What are the responsibilities and job description for the Talent Acquisition Manager position at Confidential?
A growing, multi-location organization is seeking an experienced Talent Acquisition Manager to lead recruiting efforts across a diverse workforce that includes skilled trades, field operations, professional, and leadership positions.
This is a hands-on leadership role for an experienced recruiting professional who can balance strategy with execution. The Talent Acquisition Manager will lead and develop a recruiting and onboarding team while maintaining an active recruiting workload and partnering directly with operational leaders to meet current and anticipated staffing needs.
The ideal candidate has a strong background in construction, skilled trades, or high-volume recruiting and understands how to build candidate pipelines in competitive labor markets.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and oversee day-to-day recruiting and onboarding activities.
- Manage full-cycle recruiting for skilled-trade, field, office, professional, and management positions.
- Personally source, screen, interview, and present qualified candidates.
- Develop proactive pipelines for high-volume, recurring, and difficult-to-fill positions.
- Establish recruiting priorities based on operational and workforce needs.
- Lead, coach, and develop recruiting and onboarding team members.
- Monitor recruiting activity, workload, candidate pipelines, offers, pending hires, and upcoming start dates.
- Partner with hiring managers and operational leaders to understand staffing needs and recruiting challenges.
- Develop targeted sourcing strategies using job boards, resume databases, referrals, career fairs, schools, community partnerships, social media, and other recruiting channels.
- Evaluate applicant flow and sourcing effectiveness and adjust recruiting strategies as needed.
- Track key recruiting metrics, including candidate activity, interviews, offers, start dates, and time-to-fill.
- Oversee candidate progression through pre-employment and onboarding requirements.
- Identify opportunities to improve recruiting processes, candidate experience, team efficiency, and overall hiring results.
- Participate in career fairs, hiring events, and other recruiting initiatives as needed.
Qualifications
- 8–10 years of recruiting, talent acquisition, staffing, or related experience with demonstrated full-cycle recruiting expertise.
- 3–5 years of experience leading, supervising, or developing recruiting or talent acquisition professionals.
- Recruiting experience within construction, skilled trades, or a related industry strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated success recruiting for high-volume and difficult-to-fill positions.
- Strong sourcing, screening, interviewing, and candidate engagement skills.
- Experience developing recruiting processes, workflows, sourcing strategies, and candidate pipelines.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and hiring needs in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong leadership, communication, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills.
- Experience working directly with operational leaders and hiring managers.
- Comfortable utilizing applicant tracking systems, HRIS platforms, job boards, Microsoft Office, and digital reporting tools.
- Reliable transportation and ability to attend recruiting events, meetings, or jobsites as business needs require.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bilingual English/Spanish.
- Experience supporting recruitment across multiple locations, divisions, or business units.
- Experience with high-volume construction or skilled-trades recruiting.
- Experience using recruiting metrics and reporting to evaluate sourcing effectiveness and hiring performance.
- Experience building, developing, or expanding a recruiting team.
What We're Looking For
We are looking for someone who is proactive, organized, accountable, and comfortable taking ownership of recruiting results. This individual should be equally comfortable coaching a recruiting team, partnering with operational leadership, developing sourcing strategies, and personally jumping into the candidate market when positions need additional attention.
This is an opportunity for an experienced talent acquisition professional who enjoys building recruiting strategies, developing teams, and creating strong candidate pipelines in a fast-moving environment.
Compensation: $85,000 – $95,000 annual base salary plus bonus opportunity, commensurate with experience, skills, and qualifications.
Confidential Search: Additional information regarding the organization and opportunity will be shared with qualified candidates as they progress through the interview process.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs without regard to any status protected by applicable law.
Pay: $85,000.00 - $95,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
Work Location: In person
Salary : $85,000 - $95,000