, location, salary or rate, start date, required experience, team setup, and any compliance requirements.

From there, we’ll recommend the right route, whether that’s permanent recruitment, contract staffing, temporary recruitment, recruitment outsourcing, managed recruitment service support or executive search for construction hiring.

Once the brief is clear, we’ll start speaking with suitable candidates and keep you updated as the search develops.

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