Sr Talent Acquisition Recruiter (Strategic Hiring)

Zachry Group’s hybrid team helps build future-ready talent solutions. In this role, you will help ensure workforce readiness for business-critical leadership and professional hiring through forecast-driven pipelines, talent mapping, and long-range candidate engagement. The Senior Recruiter, Strategic Hiring partners with workforce planning and business leaders to translate workforce forecasts and succession planning insights into targeted sourcing strategies that support current and future needs.

What you’ll do

• Build, maintain, and optimize forecast-driven talent pipelines for business-critical leadership and professional positions across Zachry Group.
• Use talent market intelligence and long-range candidate engagement to support workforce readiness and anticipated hiring demand.
• Collaborate with the Director of Strategic Hiring, Workforce Planning, and business leaders to convert workforce forecasts, business growth projections, and succession planning insights into sustainable sourcing strategies.
• Develop and maintain relationships with leadership talent, technical professionals, and other hard-to-find candidates while keeping pipeline readiness aligned to expected hiring needs.
• Support future workforce requirements through talent mapping, competitive intelligence, relationship development, networking, and pipeline management, rather than traditional requisition-based recruiting.
• Primarily support management, director-level, executive-level, and other business-critical positions across Engineering, Nuclear, Operations, Project Controls, Supply Chain, and other strategic functions throughout the organization.

What you bring

• Experience recruiting within industrial construction, engineering, EPC, energy, manufacturing, nuclear, infrastructure, or related industries.
• Executive search experience in a corporate, retained search, or agency recruiting environment.
• Experience recruiting leaders within Engineering, Operations, Project Controls, Supply Chain, Nuclear, Construction Management, or other technical disciplines.
• An established professional network within industrial construction, engineering, energy, manufacturing, or related talent markets.
• Experience supporting workforce planning, succession planning, or strategic talent acquisition initiatives.
• Experience using labor market analytics, talent intelligence tools, and workforce data to guide recruiting strategies.
• Professional certifications such as SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, SPHR, AIRS, CIR, CTS, or related recruiting certifications.
• Experience supporting large-scale project-based organizations.
• Demonstrated success creating innovative sourcing campaigns and identifying non-traditional talent channels.
• Experience evaluating recruiting effectiveness through pipeline metrics, networking event outcomes, and sourcing performance analytics.
• Ability to communicate effectively in person, virtually, and by telephone with candidates, employees, and business leaders.
• Ability to sit, stand, walk, bend, and perform routine office-related activities.
• Ability to occasionally lift or move materials weighing up to 25 pounds.
• Ability to travel as necessary to support recruiting initiatives, networking activities, conferences, and business objectives.

Work environment

• Hybrid work environment with regular collaboration in a Zachry office location.
• May be based in Houston, Texas; San Antonio, Texas; or Downers Grove, Illinois.
• Up to 25% travel for conferences, networking events, industry meetings, project site visits, recruiting initiatives, and candidate engagement activities.
• Occasional visits to active construction, industrial, manufacturing, engineering, or project locations where personal protective equipment (PPE) may be required.
• Work environment may include both professional office settings and industrial field environments.

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