
Talent Acquisition Manager
Alston Construction
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Atlanta • United States
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About the role
- Own and lead recruiting strategy for data center-related roles, including hard-to-fill specialty positions
- Partner with internal stakeholders to understand workforce needs, forecasting, and required skillsets across active and upcoming data center projects
- Develop recruiting plans aligned with business priorities, ramp schedules, and project timelines
- Provide market intelligence on compensation trends, availability of talent, competitor hiring activity, and sourcing channels
- Build and maintain high-quality talent pipelines through proactive outreach and targeted sourcing methods
- Use multiple sourcing tools and platforms (LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, niche industry platforms, networking, referrals, etc.) to identify and engage candidates
- Develop sourcing campaigns focused on key data center skill sets and geographies
- Maintain an active bench of ready-to-interview candidates for rapid project mobilization
- Manage the end-to-end recruiting process including sourcing, screening, interview coordination, candidate evaluation, offer negotiation, and onboarding transition
- Create compelling job postings and ensure roles are marketed effectively
- Evaluate candidates based on technical competency, culture fit, and long-term potential
- Deliver a strong candidate experience through consistent communication and professionalism
- Serve as a trusted recruiting partner to hiring managers and senior leadership
- Lead intake meetings and align on qualifications, priorities, and interview expectations
- Coach hiring leaders on best practices, structured interviewing, and selection decisions
- Ensure timely feedback loops and movement through the recruiting funnel
- Track recruiting metrics such as time-to-fill, source-of-hire, pipeline conversion rates, and hiring manager satisfaction
- Identify inefficiencies and recommend improvements to recruiting processes and workflows
- Support employer branding efforts for mission critical/data center recruiting and representation at events as needed
- Ensure compliance with all relevant hiring laws and regulations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- 5+ years of talent acquisition experience, including proactive sourcing and full-cycle recruiting
- 2+ years of experience recruiting within data centers, mission critical, construction, engineering, MEP, commissioning, or similar technical industries
- Demonstrated success filling high-volume and/or hard-to-fill technical roles in applicable areas
- Strong working knowledge of the construction industry and positions
- Strong knowledge of recruiting tools and sourcing platforms (e.g., LinkedIn Recruiter, ATS, recruiting databases)
- Ability to identify and engage passive candidates
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines
- High initiative, strong urgency, and results-oriented mindset
- Strong relationship-building skills
- Expert-level sourcing and networking ability
- Professional judgment and confidentiality
- Data-driven recruiting and pipeline management
- Strong organization and follow-through
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and presentation skills
- Creative problem-solver; willing to try several approaches when initial solution fails
- Ability to define problems, research, collect data/information, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and make timely decisions
- Excellent skills in organization, time management, planning, and prioritization
- Strong attention to detail
- Proactive and readily adaptable to changing conditions or demands and ability to work well under pressure and with tight deadlines
- Professional demeanor and effective interpersonal skills; ability to successfully interface with and to build and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, managers, vendors, and others
- Ability to work extended hours during project ramp-ups or peak hiring periods, as needed
- Strong negotiation skills
- Ability to effectively handle stress and stressful situations.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- prescription safety glasses
- short-term disability
- long-term disability
- life insurance/AD&D
- HSA
- health FSA
- dependent daycare FSA
- EAP
- 401(k)
- Roth 401(k)
- After-Tax Roth In-Plan Conversion
- paid vacation and sick time
- paid holidays
- tuition reimbursement
- Tickets at Work
- paid Identity Theft Protection (family coverage)
- and more!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
talent acquisitionfull-cycle recruitingsourcingcandidate evaluationjob postingsrecruiting metricsdata-driven recruitingpipeline managementnegotiation
Soft Skills
relationship-buildingcommunication skillsproblem-solvingorganizationtime managementadaptabilityattention to detailprofessional judgmentconfidentialitystress management
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Human ResourcesBachelor’s degree in Business