Senior Manufacturing Contract Recruiter

• Manage full-cycle recruiting from requisition intake through offer acceptance and onboarding coordination.
• Partner with hiring managers and plant leadership to understand staffing needs, hiring priorities, and position requirements.
• Recruit for hourly production, skilled trades, engineering, maintenance, manufacturing leadership, and professional positions.
• Build proactive candidate pipelines for recurring and difficult-to-fill manufacturing roles.
• Source candidates through Indeed, Linked In Recruiter, direct outreach, referrals, networking, trade schools, community partnerships, job fairs, and other creative channels.
• Review resumes, conduct phone interviews, and assess candidates for technical qualifications, reliability, coachability, safety mindset, and overall fit.
• Present qualified candidates with clear interview recommendations and assessment notes.
• Coordinate interviews, gather hiring manager feedback, and maintain momentum throughout the hiring process.
• Provide timely, professional communication to candidates at every stage.
• Coordinate background checks, employment verifications, drug screenings, and other pre-employment requirements.
• Maintain accurate applicant tracking system records and recruiting documentation.
• Track recruiting activity, pipeline health, time-to-fill, offer acceptance, source effectiveness, and other key hiring metrics.
• Identify recruiting bottlenecks and recommend improvements that increase hiring speed and candidate quality.
• Monitor local labor markets, wage trends, competitor hiring activity, and talent availability.
• Support recruiting events, workforce development partnerships, and employer-branding initiatives as needed.
• Ensure recruiting practices comply with federal, state, and local employment laws.

• 3–5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience.
• Experience recruiting within manufacturing, industrial operations, skilled trades, engineering, or technical production environments.
• Proven success recruiting both hourly employees and salaried professionals.
• Strong sourcing skills using Indeed, Linked In Recruiter, Boolean search, referrals, networking, direct outreach, and other recruiting tools.
• Ability to manage multiple open positions and shifting priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong interviewing, candidate assessment, and hiring manager partnership skills.
• Excellent communication, organization, follow-through, and time management.
• Experience using applicant tracking systems and maintaining accurate recruiting data.
• Knowledge of employment laws, compliant hiring practices, and pre-employment screening processes.

Demonstrates expertise in full-cycle recruiting, including sourcing, interviewing, and candidate assessment within manufacturing and technical environments. Proficient in managing applicant tracking systems and ensuring compliance with employment laws.