Talent Acquisition Lead

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

Company Description

Build the function. Own the hiring. Help shape what's next.

We're entering an exciting period of hypergrowth, and we're looking for a Talent Acquisition Lead who wants to build something from the ground up.

Our ambition is big: over 125+ new hires over the next 12 months. To get there, we need more than a great recruiter. We need a builder, a problem-solver, and someone who thrives on turning ambitious growth plans into results.

This is an opportunity to put your mark on our talent acquisition function-build out and develop the team, establish the strategy, tools, processes, and practices that will support our next stage of growth.

There is no established recruiting playbook to follow. You'll create it.

And while you'll have the autonomy to shape how we recruit, this is not a role for someone who wants to manage from the sidelines. You'll be in the thick of it-sourcing talent, interviewing candidates, partnering with hiring managers, closing offers, and making great hires happen.

What You'll Own

Build the recruiting engine. Design and implement a scalable talent acquisition function that can support rapid growth without compromising quality. You'll establish the recruiting processes, policies, systems, and best practices that set us up for success today and as we continue to scale.

Recruit. Source. Close. Repeat. You'll personally lead full-cycle recruiting for key positions, proactively source candidates, build talent pipelines, and deliver hires. This is a hands‑on role, and your ability to execute will be just as important as your ability to strategize.

Turn growth plans into hiring results. Partner with business leaders to understand workforce needs, prioritize critical positions, and develop recruiting plans that keep pace with our ambitious growth targets.

Create a great candidate and hiring manager experience. Establish consistent, efficient, and engaging recruiting practices. From the first conversation to the accepted offer, you'll help define what it feels like to join our company.

Build the infrastructure. Establish meaningful metrics, develop interview and selection practices, and create the policies and processes that will help we hire smarter and faster.

Lead and leverage your resources. You'll have a Recruiting Coordinator reporting to you and will be responsible for directing their work, developing their capabilities, and maximizing the team's impact. You'll also determine when and how to leverage external recruiting partners to meet business needs.

Be a trusted talent advisor. Bring market intelligence, creative solutions, and a sense of urgency to hiring conversations. You'll challenge assumptions, influence decisions, and help leaders think differently about attracting and securing talent.

Job Description

Who Will Thrive Here

We're looking for someone who has been in the trenches of recruiting and knows what it takes to deliver results in a fast-moving environment.

You may be a high-performing Senior Recruiter ready to take ownership of a function, or an experienced Talent Acquisition Manager who misses being close to the action.

Either way, you bring:

• Strong full-cycle recruiting experience. You know how to find, engage, assess, and close talent-and you're genuinely energized by doing it.
• A builder's mindset. You enjoy creating structure where little exists and are comfortable developing processes while simultaneously delivering results.
• Experience recruiting at scale. You understand the pace, prioritization, and creativity required to support aggressive hiring goals.
• Exceptional sourcing skills. You don't rely on job postings alone. You know how to proactively identify and attract great candidates.
• Business partnership and influence. You can work confidently with leaders, challenge thinking, and translate business priorities into actionable hiring strategies.
• A balance of strategy and execution. You can think big, but you're equally willing to roll up your sleeves and get the work done.
• Comfort with ambiguity. You don't need a perfectly defined roadmap. You see opportunity in figuring things out.

Why This Opportunity Is Different

This isn't a role where you'll inherit an established function and be asked to maintain it. You'll have the chance to:

• Build something that's yours. Shape the recruiting strategy, processes, and infrastructure from the beginning.
• Make a visible impact. Your work will directly influence our ability to grow, execute, and succeed.
• Own a meaningful challenge. Hiring over 100people in a year will require creativity, discipline, and an ability to move quickly.
• Work with autonomy. Bring your ideas, make recommendations, and help determine how we get things done.
• Grow with the business. As the company scales, you'll have the opportunity to help shape what the future of the talent acquisition function looks like.

The Bottom Line

We need someone who gets excited about creating the recruiting function, but isn't afraid to pick up the phone, source a hard‑to-find candidate, or personally drive a search across the finish line.

If you're a hands-on talent acquisition professional who wants ownership, autonomy, and the opportunity to make a significant impact during a pivotal stage of growth, we'd love to hear from you.

Qualifications

What You'll Bring

• HS Degree and 5+ years of progressive talent acquisition experience, including significant experience recruiting in manufacturing, industrial, or similarly fast-paced, high-volume environments.
• Demonstrated success recruiting frontline manufacturing talent, including production operators, technicians, skilled trades, and other hourly employees.
• Proven full-cycle recruiting expertise, including proactive sourcing, candidate engagement, interviewing, selection, offer negotiation, and closing candidates.
• Experience supporting high-volume hiring initiatives, ideally within a rapidly growing organization or one experiencing significant workforce expansion.
• Experience recruiting engineering, technical, and professional positions, with the ability to adapt sourcing strategies to different talent markets.
• A track record of building, implementing, or improving recruiting processes and practices, including sourcing strategies, candidate pipelines, interview processes, recruiting systems, and hiring workflows.
• Strong knowledge of recruiting technology and analytics, including applicant tracking systems, sourcing platforms, social media postings and key recruiting performance metrics.
• Ability to partner effectively with hiring managers and business leaders, providing guidance on talent availability, hiring strategies, selection practices, and workforce planning.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills, with the ability to balance multiple hiring priorities and deliver results in a fast-changing environment.
• A hands‑on, resourceful, and solutions‑oriented approach, with the ability to operate independently, establish structure, and take ownership from strategy through execution.
• Strong communication, relationship‑building, and influencing skills, with the confidence to work across all levels of the organization.
• Ability to manage multiple requisitions and priorities with a high sense of urgency

A Plus if you have Experience with:

• Campus, trade school, or community partnership experience
• Knowledge of regulated manufacturing environments (AS9100, ITAR, ISO, or similar)
• HRCI/SHRM/AIRS Certification

Additional Information

Salary Range: $90,000-140,000 (Annually) + Bonus

Good‑Faith Disclosure Note: In compliance with Massachusetts Pay Transparency Law, this range represents the good‑faith annual salary or hourly wage range that Metal Bellows reasonably expects to pay for this position.Final placement within the band depends on relevant factors such as experience, education, skills, and internal equity.

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