Strategic Sourcing Recruiter – Tech & Operations

HR Jobs; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Weatherford is seeking an experienced Sourcing Recruiter to strengthen its Talent Acquisition team in Houston. This role proactively identifies, attracts, and engages talent across engineering, operations, manufacturing, technical, corporate, and support functions while building pipelines and providing market intelligence.

As a key member of the TA-COE, you will act as a talent market expert, using research, mapping, networking, and candidate engagement to ensure access to qualified candidates

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field such as HR, business or communications.
• 5+ years in talent sourcing, recruiting, or talent intelligence.
• Experience sourcing technical, engineering, operations, or leadership talent.
• Strong research, mapping, and market intelligence abilities.
• Experience engaging passive candidates and building pipelines.
• Proficient with LinkedIn Recruiter and other sourcing tools.
• Excellent communication, networking and relationship-building.
• Ability to manage multiple searches in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Senior Recruiters, Hiring Managers and HR to understand hiring priorities.
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies for engineering, operations, manufacturing, and leadership roles.
• Build and maintain proactive talent pipelines for critical roles.
• Conduct talent mapping, competitor analysis, and labor market research.
• Source candidates using LinkedIn Recruiter, associations, events, referrals and internal databases.
• Engage passive candidates through personalized outreach and long-term relationships.
• Complete screening to evaluate interest, availability, experience and fit.
• Provide qualified candidate slates with market intelligence to Senior Recruiters.
• Track pipeline health and engagement metrics.
• Develop talent communities for future hiring needs and workforce planning.
• Share labor market insights to support recruiting strategies and business planning.
• Support employer branding and Weatherford’s EVP.
• Maintain candidate records in Oracle Recruiting Cloud (ORC) and other TA systems.
• Continuously evaluate sourcing tools and best practices.

Skills

Talent sourcing

Executive search

Talent intelligence

Passive candidate sourcing

LinkedIn Recruiter

Communication

Networking

Multitasking

Detail orientation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration

Bachelor’s degree in Marketing

Bachelor’s degree in Communications

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

Oracle Recruiting Cloud (ORC)

Job description

Weatherford is seeking an experienced Sourcing Recruiter to strengthen its Talent Acquisition team in Houston. This role proactively identifies, attracts, and engages talent across engineering, operations, manufacturing, technical, corporate, and support functions while building pipelines and providing market intelligence.

As a key member of the TA-COE, you will act as a talent market expert, using research, mapping, networking, and candidate engagement to ensure access to qualified candidates