Senior Talent Acquisition Engineering Recruiter

Zachry Group is seeking a Senior Talent Acquisition Engineering Recruiter to expand its engineering organization by identifying, attracting, and hiring engineering and design talent across the United States. This hybrid role takes ownership of the full recruiting lifecycle and works directly with engineering leadership to align hiring plans with business needs across multiple disciplines.

Role overview

• Owns the end-to-end recruiting lifecycle for engineering and design roles, including talent mapping, candidate engagement, and offer acceptance.
• Partners with Engineering leadership to support critical hiring requirements across engineering disciplines serving power generation, refining, petrochemical, chemical, energy, and industrial construction markets.
• Develops recruiting strategies and hiring plans in partnership with engineering leaders and hiring managers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of seven (7) years of recruiting or talent acquisition experience.
• Minimum of three (3) years recruiting engineering, design, technical, or engineering leadership talent within EPC, industrial construction, energy, power generation, refining, petrochemical, manufacturing, or related industries.
• Proven experience recruiting engineers, designers, technical specialists, discipline leads, engineering managers, and engineering directors.
• Experience managing the full recruiting lifecycle, including sourcing, interviewing, offer negotiation, and hiring.
• Demonstrated success recruiting passive candidates using direct sourcing and relationship-based recruiting strategies.
• Strong understanding of engineering talent markets, talent mapping, and competitive recruiting strategies.
• Experience partnering with engineering leaders and hiring managers to build recruiting strategies and hiring plans.
• Strong networking, relationship-building, communication, organizational, and project management skills.
• Experience using LinkedIn Recruiter, applicant tracking systems, sourcing tools, and talent intelligence platforms.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience recruiting engineering and design professionals in industrial EPC, industrial construction, energy, manufacturing, or related industries.
• Understanding of engineering organizational structures, project execution models, and engineering career paths.
• Experience recruiting across multiple engineering disciplines, including process, mechanical, electrical, civil/structural, instrumentation and controls, and design.
• Experience using labor market data and talent intelligence platforms to inform recruiting strategies.
• Professional certifications such as SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, SPHR, AIRS, CIR, CTS, or related certifications.

Tools and platforms

• LinkedIn Recruiter
• Applicant tracking systems
• Sourcing tools
• Talent intelligence platforms

Work location and environment

• Houston, TX (hybrid) with regular collaboration in a Zachry office location.
• Primarily supports office-based engineering and design positions.
• Recruiting responsibility may support engineering organizations in Houston and the Gulf Coast region, Omaha, Downers Grove, Charlotte, and other U.S. locations.
• Up to 25% travel for recruiting initiatives, industry conferences, networking events, training and development, and business-related activities.
• Occasional visits to active construction, industrial, manufacturing, engineering, or project locations where PPE may be requested.

Physical and communication requirements

• Ability to sit, stand, walk, bend, and perform routine office-related activities.
• Ability to communicate effectively in person, virtually, and by telephone with candidates, employees, and business leaders.
• Ability to occasionally lift or move materials weighing up to 25 pounds.