Please note: This role will be initially based in Spotswood, with our office relocating to South Melbourne mid-year
Make it yours.
Experience the excitement of building a career in an evolving construction business where people and performance make amazing things happen.
This is Symal
Symal is a trusted partner in the building and construction industry.
We're an evolving and cohesive group of businesses offering fully integrated civil solutions across diverse sectors. Our group capabilities include self-performing civil infrastructure on large multi-million projects, plant and equipment hire, an Indigenous contractor, a waste resource and recovery business, and an electrical and renewable energy contracting business.
Together, we believe in fostering partnerships today to create a better tomorrow.
Your impact:
By shaping a high-performing recruitment function, you will strengthen our workforce, enhance our employer brand, and contribute to Symal’s long-term success.
Your every day:
- Lead from the front, managing key recruitment processes while mentoring and coaching a team of recruiters.
- Manage end-to-end recruitment for key roles, partnering with hiring managers to source and secure top talent.
- Drive collaboration, ensuring the team delivers a seamless and high-quality hiring experience.
- Support team development, providing guidance on sourcing strategies, best practices, and stakeholder engagement.
- Optimise recruitment processes, balancing speed, quality, and candidate experience.
- Champion employer branding, leveraging creative attraction strategies to position Symal as an employer of choice.
- Leverage recruitment data, tracking performance metrics to drive continuous improvement.
Who are you?
- Proven experience in talent acquisition, ideally within construction, engineering, or related industries.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence and advise.
- A passion for innovation, candidate experience, and continuous improvement.
- A hands-on approach with a passion for both recruitment delivery and team leadership.
- Experience in employer branding and talent attraction strategies.
A career with us
Symal is an equal opportunity employer. Our teams are made up of individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, with aligned ways of working, enabling us to overcome any challenge, advance our careers and outperform competitors.
Staff perks and benefits offered to build an engaged and talented workforce include:
- Tailored professional development opportunities for career advancement
- Opportunities to work on a wide variety of exciting and complex projects
- Annual social calendar of fun activities and events
- A corporate social responsibility program for the chance to support not-for-profits and social enterprises
- Bonus leave days, including your birthday off and a day of wellbeing
- Hundreds of discounts at leading retailers with our employee perk program
- Access to free curated health and wellness content
- Bupa corporate healthcare benefits
- Access to 24/7 confidential support from a nurse or wellbeing expert
We’re committed to ensuring that our recruitment process is fair, inclusive, free from bias and accessible for all candidates.
We are an inclusive workplace and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, veterans, and individuals from diverse cultural and life experiences are encouraged to apply.
