Talent Acquisition Advisor - Engineering Recruiting

iLocatum; Canonsburg (Washington County); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Ilocatum is seeking a Talent Acquisition Advisor to support engineering and manufacturing hiring with a high-touch candidate experience and strong employer branding. You will develop sourcing strategies, screen candidates, build talent pools, and drive a consistent interview process across the organization.

The role requires collaboration with hiring managers, campus recruiting, and occasional on-site interviews, with travel up to 10%. Experience with LinkedIn, Indeed, and ATS tools is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 3+ years recruiting experience for engineering/technical/manufacturing roles
• Experience with LinkedIn, Indeed and ATS tools

Responsibilities

• Validate requisitions with hiring managers and learn business needs.
• Define go-to-market sourcing strategy and execute via LinkedIn, Indeed, job boards and social media.
• Execute diversity outreach and recruitment strategies.
• Manage candidate workflow in ATS (ADP RM) and disposition candidates promptly.
• Partner with hiring teams to create competency-based interview guides.
• Provide regular recruitment updates to hiring managers and gather feedback.
• Participate in campus recruitment and brand-building activities on campus.
• Attend networking events and career fairs.
• Coordinate and schedule candidate interviews.
• Produce reports on performance metrics and measurements.
• May participate in on-site face-to-face interviews.

Skills

Written communication

Oral communication

Relationship building

Recruitment best practices

Urgency and initiative

Professionalism and confidentiality

Travel 10%

Remote work capable

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

LinkedIn

Indeed

Applicant Tracking Systems

Job description

Our client is recruiting for a Talent Acquisition Advisor. Their talent acquisition team solves the company hiring needs by applying industry best practices and their knowledge of the recruitment landscape to identify, assess and deliver top talent to their internal customers.

As a Talent Acquisition Advisor, you will be responsible for ensuring a high-touch and positive candidate experience, consistently branding our client in the marketplace; developing effective sourcing strategies / executing on those strategies; effectively phone screen candidates to ensure a strong candidate pool and ultimately a strong quality of hire; building talent pools/pipelines; and driving adherence and consistency in the recruitment and interview process to ensure a fair, consistent assessment and selection process.

A successful Talent Acquisition Advisor must quickly learn the business and uses their talent acquisition knowledge to build strong relationships, influence hiring managers, and become a trusted talent acquisition business partner to our customers.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Conduct requisition validation and strategy discussions with hiring managers to intimately learn about the business and functional area in which you are recruiting, the key performance objectives of the role, the position value proposition, and the experiences and competencies that are required of the position.
• Define the best go-to market strategy and execute relevant sourcing activities through LinkedIn, Indeed, professional and industry groups and associations, job boards, direct search, social media, and other sourcing/recruitment avenues.
• Execute on our established diversity outreach, sourcing, and recruitment strategies.
• Deliver high quality candidate management through our ATS (ADP RM) including reviewing and evaluating candidate applications/resumes and appropriately dispositioning candidates in a time manner.
• Partner with hiring teams on creating and delivering competency-based interview guides and assessment formats.
• Provide strong service delivery to hiring managers through frequent communication that includes providing recruitment updates and gathering feedback on candidates.
• Adhere to performance goals and standards.
• Participate in campus recruitment activities and building our brand on campus.
• Attend networking and professional events, as well as career fairs.
• Coordinate and schedule candidate interviews.
• Produce reports on performance metrics and measurements.
• May participate in on-site face to face interviews.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• At least three years recruiting experience for engineering, technical and manufacturing roles.
• Experience utilizing recruitment tools including LinkedIn and Indeed, Experience utilizing Applicant Tracking Systems

Skills

• Effective written and oral communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively with a variety of stakeholders and employees at all levels of the organization.
• Excellent ability to build strong relationships, influence hiring managers and drive best recruitment practices.
• Strong sense of urgency and self-initiative to deliver results.
• Exhibits strong professionalism and has proven ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Ability to travel (10%) to visit business locations.

• Ability to work remote with minimal supervision.