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Northrop Grumman

Principal Talent Acquisition Sourcer

Northrop Grumman

. Provide sourcing support for a variety of engineering positions, including sourcing, screening, and managing candidate relationships with recruiters .

Posted 10/8/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLead💰 $85,600 - $128,400 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in talent acquisition by sourcing, screening, and managing candidate relationships while applying a business mindset to recruitment strategies. Proficient in leveraging data and market intelligence to enhance staffing solutions and maintain high acceptance rates.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Talent Acquisition SolutionsBoolean Search MethodologyNetworking PlatformsA&D Industry RecruitmentDoD Secret Clearance

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Hard Skills
SourcingScreeningCandidate AssessmentData AnalysisStaffing Strategies
Soft Skills
Customer ServiceFlexibilityRelationship Management
Tools & Technologies
LinkedIn
Certifications & Qualifications
DoD Secret Clearance
Industry Keywords
A&D IndustryTalent DevelopmentRetentionCultural Fit

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Provide sourcing support for a variety of engineering positions, including sourcing, screening, and managing candidate relationships with recruiters
  • Manage competing priorities and remain highly flexible in an ever-changing environment
  • Anticipate and deliver talent acquisition solutions to recruiters
  • Source and recruit qualified talent while maintaining customer service with hiring managers, candidates, and stakeholders
  • Apply a business mindset to the talent acquisition function
  • Connect talent acquisition, development, retention, and culture phases
  • Leverage data and market intelligence to develop and execute staffing strategies
  • Source and attract passive external talent
  • Utilize Boolean search methodology
  • Leverage sourcing data in weekly conversations with hiring managers and TA leadership
  • Understand business, program, technological, and cultural challenges
  • Assess candidates for cultural, competency, and skill fit via in-person or phone interactions
  • Synthesize candidate and hiring manager feedback
  • Pre-close candidates early in the process to support high acceptance rates

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of recruiting/sourcing or related customer forward facing experience OR Master’s degree and 3 years of recruiting/sourcing or related customer forward facing experience OR High School Diploma/GED and 9 years of recruiting/sourcing or related customer forward facing experience
  • Demonstrated knowledge and use of networking platforms (i.e. LinkedIn)
  • Ability to travel up to 25% of the time
  • Recruitment experience within A&D industry preferred
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance and Special Program Access within a reasonable amount of time, as determined by the company to meet its business need
  • U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Health insurance coverage
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Savings plan
  • Company paid holidays
  • Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
  • Potential overtime
  • Shift differential
  • Discretionary bonus
  • Annual bonuses designed to reward individual contributions and share in company results