Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist – Advanced Engineering
Lear Corporation
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Southfield • Missouri • United States
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About the role
- Develop and execute end-to-end talent acquisition strategy for Advanced Engineering & Automation roles.
- Develop external sourcing pipelines and utilize internal succession pipelines to source key talent for Engineering positions.
- Deliver high-quality hires that meet future-state capability requirements for advanced automation, robotics, AI and operational technology.
- Drive strong candidate experience through consistent communication, structured selection, and culture-aligned onboarding.
- Elevate hiring manager capability in interviewing, selection, and future-state talent profiles for automation and digital roles.
- Improve recruiting quality metrics (quality of hire, hiring manager satisfaction, new hire turnover).
- Support improved new hire experience through best practice sharing and onboarding enhancements.
- Build future-state workforce capability models for Advanced Engineering & Automation that define the exact technical, automation, and digital skills required.
- Translate Advanced Engineering & Automation workforce transformation needs into clear hiring profiles and selection criteria, ensuring recruiting is aligned to the capabilities required for advanced manufacturing and AI-enabled operations.
- Create talent roadmaps for automation, engineering, and digital roles, and partner with HRBPs to identify internal talent who can be developed into future-state positions.
- Provide workforce planning insights to business leaders on capability gaps, staffing risks, and readiness requirements tied to launch milestones and organizational design decisions.
- Deliver weekly, monthly, and quarterly recruiting analytics to business leadership.
- Provide strategic insights on talent trends, capability gaps, and workforce risks.
- Predict future automation, engineering, and leadership talent needs aligned to technology and volume roadmaps.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management or related field.
- Minimum of 5 years’ of work experience as a Talent Acquisition Specialist or Recruiter where at least 50% of your workload was supporting roles such as Automation Engineers, Controls Engineers, AGV Engineers, Vision Engineers and other technical engineering positions.
- Ability to manage a requisition workload of 20+ requisitions while maintaining strong customer service with hiring managers and candidates.
- Previously experience using LinkedIn as your primary passive sourcing tool.
- Conceptual understanding of candidate flow within an ATS and ability to learn a new ATS quickly.
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
- Strong customer-focus attitude and eager to deliver a satisfied customer experience (internal and external).
- Able to work in a fast-paced, quickly changing environment with excellent prioritization skills.
Benefits
- Flexible working schedule
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
talent acquisition strategysourcing pipelinesrecruiting quality metricsworkforce capability modelshiring profilesrecruiting analyticscandidate flowrequisition managementcustomer serviceprioritization
Soft Skills
communicationinterpersonal skillscustomer-focusadaptabilityorganizational skillsproblem-solvingcollaborationstrategic thinkingleadershiprelationship management
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management