Technical Recruiter

Accountabilities:

• Serve as the recruiting lead for assigned programs, partnering with hiring managers to define role requirements, key performance indicators, must-have qualifications, and candidate profiles.
• Develop compelling, role-specific job descriptions and postings designed to attract qualified technical and cleared talent.
• Build and execute proactive sourcing strategies across LinkedIn, HireEZ, applicant tracking systems, referrals, niche forums, industry events, and other relevant channels.
• Identify, engage, and assess passive candidates for specialized technical and government contract positions.
• Evaluate candidate experience against contract labor categories and determine alignment with PWS and SOW requirements.
• Partner with proposal teams to develop staffing plans and rapidly identify candidates for capture and proposal efforts.
• Conduct candidate screening, interviews, reference checks, assessments, and offer negotiations through successful close.
• Present concise, qualified candidate slates using structured, scorecard-based evaluations.
• Track and analyze recruiting metrics such as time-to-fill, pipeline velocity, submittal-to-interview ratios, and offer acceptance rates.
• Use recruiting data to prioritize requisitions, identify sourcing bottlenecks, and continuously improve recruiting funnels.
• Support contract transitions, onboarding activities, site visits, career fairs, and occasional client-facing recruiting activities.
• Help establish and improve HR and recruiting processes as the organization scales.
• Serve as a recruiting brand ambassador and represent the organization professionally with candidates, clients, hiring managers, and external partners.
• Apply AI recruiting technologies, including candidate search, resume parsing, and LLM-assisted outreach, to improve sourcing, screening, and targeted candidate engagement.

Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of direct, full-lifecycle experience recruiting technical talent in aviation, manufacturing, engineering, maintenance, or Department of War contract environments.
• US citizenship is required.
• High school diploma required; a bachelor’s degree is preferred.
• Proven experience recruiting candidates for cleared positions, with experience identifying and engaging candidates holding Secret-level or higher clearances.
• Strong understanding of military aviation and technical talent markets is preferred.
• Experience evaluating candidate qualifications against PWS and SOW requirements and mapping professional experience to government contract labor categories (LCATs).
• Experience supporting proposals and staffing strategies for GSA/SIN or other government contract vehicles is preferred.
• Demonstrated success recruiting and closing senior-level technical professionals for government programs.
• Experience building HR and recruiting processes from the ground up, particularly in growing organizations.
• Strong experience acting as an employer brand ambassador and representing an organization to specialized talent communities.
• Ability to support recruiting across multiple worksites and diverse contract types.
• Demonstrated experience using AI recruiting tools for candidate discovery, resume screening, candidate matching, and targeted outreach.
• Proficiency with applicant tracking systems and recruiting CRMs, including pipeline management, automation workflows, and candidate nurture sequences.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to advise hiring managers, align teams on competencies, and deliver structured candidate scorecards.
• Data-driven approach to recruiting, with experience using hiring metrics to prioritize requisitions and improve recruiting performance.
• Excellent communication, relationship-building, organization, negotiation, and candidate engagement skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment while maintaining a high standard of candidate and stakeholder experience.
• Willingness to travel approximately 25% for career fairs, client locations, onboarding activities, and other business needs.

Benefits:

• Annual salary range of $90,000–$105,000 USD.
• Fully remote work arrangement.
• Opportunity to work on specialized technical and government contract recruiting initiatives.
• Exposure to proposal development, workforce planning, and government labor category requirements.
• Opportunity to leverage AI-powered recruiting technologies and modern sourcing tools.
• Career growth opportunities within a scaling organization.
• Approximately 25% travel, providing opportunities for industry events, career fairs, client engagements, and onsite activities.