Join the Team at Wingman Recruitment

Recruitment Consultant (Manufacturing)
Remote | Full-Time
Australian Business Hours
Industry: Recruitment / Manufacturing, Engineering & Construction

About Wingman Recruitment

Wingman Recruitment partners with growing Australian businesses by providing experienced remote recruitment professionals who become an extension of their teams.

At Wingman, you're not just another remote worker—you become part of a long-term team with structured onboarding, ongoing support, and genuine career growth opportunities.

About the Role

We're looking for a highly organised and proactive Recruitment Consultant (Manufacturing) to support an Australian recruitment professional across recruitment administration, campaign coordination, business development research, and candidate pipeline building.

This is a hands-on role where accuracy, consistency and timeliness are critical.
You'll support the recruitment process from campaign preparation and job advertising through to candidate screening, interview coordination, reference checks and candidate reporting. You'll also contribute to business development research and proactive candidate pooling to help build long-term talent pipelines.

The role supports recruitment across manufacturing, engineering and construction, so you'll have the opportunity to develop specialist market knowledge while working closely with an experienced Australian recruitment team.

Key Responsibilities

Recruitment & Campaign Administration

- Prepare strategic client briefs ahead of client meetings
- Attend client briefing meetings and manage meeting recordings and transcripts
- Prepare and send Terms of Business and follow up on outstanding documentation
- Produce campaign documents using meeting transcripts, job descriptions and research
- Create and manage jobs in JobAdder once campaigns are approved
- Publish job advertisements to SEEK once authorised
- Manage daily candidate applications, including reviewing applications and updating candidate status
- Prepare and send candidate rejection communications
- Create screening scorecards using campaign documentation and approved AI tools
- Conduct resume assessments and prepare scored candidate summaries
- Send interview requests and coordinate interviews using JobAdder and Microsoft Teams
- Produce confidential candidate reports using interview transcripts and resumes
- Conduct or assist with reference checks
- Prepare formatted reference check documents
- Create interview preparation packs
- Save recruitment documents correctly and upload relevant information into JobAdder

Business Development Support

- Search SEEK, LinkedIn, Indeed and Google for companies advertising relevant roles
- Research companies across the assigned manufacturing, engineering and construction markets
- Identify key decision-makers using LinkedIn and contact research tools
- Add relevant decision-makers to LinkedIn from the recruitment team's account
- Load business development contacts into JobAdder
- Create follow-up tasks for new BD targets
- Maintain industry and market mapping records
- Keep business development information organised and up to date




- Support regular BD reviews with activity and market research summaries

Candidate Sourcing & Pipeline Development

- Send approved LinkedIn connection requests to potential candidates
- Organise candidates into job-specific and location-specific LinkedIn Recruiter projects
- Monitor LinkedIn Recruiter projects for candidates showing interest or availability
- Send approved LinkedIn InMail to engaged candidates
- Coordinate candidate conversations and calendar bookings
- Load qualified candidates into JobAdder with complete and accurate information
- Notify the recruitment consultant when recent candidates are ready for review
- Build and maintain candidate pipelines for current and future vacancies
- Support proactive sourcing across specialist industry verticals

Industry Verticals

You'll support recruitment activity across a range of manufacturing and related industry sectors, including:

- Food & FMCG
- Industrial Equipment & Machinery
- Building Products
- Heavy Vehicle Manufacturing
- Plastics, Packaging & Chemicals
- Warehousing & Logistics

Tools You'll Work With

- JobAdder — CRM and ATS
- LinkedIn Recruiter Premium — candidate sourcing and business development research
- SEEK — job advertising, candidate sourcing and BD research
- Indeed — market and business development research
- Claude — AI-assisted document production
- Otter — meeting transcription and recordings
- Aircall — calls and reference checks
- Lusha — contact and business development research
- Microsoft Outlook — email and communication
- Microsoft Teams — interviews and meetings

What We're Looking For

- Previous experience in recruitment administration, recruitment coordination, talent acquisition, or a similar role
- Strong understanding of recruitment processes and candidate management
- Experience working with an ATS or recruitment CRM
- Strong attention to detail and high level of accuracy
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
- Strong organisational and time-management skills
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines simultaneously
- Experience with candidate sourcing, screening or talent research
- Comfortable conducting online research and identifying relevant companies and decision-makers
- Confident using LinkedIn and SEEK
- Ability to work independently and follow established processes
- Strong follow-through and ownership of assigned tasks

Highly Preferred

- Previous Australian recruitment experience
- Experience using JobAdder
- Experience using LinkedIn Recruiter
- Experience with SEEK Talent Search
- Experience supporting recruitment campaigns
- Manufacturing, engineering or construction recruitment exposure
- Business development research or lead generation experience




- Experience using AI tools such as Claude for recruitment documentation
- Experience coordinating interviews and reference checks
- Experience working with Australian recruitment businesses

You'll Thrive in This Role If You Are

- Highly organised — you can keep multiple recruitment campaigns, candidates and tasks moving at once.
- Detail-oriented — you understand that small errors can impact the recruitment process.
- Proactive — you identify what needs to be done and get ahead of deadlines.
- Consistent — you can reliably execute recurring recruitment and sourcing activities.
- Resourceful — you know how to research, find information and solve problems.
- Tech-savvy — you're comfortable learning and working across multiple recruitment and productivity platforms.
- Accountable — you take ownership and follow tasks through to completion.
- Commercially aware — you understand how recruitment administration, candidate pipelines and BD research contribute to business growth.
- Independent — you can work confidently in a remote environment while staying connected with the team.
- Curious — you're interested in learning specialist industries and understanding the markets you're recruiting into.

What Success Looks Like
Within your first few months, you'll:

- Become a reliable extension of the recruitment team
- Consistently keep recruitment campaigns organised and moving
- Maintain accurate JobAdder records and recruitment documentation
- Support timely job advertising and candidate application management
- Deliver accurate candidate assessments and recruitment documentation
- Build quality candidate pipelines across relevant industry verticals
- Identify new business development opportunities through market research
- Keep BD and candidate databases current and organised
- Demonstrate strong ownership and initiative across daily recruitment activities

Success in this role isn't measured by activity alone. It's measured by accuracy, consistency, responsiveness, quality of candidate support, and your ability to make the recruitment process more efficient for the team.

Why Join Wingman Recruitment?

- 100% Remote Work
- Australian Business Hours
- Competitive Salary with Performance Bonuses
- Structured Training & Onboarding
- Long-Term Career Opportunities
- Supportive and Collaborative Team Environment
- Exposure to Australian Recruitment, Manufacturing, Engineering & Construction
- Access to Leading Recruitment Technology and AI Tools
- Clear Career Progression Opportunities

How to Apply

Ready to take the next step in your recruitment career?

Click "Apply Now" to submit your application and join a team that is passionate about connecting outstanding talent with great opportunities.

We look forward to learning more about your experience and welcoming our next team member to Wingman Recruitment.

Due to the volume of applications we receive, only candidates whose experience and qualifications closely align with the role requirements will be contacted to progress to the next stage of our recruitment process. We sincerely appreciate your interest and thank you for considering a career with Wingman Recruitment.

📌 Recruitment Consultant (Manufacturing) (Australia)
🏢 Wingman Recruitment
📍 Australia