Recruiter (Skilled Trades)

About the role

Owns full-cycle recruiting for assigned Operating Companies across a diverse portfolio of positions, including skilled trades, sales, and operations. Partners with the Talent Strategic Partner and Operating Company hiring managers to prioritize hiring needs based on business demand, requisition volume, and urgency. Maintains the flexibility and recruiting expertise needed to adjust across job functions while delivering consistent recruiting practices and a strong candidate and hiring-manager experience.

Responsibilities

• Owns full-cycle recruiting for service technicians, apprentices, installers, and other field-based positions.
• Builds sustainable talent pipelines through trade schools, apprenticeship programs, military transition programs, community partnerships, and proactive sourcing.
• Partners with hiring managers to evaluate technical aptitude, trade‑specific qualifications, certifications, and licensing requirements; coordinates ride‑alongs, shop visits, or hands‑on assessments when appropriate.
• Owns or supports recruiting for sales and operations positions based on regional and organizational hiring needs.
• Applies a consistent full‑cycle recruiting process across all requisition types while adapting sourcing strategies, screening criteria, and candidate engagement approaches to each role.
• Communicates workload and capacity considerations to the Talent Strategic Partner to support effective prioritization and allocation of recruiting resources.
• Sources, screens, and schedules candidates through the ATS for all assigned requisitions.
• Coordinates interview logistics with Operating Company hiring managers and provides timely candidate feedback.
• Extends offers within approved parameters and manages the offer‑to‑start handoff.
• Delivers a responsive, professional candidate experience from first contact through start date.
• Keeps Operating Company hiring managers informed on pipeline status and market realities for their open requisitions.
• Hands off new hires cleanly to onboarding, including any trade‑specific certification or licensing needs.
• Maintains accurate, up‑to‑date requisition and candidate status in the ATS.
• Tracks KPIs: time‑to‑fill, pipeline volume and quality for trades roles, offer‑acceptance rate and early‑tenure retention of trades hires, and responsiveness/turnaround on flex (non‑trades) requisition assignments.
• Partners with Operating Company Hiring Managers (req intake, candidate feedback, interview scheduling), Talent Strategic Partner (req prioritization, capacity/flex assignments), Talent Development (onboarding handoff, trade certification/licensing tracking), and trade schools, apprenticeship & military transition programs (pipeline building).

Requirements

• 5+ years of full‑cycle recruiting experience, with demonstrated success hiring high‑volume skilled trades, field service, technician and sales roles across multiple locations.
• Proven ability to build talent pipelines through trade schools, apprenticeship programs, military transition programs, community partnerships, and proactive sourcing.
• Experience managing a diverse requisition portfolio and adapting recruiting strategies for skilled trades, sales, operations, and corporate support positions.
• Proficiency with applicant tracking systems and recruiting metrics, with strong organizational, communication, and hiring‑manager partnership skills.