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Talent Acquisition Team Lead – Skilled Trades
FinningTalent Acquisition Team Lead at Finning Canada, driving recruitment strategies and mentoring a team in a leading heavy equipment dealer. Focused on enhancing processes and candidate experiences in skilled trades hiring.
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead full-cycle recruitment across an assigned portfolio, including intake, sourcing, screening, interviewing, and offer negotiation
- Build and maintain strong talent pipelines to support current and future hiring needs
- Partner closely with hiring managers to define role requirements and provide market insights
- Ensure a consistent, high-quality hiring process aligned with Finning’s standards
- Provide day-to-day guidance, mentorship, and support to a team of Talent Acquisition Partners
- Foster a high-performance, collaborative team environment
- Support onboarding and development of new team members
- Act as a point of escalation for complex or high-impact searches
- Contribute to and help execute recruitment marketing strategies to enhance employer brand and attract top talent
- Support workload management and distribution, ensuring balanced allocation of requisitions
- Champion continuous improvement in candidate experience, ensuring timely communication and a seamless hiring journey
- Collaborate on reporting, metrics, and insights to optimize hiring outcomes
Requirements
What you’ll need- 5+ years of progressive talent acquisition experience in high-volume or complex environments
- Proven experience leading or mentoring a team of recruiters, including coaching and capability development
- Experience developing targeted sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill ticketed and non-ticketed trade roles, including proactive pipelining of passive candidates
- Strong experience supporting hiring in skilled-trade, industrial, heavy equipment, or field-based environments; familiarity with trades certification frameworks and workforce dynamics is highly valued
- Strong understanding of technical and trades talent markets, including regional supply, competitor landscape, and effective sourcing channels
- Experience recruiting for industrial, technical, and/or corporate roles
- Proven experience leading or mentoring other recruiters
- Hands-on experience with ATS and sourcing tools (e.g., Workday, LinkedIn Recruiter, CRM platforms)
- Demonstrated ability to leverage data, analytics, and metrics to inform and drive hiring decisions
- Ability to effectively assess technical skillsets and translate hiring manager requirements into targeted recruiting strategies
Benefits
Comp & perks- Competitive compensation
- Flexible work arrangements in Calgary or Edmonton
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Hard Skills & Tools
Talent AcquisitionRecruitment MarketingCandidate Experience OptimizationData AnalyticsSourcing StrategiesInterviewingOffer NegotiationWorkforce DynamicsHiring Process ManagementPipeline Development
Soft Skills
CollaborationMentorshipCommunicationProblem-SolvingTeam Building