A programme under pressure
Ask how they recovered a delayed project, what they changed and what happened next.
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Delivery is a people decision.
Build a team with the judgement to keep complex projects moving — from technical coordination to cost, safety and handover.
Recruitment intelligence
Market context / 2025 annual average versus 2024
+0.5%
Annual change in EU construction production
Source, scope & methodology
Production in construction up by 0.9% in the euro area and by 1.2% in the EU
Eurostat · Published 2026-02-19
Annual-average construction production in 2025 compared with 2024. This is the February 2026 release estimate and may be revised. Production is a volume indicator spanning buildings, civil engineering and specialised construction.
What this means for a hiring brief
Look beyond the headline growth.
Modest aggregate growth makes delivery discipline a useful assessment focus—cost control, programme reliability and coordination across project teams.
PropertyTalents’ recruitment perspective on the cited research. National and sector indicators do not establish availability for a particular role.
General contractorsEngineering consultantsProject managementMEP & technical delivery
The hiring lens
Test the work. Not just the title.
Decide what the person must deliver before narrowing the search to familiar job titles.
A difficult commercial decision
Explore a real procurement, variation or contractor problem. Separate personal decisions from team results.
A clean handover
Look for evidence of commissioning, documentation, defect resolution and operational readiness.
Roles & assessment
Know what good
looks like.
Choose a hiring area to see example roles and the evidence to look for. These are recruitment priorities to discuss, not a list of current vacancies.
Example roles
Project Director
Construction Manager
What to assess
Plan this hireProgramme recovery, subcontractor coordination, safety leadership and delivery of comparable project scale.
Compensation contextCompare the role.
Compare the role.
Then compare the package.
Country, responsibility, asset scale and variable pay all change the comparison. Start with a like-for-like brief before asking for a salary range.
How we approach salary benchmarkingYour next hire
Make the brief
work harder.
Use the hiring area selected above, choose your market and take these questions into the next conversation.
What is the project value, programme and delivery model?
Is the role on the investor, consultant or contractor side?
Which technical disciplines, licences and site languages are essential?
The download is a short working brief you can edit. It does not submit an enquiry.
