Industry: Facility Management

Location: Chennai

Function: Talent Acquisition

Role Purpose To lead end-to-end blue-collar recruitment for multiple facility management sites in Chennai, ensuring timely manpower availability, effective hiring strategies and fulfilment of operational staffing requirements.

Key Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end blue-collar recruitment for facility management operations.
Manage high-volume hiring for housekeeping, security, technical staff, pantry, office support and other frontline roles.
Partner with Operations and Site Teams to understand manpower requirements and ensure timely fulfilment.
Develop and manage sourcing channels, including local consultants, vendors, referrals and job portals.
Build a robust candidate pipeline to support current site mobilisation and replacement hiring.
Manage and drive recruitment teams, vendors and hiring partners to achieve defined targets.




Monitor recruitment metrics such as TAT, joining ratios, cost per hire and offer dropouts.
Ensure proper documentation, background verification and smooth onboarding of candidates.

Desired Candidate Profile
Graduate / MBA in Human Resources preferred.
510 years of experience in Talent Acquisition, with significant exposure to blue-collar hiring.
Must have experience working with a Facility Management company.
Robust experience in high-volume recruitment of frontline and site-level workforce.
Good understanding of Chennai's local labour market and blue-collar sourcing channels.
Experience managing recruitment teams, vendors and manpower agencies.
Strong stakeholder management, execution and team leadership skills.

📌 Frontline Hiring Lead Blue Collar Recruitment Chennai (India)
🏢 Sodexo
📍 India