Craft Recruiter

Responsibilities

• Screens résumés, confirms candidates technical qualifications, and conducts interviews for available job opportunities, and maintains an accurate and current pipeline of potential skilled craft workers.
• Actively sources candidates through a variety of channels to improve candidate quality and maintain a healthy pipeline of candidates for hard-to-fill roles such as electricians.
• Creates, implements, and analyzes recruitment metrics to ensure efficient and effective recruitment practices. Identifies opportunities to continuously improve recruitment processes, approaches, tools, and outcomes.
• Must be able to travel as needed to project sites...locally and out of state. 
• Finds and developes working relationships with various applicable training programs and apprenticeships for merit shop work.
• Works closely with project management to review project demands and evaluate department planning and needs.
• Understands and can assist with prevailing wage projects and the required processes accordingly.
• Develops sourcing strategies that support short- and long-term recruitment needs based on project demands.
• Conducts strategic market research to propose information such as hiring demographic, expenses associated with travel allowance and accommodations, and provincial wage rates at the bidding stages of projects.
• Develops and maintains an effective network with other senior HR professionals and participates in associations, as appropriate.

Qualifications

• Prefered a journeyman level experience in construction or postsecondary diploma / degree in a related discipline.
• Prefered previous recruitment experience in construction or electrical or a related industry.
• Prefered biligual in Spanish and English.
• Prefered Social Media recruiting experience.
• Comprehends and can explain applicable labor laws.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with full-cycle recruitment process and development of talent acquisition strategies.
• Solid knowledge of prevailing wage requirements.
• Ability to tactfully and diplomatically deal with people and act with discretion when handling confidential information.
• Strong business acumen with an understanding of industry practices and new developments.
• Seen as a trusted advisor with the ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to negotiate and present content and ideas that influence a favorable outcome.