CARIAN

Recruitment

• Personally own priority, difficult, technical, leadership, and confidential searches from intake through accepted offer
• Proactively source passive candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, industry networks, referrals, databases, direct outreach, and other channels
• Develop targeted sourcing strategies for specialized power, utility, engineering, construction, project management, project controls, field services, consulting, digital, and business-development positions
• Conduct recruiter screens and independently assess candidate qualifications, relevance, motivation, compensation expectations, and fit
• Present qualified candidates to hiring leaders with clear recommendations and relevant market context
• Build and maintain pipelines for recurring and strategically important positions
• Manage candidate engagement, interviews, compensation discussions, offers, counteroffer risk, and closing
• Personally intervene when difficult or stalled searches require additional sourcing or recruiting support
• Directly manage, coach, and develop Talent Acquisition team members
• Conduct regular pipeline and requisition reviews
• Establish expectations for candidate quality, sourcing activity, responsiveness, ownership, and follow-through
• Review candidate submissions and calibrate recruiter judgment
• Improve recruiter sourcing strategies, screening quality, hiring-manager communication, and candidate closing
• Identify searches requiring corrective action
• Hold the recruiting team accountable for active pipelines and search progress
• Maintain ATS discipline and recruiting data quality across the team
• Own and review recruiting metrics, including pipeline health, requisition aging, time to fill, and offer acceptance, and report results to leadership
• Lead intake discussions with hiring leaders
• Clarify qualifications, candidate profiles, compensation parameters, geography, and sourcing strategy
• Challenge unclear, unrealistic, or unnecessarily restrictive requirements using market evidence
• Advise leadership on candidate availability, compensation, competitive market conditions, and sourcing strategy
• Establish accountability between Talent Acquisition and hiring managers
• Escalate stalled decisions, compensation issues, and other hiring risks when appropriate

Talent Acquisition Manager – Power & Utilities