Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Full-time - Mid Level

Owings Mills, MD

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Looking for an opportunity to spearhead the recruiting efforts for a nationally-recognized design-build firm? We're looking to add an experienced Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist to identify, screen and interview prospective candidates for opportunities ranging from entry level to experienced technical professionals. TAI is a Consulting Engineering firm headquartered in Owings Mills, MD with additional offices in Maryland, Delaware, Arizona and Texas. TAI provides Engineering, Management, and Technical Services to industry throughout the United States. Also, TAI specializes in servicing the Bio/Pharma, Chemical, Food/Beverage, Power Generation/Distribution, Manufacturing, and Buildings/Facilities markets.

Responsibilities

• Provide full recruitment lifecycle support to the Operations, Management, and other TAI business groups for permanent and contractual positions.
• Build and develop strong working relationships with candidates and hiring managers, understanding business needs and building strategic candidate pipelines to fulfill these needs.
• Screening, interviewing, performing reference checks on prospective employees.
• Working with management to understand hiring needs and identifying candidates to fill job requirements.
• Work with search firms/placement agencies when necessary to determine optimal recruitment methods.
• Manage candidate engagement through entire recruiting process and close candidates with verbal offers and formal offer letters.
• Perform new hire orientations, coordinate employee on-boarding, and general Human Resource tasks.
• Serve as a brand ambassador by attending local networking events and job fairs to create brand awareness.
• Demonstrate self-motivation, energy and tenacity in achieving results; optimistic yet realistic; upbeat attitude; ability to work in a fast-paced, growing environment required.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree, preferably within Business, Human Resources, or related field required.
• A minimum of 5 years of Talent Acquisition/related experience required.
• Previous recruiting experience within engineering, construction, manufacturing, technical, or related industry preferred.
• Previous experience utilizing an ATS required.
• Efficient with using social media platforms for recruiting, such as LinkedIn.
• Efficient with utilizing various search engines such as CareerBuilder, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, etc. for resume search and job postings.
• Have a general knowledge of hiring practices and employment laws.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, in a fast-paced business environment required.

Benefits

• Pay: $80K - $105k a year (based on experience)
• Annual Profit Sharing Bonus (variable depending on firm's performance, employee performance, and tenure).
• PTO and paid holidays.
• Health benefits - Employee through family level coverage for medical, dental, and vision insurances.
• Company funded life and long-term disability insurances.
• Short Term Disability, FSA, HSA, EAP, and supplemental life insurances (employee - family) are also available!
• 401k with employer match.