Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

AECOM is hiring a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist to work hybrid within the mid-Atlantic Area. The incumbent will support Infrastructure projects within our East Region, with a core focus on Buildings & Places, Project and Program Management, and Water.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Manages full life-cycle recruitment including creating search strategies, actively sourcing candidates, pre-screening, interviewing, and presenting qualified candidates to hiring managers, negotiating offers and facilitating the hiring and on-boarding processes.

• Provide consultation to hiring managers on all aspects of the hiring process, including hiring strategies, recruitment cycle timing, coaching and guidance on best practices and sourcing trends.

• Responsible for developing, recommending, and executing recruitment strategy with decision makers to ensure a successful candidate search within the identified time frames.

• Uses proactive methods to network with industry experts and professional industry related associations, in order to build ongoing passive candidate networks.

• Builds relationships and communicates consistently and proactively throughout the recruitment process to ensure all participants in the hiring process are updated and well informed.

• Creates a positive candidate experience (for both the selected and non-selected candidates) throughout the entire recruiting process.

• Other duties as may be assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree + 6 years of recruiting experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education of full life cycle recruiting.

• Experience recruiting in Architecture, Construction, and relevant engineering fields.

• Experience building strong business relationships with key stakeholders and decision makers.

• Willing and able to travel 10-15% and regularly visit an AECOM office in either Atlanta, Orlando, Tampa, greater DMV area.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience working for a large multinational, matrixed organization.

• Strong written/verbal communication, negotiation, analytical skills, and the ability to make cold calls.

• Experience utilizing SmartRecruiters Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), Workday and proficient with MS office.

• Strong sourcing and networking skills.

• Experience maintaining confidential and sensitive information with proven ability to make decisions based on sound judgment.

• Experience working with geographically dispersed, virtual teams, as well as, have the ability, to work independently and in a team environment.

• Ability to change recruitment direction and priorities, based on changing critical needs.