Sr Talent Acquisition Specialist

Requisition
8178
-Posted
08/10/2026

- Irving

- Human Resources

- TX

Job Title:Sr Talent Acquisition Specialist
Job Location:Irving-USA-75039
Work Location Type:On-Site

Since 1942, Sky Chefs has taken culinary excellence to new heights. As a trusted partner to the nation’s leading airlines and retailers, we proudly deliver millions of meals and exceptional service experiences every year across 43 sites throughout the United States. Built on a legacy of operational excellence, culinary expertise, and continuous innovation, we are committed to setting the industry standard in aviation culinary, airline services, last-mile logistics, and retail commerce.

From the kitchen to the runway, our teams work together to deliver quality, reliability, and service at every altitude. Our people are the heart of everything we do. At Sky Chefs, a career is more than a job – it’s an opportunity to grow, lead, and make an impact in a fast-paced, team-driven environment. Join America’s first, foremost, and finest and take your career to new heights.

Lead full-cycle recruitment activities for positions across all organizational levels, ensuring alignment with corporate talent acquisition objectives and workforce planning initiatives. Collaborate with leaders across multiple locations to design and implement innovative sourcing strategies, strengthen employer branding, and drive targeted outreach efforts. Develop and sustain a diverse, high-quality talent pipeline of active and passive candidates for union and non-union management roles, enabling the organization to meet both immediate and long-term staffing goals.

Location: Sky Chefs Headquarters, Irving, Texas
Work Type: Hybrid Schedule (In-office Monday through Thursday; Work from Home Friday)

• Leads full-cycle recruiting for assigned positions, including complex, senior-level and hard-to-fill roles, from intake through offer acceptance.
• Conducts comprehensive intake meetings with hiring managers to understand business needs, position requirements, preferred qualifications, team dynamics and hiring priorities; reviews job descriptions and recommends updates as appropriate.
• Develops and executes tailored recruiting strategies for each opening, leveraging direct sourcing, professional networks, job boards, referrals, recruiting partners and other channels to build diverse and qualified candidate pipelines.
• Proactively sources passive candidates using Linked In Recruiter, talent databases, networking, referrals and other sourcing tools and techniques and builds and maintains talent pipelines for recurring and anticipated hiring needs.
• Partners with hiring managers and HR Managers, providing guidance on talent availability, market conditions, compensation considerations, interview strategy and realistic hiring timelines.
• Conducts detailed candidate screens and evaluates experience, qualifications, competencies, organizational fit, motivation and alignment with position requirements.
• Presents qualified candidates to hiring managers with screening notes and relevant context.
• Drives the interview and selection process, maintains momentum with hiring teams, identifies potential delays and recommends solutions to keep searches moving forward.
• Maintains consistent communication with candidates throughout the recruiting process and delivers a professional, responsive and positive candidate experience.
• Partners with Human Resources and hiring leaders on offer strategy; extends approved verbal offers, manages candidate negotiations within approved parameters and secures verbal acceptance.
• Coordinates offer letter requests and pre-employment activities with HR colleagues to support an efficient transition from candidate to new hire.
• Uses recruiting data and metrics to monitor pipeline health, time to fill, source effectiveness, candidate activity, and other key indicators; provides regular recruiting updates and market insights to hiring managers and HR leadership.
• Ensures recruiting activities and selection practices comply with applicable federal, state and local employment laws, regulations and company policies.
• Maintains a strong understanding…