Senior Recruiter
At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. As we work to weave diversity, equity, and inclusion into our work and foster a sense of belonging throughout the company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves: What is our impact on the world?
Watch Our Story:' https://www.hdrinc.com/our-story'
Our inspiring team of over 12,500 consulting professionals provides clean drinking water to millions of people every day; world-class healthcare facilities for people in need of care; transform energy production to neutralize carbon emissions for a better tomorrow and advances socially and environmentally conscious transportation solutions, ultimately helping people get to their destinations every day. At employee-owned HDR, we know that the work we do adds meaning and value to the world. That ideas inspire positive change. Above all, we believe that collaboration is the best way forward.
The heart of everything we do at HDR is the people of the communities we serve. We are focused on bringing inclusive social equity and a better life to people through transforming the built environment. Our teams of professionals drive toward improving the environment and inclusive social justice through our innovative planning, design, and community engagement solutions.
HDR is a 100% employee-owned, top 10 ranked global architectural, engineering and planning firm. The work we do matters to everyone.
The Position
In the role of the Senior Recruiter, you will partner with HDR leadership to steer the talent identification and recruitment process for roles in the North Central US. Your day-to-day duties will be driving the full life cycle recruitment process from qualifying positions, talent identification, recruiting, selection and closing. You will join forces with leadership to map out annual recruiting plans and assure the recruitment goals set therein are being effectively implemented and achieved.
Typical positions the Senior Recruiter will work on are engineers, planners, architects, project managers, designers, environmental scientists and construction management professionals. Market sectors range from transportation, water, architecture, infrastructure, power, solid waste and mining. Service offerings range from traditional design, alternative delivery, construction management, program management and advisory services.
You will be part of the dedicated global talent acquisition team of 35+ professionals (recruiters and recruiting coordinators) positioned throughout North America, Europe and Australia.
More specific duties include:
- Proactively sourcing and managing candidates through the full life-cycle recruitment process
- Diversity and equity champion. Partner with our diversity, equity and inclusion recruiting teams, employee network groups and professional associations to increase diversification of our talent pool.
- HDR currently leverages Taleo as our applicant tracking system (ATS)
- Leverage a wide variety of methodologies to deliver candidate sourcing results (referrals, LinkedIn, professional associations, ZoomInfo, etc.)
- Developing annual recruitment plans with business partners
- Position description refinement
- Sourcing and screening candidates
- Directing and participating in select interview processes.
- Reference checks
- Negotiating and closing deals
- Being a team player
- Mentor junior recruiters
- Perform other duties as needed
- Employee-owned firms statistically outperform other ownership structures in many key performance metrics.
- A sense of pride seeing projects we build add value in your community.
- Being part of global talent acquisition team operating in eight countries.
- Many other competitive benefits
- Previous experience working in a web-based applicant tracking system
- Previous experience in the architectural, engineering and consulting industry
- Local candidates are highly preferred
- Bachelor's degree
- Must have excellent interpersonal communication and customer service skills
- Demonstrated ability to create rapport over the phone (with candidates, hiring managers, and members of recruiting team)
- Must be motivated and driven with the ability to excel in a growing, dynamic business environment
- Ability to independently travel (less than 10%); preference given to local/regional candidates
- Strong relationship building, organizational and follow-up skills
- Demonstrated ability to work in an extremely demanding, fast-paced, high-volume environment
- An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must
What We Believe
HDR is our company. Together, we build on each other's life experiences and perspectives to make great things possible every day. This shapes our collaborative culture, encourages organizational trust and connects us closer to the clients and communities we serve.
Our Commitment
As employee owners, we all have a role in creating an inclusive environment where each of us is welcomed, valued, respected and empowered to bring our authentic selves to work every day.
Our eight Employee Network Groups (Asian Pacific, Black, Hispanic/Latino(a), LGBTQ+, People with Disabilities, Veterans, Women, Young Professionals) help create a sense of belonging and foster a supportive environment where everyone is empowered to engage and contribute. Each group has an executive sponsor and is open to all employees.
