Senior Construction Recruiting Partner

CALLAHAN INC offers a base salary of $100,000 plus a commission incentive plan tied to recruiting performance, successful placements, quality of hire, hiring volume, and retention milestones. This full-time, exempt role is based in White Plains, NY (onsite) and supports hiring across New York and New England, with a focus on building strong pipelines and improving outcomes through recruiting technology and analytics.

What You’ll Do

• Lead full-cycle recruitment for field, professional, management, and executive-level roles.
• Design sourcing strategies for difficult-to-fill construction positions.
• Use direct outreach, market mapping, cold calling, and passive candidate sourcing to grow candidate availability.
• Build and maintain talent pipelines across New York and New England.
• Partner with hiring managers on workforce planning and staffing strategies.
• Manage employee referral programs and run recruiting campaigns.
• Develop partnerships with trade schools, military, apprenticeship, and workforce development programs.
• Attend career fairs, industry events, association meetings, and networking functions.
• Support employer branding and recruitment marketing initiatives.
• Track and report recruiting metrics and hiring outcomes.

Required Experience & Skills

• Minimum 5 years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including 3 years in construction recruiting.
• Experience with ADP Workforce Now, LinkedIn Recruiter, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Office.
• Proven success recruiting Project Managers, Superintendents, Estimators, Engineers, Safety Professionals, and Operations Leaders.
• Experience using ATS, CRM, and recruiting analytics tools.
• Experience developing employee referral programs.
• Knowledge of commercial, multifamily, life sciences, healthcare, educational, and mixed-use construction environments.
• Understanding of union, open-shop, and prevailing wage environments.
• Valid driver’s license and willingness to travel throughout New England and New York.

Technology, AI & Recruiting Optimization

You will work with ADP Workforce Now, LinkedIn Recruiter, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Teams, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, along with ATS, CRM, and recruiting analytics tools. The role also emphasizes a demonstrated ability to leverage Artificial Intelligence, automation tools, sourcing technologies, and recruiting analytics to improve hiring outcomes, increase recruiter productivity, enhance candidate engagement, and support workforce planning initiatives.

Performance Expectations

• Time-to-fill metrics
• Quality of hire
• Hiring manager satisfaction
• Candidate experience
• Passive candidate pipeline growth
• Referral program participation
• Retention of new hires
• Achievement of annual hiring goals

Additional Job Conditions

• Full-time, exempt role working generally during standard business hours, Monday through Friday.
• Flexibility is required due to recruiting and workforce development activities.
• Occasional early morning, evening, and weekend hours may be necessary for job fairs, recruiting events, industry networking, trade school programs, community outreach, and other business-related events throughout New England and New York.

Compliance & Professional Standards

• Conduct recruiting activities ethically and legally.
• Do not use or access confidential information, proprietary databases, trade secrets, or candidate information obtained in violation of non-compete, non-solicitation, confidentiality, or other restrictive covenant agreements.

Preferred Qualifications & Certifications

• 7+ years of recruiting experience; agency or staffing experience; established network in New York and New England construction markets; familiarity with prevailing wage construction; demonstrated use of AI tools to improve recruiting outcomes.
• Preferred Human Resources & Talent Acquisition certifications, including: SHRM, S/PHR, AIRS Certified Internet Recruiter (CIR), LinkedIn Certified Professional Recruiter, or SHRM Talent Acquisition Specialty Credential.

Desired Competencies

• Relationship-building and networking
• Business development and cold-calling
• Passive candidate sourcing and talent pipelining
• Negotiation and candidate closing
• Data-driven decision making
• AI and recruiting technology proficiency
• Professionalism and sound judgment
• Influencing and stakeholder management
• Organizational agility and prioritization