Sr. Talent Acquisition Specialist

Responsibilities

• Lead recruitment for complex, critical-skill, and surge-hiring programs across multiple sites, ensuring delivery against TA service-level agreements.
• Serve as lead recruiter on cross-site sourcing campaigns, new-shift start-ups, and other high-stakes staffing events.
• Partner with hiring managers and HR leadership to develop sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill roles.
• Personally manage a portfolio of the most challenging requisitions while supporting peers on theirs.
• Provide mentorship and process coaching to Talent Acquisition Specialists across the team.
• Lead onboarding of new TA Specialists, including ATS training, sourcing technique, and stakeholder management.
• Share market intelligence, sourcing tactics, and candidate experience improvements with the team.
• Serve as the TA team's subject matter expert in Workday recruiting, ensuring data integrity, candidate management, and reporting consistency.
• Identify and lead process improvements that increase recruiter efficiency, quality of hire, and candidate experience.
• Build and maintain candidate pipelines through job fairs, trade school partnerships, community events, and strategic partnerships.
• Track and analyze key TA metrics and recommend improvements to the TA Manager.
• Ensure compliance with internal policies, employment regulations, and global TA standards.

Requirements

• Talent Acquisition. Own hiring outcomes for the team or department; build candidate pipelines; develop interviewer skill; improve quality of hire.
• Communication. Communicate using empathy, influence, and an adaptive approach to create dialogue with candidates, hiring managers, and HR partners.
• Process Documentation. Identify gaps or errors in TA documentation; draft updates; follow the change process.
• Detail-Oriented. Identify subtle quality risks others miss; build personal checks into complex searches; help peers see what matters.
• Project Management. Manage a portfolio of requisitions and one or two recruiting projects simultaneously; plan, sequence, and reprioritize effectively.
• Technology Use. Serve as a power user of the TA tech stack; configure workflows and reports; evaluate new tools including AI-enabled tools.
• Problem Solving. Define recruiting problems clearly; generate and evaluate multiple solutions considering risks and benefits.
• Leadership. Lead informal mentorship of TA Specialists or coordinators; model standards.
• Data Fluency. Combine data from the ATS and other sources; use metrics to support recommendations to hiring managers.
• Influence Others. Tailor the message to the audience; use data and candidate insights together to gain alignment on selection decisions.
• Building Relationships. Build trust with hiring managers and HR partners through consistent delivery, active listening, and proactive communication.
• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 4+ years of recruiting experience, including at least 3 years in corporate recruiting, with proven success in high-volume and complex manufacturing hiring.
• Demonstrated expertise in Workday Recruiting (or equivalent enterprise ATS) including reporting and process configuration.
• Track record of mentoring or coaching peer recruiters.
• Strong consultative skills with the ability to influence hiring managers and senior site leaders.
• Ability to handle sensitive information with strict confidentiality.

Technologies

• Workday Recruiting
• ATS

Location

Golden, CO (onsite)

Compensation

Hourly rate: USD 35 - 45 per hour

Job Type

Contract