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[Remote] Contract Recruiter
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. TalenTier is hiring a contract-to-perm recruiter to manage recruiting from job-order intake through offer and start date. The role focuses on sourcing and hiring for high-volume manufacturing positions and engineering searches, while coordinating interviews and maintaining candidate pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Source candidates creatively — LinkedIn, job boards, AI sourcing tools, referrals, trade schools, Boolean searches, cold calls, and social networks
- Fill high-volume manufacturing roles quickly: assemblers, production staff, welders, machinists, and maintenance mechanics
- Run targeted searches for experienced engineering talent: software, electrical, mechanical, structural, and controls engineers, plus CNC programmers and plant leadership
- Screen candidates for skills, culture fit, pay expectations, and availability
- Submit qualified, well-written candidate profiles that get interviews
- Coordinate interviews, collect feedback, and keep candidates engaged through offer and start date
- Keep the ATS and pipeline notes current so the team always knows where each search stands
- Hit weekly activity and submittal goals while juggling multiple job orders at once
Skills
- 3+ years full-cycle agency recruiting
- 3+ years of agency recruiting experience
- Proven success with both high-volume hourly hiring and professional or technical searches
- Comfort recruiting for manufacturing and engineering roles, and the ability to talk shop with candidates in both
- A scrappy, resourceful approach — when the usual channels dry up, you find another way
- Self-directed and organized; you thrive working remotely without close supervision
- Strong phone, written, and relationship-building skills
- Based in the San Diego region
- Experience using Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)
- Full-cycle recruitment experience
- Experience partnering with hiring managers and internal stakeholders
- Strong candidate sourcing and talent pipeline development skills
- Experience coordinating interviews and managing recruitment workflows
- Ability to manage multiple projects and requisitions simultaneously
- Experience establishing and managing service-level agreements (SLAs)
- Strong communication, organization, and stakeholder-management skills
- Ability to meet or exceed recruitment service-delivery expectations
- Knowledge of recruitment processes, sourcing strategies, and candidate experience management
- Experience with Juicebox or other AI sourcing tools
- Existing network in manufacturing, medical device, or aerospace
- Experience placing temp/contract workers as well as direct hires
Benefits
- Above-industry-standard fee splits on every placement — your production directly drives your pay
- Contract-to-perm path
- Fully remote work
- Direct access to the owner, with no layers of management or red tape
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