Talent Acquisition Recruiter

The Opportunity

Black & Veatch is seeking a Recruiter who thrives in proactive sourcing and building meaningful candidate relationships. This role is ideal for someone with experience aligned to our focus areas and a passion for delivering a strong candidate experience. A LinkedIn Recruiter seat will be provided to support your success. 

The Team

Black & Veatch’s Talent Acquisition Team consists of talent professionals that help enable the organizations people, projects, and businesses to be as successful as possible. This high-performing team partners with our customers to align their people, processes, technologies, and data analytics in the face of industry transformation:

• Clean water resources that last. Resilient power systems through outages and pandemics.
• Carbon-free fuels powering fleets and propelling growth.
• Global defense, secured.
• Smart battery energy storage for a sustainable future.
• Communities, cities and industries all need one thing: for everything to work as it should.

Key Responsibilities

Sourcing:

• Utilize various recruiting tools and resources to source potential candidates, including social media, job boards, and professional networks
• Develop and implement sourcing strategies to attract top talent
• Build and maintain a network of potential candidates through proactive sourcing techniques
• Build and maintain a pipeline of potential candidates for future openings

Full-Cycle Recruitment:

• Facilitate all stages of the candidate lifecycle, from job creation through offer, ensuring all candidates have a positive, well-informed experience during the recruiting process
• Develop, post, and maintain quality job descriptions and advertisements for open positions, ensuring consistency and compliance across all postings
• Consistently monitor and track performance using key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure that recruitment goals are met and identify areas for improvement

Technology:

• Utilize recruiting technology such as applicant tracking system, CRM, PowerBi, SharePoint
• Utilize internal applicant tracking system to review applications and maintain candidate progress

Relationships:

• Build strong partnerships with the business, department heads, and hiring managers to understand job requirements and develop effective recruitment strategies
• Partner with the business, hiring managers, HR to develop compensation recommendations and negotiate job offers with candidates, ensuring competitive and equitable compensation packages
• Provide regular updates to hiring managers on candidate pipeline and recruitment progress, and adjust strategies as needed to meet hiring goals
• Ensure a positive candidate experience throughout the recruitment process and maintain relationships with candidates for future opportunities

Other Responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance with all federal/state laws and regulations, including affirmative action plan compliance, EEO and OFCCP
• Operate in a manner that reflects BV’s vision, mission, and core values, with a specific emphasis on safety, respect and quality
• Lead and support change initiatives through planning, communication, and implementation

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in HR or related field preferred.
• 2+ years related HR experience with candidate interviewing, employment law, EEO/AAP and problem solving/conflict management.
• All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following:
  • Criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.

Preferred Qualifications

Work Environment/Physical Demands

Hybrid or flexible work options may be offered after the first 90 days of employment based upon manager discretion, job performance and work assignments.

Salary Plan

Job Grade