Senior Recruiter - Skilled Trades at PremiStar in Deerfield, IL

Job description

• The Senior Recruiter is a key member of the Talent Acquisition team responsible for developing and executing recruiting strategies that attract, engage, and hire high-quality talent across the organization. This role will manage the full recruitment lifecycle for professional, operational, and highly skilled technical positions, with a particular focus on skilled trades and the mechanical systems/MEP industry.
• This position will also play an important role in strengthening recruiting processes, leveraging technology and recruiting analytics, and continuously improving the candidate and hiring-manager experience.

Responsibilities

• Recruiting & Talent Acquisition
• Manage full-cycle recruiting for assigned roles from intake through offer negotiation and close.
• Develop targeted recruiting strategies aligned to role requirements, market conditions, geography, compensation, and talent availability.
• Recruit for hard-to-fill skilled-trades and mechanical systems roles, including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, controls/building automation, service, and construction positions.
• Build proactive candidate pipelines for current and anticipated hiring needs.
• Source and engage active and passive candidates through direct outreach, referrals, networking, industry associations, trade organizations, social media, and professional platforms.
• Assess candidates for technical qualifications, relevant experience, leadership capability, communication skills, cultural alignment, and overall role fit.
• Present qualified candidates to hiring managers with concise summaries of experience, qualifications, compensation expectations, and key considerations.
• Hiring Manager Partnership
• Partner with hiring managers and business leaders to define role requirements, ideal candidate profiles, interview plans, decision criteria, and hiring timelines.
• Lead recruiting intake meetings and align stakeholders on expectations, process, responsibilities, and timelines.
• Provide hiring managers with labor-market, talent-availability, sourcing, compensation, and recruiting-process guidance.
• Maintain strong hiring-manager relationships through regular communication, recruiting updates, and performance reporting.
• Identify and resolve barriers that may delay hiring decisions or candidate progression.
• Support recruiting initiatives, workforce planning activities, and talent acquisition projects as assigned.
• Represent the organization in college, trade school, apprenticeship, and community recruiting initiatives.
• Share recruiting best practices and provide guidance to Talent Acquisition team members.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or a related field, or combination of education and demonstrated experience.
• 2-5 years of progressive recruiting experience, with demonstrated success managing full-cycle recruitment
• Full life cycle recruiting, sourcing, candidate pipelining, business stakeholder communications, Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), MS Office Suite
• Demonstrated experience recruiting within the HVAC, mechanical contracting, MEP, construction, facilities services, building automation, or industrial services industries.
• In depth understanding of skilled-trades recruiting experience; inclusive of HVAC service technicians, pipefitters, plumbers, electricians, controls technicians, project managers, service managers, operations leaders, or other skilled technical talent.
• Ability to recruit within a multi-location or multi-business-unit organization.
• Proficiency with UKG Pro Recruiting, UKG Ready, or comparable enterprise applicant tracking systems.
• Advanced sourcing capability using LinkedIn Recruiter and other professional talent-sourcing platforms.
• Talent pipeline development through trade schools, apprenticeship programs, technical colleges, veterans' programs, and industry organizations.
• Recruiting analytics and metrics interpretation to evaluate sourcing effectiveness and improve hiring outcomes.
• Recruiting technology fluency, including talent intelligence, CRM tools, sourcing automation, and AI-enabled recruiting solutions.
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. This position is not eligible for employer visa sponsorship.

Skills

Required

• Full life cycle recruiting
• sourcing
• candidate pipelining
• business stakeholder communications
• Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)
• MS Office Suite