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Infrastructure Recruitment Agency
Infrastructure plays a fundamental role in society, driving economic growth and enhancing quality of life. The sector relies on skilled professionals from diverse backgrounds to manage complex projects, ensure regulatory compliance, and drive innovation. Now, more than ever, finding the right talent is critical.
At First Recruitment Group, we have more than 20 years of experience in successfully recruiting highly skilled professionals for contract and permanent roles across water, rail, and construction.
Our proven expertise ensures you’re connected with the best talent to meet project needs and ensure long-term success.
Our Process
How we’ll help you
✓ Hiring
We help you find the perfect candidates:
Permanent Hire: Our expert team handles the entire candidate search and selection process. We advertise across multiple platforms (media, social networks), conduct thorough employment checks, and ensure the highest quality candidates.
Time-Hire / Project Resourcing: Whether you need a contract, temporary hire, or project-based resources, our flexible solutions include everything from candidate search and selection to complete project resource management.
Head-Hunting: We go above and beyond to find the right candidate, even if they’re not actively looking for a new role. Our head-hunting service includes candidate mapping, identification, direct approach, and shortlist generation.
✓ Taking the hassle off your hands
As well as searching for and supplying your next big hire, helping with interviews and offer negotiation, we also have a friendly Contractor Care Team who ensure all of our contractors are happy in their new roles
✓ Dedicated account manager
You’ll be assigned a dedicated account manager who will be your main point of contact, ensuring a seamless recruitment process. From search and selection to onboarding and payroll, your account manager handles everything, including:
- Regular check-ins to understand and refine your hiring needs
- Pre-screening and shortlisting candidates who match your criteria
- Managing candidate feedback, salary negotiations, and employment agreements on your behalf
- Providing ongoing reporting and updates to keep you informed every step of the way
At First Recruitment Group, we take the stress out of recruitment, allowing you to focus on your core business while we handle everything else.
✓ Payroll
Our sister company, Operam Managed Solutions, enables seamless contractor payroll management. We use state-of-the-art vendor management systems to ensure full compliance and smooth payroll management, and we provide real-time visibility into your workforce.
Visit Operam Managed Solutions to find out more.
✓ Worldwide database
We have a worldwide database of highly skilled industry professionals. We’ve sourced talent through every avenue, including industry events, forums, job boards, networking, social media and specialised recruitment software to ensure you have access to the best candidates.
✓ International expertise
We have offices and strategic partners based all across the globe, adding tremendous value to your recruitment process. We keep you informed and stay ahead of the curve through global industry benchmarking, salary surveys, market intelligence and regular updates on employment legislation.
We also completely handle mobilising your new employee or contractor, arranging visas and work permits, finding accommodation, organising medical insurance, and conducting substance testing and inoculations, all before the assignment begins.
✓ Accreditations
First Recruitment Group is accredited to ISO9001 quality standards, is a member of APSCo, abiding by its strict code of conduct, and is accredited by Investors in People.
Our recruitment processes fully comply with GDPR regulations, and our payments comply with relevant tax regulations in every country we operate.
Our Infrastructure Industries
Specialised talent for water infrastructure, from treatment plant operators to hydraulic engineers, supporting operations from supply systems to waste management.
Skilled rail professionals, from track engineers to signalling experts, with experience in overground, underground, DLR, and tram networks.
Experienced professionals for construction projects of all sizes, from construction managers and on-site engineers to project managers and quantity surveyors.
Start your career in Infrastructure
Looking to pursue a career in infrastructure? The sector offers a gateway into diverse, rewarding career paths where your work directly impacts communities, drives sustainability and builds the world around us.
The industry is vast, with hundreds of opportunities across water, rail and construction to be a part of.
Discover what it’s like to work in infrastructure - explore our infrastructure jobs today.
International Reach
Our presence is worldwide, with strategic partners all across the continent.
Would you like to know more about our Infrastructure recruitment services? Please call +44 (0) 1925 907000 or email recruit@firstrg.com. We are happy to help.
