GPC is a specialist recruitment consultancy in Dublin with 25+ years’ experience in Ireland, the UK and internationally. We’re hiring a Recruitment Consultant to join our dynamic team in Sandyford.

This role suits an ambitious, confident person who thrives in a fast-paced, target-driven environment. Ideal for someone from a people-facing background (Hospitality, Education, Personal Training, Sales, Recruitment Coordination) looking for a career move.

Role: 

• The successful Recruitment Consultant will manage the full 360 recruitment process.
• Business development with new and existing clients
• Manage your own client database
• Source and interview candidates
• Creating job specifications for client’s roles.
• Receive full training and mentoring from senior consultants & the MD

Requirements:

• Degree preferred (or equivalent experience)
• 1+ year in an office or recruitment environment
• A background in a people facing role such as Sales, Recruitment Coordination, Hospitality, Education or Personal Training highly considered.
• Strong people skills and communication (written & verbal)
• Confident on the phone and with cold calling
• Organised, motivated, results-driven, with strong attention to detail
• Have a strong sense of urgency

Salary & Benefits:

• Basic + uncapped commission (OTE €40k–€60k+)
• Fast-track career opportunities and hands on mentorship
• 23 days leave (25 after 2 years)
• Pension, mobile phone
• Annual performance bonus
• Collaborative, supportive team with regular social events
• Monthly, Quarterly & Annual targets with rewards

If you are looking for a challenging and rewarding career as Recruitment Consultant, please send your CV to Caroline.

The Personal Assistant will ensure the efficient and smooth running of the day-to-day operations. This role will suit a steady and adaptable individual with excellent time management, attention to detail and ability to multitask.

GPC is a specialist recruitment consultancy seeking an experienced Personal Assistant for our Sandyford office (just off the M50, near the Green Luas Line). As Personal Assistant you will ensure the smooth day-to-day running of the office and support the management team.

Responsibilities:

• As Personal Assistant you will support the MD and the management team with day to day administration duties.
• Prepare expense reports.
• Accounts / Bookkeeping
• Coordinate advertising and marketing (including LinkedIn).
• Organise and prioritise workload to maximise efficiency
• Assist with onboarding new employees and HR admin (annual leave, sick leave, reviews)

Requirements:

• Level 8/9 Degree
• 7+ years’ experience as Personal Assistant, Office Manager, Executive Assistant / Office Administrator in Ireland.
• Strong office administration and management experience
• Excellent attention to detail and communication skills
• Highly organised, proactive, able to manage multiple tasks
• Have a sense of urgency.
• Strong IT skills (MS Office and Xero)
• Full driving license and own car

Salary & Benefits:

• €40k-€50k+ (DOE)
• 23 days leave (25 days after 2 years)
• Annual performance bonus
• Pension scheme & mobile phone
• Prime South Dublin location (10 minutes from Green Luas Line)
• High autonomy with strong support and mentoring
• Collaborative, supportive team culture

If you are a Personal Assistant looking for a challenging and rewarding career within a recruitment company, please send your CV to Caroline Herlihy.

Role:

• Setting out
• Overseeing building work
• Site surveying
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office and AutoCAD.
• Checking technical designs and drawings to ensure that they are followed correctly
• Assisting the procurement department
• Completing labour and plant returns
• General site civil engineering daily tasks

Requirements:

• Must hold a degree in Civil Engineering or similar.
• Must have a minimum 3 years’ experience on construction projects in Ireland or the UK
• Must have knowledge setting out equipment including GPS, site engineer level, total station.
• Excellent MS Office skills
• Full EU Drivers Licence

Salary

• Salary circa €55k – €65k DOE
• 24 days annual leave
• Vehicle/Vehicle allowance
• Excellent benefits package

If you are a Site Engineer considering a career move, please feel free to send your CV or contact Jack Owens on 086 065 3873 for a confidential discussion. GPC will not send any applicants CV’s to clients without a full discussion and prior consent. GPC is a specialist construction recruitment consultancy based in Dublin with 25 years’ experience working in the recruitment of construction professionals within Ireland and Internationally.

Responsibilities:

• Reading & interpreting drawings for layouts, materials measure etc.
• Management of subcontractors/groundworkers
• Planning works in an efficient manner to ensure programme targets are achieved
• Liaise with client’s representatives/Design Team members as appropriate
• Ensure that all works are carried out to the highest Health and Safety standards.
• Ensure work is carried out to the highest of quality standards.
• Ordering and control of materials on site.

Requirements:

• Civil Engineering Degree
• 4+ years’ experience
• Strong interpersonal skills, written and oral communication skills
• Self-motivating to deliver on safety, quality & programme
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Full driving license

Package:

• €65k – €75k
• Excellent Career Progression Opportunities
• Benefits package

If you are a Site Engineer considering a career move, please feel to send your CV or contact Jack Owens at j.owens@gpcireland.com or on 086 065 3873 for a confidential discussion.  GPC will not send any applicants CV’s to clients without a full discussion and prior consent. GPC is a specialist construction recruitment consultancy based in Dublin and has more than 26 years’ experience working in the recruitment of construction professionals within Ireland and Internationally.

