Technical Recruiter

Amtec Staffing; Pasadena (CA); On-site; USD 57,032 - 95,329; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Job summary

A leading staffing agency in Pasadena is looking for a Recruitment Specialist to manage full-cycle hiring for interns and engineers. This role requires at least 6 years of experience in recruiting within engineering or technology fields. The ideal candidate will develop relationships with universities and contribute to employer branding while ensuring an exceptional candidate experience. This position offers competitive hourly pay and the opportunity to work with pioneering teams in robotic space exploration.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of full life cycle recruiting in engineering or technology.
• Experience recruiting in engineering and computer science is strongly preferred.
• Ability to think creatively to attract difficult-to-find talent.

Responsibilities

• Manage full lifecycle recruiting for internship and senior positions.
• Develop relationships with key stakeholders at universities.
• Contribute to employer brand through social media.

Skills

Full life cycle recruiting

Sourcing and assessment skills

Interpersonal skills

Time management

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in applicable field

Master’s degree in applicable field

Tools

Workday

MS Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Social media tools

Job description

As a Recruitment Specialist, reporting to the Manager of Talent Acquisition, you play a key role on the University and Experienced Recruiting Team—driving full‑cycle hiring for interns, early career professionals, and senior level experts.

Together, the team identifies and hires the pioneers behind robotic space exploration. Through their innovation and discoveries, our company 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 are experts that drive and influence the Lab’s recruitment strategy. We provide extraordinary client consultation and candidate experience to hire outstanding, diverse talent to meet the current and future needs of the Lab. 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.

Job Title: Recruitment Specialist

Pay: $41.4/hr - $69.2/hr

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, early career, and senior level positions across lab, including 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 company representation.
• Contribute to our 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 company's Internship Program in partnership with the Academic Engagement Office to create memorable experiences through events and key networking opportunities.
• Challenge assumptions and develop new and innovative ideas to continuously improve the hiring landscape at the company.
• 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.