Principal Recruitment Consultant – Engineering | DeepTech
- Build and grow a specialist Engineering recruitment practice focused on Deep Tech sectors.
- Develop talent strategies for scaling Deep Tech businesses and drive growth across permanent and contract recruitment.
- Establish long-term partnerships with Engineering leaders and technical executives.
Job Description
Australia’s Deep Tech sector is evolving rapidly across robotics, advanced manufacturing, defence, energy, MedTech, industrial automation and next-generation hardware technologies.
Onset Group is looking for a Principal Consultant to build and grow a specialist Engineering recruitment practice focused across Software, Hardware, Firmware, Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Process and Systems Engineering.
This role is ideal for a recruiter who enjoys technically complex markets and wants to work closely with some of Australia’s most innovative engineering businesses and research led organisations.
You will have the autonomy to build a genuinely differentiated market presence across one of the most strategically important sectors in the Australian economy.
The opportunity
- Build long-term partnerships with Engineering leaders, Founders and technical executives
- Recruit across complex and highly specialised engineering environments
- Drive growth across permanent and contract recruitment
- Develop talent strategies for scaling Deep Tech businesses
- Build market visibility across advanced engineering and technology ecosystems
- Help shape a specialist practice with significant long-term growth potential
Here’s what people actually stay for:
- A high-performance, low-ego team (many with 10+ years in the game)
- Market-leading tools, AI systems, and a delivery, marketing and research team so you can spend more time where it counts
- Tailored growth - whether you want to lead a team or deepen your niche
- Regular knowledge sharing with founders, advisors, and big-name clients
- Industry-leading commission and incentives
You’ll fit right in if you:
- Have 4+ years of 360 recruitment experience (ideally in Australia)
- Know your niche or are ready to define it - Recruitment experience within Deep Tech, Engineering or Technology
- Strong business development and relationship management capability
- Commercial drive and market curiosity
- Value culture, outcomes, and long-term impact
This is an opportunity to build something substantial within a market that is only becoming more critical to Australia’s future.
If you want to surround yourself with top performers, and actually shape the future of your market - this is your shot.
📩 Apply here or email contact@theonset.com.au for a confidential chat. Let’s just start the conversation.
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