Talent Acquisition Lead

Become Part of Our Team

As an industry leader Balfour Beatty offers employees a comprehensive benefits package with competitive salaries and more including:

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
• Health Savings Account
• 401(k) with company match
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Dependent & Medical Reimbursement)
• Vacation Time
• Sick Time
• Holidays
• Paid Volunteer time
• Tuition Assistance
• Employee Referral Bonus

Summary

The Talent Acquisition Lead oversees the entire recruitment cycle, including sourcing, developing recruitment strategies, screening candidates, conducting initial interviews, and managing candidate flow through to final disposition in the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) for all Balfour Beatty U.S positions.

Professional Skills

• Proven ability to build constructive partnerships with hiring managers, business leaders, and HR leaders to source, screen, and secure top talent for open positions.
• Proven ability to develop and utilize industry and professional networks to connect Balfour Beatty with premier talent sources.
• Adept at prioritizing, organizing, and managing a high volume of open positions with the necessary sense of urgency.
• Resourcefulness, resiliency, and a willingness to always learn and share new things.
• Possesses interpersonal savvy and effective verbal communication skills, building trust and credibility with hiring managers, business leaders, HR leaders, and potential candidates.
• Organizationally savvy, with the ability to influence and work effectively with all levels of management.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 25% as needed for recruiting events, job fairs, and strategic sessions with business and HR leaders.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• Possesses professional and clear writing skills with minimal errors

Sourcing and Recruiting

• Collaborate with business partners and the HR team to create and post all requisitions, including prequalification questions for job postings.
• Proactively source candidates through resume mining, industry-specific organizations, college events, network searches, partner recruiting sites, and initial phone screens.
• Manage both internal and external applicant flow in the ATS.
• Partner closely with hiring managers to understand the needs of the organization.
• Conduct kick-off calls with hiring managers before posting new job openings and lead bi-weekly recruiting update calls with hiring managers and HR leaders.
• Proactively assess which roles to partner with external recruiting firms.
• Identify appropriate posting sites/venues for open positions.

Candidate Experience:

• Oversee the candidate experience, including scheduling phone and in-person interviews, providing timely follow-up at each stage, assisting with travel arrangements when necessary, and managing the offer process between the candidate, hiring manager, and HR leaders

• Conclude the candidate experience appropriately by notifying and dispositioning applicants who were not offered the role.

Process Integrity:

• Generate and distribute weekly reports for the HR Leadership.
• Maintain an up-to-date and accurate ATS, ensuring candidates are dispositioned at each stage based on qualifications, pre-screening responses, interviews, and offers.
• Uphold Balfour Beatty's AAP/EEO and OFCCP compliance through ethical practices and disciplined execution of processes.
• Possess a thorough understanding of current laws and legislation, enforcing recruiting procedures with hiring managers, partner agencies, and applicants to ensure fair and respectful treatment of all candidates.

Minimum Requirements

• Associate's degree in a Human Resources or related field, and/or minimum 5 years of talent acquisition experience in a multi-location organization, with expertise in full cycle recruiting.
• Experience working in Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS).
• Knowledge of OFCCP, EEOC, and AAP guidelines.
• Proven experience in recruiting across multi-state, multi-office organizations.

Preferred Experience and Education

• Bachelor's degree in human resources or a related field.
• Two or more years of recruitment experience within the construction industry.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with expertise in consultation, customer relationship management, and team leadership.
• Excellent planning and organizational abilities, with the capacity to work independently and take initiative.

Balfour Beatty US is an industry-leading provider of general contracting, at-risk construction management and design-build services for public and private sector clients across the nation. Performing heavy civil and vertical construction, our teams build the unique structures and infrastructure that play an important role in how people live, work, learn and play in our communities. Our teammates have an instinctive passion for innovating that is fueled by a relentless curiosity, a drive to employ lean practices and processes and the determination to find a better way. Through Zero Harm, we are challenging the construction industry's assumptions about safety. We believe that no level of harm should come to anyone as a result of our business.

Consistently ranked among the nation's largest building contractors by Engineering News-Record, our US business is a subsidiary of London-based Balfour Beatty plc (LSE: BBY).

Balfour Beatty is an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of a diverse workforce. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other criteria protected by federal, state or local law.