Talent Acquisition Advisor Jobs

Requisition ID: 169341

Job Level: Senior Level

Home District/Group: DHO HR Operations

Department: Human Resources

Market: Corporate Home Office

Employment Type: Full Time

Position Overview

As a Talent Acquisition Advisor, you will support Kiewit's goals by focusing on building relationships with managers to recruit the best and brightest talent into the organization. Take direct ownership for successful customer relationships and guide hiring across a number of business groups.

At Kiewit, the scale of our operations is huge. Our construction and engineering projects span across the United States, Canada and Mexico, improving and connecting communities with every initiative.  We depend on our high-performing operations support professionals — they’re the glue that holds multiple areas of the business together and the catalysts that make things happen. We hire only the most driven people and we offer them diverse career opportunities, strong leadership and mentorship, rewarding, collaborative work, and responsibility they won’t find just anywhere. We’re always pushing new limits. You can too.

District Overview

HR Operations is an integral partner and service provider at Kiewit. In recent years, we have gone from decentralized HR groups to a unified, shared service team, with various HR Centers of Excellence. Our vision is to be a best-in-class international HR organization.

Location

This position can be based out of our Lone Tree, CO; Houston, TX; or Westlake, TX office.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate with candidates against counter-offers.
• Broad knowledge of the business to ensure talent identified is aligned with the right opportunities based on business demands and candidate preference.
• Analyze recruiting performance metrics to assess overall quality and performance to make recommendations for future
• Assess overall requisition health to ensure timely communications, effective candidate engagement and reduce risk to the business.
• Effectively navigate objections from Hiring Managers and Candidates throughout the recruiting process.
• Actively contribute in associations and societies to further expand and diversify Kiewit's candidate pool.
• Work with managers and HR to attract top external talent, leveraging tactics to identify a qualified and diverse candidate pool.
• Influence hiring decisions by providing value-adding recruiting-related advice.
• Assess applicant/candidate quality, skills, and fit to identify the best candidate for a position.
• Utilize metrics to drive business solutions to add value, raise candidate quality and/or decrease costs.
• Partner with business leaders and hiring managers to develop a deep understanding of their needs and the culture of the company.
• Communicate directly with each hiring manager to support their hiring needs.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with candidates through the recruiting process
• Knowledgeable of the market and supply for talent within a particular job function.
• Work with the appropriate hiring managers on requisition approvals; rehire issues and internal/external postings.
• Update requisitions daily to ensure proper status including hiring metrics and referral source for all new hires.
• Connect external employment market conditions with internal workforce demands to ensure proper pipelines of talent are identified early to fill critical business needs.
• Conduct in-depth intake meetings with leaders to ensure alignment on position, impact and expectations while providing market insights and education.
• Execute the recruiting process end-to-end while effectively utilizing the process, systems and tools in place.
• Review feedback from Hiring Managers to support quicker time-to-fill and ongoing success with selecting talent for the organization
• Coordinate the offer approval process by facilitating the information flow to appropriate management.
• Ability to leverage and maintain recruiting technology platforms to drive accuracy of candidate records, activity status, and provide weekly reports to management.
• Develop sourcing strategies and partner with other Talent Advisors as needed to implement these strategies to meet current staffing needs.
• Comprehensively understand the business strategy and connect it to a talent strategy.

Qualifications

• Passion for safety, with the ability to help us ensure that nobody gets hurt
• Ability to travel overnight throughout the US and/or Canada up to 15% of the time
• 10+ years of recruiting experience with 5+ years of experience recruiting in infrastructure, transportation, and/or heavy civil construction industries
• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Strong work ethic, willing to do what it takes to get the job done right the first time
• Demonstrated commitment to ethics and integrity
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
• 2+ years of experience sourcing in LinkedIn as well as a variety of recruiting tools; consistently utilizes creative sourcing methods
• Strong organization, time management, and attention to detail
• Team player with the ability to work independently to meet deadlines, goals and objectives
• Experience with applicant tracking systems (SAP SuccessFactors preferred)
• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
• Highly motivated, with a demonstrated passion for excellence and taking initiative

Other Requirements:

• Work during normal operating hours to organize and complete work within given deadlines. Work overtime and weekends as required.
• Perform work safely and effectively. Understand and follow oral and written instructions, including warning signs, equipment use, and other policies.
• Communicate and interact effectively and professionally with supervisors, employees, and others individually or in a team environment
• Work productively and meet deadlines timely
• Regular, reliable attendance

Base Compensation: 90,000 - 130,000

(Actual compensation is subject to variation due to such factors as education, experience, skillset, and/or location)

We offer our fulltime staff employees a comprehensive benefits package that’s among the best in our industry, including top-tier medical, dental and vision plans covering eligible employees and dependents, voluntary wellness and employee assistance programs, life insurance, disability, retirement plans with matching, and generous paid time off.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.