Talent Acquisition Recruiter – Airline Operations

Immediate need for a talented Talent Acquisition Recruiter – Airline Operations Hiring
. This is a 06+ Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Fort Worth, TX (Onsite).

Job
-28846

Pay Range: $24 - $28/hour. Traveler benefits as per agency package. (Benefits vary by vendor and assignment.)

• Develop and execute strategic recruiting plans to ensure
  *** airport roles are staffed for operational readiness.
• Partner with multiple hiring managers and business leaders to understand workforce requirements, hiring priorities, and staffing gaps.
• Conduct thorough recruitment intake sessions to understand position requirements and ensure job descriptions accurately reflect the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• Manage the full-cycle recruitment process, including sourcing, screening, interviewing coordination, selection, offer management, and candidate follow-up.
• Proactively source qualified candidates through job boards, social media, professional networks, Linked In Recruiter, and other recruiting channels.
• Support hiring managers with competency-based and behavioral interviewing, providing guidance on effective and legally compliant interviewing practices.
• Facilitate the candidate selection process and influence hiring decisions to achieve agreed-upon staffing timelines and service-level expectations.
• Maintain a positive and consistent candidate experience throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
• Serve as a trusted recruiting resource for business leaders, hiring managers, TA leadership, and other internal stakeholders.
• Provide accurate and timely updates on applicant activity, requisition status, hiring progress, and recruitment metrics.
• Track and report Talent Acquisition KPIs, SLAs, recruiting activity, trends, and potential issues, providing recommendations for process improvements.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date candidate and requisition information within the Applicant Tracking System (ATS).
• Build and maintain strong cross-functional partnerships with business leaders, hiring managers, Talent Acquisition teams, and other stakeholders.
• Collaborate with third-party recruiting/RPO vendors to provide guidance and clarification related to hiring processes, union requirements, pay scales, requisition status, and required approvals.
• Participate in recurring business calls with leaders to review high-volume hiring strategies, staffing progress, recruiting challenges, and upcoming needs.
• Partner closely with Legal, Labor Relations, and other stakeholders to ensure recruiting activities align with applicable policies, employment laws, labor agreements, and business requirements.
• Travel to domestic airport locations multiple times per month to support high-volume hiring events, including occasional weekend events and on-the-spot hiring activities.

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 2 years of recent full-cycle recruiting experience.
• Experience managing multiple requisitions and hiring managers simultaneously.
• Strong sourcing experience using Linked In Recruiter and other talent acquisition tools.
• Experience tracking and working with recruiting metrics, KPIs, and SLAs.
• Experience working with an Applicant Tracking System (ATS).
• Experience with high-volume recruiting, preferably in an operational environment.
• Experience recruiting within a unionized workforce/environment.
• Experience conducting competency-based and behavioral interviews.
• Experience analyzing and reporting Talent Acquisition performance metrics.
• Experience with Success Factors or another large enterprise ATS such as Taleo, iCIMS, or similar systems.
• Experience working with…