Talent Acquisition Lead

Who We Are

Balfour Beatty Investments is a global infrastructure investor operating in the UK, US, and Canada. We provide the investment capability to deliver complex infrastructure projects. Over the past 15 years, Balfour Beatty Investments (formerly known as Balfour Beatty Capital) has established itself as one of the largest investors in the PPP industry, building a portfolio of more than 60 projects worldwide, predominantly in the UK and US.

Balfour Beatty Investments is proud to offer challenging and rewarding work in a variety of functional areas. As a company, we operate with safety and sustainability as our primary focus. Equally integral components of our culture are our values-Integrity, Teamwork, Excellence, Respect-and our code of conduct. Living up to these commitments requires the fresh ideas, insights and talents of employees as diverse as the audiences we interact with every day.

The success of our company is built on the efforts of our employees. We are committed to offering our employees a path to professional success through development, training and mentoring opportunities that cover a wide variety of skills and functional areas.

At Balfour Beatty Investments, our employees are our greatest asset and their well-being means a healthier, more productive workplace. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes a variety of health care options, retirement benefits and other flexible benefits.

Our Benefits:

• Discretionary bonuses
• Medical and Dental Insurance 1st of the month following employment
• Health, Flexible Spending and Dependent Care Accounts
• Company paid life insurance
• 401K plan with employer matching
• Robust PTO to include, sick, floating holidays, vacation, and personal days
• 2 Volunteer Days per year
• Company paid short-term and long- term disability, parental leave.
• And more!

About the role

The Talent Acquisition Specialist supports the full recruitment cycle including, posting, sourcing, and all prehire clearance processes for all positions in the Balfour Beatty Investments and Communities portfolios. This is a remote position.

What you'll be doing

• Proactively networking through resume mining and database searching,
• Conduct initial phone screens.
• Identify appropriate posting sites/venues for open position.
• Partnering with hiring managers to understand needs of the organization.
• Manage both internal and external applicant flow
• Managing the job fair process with HR and management team and attend
• Conduct initial calibration call with managers, update at least weekly on status of opening, emailing resumes/applications and candidate summaries.
• Lead Weekly recruiting calls with hiring managers by region
• Runs interview debrief meetings to gage if additional sourcing needs to be conducted or ready to move forward with offer.
• Assist in the identification of temporary hiring vendors and manage process for any temp to permanent hires.
• Work on behalf of hiring manager with Legal to ensure contract compliance. Track all temporary employees for the purposes of head count reporting
• Assist Hiring Manager and work with Coordinator on offer process.
• Partner with local technical schools to present, collaborate, and connect with students
• Network with prospects through industry, associations, social media, community outreach, and veteran programs
• Partner with HR Business Partners on concerns and recruiting strategies as needed
• Assign, prioritize, and manage the Candidate Experience Specialist efforts to effectively manage a high volume of open positions with appropriate pace in portfolio.
• Lead by mentoring, developing, coaching, and holding the Candidate Experience Specialist accountable to measurable objectives.
• Share best practices on sourcing strategies through innovative and advanced sourcing channels for candidates, including, but not limited to job boards, colleges, social media, employee referrals, and networking.
• Ensure onboarding activities are being complete and updates are provided on assigned requisitions to Candidate Experience Specialist
• Assist in the identification of temporary hiring vendors and manage process for any temp to permanent hires.
• Work on behalf of hiring manager with Legal to ensure contract compliance.

Typical Physical Demands: Regularly uses hands to manipulate phones, computer keyboard and similar tools. Ability to view computer screens, mobile devices, and other electronic equipment, for extended periods of time. Sit and stand to perform administrative work. Regularly lift and move office supplies up to 20 lbs.

Work is performed in an office environment. Employee must travel throughout the company footprint as required.

This is a hybrid/remote position.

Who we're looking for

• High School Diploma or GED required
• Associates or Bachelors degree in Human Resources, Business, or combination of experience
• Recruiting or HR certification preferred
• Minimum of 5 years of recruiting experience
• Executive recruiting experience or agency/RPO environment experience preferred
• Experience in Multi-state and/or multi-location environments

• Strong understanding of full cycle recruiting
• General understanding of HR practices and procedures
• Strong Interpersonal skills
• Solid Written and Oral Communication skills
• Solid Computer skills to include MS Office and HRIS/ATS (preferably Ceridian)
• Excellent Computer Skills
• Strong Organizational skills
• Detail Oriented
• Ability to Multi-Task and Prioritize
• Excellent Customer Service Skills

• Possession of a valid state issues driver's license and safe driving record are required

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