Aviation Recruiter

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It’s a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Metrea Management LLC is our global shared service providing support for the Capabilities in areas such as People, Finance, Legal, Strategy and Information Technology.

People Group is dedicated to attracting, developing, and retaining top talent, ensuring a positive and productive work environment. We are a results-oriented team focused on delivering innovative People solutions that drive business results. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees feel valued and respected.

At Metrea, we do not simply hire pilots - we build the talent pipelines that enable mission-critical aviation capability around the world. Our Air Domain delivers solutions across Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (AISR), Aerial Firefighting, Air-to-Air Refueling (AAR), Advanced Training, Aircraft Engineering, and more.

In this role, you will serve as a strategic Talent Acquisition Partner supporting high-volume aviation hiring across the Air Domain, with a focus on building repeatable and scalable pipelines for pilots, sensor operators, and other flight operations talent. This role is ideal for a recruiter with a program mindset - someone who can create sustained hiring volume not only through strong day-to-day execution, but through thoughtful process design, channel strategy, and creative pipeline development with both speed and quality in mind.

Beyond delivery, you will help design the frameworks, partnerships, and sourcing channels that create a constant and reliable flow of specialist aviation talent. This may include external partnerships, talent communities, referral strategies, internal marketing, targeted outreach campaigns, and innovative approaches to engage qualified pilots and operators.

This is an opportunity to help build a best-in-class aviation hiring program from the ground up.

• Lead end-to-end recruitment for high-volume aviation roles across the Air Domain, focusing on pilots, sensor operators, and flight operations talent
• Design and implement scalable recruiting programs and frameworks that create consistent talent flow across key aviation talent pools
• Build proactive and creative pipelines through multiple channels, including direct sourcing, external partnerships, referral ecosystems, military transition networks, aviation communities, and targeted talent campaigns
• Develop sourcing and attraction strategies that go beyond traditional tools, identifying new ways for Metrea to engage and attract specialist aviation…