Recruitment Specialist – TMS

Jet Propulsion Laboratory; United States; Presencial; USD 113.000 - 137.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Learning opportunities

Rideshare program

Childcare support

Flexible schedule

Parental leave

Descripción de la vacante

Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is seeking a Recruitment Specialist to drive full-cycle hiring for internships, early-career professionals, and experienced roles. You will collaborate with hiring teams, HR, and university partners to attract top talent and manage pipelines across the lab.

You’ll lead offer negotiations in a highly competitive tech and aerospace market, ensure a positive candidate experience, and contribute to an inclusive culture that values diverse

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree in an applicable field with 6+ years of full lifecycle recruiting in engineering or tech.
• Ability to adapt in a fast-paced environment and pivot priorities as hiring needs evolve.
• Experience recruiting within engineering and computer science disciplines preferred.
• Strong sourcing and assessment skills.

Responsabilidades

• Provide consultation with clients, university reps, and technical representatives through planning meetings and employer branding strategies.
• Manage full lifecycle recruiting for internships, new-to-career, and experienced positions across lab.
• Lead debrief meetings to maintain a high hiring bar and positive candidate experience.
• Develop relationships with universities and key vendors.
• Travel to events and interview days, representing JPL professionally.
• Contribute to JPL employer branding via social media and events.
• Support the culture and advocate for diverse candidates.
• Guide candidates through a delightful experience and data-driven decisions.

Conocimientos

Full lifecycle recruiting

Engineering recruiting

Sourcing skills

ATS proficiency

Workday experience

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in applicable field

Master’s degree in applicable field

Herramientas

Workday

Phenom

LinkedIn

Microsoft Teams

Descripción del empleo

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 innovative and new solutions to attract difficult-to-find, passive talent.
• Strong sourcing and assessment skills preferred.
• Proficiency with utilizing an applicant tracking system to manage an end-to-end hiring process with attention to detail and compliance.
• Workday preferred.
• Prior experience required for running a hiring process in compliance with EEO and AAP; and OFCCP guidelines are strongly preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, both oral and written required.
• Communication is confident, professional, polished and also warm.
• Proficiency with MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Experience conducting in-person and virtual events utilizing technology such as Phenom, Microsoft Teams, LinkedIn and other social media tools, preferred.
• Excellent time management skills, the ability to lead multiple projects at once and work in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.
• Ability to exercise independent judgement, discretion and confidentiality as a member of the HR team.
• Ability to develop solid relationships and collaboration skills at all levels of the organization with your hiring teams, talent acquisition team and the greater HR team.
• Ability to be courageous and manage up as needed.

Temporary Employee (TMS)

Note: As a temporary position, this assignment may last up to 36 months in duration with approvals based on 6 to 12-month assignments. However, please note that you are not under any employment contract and your temporary employment status can be terminated at any time, with or without notice.

Benefits

• JPL has a catalog of benefits and perks that span from the traditional to the unique.
• This includes a variety of health, dental, vision, wellbeing, and retirement plans, paid time off, learning, rideshare, childcare, flexible schedule, parental leave and many more.
• Our focus is on work-life balance, and living healthy, fulfilling lives as we Dare Mighty Things Together.
• For further benefits information

Salary

The hiring range displayed below is specifically for those who will work in or reside in the location listed. In extending an offer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory considers factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s job related skills, experience, knowledge, and relevant education/training. The typical full time equivalent annual hiring range for this job in Pasadena, California. $112,736 - $136,760

Equal Opportunity and Diversity

JPL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy or perceived pregnancy, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status or any other characteristic or condition protected by Federal, state or local law.

In addition, JPL is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

EEO is the Law.

EEO is the Law Supplement Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federal facility.

Due to rules imposed by NASA, JPL will not accept applications from citizens of designated countries or those born in a designated country unless they are U.S. Citizens, Legal Permanent Residents of the U.S or have other protected status under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).

The Designated Countries List is available here.

About JPL

Formed in 1936, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech.) JPL joined NASA as an FFRDC when the agency was founded in 1958. JPL helped open the Space Age by developing America’s first Earth-orbiting science satellite, creating the first successful interplanetary spacecraft, and sending robotic missions to the solar system. Today JPL continues its world-leading innovation, implementing programs in planetary exploration, Earth science, space-based astronomy and technology development while applying its capabilities to technical and scientific problems of national significance. Above all, we are explorers. At JPL we promote collaboration, innovation, integrity, and excellence in distinct academic areas. We turn ideas for science investigation into the reality of groundbreaking space missions, partnering with our strategic business teams to guide JPL into the future.