Talent Acquisition Manager

Talent Acquisition Manager Southeast Connections (SEC)

Schedule Full time

Job Type Permanent

Description

Southeast Connections is seeking an experienced Talent Acquisition Manager to lead and support recruiting activities across South Gas Regions.

This is a hands‑on leadership role responsible for the day‑to‑day effectiveness of the recruiting function, including recruiting team leadership, skilled‑trades hiring, recruiting technology, sourcing platforms, social media, vendor management, budgeting, reporting, and talent acquisition metrics
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The Talent Acquisition Manager will work closely with operational leaders to understand workforce needs, establish recruiting priorities, address hiring challenges, and ensure the recruiting team provides responsive and effective support to the business.

The ideal candidate brings direct experience recruiting skilled trades and field professionals
, understands the urgency of high‑volume operational hiring, and knows how to build strong relationships with hiring managers and field leadership.

• Lead and support day‑to‑day recruiting activities across assigned South Gas Regions.
• Manage, coach, and develop members of the Talent Acquisition team.
• Conduct regular recruiting team meetings to review priorities, hiring activity, challenges, and performance.
• Partner closely with operational leaders and hiring managers to understand current and future workforce requirements.
• Support recruiting for skilled trades, field operations, and other business‑critical positions
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• Ensure recruiters remain responsive to candidates, hiring managers, and changing operational priorities.
• Monitor recruiting pipelines and identify potential bottlenecks, aging requisitions, sourcing challenges, and hiring risks.
• Oversee the effective use and administration of Fountain and other recruiting technology.
• Manage and evaluate job boards, social media, sourcing tools, and job‑search platforms.
• Develop and support sourcing strategies for difficult‑to‑fill and high‑volume positions.
• Monitor recruiting activity and results through established KPIs, dashboards, and recruiting metrics
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• Analyze recruiting data to identify trends, performance gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
• Prepare recruiting reports and communicate hiring progress, challenges, and results to leadership.
• Support Talent Acquisition budgeting, expense management, and forecasting.
• Review and manage recruiting‑related vendor invoices and expenditures
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• Manage relationships with external recruiting vendors and service providers as needed.
• Help ensure recruiting resources and advertising investments are used effectively.
• Promote consistent recruiting processes and practices across regions.
• Identify opportunities to improve recruiting workflows, candidate experience, hiring‑manager responsiveness, and overall hiring efficiency.
• Support recruiting campaigns, hiring events, and other workforce initiatives as business needs require.
• Travel to operational locations, hiring events, meetings, and other business locations as needed.

• Bachelor's degree is required with 5+ years' experience or 10 years,in lieu of a degree.
• Demonstrated experience in Talent Acquisition, recruiting, or staffing
  , including experience leading or supervising recruiters.
• Prior experience recruiting skilled trades and field‑based professionals is required
  .
• Experience supporting high‑volume and geographically dispersed hiring environments strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of sourcing, candidate pipeline development, interviewing, selection, and recruiting operations.
• Experience working directly with operational leaders and hiring managers.
• Experience with applicant tracking systems and recruiting technology;
  Fountain experience is highly…