Senior Technical Recruiter

McMaster-Carr is a leading e-commerce company that industrial customers have trusted for over 120 years. Our products help them get manufacturing lines back up quickly, keep operations running smoothly, and prototype the next generation of innovative solutions. We earn and keep that trust by offering the right products, making them easy to find, and delivering them fast, so our customers can solve problems with greater speed, precision, and ease.

Our industry-leading e-commerce experience, indispensable product selection, and world-class service bring hundreds of thousands of customers to our site each day. But we’re never standing still. Our curious, exceptional people are at the heart of our evolution. They turn new challenges and disruptive technologies into opportunities to refine our operations, expand our offering, and deliver a better experience for every customer.

We’re expanding our engineering teams to take on bold, customer‑focused challenges. As a Senior Technical Recruiter, you’ll play a critical role in shaping the future of our tech organization by making sure exceptionally talented people are the driver, not the bottleneck, to realizing our ambitions. Your work will directly impact our ability to scale high‑performing teams, accelerate product development, and push the boundaries of operational excellence that enables us to deliver same‑day or next‑day orders with unmatched reliability.

By identifying and attracting top‑tier engineering talent, you will help drive the innovation that keeps McMaster‑Carr at the forefront of e‑commerce.

Beyond building technical teams, you’ll influence how McMaster‑Carr attracts and hires talent across the business. You’ll bring a strategic, full‑cycle approach to recruiting, with a sharp focus on sourcing and evaluating exceptional candidates. By combining market insight, data fluency, and storytelling, you’ll help hiring teams make smarter decisions and build stronger pipelines for critical roles. Your ability to connect the dots between business needs and talent strategy will elevate our recruiting function and ensure we stay ahead in a competitive and dynamic market.

As a Senior Technical Recruiter, you’ll lead the way in identifying, engaging, and hiring top‑tier technical talent. You’ll collaborate closely with recruiting leadership and technology hiring managers to understand team goals, define role requirements, and design effective, data‑driven recruitment strategies. You'll combine deep market analysis with creative sourcing tactics and emerging AI‑driven tools to uncover exceptional candidates. Then, you'll evaluate them with care and clarity.

Our ability to assess talent thoughtfully and strategically will help teams make confident hiring decisions and build pipelines that support both immediate and long‑term growth. You’ll be at the forefront of shaping how McMaster‑Carr blends human expertise with technology to elevate the craft of recruiting.

• Proactively source candidates through a variety of channels, building strong, long‑term relationships with top engineering talent. Design and refine outreach frameworks and prospect management systems that strengthen pipelines and support future hiring needs.
• Employer Branding & Role Marketing:
  Develop and execute strategies to market roles effectively, showcasing our unique value proposition to attract the right candidates.
• Candidate Assessment:
  Evaluate candidates for both leadership and technical capability while upholding our rigorous hiring standards. Effectively navigate diverse technical backgrounds to determine whether candidates provide compelling evidence to advance to interviews with hiring managers.
• Stakeholder
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Work closely with hiring managers and leaders to understand organizational goals and translate them into actionable hiring plans.
• Interview Process Design:
  Help craft and continuously improve structured, inclusive, efficient, and effective interview processes.
• Data‑Driven Decision Making:
  Use recruiting metrics and market insights to inform strategies and optimize hiring outcomes.
• AI & Innovation Integration:
  Explore and apply AI…