Senior Recruiter - Skilled Trades

job summary

the senior recruiter is a key member of the talent acquisition team responsible for developing and executing recruiting strategies that attract, engage, and hire high-quality talent across the organization. This role will manage the full recruitment lifecycle for professional, operational, and highly skilled technical positions, with a particular focus on skilled trades and the mechanical systems/mep industry. This position will also play an important role in strengthening recruiting processes, leveraging technology and recruiting analytics, and continuously improving the candidate and hiring-manager experience.

• manage full-cycle recruiting for assigned roles from intake through offer negotiation and close.
• develop targeted recruiting strategies aligned to role requirements, market conditions, geography, compensation, and talent availability.
• recruit for hard-to-fill skilled-trades and mechanical systems roles, including hvac, plumbing, electrical, controls/building automation, service, and construction positions.
• build proactive candidate pipelines for current and anticipated hiring needs.
• source and engage active and passive candidates through direct outreach, referrals, networking, industry associations, trade organizations, social media, and professional platforms.
• assess candidates for technical qualifications, relevant experience, leadership capability, communication skills, cultural alignment, and overall role fit.
• present qualified candidates to hiring managers with concise summaries of experience, qualifications, compensation expectations, and key considerations.

• partner with hiring managers and business leaders to define role requirements, ideal candidate profiles, interview plans, decision criteria, and hiring timelines.
• lead recruiting intake meetings and align stakeholders on expectations, process, responsibilities, and timelines.
• provide hiring managers with labor-market, talent-availability, sourcing, compensation, and recruiting-process guidance.
• maintain strong hiring-manager relationships through regular communication, recruiting updates, and performance reporting.
• identify and resolve barriers that may delay hiring decisions or candidate progression.

• support recruiting initiatives, workforce planning activities, and talent acquisition projects as assigned.
• represent the organization in college, trade school, apprenticeship, and community recruiting initiatives.
• share recruiting best practices and provide guidance to talent acquisition team members.

• bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, organizational development, or a related field, or combination of education and demonstrated experience.

• 2-5 years of progressive recruiting experience, with demonstrated success managing full-cycle recruitment

• full life cycle recruiting, sourcing, candidate pipelining, business stakeholder communications, applicant tracking systems (ats), ms office suite
• demonstrated experience recruiting within the hvac, mechanical contracting, mep, construction, facilities services, building automation, or industrial services industries.
• in depth understanding of skilled-trades recruiting experience; inclusive of hvac service technicians, pipe fitters, plumbers, electricians, controls technicians, project managers, service managers, operations leaders, or other skilled technical talent.
• ability to recruit within a multi-location or multi-business-unit organization.
• proficiency with ukg pro recruiting, ukg ready, or comparable enterprise applicant tracking systems.
• advanced sourcing…