Talent Acquisition Partner – Craft & Skilled Trades

Build the future, spark innovation and align your career with purpose.

McKinstry is innovating the waste and climate harm out of the built environment and creating lasting impact. Together, we’re building a thriving planet.

Buildings are a leading contributor to the climate crisis, generating nearly 40% of total global energy-related carbon emissions. We’re making a lasting impact on our industry and within our communities by addressing the climate, affordability and equity crises through:

• renewables and energy services
• engineering and design
• construction and facility services

To get where we’re going, we need big thinkers, problem solvers and collaborative mindsets. Does that sound like you?

We're seeking a Talent Acquisition Partner – Craft & Skilled Trades to join our recruiting team in Seattle, WA.

This role will have a strong focus on recruiting union craft and skilled-trades talent across McKinstry’s construction and service businesses, including electrical, mechanical, plumbing, fire protection, and other field-based positions. You’ll partner closely with operations and field leadership to understand workforce needs, develop proactive recruiting strategies, and build strong talent pipelines to support McKinstry’s continued growth.

• Your voice is heard – you will be able to serve as an influencer. McKinstry is the place to be if you seek an opportunity to build and maintain trustworthy relationships with your business units.
• Our business leaders rely on us as talent strategists, and you will be partnered closely with them to solve talent challenges, learn their businesses from the ground up, and collaborate with other HR partners across our dynamic and established HR team.
• You will play a key role in supporting McKinstry’s union craft, skilled-trades, field, and service workforce, helping our leaders anticipate workforce needs and develop recruiting strategies to support current and future growth.
• In joining McKinstry, you will be walking into an established team that cares about you, your opinion, and your added expertise and provides opportunities to coach and mentor junior recruiters. Here you can be part of a work community representing a brand committed to making a positive impact and building a thriving planet.
• We believe that career development is a way of life. Our team learns from each other, mentors each other, and seeks additional learning opportunities through conferences, shared learning opportunities, outside groups, and mentors.

• Builds talent networks within business-specific practitioner and skilled-trades communities.
• Selects and directly sources, interviews, qualifies, negotiates offers, and hires candidates to fill open requisitions.
• Develops and executes proactive recruiting strategies for union craft, skilled-trades, field, and service positions through direct sourcing, industry networking, employee referrals, and community outreach.
• Partners closely with operations leaders, field leadership, superintendents, service leaders, HR Business Partners, and labor relations partners to understand current and future workforce needs.
• Develops and manages partnerships with apprenticeship and training programs, trade schools, industry organizations, and community partners to build sustainable skilled-trades and craft talent pipelines.
• Develops a working understanding of applicable collective bargaining environments, craft classifications, apprenticeship programs, union hiring and dispatch practices, and other requirements impacting craft recruiting.
• Maintains a consistent focus on the marketplace and provides business leaders with relevant labor market intelligence, including skilled-trades…