Talent Acquisition Manager

At Rite-Hite, your work makes an impact. As the global leader in loading dock and door equipment, we design and deliver solutions that keep our customers safe, secure, and productive. Here, you’ll find innovation, stability, and the chance to grow your career as part of a team that’s always looking ahead.

Rite Hite is seeking a Talent Acquisition Manager to lead the strategy and recruiting team supporting Service and Installation hiring across the organization. This role brings together people leadership, workforce planning, talent attraction, and retention strategy to help build and sustain a highly skilled technician workforce.

Reporting to the Director, Talent Acquisition, this leader will partner closely with Service leadership, including the EVP, Service, to meet immediate hiring needs while building scalable talent pipelines and workforce solutions for future growth.

• Develop and execute a comprehensive technician recruiting strategy aligned with Service business objectives, regional hiring needs, market demands, and growth initiatives.
• Create long-term workforce plans across regions, markets, and skill levels; translate hiring trends, skill gaps, retention opportunities, and labor-market insights into clear priorities, forecasts, and pipeline strategies.
• Build strong partnerships with Service and operational leaders to align workforce planning, hiring priorities, and long-term talent strategies.

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of recruiters focused on Service and Installation hiring, with clear goals, performance expectations, and accountability measures.
• Foster a high-performance culture centered on candidate experience, hiring-manager partnership, continuous improvement, and recruiter capability development.

• Evaluate and build effective talent pipelines through trade schools, workforce-development programs, military recruiting, apprenticeships, employee referrals, community partnerships, and emerging talent sources.
• Use labor-market insights, recruiting analytics, and business knowledge to recommend approaches for attracting and retaining technician talent.

• Develop a deep understanding of the technician talent market, competitive landscape, and candidate motivations to identify opportunities to strengthen Rite-Hite’s employer brand.
• Partner with Service, Human Resources, Marketing, and business leaders to define and communicate a compelling employee value proposition and implement targeted branding, outreach, and engagement initiatives.

• Lead initiatives to improve technician first-year retention in partnership with Service Operations, Human Resources, Training, and Learning & Development.
• Analyze retention metrics and employee feedback to improve hiring quality, onboarding effectiveness, new-hire engagement, career-path awareness, mentoring, and long-term growth.

• Create reporting and dashboards that measure hiring effectiveness, source performance, retention, workforce health, hiring-manager satisfaction, and recruiter performance.
• Continuously improve recruiting processes, technology, candidate experience, source effectiveness, and talent programs.

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field—or equivalent experience.
• Seven or more years of recruiting and talent acquisition experience.
• Two or more years of people-leadership experience.
• Experience developing recruiting strategies and workforce plans.
• Strong stakeholder-management and influencing skills.
• Experience using recruiting technology, reporting, and talent…