Recruiting Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Florida.

📋 Description

• Spearhead Mid-State’s efforts in talent acquisition and workforce development.

• Create proactive recruitment strategies, forge industry partnerships, and establish skilled-trades talent pipelines.

• Oversee the complete recruiting lifecycle for 30–40 active requisitions spanning various business units, locations, and skill levels.

• Collaborate with hiring and operational leaders to pinpoint staffing requirements, skill shortages, and recruitment tactics.

• Identify candidates through job boards, professional networks, educational institutions, apprenticeship programs, workforce agencies, referrals, and direct outreach.

• Develop and sustain pathways for skilled craft, technical, leadership, entry-level, apprenticeship, internship, graduate, and early-career talent.

• Manage candidate screening, assessment, interviews, communications, offers, and pre-employment processes.

• Maintain candidate and requisition data within the ATS and HR systems.

• Track labor-market trends and create regional workforce pipelines.

• Establish workforce development collaborations with schools, colleges, apprenticeship programs, agencies, veterans’ organizations, and industry associations.

• Represent Mid-State at career fairs, school engagements, industry events, and outreach initiatives.

• Ensure compliance with affirmative action plans in recruiting and outreach efforts.

• Lead the evaluation, implementation, and integration of AI-driven recruiting and candidate-screening technologies.

• Set standards and controls for AI-assisted recruiting technologies in conjunction with Human Resources and IT.

• Supervise, train, coach, and mentor HR Assistants.

• Define workload priorities, performance expectations, and onboarding accountability.

• Oversee Form I-9 and E-Verify processes.

• Coordinate the utilization and cross-training of HR Assistants during seasonal fluctuations.

• Establish and monitor recruiting and workforce-development KPIs, reporting results to the Vice President of Human Resources.

• Analyze recruiting data, trends, bottlenecks, and areas for enhancement.

• Assess recruiting vendors, job boards, sourcing tools, staffing partners, and associated expenditures.

• Maintain recruiting procedures and workflows.

• Translate workforce forecasts and skill gaps into recruiting pipelines and development programs.

• Conduct focused recruiting campaigns in targeted geographic markets.

• Travel to Mid-State locations, project sites, schools, recruiting events, and remote markets as needed.

• Execute other assigned and customary duties.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Management, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.

• A minimum of 5–7 years of progressive experience in recruiting or talent acquisition within the heavy industrial maintenance sector.

• Proven experience managing a high-volume workload across multiple roles and geographic areas.

• Proficient in proactively sourcing candidates through job boards, resume databases, social media, networking, direct outreach, and other sourcing techniques.

• Experience in recruiting skilled trades, technical personnel, field staff, or other hard-to-fill roles.

• Previous supervisory or team leadership experience is essential.

• Familiarity with federal employment eligibility requirements, including Form I-9 and E-Verify.

• Strong understanding of full-cycle recruiting and strategic talent sourcing methodologies.

• Capacity to manage 30–40 requisitions concurrently.

• Excellent candidate sourcing and networking abilities.

• Skill in developing sustainable workforce partnerships with schools, apprenticeship programs, industry organizations, workforce agencies, and community partners.

• Strong organizational and project management capabilities.

• Ability to analyze recruiting metrics and leverage data to refine recruiting strategies and resource allocation.

• Proficient in Applicant Tracking Systems, HRIS platforms, job boards, recruiting technologies, and Microsoft Office applications.

• Ability to quickly learn and implement emerging recruiting technologies, including artificial intelligence and automation tools.

• Working knowledge of relevant employment laws and regulations impacting recruiting, selection, onboarding, employment eligibility verification, and nondiscrimination.

• Ability to maintain confidentiality and manage sensitive employee and candidate information.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, geographically dispersed organization with seasonal hiring volume fluctuations.

• Must possess legal authorization to work in the United States.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Generous paid time off and holiday schedule.

• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• Retirement savings plan with employer contribution.

• Employee assistance programs and wellness initiatives.