Talent Acquisition Specialist – Building Automation & Controls

Job Summary

The Talent Acquisition Specialist is a full-cycle recruiter responsible for screening, engaging, and hiring technical talent across Smart Tech Contracting’s building automation, controls, and mission-critical data center organization.

Essential Functions

• Screens, evaluates, and advances high volumes of inbound applicants for Building Automation & Controls roles, including controls and systems engineers, BAS technicians and programmers, system integrators, field technicians, and project managers.

• Operates and helps refine AI-enabled screening and automation workflows within the applicant tracking system (Rippling) to streamline high-volume applicant review.

• Reviews applications against defined role requirements, maintaining a clean, active, and viable candidate pipeline.

• Moves candidates through requisition stages accurately and quickly, ensuring complete records and accurate source-of-hire tracking.

• Prepares curated candidate views for hiring managers that support quick yes-or-no decisions instead of full backend reviews.

Outbound Sourcing & Pipeline Development

• Executes targeted outbound sourcing across LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, referrals, and direct outreach for assigned hard-to-fill roles.

• Builds and maintains proactive talent pipelines and shared LinkedIn Recruiter projects to support current and future hiring needs.

• Converts interested and passive candidates into applicants within the applicant tracking system, strengthening the directly-sourced pipeline.

Tools, Reporting & Continuous Improvement

• Maintains accurate candidate and requisition data in Rippling, and helps build dashboards and reporting that increase the speed and quality of hire.

• Tracks pipeline health, time-to-fill, and source-of-hire, and contributes to process improvements across the talent function.

Position Requirements

• 3-5 years of full-cycle recruiting and / or sourcing experience; experience may come from a recruiting firm or staffing agency, a corporate (in-house) environment, or a mix of both, with agency-side experience a plus.

• Recruiting or sourcing experience within building automation, controls, HVAC, mechanical / electrical, mission-critical, or data center environments strongly preferred.

• Experience sourcing and assessing technical talent in engineering and field-based environments; exposure to PLC and / or SCADA professionals a strong plus. Familiarity with major BAS platforms (e.g., Tridium Niagara, Siemens, Johnson Controls, ALC) is also a plus.

• AI-forward and automation-minded (strongly preferred): comfortable using AI and automation tools to improve sourcing efficiency, candidate research, and recruiting workflows.

• Proficiency with LinkedIn Recruiter (projects, InMail, advanced / Boolean search) and modern applicant tracking systems; Rippling experience preferred.

• Proactive and self-directed, comfortable with high-volume applicant review and consistent outbound sourcing, and able to manage multiple requisitions and competing priorities independently.

• Intermediate skills using MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams), with strong organizational and file management skills.

• Ability to quickly learn technical terminology related to building automation, controls, and HVAC systems.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a high level of professionalism, discretion, and attention to detail.

• Ability to maintain confidentiality of candidate, compensation, and company information.

• Ability to work successfully in a remote environment through effective communication, self-motivation, proactiveness, and resourcefulness in a distraction-free workspace.

• Ability to work under pressure and meet close deadlines in a high-volume, fast-paced recruiting environment.

Physical Demands

• Ability to remain in a stationary position for extended periods while working on a computer.

• Ability to move through offices, job sites, and warehouse environments as needed.

• Occasional lifting or moving items up to 25 pounds.

Education / Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Psychology, Marketing, or a related field preferred OR Equivalent professional recruiting or sourcing experience PLUS.

• Minimum of 3 years of full-cycle recruiting and/or sourcing experience, with 3-5 years preferred (agency / recruiting-firm and controls / building automation industry experience highly preferred).

• High-volume applicant screening experience.

• LinkedIn Recruiter and ATS experience.