Human Resources Specialist / Recruiter

Hybrid - Overland Park, KS location only

Key Responsibilities:

• Consult and conduct recruitment strategy meetings with talent acquisition partners to understand gaps in recruiting efforts and needs
• Build long term relationships with top talent for current and future career opportunities
• Implement and execute strategic recruitment techniques for high volume, aged and hard to fill positions
• Use innovative sourcing techniques and leverage technology to find active and passive candidates
• Build strong partnerships with recruiters to develop plans for key staffing initiatives
• Post and maintain quality job descriptions and advertisements for open positions, ensuring consistency across all postings
• Source candidates through creative social media tools and developing robust networking avenues
• Initiate contact with passive candidates for openings and maintaining candidate pipelines
• Utilize internal applicant tracking system to review applications and maintain candidate progress
• Recognize and assist with any situation within our business that can be assisted with HR support
• Researching market conditions and industry trends as they relate to our competitors to assist in decision-making and marketing positions.
• Using industry knowledge, social media sources, Technical Operations, and mission-focused knowledge to seek out potential candidates that may be currently employed at peer/competitor companies, and successfully identify candidates 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to identify and source candidates outside of job boards and LinkedIn using boolean techniques including X-ray searching preferred.
• Comfortable monitoring key metrics and making data driven decisions in respect to adjusting recruitment or sourcing strategies
• Extensive data mining of various social media to identify candidate profiles.
• Utilizing professional networks to source candidates 
• Bachelor’s Degree is preferred
• Recruiting experience, preferably in engineering or technical roles but open to other experiences also
• Full Life Cycle Recruiting, managing hiring manager relationships

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3 years of talent sourcing and/or full-cycle recruiting experience, preferably specializing in the recruitment of engineers within the domains of water, wastewater treatment plants, utilities, power generation, storage, transmission, and/or distribution. Candidates with a background in technical recruitment or other recruitment specializations may also be considered. Agency recruitment background is a plus.

• Ability to quickly learn candidate profiles and identify and source candidates outside of job boards and LinkedIn using boolean techniques including X-ray searching in a fast-paced changing environment. Experience designing recruiting strategies a plus.
• All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.
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