Requirements

• Engineering Degree/Diploma
• Proficiency in use of Engineers Level, AutoCad, Total Station
• 5+ years’ experience
• Strong interpersonal skills, written and oral communication skills
• Self-motivating to deliver on safety, quality & programme
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to lead a team
• Full driving license

Package

• Excellent salary circa €65k -€75k
• Strong benefits package
• Excellent career progression

If you are a Senior Engineer considering a career move, please feel to send your CV or contact Jack Owens at J.owens@gpcireland.com for a confidential discussion.  GPC will not send any applicants CV’s to clients without a full discussion and prior consent. GPC is a specialist construction recruitment consultancy based in Dublin and has more than 25 years’ experience working in the recruitment of construction professionals within Ireland and Internationally.

The continuing uncertainty surrounding the eventual outcome of Brexit shows some encouraging signs of a slowdown in the inflationary curve of the domestic property market sales in Ireland, and Dublin in particular in recent months. Recent surveys have shown that the year on year figure has slowed to 2% increase in prices across the board in the past year. This figure also applies to the rental market in Dublin.

Demand for Professional Expertise:

The demand for Architects, Civil Engineers, Mechanical & Electrical Building Services Engineers and Project Managers continues apace, with no sign of a let up  in the requirement for these professionals with all levels of experience and expertise. The uncertainty in the UK with Brexit, and the current, inevitable crash out in ten weeks time, seems to be fuelling the desire for many Irish professionals to return home to more secure job prospects in the longer term, with some stability finally emerging  in the Irish domestic market place.

Economic Immediate and Mid Term Prospects:

No one can predict the economic outcome for Ireland resulting from Brexit, however, when all the hyperbole settles down, and the longer term prospects are examined, there is no doubt that Ireland’s economic forecasts do appear to be very upbeat and encouraging, when compared with the medium to long term prospects for the UK.

If you are considering a career move and wish to discuss the current opportunities within Architecture, Engineering , Quantity Surveying and Construction, please send your cv to c.herlihy@gpcireland.com or call Caroline on +353 86 8055216.

The official opening of the latest stretch of the M18 motorway, linking Gort and Tuam took place last week. This represents yet another essential upgrade in the road network throughout Ireland. Civil and Transportation Engineers and other Construction Professionals contributed essential expertise to the project which cost in the region of €500 million.

Civil Infrastructure

Increasingly, Architects and Engineers, whether Civil Engineers or Structural Engineers, are involved in the preparation of infrastructure works for estate development works for major housing projects. In recent interviews, Architects and Engineers pointed out that site development works and pre-construction work, as a prelude to construction work on site commencement, were essential to speed up the programme for supply of housing.

Planning delays

A recent survey of Architects and Engineers highlighted the very significant bottlenecks in the overall Planning process which is causing delays in the Construction delivery process. Architects have expressed their frustration in the very slow progress of the pre-construction process, due to the acute shortage of Architects, Engineers and Town Planners in the Local Authorities. Unless we address these issues, the current state of affairs will not alter.

If you are considering a career move and wish to discuss the current opportunities within Architecture, Engineering, Quantity Surveying and Construction, please contact c.herlihy@gpcireland.com or call Caroline on + 353 86 8055216.

Architects & Architectural Technicians:

The number of major projects moved on site has increased by 15% from 939 to 1,342 in 2016, while the volume of projects moving on site increased 27% in 2016 to over 2,800, and the value of projects that received Planning Permission was up by 37% over 2015. The value of projects granted permission has more than doubled in the past two years, with Residential and Commercial sectors being the leading two in terms of collective project value.

Demand for Architects & Architectural Technicians:

There is a severe shortfall in the number of professionals being recruited in the marketplace at present. Not since the heady days at the height of the Celtic Tiger has the demand been so acute. The Government has finally woken up to the kind of life style requirements essential to attracting overseas professionals to return home. Uppermost is the requirement for reasonably priced, available housing stock in accessible locations. Affordable housing in locations, far removed from places of employment, no longer cut the mustard.

Mortgage Demand:

The Central Bank introduced prudent, but very harsh, criteria for would be purchasers in 2015, as a measure to slow down the excesses of the previous loose regulatory environment which obtained during the first decade of the century. The market suffered a marked slowdown in demand for houses, particularly because of the requirement for a 20% deposit. In an effort to kickstart the residential market and the supply of housing units, the Government has devised many imaginative solutions to overcoming the “rulebook”. One of the more imaginative schemes is the introduction of the Help to Buy Scheme which was announced in Budget 2017. This applies to first time buyers, with incentives that allow buyers refunds of income tax paid over the previous four tax years to a maximum of €20,000. The scheme runs until end of year 2019 with a maximum house value of €500,000. The 20% deposit is therefore reduced to an effective 10-15% depending on house price. In addition, the grants for Home Renovation Incentive up to a total of €30,000. This incentive runs up to the end of 2018.

Mortgage Approvals:

Mortgage approvals increased by 31% in Q4 of 2016 according to the Banking Payments Federation Ireland. The report also found that during the period, 3144 mortgages were approved each month, of which nearly 48% were first time buyers. A marked increase in the underlying figures from previous periods. A total of 34,230 mortgage approvals were reported for the year 2016, with a value of €6.7 billion, a truly significant indication that the Government policies are a response to the optimistic outlook for the future of the Irish economy.

If you are considering a move back to Ireland and wish to discuss the current opportunities within the Architecture, Engineering, Quantity Surveying and Construction industries, please contact c.herlihy@gpcireland.com or call Caroline on + 353 86 8055216.