Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist - Water/Energy (Hybrid) at AECOM — Chelmsford, MA

AECOM is hiring a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist to work hybrid within the New England Area. The incumbent will support Infrastructure projects within our East Region, with a focus on Water, Energy and other areas of AECOM's core services.

• Manages full life-cycle recruitment including creating search strategies, actively sourcing candidates, pre-screening, interviewing, and presenting qualified candidates to hiring managers, negotiating offers and facilitating the hiring and on-boarding processes.
• Provide consultation to hiring managers on all aspects of the hiring process, including hiring strategies, recruitment cycle timing, coaching and guidance on best practices and sourcing trends.
• Responsible for developing, recommending, and executing recruitment strategy with decision makers to ensure a successful candidate search within the identified time frames.
• Uses proactive methods to network with industry experts and professional industry related associations, in order to build ongoing passive candidate networks.
• Builds relationships and communicates consistently and proactively throughout the recruitment process to ensure all participants in the hiring process are updated and well informed.
• Creates a positive candidate experience (for both the selected and non-selected candidates) throughout the entire recruiting process.
• Other duties as may be assigned.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree + at least 6 years of full life cycle recruiting experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
• Demonstrated experience recruiting in the Water & Energy industries within engineering and technical consulting
• Experience building strong business relationships with key stakeholders and decision makers.
• Willing and able to travel 10-15% and regularly visit AECOM office in Chelmsford, MA.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience working for a large multinational, matrixed organization.
• Strong written/verbal communication, negotiation, analytical skills, and the ability to make cold calls.
• Experience utilizing SmartRecruiters Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), Workday and proficient with MS office.
• Strong sourcing and networking skills.
• Experience maintaining confidential and sensitive information with proven ability to make decisions based on sound judgment.
• Experience working with geographically dispersed, virtual teams, as well as, have the ability, to work independently and in a team environment.
• Ability to change recruitment direction and priorities, based on changing critical needs.
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position
• Sponsorship is not available for this position, now or in the future

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