Recruitment Specialist - TMS

citjpl; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, seeks a Recruitment Specialist to drive full-cycle hiring for internships to management roles. You will partner with hiring teams, HR partners, and universities to attract exceptional talent and deliver a top-tier candidate experience.

You will lead offer negotiations, coordinate with university career centers, and contribute to JPL's employer brand through events and social media, helping build teams that explore the universe.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 6+ years of full lifecycle recruiting in engineering or technology.
• Master's degree with 4+ years of related work experience.
• Experience recruiting in engineering and computer science disciplines.
• Ability to adapt in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide consultation with clients and manage employer brand strategies.
• Manage full lifecycle recruiting for internship, entry-level, and experienced roles across lab.
• Lead debrief meetings to ensure a strong candidate experience and high hiring bar.
• Develop relationships with key university stakeholders and vendors.
• Travel to events and interview days while representing JPL professionally.
• Contribute to JPL employer branding through social media and events.
• Advocate for diverse candidates and maintain data-driven decisions in ATS.

Skills

Full lifecycle recruiting

Engineering recruiting

University relationship management

Candidate experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or computer science

Master’s degree in engineering or computer science

Tools

Applicant tracking system (ATS)

Job description

Job Details

New ideas are all around us, but only a few will change the world. That's our focus at JPL. We ask the biggest questions, then search the universe for answers-literally. We build upon ideas that have guided generations, then share our discoveries to inspire generations to come. Your mission-your opportunity-is to seek out the answers that bring us one step closer. If you're driven to discover, create, and inspire something that lasts a lifetime and beyond, you're ready for JPL.

Located in Pasadena, California, JPL has a campus-like environment situated on 177 acres in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and offers a work environment unlike any other: we inspire passion, foster innovation, build collaboration, and reward excellence.

As a Recruitment Specialist, reporting to the Manager of Talent Acquisition, you play a key role on the Recruiting Team-driving full-cycle hiring for new to career professionals to experienced and management-level roles.

Together, the team identifies and hires the pioneers behind robotic space exploration. Through their innovation and discoveries, JPL continues to expand the boundaries of science, fundamentally transforming our understanding of the solar system and the universe. In this role, you're not just filling positions, you're helping build the teams that explore worlds beyond our own.

The Talent Acquisition team at JPL is a strategic partner in shaping the Lab's workforce-driving recruitment strategy, influencing talent decisions, and delivering an exceptional client and candidate experience. We attract and hire outstanding talent to meet today's needs while building the talent capabilities, and workforce needed to position JPL for the future. In this role, you will partner and provide subject matter expert consultation with our hiring teams, HR business partners, the talent acquisition team, and our candidates, to attract and acquire the world's most exceptional talent.

Responsibilities

• Provide consultation with our clients, university relationship managers and technical representatives through planning meetings, employer brand strategies, technical representative trainings, strong assessment strategies and ensuring a delightful candidate experience.
• Manage full lifecycle recruiting for the internship program, new to career, and experienced level positions across lab, including attending university/career fairs, sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer development, and onboarding partnership.
• Lead debrief meetings to ensure a consistent process is followed, our candidate experience is strong and our hiring bar remains very high.
• Develop relationships with key stakeholders at select universities, and with key vendors.
• Travel as necessary to conduct events, host students and organizations and conduct interview days, all while leading and directing the JPL representation .
• Contribute to our JPL employer brand through social media and experiences.
• Be a steward and protector of our culture, advocating for culture adds and non-traditional candidates that increase our diversity of thought. Live and breathe passion and excitement around our vision of exploring the universe for the betterment of humanity.
• Discuss and make recommendations for top candidates assessed, being able to identify and articulate what makes a candidate a top candidate.
• Build and maintain a network of potential candidates through ongoing relationship management.
• Lead the offer negotiation and closing process in a very competitive, entry-level landscape in technology and aerospace, including partnering with Human Resource Business Partners (HRBP) as necessary.
• Conduct internal data audits on current interns as necessary.
• Guide our candidates through a delightful experience and ensure all candidate communication is timely and compliant.
• Co-manage the JPL Internship Program in partnership with the Academic Engagement Office to creating memorable experiences through events and key networking opportunities.
• Challenge assumptions and develop new and innovative ideas to continuously improve the hiring landscape at JPL.
• Maintain a high attention to detail when entering data into our applicant tracking system increasing our ability make data-driven decisions.
• Stays on top of key market industry trends or university recruiting best practices in order to maintain a competitive presence (ex: NACE).

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in an applicable field of study with a minimum of 6 years of full life cycle recruiting in engineering or technology field is required; Master's degree in an applicable field of study with a minimum of 4 years of work experience of full life cycle recruiting.
• The ability to remain flexible and adaptable in a fast-paced environment, pivoting priorities, balancing competing demands, and responding effectively to evolving hiring needs.
• Experience recruiting within engineering and computer science disciplines strongly preferred.
• Ability to think creatively and develop in