HR & Talent Acquisition Lead

Faladeg is an integrated engineering enterprise delivering multidisciplinary engineering, EPC/EPCM, technology, and lifecycle asset solutions across key sectors.

We are building a high-performance team of exceptional professionals committed to solving complex engineering challenges and delivering world-class outcomes.

Location: Lagos

Role

• You will contribute to powering progress through excellence, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Build and lead the talent, organisational, and performance systems of a high-performance engineering, EPC, energy, technology, and infrastructure company.
• This is a strategic leadership role responsible for building the workforce, leadership capability, and organisational systems that will power an engineering enterprises.
• You will establish the workforce, leadership capability, and organisational foundations required to attract exceptional professionals, build high-performing teams, develop future leaders, and enable sustainable business growth.

Core Responsibilities

• Establish scalable recruitment, assessment, onboarding, performance management, leadership development, and succession systems.
• Establish HR governance, policies, compliance frameworks, and people operations that support sustainable growth.
• Partner with business leaders on workforce planning, organisational design, capability development, and organisational effectiveness.
• Measure and improve recruitment effectiveness, workforce capability, organisational performance, and talent outcomes through data-driven insights.
• Strengthen employer brand, organisational culture, employee engagement, and leadership effectiveness.
• Develop and execute the company's workforce, talent acquisition, and organisational capability strategy.
• Build and maintain a high-quality talent pipeline aligned with current and future business priorities.
• Lead end-to-end recruitment across engineering, project delivery, commercial, operations, and corporate functions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, Industrial Relations, or a related discipline.
• Proven success building and leading talent acquisition or people functions within engineering, EPC, energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, construction, or similarly technical environments.
• Strong expertise in workforce planning, organisational development, performance management, talent acquisition, and HR governance.
• High integrity, professionalism, sound judgement, execution discipline, and ownership mentality.
• Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, communication, analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to recruit exceptional technical, commercial, operational, and leadership professionals.
• Minimum Experience: 7–10+ years

Technical Proficiency
Demonstrated expertise in:

• HR governance, employment practices, policy development, compliance, people operations, HRIS/ATS platforms, workforce analytics, and data-driven decision-making.
• Talent acquisition strategy, executive search, technical recruitment, employer branding, workforce planning, and talent pipeline development.
• Competency-based assessment, interview design, onboarding, performance management, leadership development, organisational design, and succession planning.

Ideal Candidate Mindset:

• Raises organisational capability through systems, accountability, and execution.
• Makes disciplined, evidence-based decisions with speed and sound judgement.
• Builds organisations, not just recruitment processes.
• Recognises exceptional talent and develops future leaders.
• Motivated by building one of Africa's leading engineering enterprises and creating lasting organisational value.

What We Offer

• A high-performance engineering environment with strong compensation upside, project rewards, profit participation, and fast-track leadership opportunities in a rapidly scaling infrastructure and energy company.