Talent Acquisition Architect: Build Our Hiring Engine

Senior Metal Bellows; South Walpole (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Senior Metal Bellows is seeking a Talent Acquisition Lead to architect a scalable recruiting function for rapid growth in the United States. You will own end-to-end hiring, sourcing, interviewing, offers, and onboarding, partnering with leaders to meet aggressive hiring targets and build robust pipelines in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

You’ll lead a hands-on, builder's effort—designing processes, metrics, and a compelling candidate experience while managing a recruiting team to

Qualifications

• HS Degree and 5+ years of progressive talent acquisition experience in manufacturing, industrial, or similar fast-paced, high-volume environments.
• Demonstrated success recruiting frontline manufacturing talent (production operators, technicians, skilled trades).
• Proven full-cycle recruiting expertise from sourcing to closing.
• Experience supporting high-volume hiring and scaling recruiting programs.
• Experience recruiting engineering, technical, and professional roles with adaptable sourcing.
• Track record building or improving recruiting processes, pipelines, interview flows, and hiring workflows.
• Strong knowledge of recruiting technology and analytics (ATS, sourcing platforms, social postings, metrics).
• Ability to partner with hiring managers and leaders, guiding talent availability and workforce planning.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills to balance multiple priorities.
• Hands-on, solutions-oriented, capable of executing from strategy to delivery.
• Strong communication and relationship-building across all levels of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Build the recruiting engine with scalable processes, policies, systems, and best practices.
• Lead full-cycle recruiting for key positions, proactively sourcing, building pipelines, and delivering hires.
• Partner with business leaders to translate workforce needs into recruiting plans that align with growth targets.
• Create a positive candidate and hiring manager experience from first contact to offer acceptance.
• Develop metrics and interviewing practices to hire smarter and faster.
• Direct and develop a Recruiting Coordinator and decide when to engage external partners.
• Advise leaders with market intelligence and creative solutions to attract top talent.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Sourcing at scale

Interviewing & closing

Talent advisory

Leadership partner

Process design

Ambiguity tolerance

Relationship building

Communication

Organizational skills

Education

HS Degree

Tools

ATS / Recruiting platforms

Job description

Senior Metal Bellows is seeking a Talent Acquisition Lead to architect a scalable recruiting function for rapid growth in the United States. You will own end-to-end hiring, sourcing, interviewing, offers, and onboarding, partnering with leaders to meet aggressive hiring targets and build robust pipelines in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

You’ll lead a hands-on, builder's effort—designing processes, metrics, and a compelling candidate experience while managing a recruiting team to