Community Engagement Recruiter - Southern Virginia or Central North Carolina

AWP is North America’s leading traffic control specialist. Our team of 9,000+ professionals helps secure 2,500 work zones every day – ensuring customer crews, drivers, and our own teams get home safely. We protect those who operate, maintain, and upgrade infrastructure in the energy, broadband, and transportation sectors and provide traffic control for major events like the Boston Marathon.

Since our founding in 1981, we have served customers through the talent of extraordinary team members committed to customer focus, growth, valuing each other, safety and quality, and a sense of urgency.

We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic recruiter- looking for a great company!

This is a Remote position that needs to reside within North Carolina or Virginia.

As a member of our Community Engagement Recruiting Team, you will play a critical role in leading the recruitment efforts in both our established and emerging markets. Using good judgment and leveraging company best practices, you will build and manage community relationships, organize and attend recruiting events as well as, managing high-volume recruitment requests for assigned locations. The ability to efficiently interact with community partners, prospective candidates, applicants and hiring leaders in a fast-paced changing environment, sometimes under pressure with a high level of professionalism is crucial to this role.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Competitive spirit / Sales mentality
• Ability to stay focused in a face paced and ever-changing environment
• Self-motivated
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders within the organization
• Positive attitude
• Problem Solve through creative thought and innovation
• Experience leveraging technology in the office and the field
• Willingness to learn and accept coaching
• Flexibility to change plans on short notice

Responsibilities

• Meet full cycle recruitment needs for assigned facilities
• Regularly source candidates through field recruiting efforts
• Build and manage Community Partner relationships
• Collaborate on development of quarterly Community Partner newsletter
• Achieve and strive to surpass Key Metrics
• Create and manage Community Engagement calendar and partner database
• Screen candidates by reviewing resumes and performing candidate interviews
• Build and manage candidate relationships
• Collaborate and strategize with TA Leadership, HRBP and field leaders to ensure hiring needs are met
• Provide ongoing market insights within your assigned geographical regions to TA Leadership
• Maintain relevant data and records
• Professionally and accurately report expenses
• Participate in special recruitment initiatives as well as complete any other relevant tasks as assigned by TA Leadership

Qualifications

• 2 - 5 years high volume / field recruitment experience or related experience
• 1+ years of Relationship or Account Management
• Some college preferred 
• Ability to sustain high energy level 
• Flexible Schedule

Travel and Time Allocation

• Travel 45% (Includes overnight and consecutive days via car and flight)
• High-Volume Recruiting 25%
• Office Hours 30%

• Benefits-eligible 1st of the month following hire.
• All traditional benefits are offered, including 3 medical plan options and 2 dental plan options, as well as additional benefits such as Legal and Identity Shield, Accident, and Critical Illness
• Company paid 50k in basic life insurance.
• Company paid LTD.
• Health Savings and Flex Spending Accounts Available
• 401(k)
• Paid Time Off & Paid Holidays
• AWP named one of America’s Greatest Workplaces 2023 for Diversity

Compensation: $60,000 - $70,000 base salary +7% AIP Bonus

AWP Safety is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Women, minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, age, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability.