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Construction Recruiter – Electrical & Skilled Trades

On-siteHuman ResourcesFull-time

What You’ll Own

  • Find and Engage Passive Talent
  • Sell the TRIO Opportunity
  • Assess and Present Talent
  • Manage Multiple Vacancies and Pipelines
  • Deliver Measurable Results

    What You Bring

    You’ll Thrive Here If You:

    • Build the Recruiting Strategy
    • Partner with hiring leaders to define role requirements, success profiles, compensation, and hiring timelines
    • Translate workforce needs into targeted sourcing and hiring plans
    • Use market data and candidate feedback to challenge unrealistic requirements and improve search results
    • Create proactive pipelines for immediate vacancies, recurring positions, and future growth
    • Identify and engage candidates through LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, industry networks, referrals, trade schools, competitor research, job boards, and community partnerships
    • Create targeted outreach that gets responses from candidates who are not actively looking
    • Build market maps and talent pipelines for difficult-to-fill electrical construction and leadership positions
    • Identify stalled searches, pipeline gaps, and hiring barriers before they affect operations
    • Maintain accurate candidate stages, notes, dispositions, tasks, and follow-up dates in the applicant tracking system
    • Provide concise updates on pipeline strength, candidate quality, risks, and required decisions
    • Deliver qualified candidates and hires within agreed timelines
    • Track outreach, candidate conversations, screens, interviews, offers, hires, time to fill, offer acceptance, and source effectiveness
    • Use recruiting data to improve sourcing strategies and pipeline conversion
    • Review declined offers and candidate withdrawals to identify trends and improve results
    • Support employee referrals, recruiting events, workforce planning, and employer-brand initiatives

    What You Bring (Preferred Experience)

    • 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting, agency recruiting, or direct-search experience
    • Proven success finding, engaging, and closing passive candidates
    • Strong sourcing, sales, relationship-building, negotiation, and influencing skills
    • Strong interviewing skills and sound judgment when assessing candidate fit and readiness
    • Experience using applicant tracking systems, LinkedIn Recruiter or Sales Navigator, job boards, and Microsoft Office
    • Strong organization, urgency, follow-through, and personal accountability
    • Clear written and verbal communication skills
    • Experience recruiting skilled trades, electrical construction, commercial construction, or field leadership talent
    • Experience recruiting electricians, foremen, superintendents, project leaders, project managers, or estimators
    • Experience working in an agency, search firm, or fast-growing organization
    • Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business, communications, or a related field; equivalent recruiting experience will be considered
    • Enjoy the hunt and do not wait for candidates to apply
    • Know how to sell an opportunity without overselling it
    • Build trust quickly with field candidates and business leaders
    • Stay organized while managing competing priorities
    • Take ownership of results and consistently follow through
    • Bring solutions when a search becomes difficult
    • Want your work to have a visible effect on company growth

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