Lead Recruiter

Job Description

Job Title: Lead Recruiter Job Location: Chennai, India

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We combine AtkinsRéalis project management expertise and Hitachi Energy’s deep technological knowledge to create a company dedicated to substations – we are Linxon!   Linxon is looking for an experienced Lead Recruiter to join our team in Chennai. Reporting to the Global Recruitment Manager, this role will lead end-to-end recruitment across engineering, support services and IT functions, with a strong focus on talent for transmission and distribution projects.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a high-caliber recruitment professional with deep sector knowledge and a proven track record of hiring technical talent in complex project environments. The successful candidate will bring strong market insight, stakeholder management capability and the ability to deliver recruitment strategies that support business growth.

What will you do? Lead full-cycle recruitment activity across engineering, support services and IT roles. Partner with hiring managers and business leaders to understand workforce needs and deliver effective hiring plans. Develop and execute sourcing strategies for technical and professional talent, particularly within transmission and distribution projects. Manage the end-to-end recruitment process, including briefing, sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer management and onboarding handover. Build strong talent pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill positions in the EPC and power transmission sector. Provide market intelligence, talent insights and hiring recommendations to support business decisions. Drive a positive candidate experience and promote Linxon’s employer brand in the local and wider talent market. Ensure recruitment activity is delivered efficiently, compliantly and in line with business and project timelines. Support continuous improvement in recruitment processes, tools and reporting.

Experience and Education Required: Minimum 15 years of recruitment experience, with significant exposure to transmission and distribution or related infrastructure projects. Proven expertise in recruiting for engineering, support services and IT roles. Strong understanding of technical hiring within EPC, energy, utilities or power project environments. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple stakeholders and deliver recruitment outcomes in a fast-paced business. Excellent sourcing, assessment and candidate management skills. Strong communication, influencing and relationship-building capability. Experience working with senior hiring managers and global or regional recruitment teams is preferred. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.

What we offer: In return, we offer a wide range of rewards and benefits, 20 days Privilege Leave, 13 days Emergency leave and 14 Public holidays per year.

Medical Insurance, Life Insurance and Career Progression

When it comes to diversity and inclusion, we see things differently at Linxon - we encourage applications from people of all races, ages, genders, religions, sexual orientations and more - so whoever you are, we hope you’ll see things our way, too.

About Linxon Shaping energy solutions to empower sustainable connectivity.

We combine AtkinsRéalis project management expertise and Hitachi Energy’s deep technological knowledge to create a company dedicated to substations – we are Linxon. Linxon’s vision is to deliver the best market offering for turnkey substation projects through world-class power technologies and delivering the highest level of competence in managing infrastructure projects.

As a leading engineering company, we help our customers with turnkey substation solutions in the field of power transmission, renewable energy, and transportation. In this role, you will have the opportunity to be part of a new company as it evolves and help shape it for the future. If you like new challenges, have an entrepreneurial spirit, and are interested in working with other motivated professionals with expertise in the Substations EPC business, then this is the new opportunity for you.

To know more about the Linxon please click on the link below. Join the future with Linxon GETS Chennai, India  

Worker Type Employee Job Type Regular At Linxon, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.