Talent Acquisition Partner

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Why this role matters

As a Talent Acquisition Partner, you'll be a key driver in the growth and success of CPL. Your focus will be on sourcing, headhunting, and delivering top-tier talent across architecture, engineering, planning, and support functions. Reporting to the Sr. Talent Acquisition Manager, you'll partner directly with business leaders and hiring managers to develop and drive strategy, understand their talent needs, and use a consultative approach to identify high-impact candidates proactively.

You'll bring a hunter's mindset, strategic insight, and a passion for candidate experience to help CPL continue building a high-performing and diverse team.

What You'll Do

• Proactively develop and implement search strategies to source, identify, and engage passive candidates through a range of creative strategies.
• Build and maintain talent pipelines for hard-to-fill and strategic roles in A&E disciplines.
• Map talent markets, track competitive firms, and build target lists of top-tier professionals.
• Manage the full recruiting process from initial engagement to offer and onboarding.
• Conduct in-depth phone screens and preliminary interviews to assess qualifications, career goals, and cultural alignment.
• Collaborate with hiring managers and department leads to define role requirements, create compelling job descriptions, set clear hiring criteria, as well as consult on market availability, compensation trends, and candidate insights.
• Participate in events, industry meetups, and networking initiatives to enhance visibility.
• Support in the development and delivery of campus and intern recruiting programs.

What You Bring

Must Haves:

• 5+ years of proven recruiting experience, with a strategic headhunting approach
• Demonstrated ability to recruit a wide variety of technical roles across a national footprint.
• Proven success delivering a consultative approach, to develop, drive and deliver strategy.
• Strong communication and interpersonal abilities — you're persuasive, approachable, and authentic.

Nice to haves:

• Experience recruiting in architecture, engineering, construction, or similar fields.
• Experience designing and running campus and intern recruiting programs.

You'll be part of

Joining CPL's Talent Acquisition team you will have the opportunity to truly have a voice in the conversation, as we scale our team and function to match the growth of the business. You will have the chance to work with highly experienced leaders as a subject matter expert, developing and guiding strategies to truly shape the next evolution of the firm.

This is not just another recruiter role; this is the chance to do what you are passionate about, grow your career, and truly be a consultative partner.

What we offer

• Internal Mobility & Career Advancement
• Healthcare for you and your family including spouse coverage:
  Medical, Dental, Vision & Prescription insurances. Single Plans with 100% paid premium
• Flexible Time Off + 8 Holidays a year
• Retirement Savings Plan
  - Contribution from CPL to grow your retirement funds.
• Tuition Assistance:
  You may be eligible for continuing education assistance.
• Student Loan Assistance Program: CPL will contribute up to a maximum of $100 a month for 5 years ($6,000 total) towards student loan debt.
• Licensure Assistance
• Long-Term Disability Insurance Company/team member premium sharing
• Flexible Spending Account $5,000 dependent childcare annually paid 100% by team member pre-taxes.
• FREE Life Insurance and AD+D Insurance
• Voluntary Short-Term Disability Insurance

What does it look like working here?

We believe that building a strong community is about establishing a prevailing sense of fellowship among our team members, friends, and neighbors.

• Collaboration – working with others towards the best solution, placing great emphasis on the collective wisdom of our internal teams.
• Family – celebrating others' successes, genuinely caring about the happiness and well-being of our team members, and recognizing their own families as extensions of the CPL…