Senior Recruiter - Operations

Senior Recruiter

As a Senior Recruiter supporting our Salaried Operations groups, you will play a key role in identifying, attracting, and hiring top talent across manufacturing and supply chain functions. You will partner closely with hiring managers and cross-functional leaders within our plant and operations environments to build high-performing teams. This role requires a consultative, data-driven approach and the ability to manage full-cycle recruiting for specialized salaried manufacturing professionals in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.

Responsibilities:

• Lead full-cycle recruitment efforts for salaried operations roles including Quality Engineering, Procurement, Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Materials & Manufacturing Planning, Buying, and Supply Chain.
• Partner with plant leadership, operations hiring managers, and HR Business Partners to understand talent needs and develop effective recruiting strategies aligned to manufacturing priorities.
• Identify and engage top talent with salaried manufacturing and supply chain backgrounds through a variety of sourcing channels, industry networks, and innovative recruiting methods.
• Deliver a high-quality, consistent candidate experience from initial outreach through offer acceptance, ensuring alignment with operational timelines and production demands.
• Manage multiple requisitions across multiple manufacturing sites while maintaining strong attention to detail and service levels.
• Leverage data, metrics, and labor market insights to inform recruiting strategies, address hard-to-fill roles, and drive continuous improvement in time-to-fill and quality of hire.
• Contribute to the enhancement of recruiting processes, tools, and best practices specific to operations and manufacturing talent acquisition.
• Collaborate with peers across the Talent Acquisition team to share knowledge, improve outcomes, and strengthen team capabilities.
• Act as a trusted advisor to operations stakeholders, providing guidance on talent trends, compensation benchmarking, candidate quality, and hiring decisions within the manufacturing labor market.
• Support and implement talent acquisition programs and initiatives aligned to operational and business priorities.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience with a strong focus on salaried manufacturing and operations roles.
• Demonstrated experience recruiting for functions such as Quality Engineering, Procurement, Advanced Manufacturing Engineering, Materials & Manufacturing Planning, Buying, and/or Supply Chain.
• Knowledge of the manufacturing and industrial talent landscape, including sourcing strategies for niche technical and operations professionals.
• Strong ability to manage multiple priorities across multiple sites in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and advise plant and operations leaders.
• Proven ability to analyze and leverage data to influence decision-making and improve recruiting outcomes.
• Strong sourcing capability and passion for identifying and engaging passive talent in competitive manufacturing markets.
• High level of professionalism, accountability, and commitment to delivering results.

The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv's Core Principles & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.

OUR CORE PRINCIPLES:
Safety. Integrity. Respect. Teamwork. Inclusion.

OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

• High-Performance Culture

• Customer Focus

• Operational Excellence

• Innovation

• Financial Strength

VERTIV BEHAVIORS

• Own it

• Act with urgency

• Foster a customer-first mindset

• Think big and execute

• Lead by example

• Drive continuous improvement

• Learn and seek out development

• Promote transparent & open communication

About Vertiv

Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers' vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today's data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure…