What are the responsibilities and job description for the Recruiting Manager position at Virginia Green?
Job Details
Description
This is not a remote position.
What You’ll Do
Lead High-Volume & Hourly Recruiting
Required Qualifications
Virginia Green is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. All applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, veteran status, or disability.
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Description
This is not a remote position.
What You’ll Do
Lead High-Volume & Hourly Recruiting
- Manage full-cycle recruitment for lawn care technicians and key hourly roles.
- Build scalable, high-volume sourcing strategies to maintain strong candidate pipelines.
- Analyze turnover trends and collaborate with operations on retention and workforce planning.
- Support hiring for mid-level, administrative, and professional roles.
- Coach hiring managers on effective interviewing, selection, and candidate experience.
- Build relationships with trade schools, technical programs, high schools, workforce development groups, military transition programs, and veteran organizations.
- Represent Virginia Green at job fairs and community events.
- Develop sustained pipelines for seasonal, skilled, and hard-to-fill roles.
- Oversee the ATS, job boards, CRM, and recruitment marketing tools.
- Streamline workflows to improve efficiency, accuracy, and hiring speed.
- Create dashboards, track KPIs, and use metrics to guide decisions—including leveraging AI tools for efficiency.
- Develop consistent talk tracks for recruiters to ensure strong and accurate role representation.
- Evaluate and negotiate contracts with job boards, background screening providers, and recruiting technology vendors.
- Monitor vendor performance and ensure cost-effective solutions.
- Serve as a strategic talent advisor to business leaders.
- Own communication on hiring progress, challenges, and labor market trends.
- Track hiring needs by location and help forecast future staffing demands.
- Monitor retention trends by branch, recruiter, and candidate source.
- Manage and mentor recruiters or recruiting coordinators.
- Build a culture of responsiveness, collaboration, and accountability.
- Provide coaching to drive consistent, high-quality hiring practices.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in HR, Business, or related field—or equivalent experience.
- 5 years of recruiting experience, including high-volume and professional-level hiring.
- Background in service-oriented, labor-intensive, or skilled-trade industries.
- Strong systems experience with ATS and recruiting tools.
- Proven experience building community-based talent pipelines.
- Vendor management and contract negotiation experience.
- Excellent communication, relationship building, and project management skills.
- Ability to operate strategically while remaining hands-on as needed.
- Recruiting experience in multi-location or field-based environments.
- Knowledge of recruitment marketing and digital sourcing strategies.
- Experience managing a recruiting team.
- Data-driven mindset with ability to build and interpret metrics.
Virginia Green is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. All applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, veteran status, or disability.
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