Senior Engineering Recruiter

Job Summary

The Senior Engineering Recruiter functions as a Talent Acquisition Partner working collaboratively with our hiring managers and HR to best recruit, interview, and hire great talent. The role will also include accountability for full cycle recruiting strategies ensuring great candidate experience and implementing innovative sourcing strategies and building talent pipelines for Junior to Senior roles in multiple disciplines. The role is also a Talent Sourcing Specialist pro-actively sourcing and engaging passive candidates to fill our talent needs for growth and replacement.

The role helps Dennis Group find exceptional talent in the Engineering, Architectural, and Construction Management space. Dennis Group is a Design-Build engineering firm and General Contractor. We design and build food and beverage processing facilities. The Recruiter will recruit candidates that have expertise and experience in taking a project from the estimating/bidding phase, through the design phase, through selecting sub-contactors and materials/equipment and onsite construction visits through the end of the project.

Responsibilities

• Execute end-to-end recruitment from job opening approval through candidate acceptance.
• Conduct initial phone screens of candidates to analyze applicants' abilities and provide recommendations to hiring managers.
• Perform all aspects of technical recruiting ranging from identifying needs, sourcing talent, networking, interviewing, and ensuring candidates experience have a great first impression of Dennis Group.
• Develop and implement proactive talent sourcing strategies using Indeed.com, LinkedIn Recruiter and other platforms to ensure we are getting in front of the top candidates that are passive.
• Collaborate with Hiring Partners/Managers to identify and maintain hiring targets and advise on total compensation packages to offer and best recruiting efforts to focus on.
• Attend business discipline strategy meetings for recruitment activities.
• Recruit locally and nationwide.
• Team up with our marketing team to leverage social media, trade shows, community outreach events and job fairs, to improve our employer branding efforts.
• Help manage our applicant tracking system.
• Post and update job descriptions and job postings.
• Coordinate and schedule interviews for hiring managers with qualified applicants and gather interview feedback reviews from interviewers.
• Apply company policies and procedures, including federal and state laws regarding employment practices.
• Proactively seek after, plan, manage and oversee all college fairs, info sessions, class presentations and other engagement opportunities surrounding building relationships with colleges and universities (faculty members, employer specialist, clubs, etc.) for internships, Co-Op, and Entry-level jobs openings.

Required Education Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Marketing or equivalent combination of education, training, and work experience.
• 7+ years of corporate recruiting experience including sourcing and full life cycle recruiting. At least one year working at a search firm / agency is preferable.
• 7+ years of sourcing passive candidates (Boolean search techniques, search strings) and online database searching techniques.
• 4+ year of recruiting for Architects and engineer roles for a design-build engineering construction firms - Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical/Process, Automation & Control, Packaging, etc.
• 5+ years of intake meetings and building rapport quickly and establish credibility with stakeholders, hiring managers. It will be important to have confidence providing consultative advice to talent leaders and hiring managers.
• 3+ years of university recruiting experience and building relationships, outreach programs, info sessions, and branding activities.
• Passion for delivering an exceptional candidate experience.
• Experience managing and prioritizing multiple searches, projects, and client relationships.
• Applicant tracking system (ATS) experience.
• We believe to help build our company, you need to know our people and our culture. Frequent face-to-face, in office interactions with team members will be an important part of this role.
• **Willing to work onsite, in the office (Downtown SLC). Hybrid option is available after 4-6 months of employment.

Travel Requirement

• 15% travel required for college recruiting events, visiting other offices, and visiting project sites to recruit more effectively.

About Us

We plan, design, engineer, and build food plants for major brands across the country and the world. For the past three decades, we've focused exclusively on the food and beverage industry, helping your favorite brands put your favorite foods in the grocery store. Simply put, food isn't one thing we do, it's all we do.

Dennis Group offers competitive compensation packages commensurate with experience. We provide comprehensive employee benefits including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, paid time off including an open vacation policy, as well as bonus, profit-sharing, and retirement plans.

Dennis Group is proud to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.

JOB CODE: 1002298