Staff Recruiter

Staff Recruiter

Location: Kansas City, MO

Onsite Flexibility: Onsite

Contract Details

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 6 months (with potential to extend)
• Pay Rate: $43.00 $45.00 / Hour (USD)
• Shift / Schedule: 8:00 AM 5:00 PM; some work-from-home flexibility available
• Travel Requirements: Not required
• Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Job Summary

The Staff Recruiter partners with talent acquisition professionals and hiring managers to develop and execute recruitment strategies that identify, attract, and hire top talent. This role primarily supports the Construction Global Practice, collaborating with recruiters and hiring managers across estimating, procurement, construction management, and project controls. The position is a full life-cycle recruiting role and requires the candidate to be based in Kansas City. This is an immediate-start, high-priority engagement supporting a rapidly growing Construction Group, with primary hiring focus areas including Project Management, Procurement, and Safety. The role involves heavy interaction with both hiring managers and candidates, managing approximately 30 60 requisitions at a time.

Key Responsibilities

• Developing and executing sourcing strategies to identify the top talent for current and future needs.
• Conduct initial screening of potential candidates to evaluate and assess their interest level, qualifications, geographic preference, salary expectations, etc.
• Collaborate with hiring managers to understand specific position requirements, job responsibilities, and how they relate to business goals.
• Recommend qualified candidates to hiring managers.
• Sell the client culture and benefits to engage and recruit top talent to the organization.
• Understand, follow and ensure compliance with all established policies, processes and procedures.
• Maintains confidentiality of personal, confidential and proprietary information.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.
• Generate and maintain a pipeline of qualified candidates through LinkedIn, cold calling, AI-enabled recruiting and other available resources.

Required Skills

• Advanced Boolean search expertise; understanding of Boolean search language and how those search principles apply to both Internet and database searches.
• Strong LinkedIn sourcing and passive candidate outreach experience.
• Experience using Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and Internet-based sourcing tools.
• Comfortable leveraging AI tools within the recruiting process.
• Strong people and relationship-building skills; must demonstrate ability to build strong relationships and provide excellent customer service.
• Ability to manage a high-volume recruiting workload, including managing approximately 30 60 requisitions at a time.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and research skills.
• Knowledge of federal and state employment laws.

Preferred Skills

• Previous experience recruiting or sourcing for technical positions, particularly in the field of engineering or construction, within a high-volume recruiting environment.
• Experience recruiting within engineering, industrial, construction, or other similar environments.
• Experience developing, extending and negotiating employment offers.
• Strong knowledge of construction roles, terminology, project delivery methods and industry talent markets.
• Proven ability to develop targeted sourcing strategies and build diverse pipelines for specialized and hard-to-fill positions.
• Ideal experience range: 5 15 years of recruiting experience.
• Stable work history preferred.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in human resources, business, or related field required. Note: Degree completion must be verified prior to submission please confirm the degree is completed.

Required Experience

• Minimum 4 years of sourcing or recruiting experience required.

Nice-to-Have Experience

• Experience recruiting for construction/design/build (CDB) roles and ability to speak the CDB language (e.g., experience with Kiewit or similar firms).

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
• 401k Retirement Fund

Important Notes

• This position requires the candidate to be based in Kansas City, MO.
• Bachelor's degree is required degree completion must be verified before submission.
• Construction recruiting experience and high-volume recruiting experience are essential for this role.
• Manager is not interested in candidates with a history of frequent job changes.
• Success will be measured by: passive recruiting effectiveness, LinkedIn sourcing activity, ability to keep up with application volume, quality and thoroughness of screening notes, overall requisition management and throughput, and fill volume and hiring outcomes. The manager expects approximately 30 fills per year; 20 fills per year would not be considered sufficient.

About the Client

This client is a 100% employee-owned infrastructure engineering, architecture, and construction firm with more than 125 years of history building critical infrastructure across the energy, aviation, water, telecommunications, transportation, and healthcare sectors. Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, and operating from 75 offices across the country and internationally, the organization has grown to more than 14,500 employee-owners generating over $7.4 billion in annual revenue. What distinguishes this firm is its Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), which makes every full-time employee an owner and fundamentally aligns professional incentives with company performance a structure that has earned a 4.2 out of 5 stars on Glassdoor across more than 1,800 reviews, with 87% of employees recommending it as a workplace and multiple Glassdoor Best Places to Work designations. Teams here include civil and structural engineers, architects, environmental scientists, construction managers, program management professionals, and critically for this engagement talent acquisition specialists and HR professionals who support the firm's rapidly growing construction and design-build practices.

About GTT

GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Job Number: 26-11524

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