Human Resources Specialist

Human Resources Specialist

JOB-10044728

Anticipated Start Date

08/25/2025

Location

Overland Park, KS

Type of Employment

Contract-to-Hire

Employer Info

Our client is an employee-owned engineering, procurement, consulting, and construction company with a 100-year legacy of creating a better world for humanity today, and for generations to come.

Job Summary

Our client is hiring a Human Resources Specialist to lead strategic, full-cycle recruitment efforts, focusing on high-volume and hard-to-fill roles through advanced sourcing techniques. Ideal candidates have 3+ years of experience, preferably in technical or engineering recruitment, and are skilled in Boolean search, social media sourcing, and relationship-building with top talent.

Job Description

• Consult and conduct recruitment strategy meetings with talent acquisition partners to understand gaps in recruiting efforts and needs
• Build long term relationships with top talent for current and future career opportunities
• Implement and execute strategic recruitment techniques for high volume, aged and hard to fill positions
• Use innovative sourcing techniques and leverage technology to find active and passive candidates
• Build strong partnerships with recruiters to develop plans for key staffing initiatives
• Post and maintain quality job descriptions and advertisements for open positions, ensuring consistency across all postings
• Source candidates through creative social media tools and developing robust networking avenues
• Initiate contact with passive candidates for openings and maintaining candidate pipelines
• Utilize internal applicant tracking system to review applications and maintain candidate progress
• Recognize and assist with any situation within our business that can be assisted with HR support
• Researching market conditions and industry trends as they relate to our competitors to assist in decision-making and marketing positions.
• Using industry knowledge, social media sources, Technical Operations, and mission-focused knowledge to seek out potential candidates that may be currently employed at peer/competitor companies, and successfully identify candidates

Skills Required

• Preferred Qualifications:
  • Bilignual Spanish highly preferred
  • Ability to identify and source candidates outside of job boards and LinkedIn using boolean techniques including X-ray searching preferred.
  • Comfortable monitoring key metrics and making data driven decisions in respect to adjusting recruitment or sourcing strategies
  • Extensive data mining of various social media to identify candidate profiles.
  • Utilizing professional networks to source candidates
  • Recruiting experience, preferably in engineering or technical roles but open to other experiences also
  • Full Life Cycle Recruiting, managing hiring manager relationships
• Minimum Qualifications:
  • 3+ years of talent sourcing and/or full-cycle recruiting experience, preferably specializing in the recruitment of engineers within the domains of water, wastewater treatment plants, utilities, power generation, storage, transmission, and/or distribution.
  • Candidates with a background in technical recruitment or other recruitment specializations may also be considered.
  • Agency recruitment background is a plus.
  • Ability to quickly learn candidate profiles and identify and source candidates outside of job boards and LinkedIn using Boolean techniques including X-ray searching in a fast-paced changing environment.
  • Experience designing recruiting strategies a plus.

Education/Training/Certifications

• Preferred Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s Degree is preferred

Additional Requirements

• All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.
• Hybrid - Overland Park, KS, Houston, TX, Dallas, TX, Denver, CO, Phoenix, AZ, Ann Arbor, MI, Raleigh, NC, Bloomington, MN, Portland, OR, or Orlando, FL

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.