Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Messer Americas is seeking a Contract Recruiter to support staffing needs for engineering, manufacturing, industrial, and technical positions. The role manages full-cycle recruiting for contract, contract-to-hire, and direct-hire roles, including sourcing, candidate evaluation, interview coordination, offer support, onboarding, pipeline development, and recruiting metrics.
Responsibilities
- Partner with hiring managers, HR business partners, and project stakeholders to identify contract engineering staffing needs and clarify technical requirements
- Manage the full-cycle recruiting process for contract, contract-to-hire, and direct-hire engineering roles
- Develop targeted sourcing strategies for difficult to fill engineering, manufacturing, industrial, and technical positions
- Source, engage, and build relationships with active and passive engineering candidates through job boards, LinkedIn, referrals, social media, networking, and recruiting events
- Review resumes, conduct candidate screens and interviews, evaluate technical qualifications, and present qualified shortlists to hiring teams
- Coordinate interviews, skills assessments, feedback collection, offer processes, onboarding requirements, and contractor start dates
- Maintain regular communication with candidates and hiring managers to ensure an efficient, professional, and positive hiring experience
- Build and maintain a proactive pipeline of engineering and technical talent for immediate and future contract needs
- Track recruiting activity, time-to-fill, candidate pipeline status, and other recruiting metrics; provide regular updates to stakeholders
- Ensure recruiting practices align with applicable employment laws, company policies, and contingent-workforce requirements
Skills
- · Proven ability to recruit and place high-quality candidates in hard-to-fill engineering, manufacturing, industrial, or other technical roles
- · Experience identifying, engaging, and closing passive candidates
- · Strong full-cycle recruiting capability, including intake meetings, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer support, and onboarding
- · Ability to assess candidate experience, technical fit, availability, compensation expectations, and interest in contract assignments
- · Proficiency with Applicant Tracking Systems, ideally UKG, along with job boards, LinkedIn Recruiter, and candidate relationship management tools
- · Strong partnership and communication skills with hiring managers, HR, business leaders, and external candidates
- · Ability to manage multiple requisitions, shifting priorities, and urgent hiring timelines
- · Knowledge of recruiting compliance, labor legislation, employment practices, and contractor-related processes
- · Commitment to diverse and inclusive sourcing and hiring practices
- · Strong organization, follow-through, reporting, and problem-solving skills
- · 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience
- · Experience recruiting for engineering, technical, industrial, manufacturing, or similar specialized roles
- · High school diploma
- · Demonstrated success managing multiple open requisitions and meeting recruiting goals in a fast-paced environment
- · Bachelor's degree
- · Prior experience as a contract, technical, engineering, or agency recruiter
- · Experience recruiting engineers within industrial gases, manufacturing, energy, chemicals, process engineering, construction, automation, or related industries
- · Familiarity with contract, contract-to-hire, contingent workforce, and vendor-management processes
- · Proven success filling industrial sales, finance, operations, and other business-critical roles in addition to engineering positions
- · Experience with military recruiting initiatives or translating military technical experience into civilian engineering and industrial roles
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