Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

JJ's Waste & Recycling; Cleveland; Hybrid; AUD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

JJ’s Waste & Recycling is seeking an experienced Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our Careers team. The role focuses on delivering recruitment outcomes across a range of roles—from blue-collar to corporate management—while maintaining strong stakeholder relationships in a fast-paced environment.

You will lead sourcing and headhunting initiatives, optimize interview processes, and ensure an exceptional candidate experience, whether working remotely or in a hybrid/office setting across

Qualifications

• Proven track record in end-to-end recruitment across multiple functions.
• Experience with high-volume hiring and hard-to-fill roles.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leaders to understand hiring needs and priority roles.
• Source, screen, interview and shortlist candidates.
• Hunt senior candidates and build talent pools.
• Manage candidate experience and recruitment process to ensure timely hires.
• Leverage data and market insights to improve hiring outcomes.

Skills

Senior TA experience

Full cycle recruitment

Stakeholder management

Team collaboration

Tools

Seek

LinkedIn Recruiter

Job description

We’re seeking an experienced Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our team and help connect great people with great opportunities at JJ’s Waste & Recycling.

Why Join Us?

At JJ's Waste & Recycling, you'll join an Australian-owned company that's been keeping communities clean and running for generations. Our trucks are a familiar sight across the country, delivering an essential service people rely on every day.

A Job security with Australia’s largest family-owned waste management company.

A stable role in an essential services industry.

A supportive workplace with a collaborative and supportive team.

The opportunity to work for a company that values its people and recognises your contribution.

About the Role

Location: Work from Home or hybrid/office depending on location

Hours of Work: Full Time, Monday to Friday

We’re looking for a professional to join our Careers team who can confidently deliver recruitment outcomes in a fast-paced environment across a range of roles (blue collar through to corporate management), manage competing priorities and maintain strong stakeholder relationships.

What You’ll Do

Partner with leaders across the Company and our related entities to understand their hiring needs, identify the skills and experience required, and deliver recruitment outcomes, ensuring critical hiring needs are met.

Source, screen, assess and shortlist candidates, and coordinate interviews.

Actively headhunt candidates using various platforms and other recruitment tools.

Drive exceptional candidate and stakeholder experiences through proactive communication, effective process management and quality delivery.

Use recruitment data, labour market intelligence and continuous improvement practices to optimise hiring outcomes.

What You’ll Bring

Demonstrated success delivering recruitment outcomes across professional, administrative, mechanical, transport and operational workforce segments.

Demonstrated experience to attract, source and assess candidates across a diverse range of roles.

Proven adaptability, initiative and strong work ethic to deliver quality outcomes across both high-volume recruitment as well as challenging hard-to-fill roles.

You’ll be a team player, happy to share your expertise, offer helpful recommendations and bounce across roles where you’re needed.

Demonstrated headhunting experience, with a focus on identifying and engaging talent across a wide range of roles in a fast-paced industry.

Experience developing sourcing strategies, talent pipelines and market-mapping approaches to attract quality talent.

Willingness to step into a leadership role within the team whilst still completing day-to-day recruiting.

What you’ll need

Experience with Seek and LinkedIn

Life at JJs

JJ’s Waste & Recycling is Australia’s largest family-owned and operated waste management company. From our beginnings as a small family business, we’ve grown into a global operation servicing Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

But JJ’s is more than bin collection - we are one company with 17 divisions, employing more than 3,000 people and together we exist to continuously improve waste management and the impact that waste has on the community and environment. To find out more about JJ’s, visit our website.