Construction Recruiter – Electrical & Skilled Trades
Allen-Harmon-Mason-Selinger Insurance Agency · Houston, TX · Yesterday
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