Title - Plant Recruitment Partner – Heavy Industrial & High-Volume Hiring (6 months contract with potential extension)
Location: Could be based out of either of these locations - Letterkenny, Ireland | Campsie, Northern Ireland | Burnfoot, Ireland (5 days onsite)
Number of Positions - 1
Position Overview
We are seeking dynamic, result-driven recruiters to support heavy industrial plant hiring in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. This role requires a strategic mindset, consultative approach, and the ability to influence stakeholders while delivering scalable, creative recruitment solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Full-Cycle Recruitment & Sourcing
- Manage end-to-end hiring for hourly plant roles, ensuring quality hires within target timelines.
- Develop creative, market-specific sourcing strategies to attract top talent in competitive labor markets.
- Proactively build talent pipelines for high-demand roles, anticipating future hiring needs.
- Utilize diverse sourcing channels (referrals, social media, job boards, community outreach, trade schools, etc.).
Strategic Recruitment Consulting & Business Partnership
- Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers, providing insights on market trends, talent
- availability, and hiring strategies.
- Educate and influence plant leadership on best hiring practices, process improvements, and workforce planning.
- Challenge traditional hiring approaches by recommending data-driven, innovative recruiting methods.
- Collaborate with HR and Operations teams to align hiring strategies with business objectives and workforce scaling.
Scaling & High-Growth Hiring
- Support rapid plant expansions and high-volume hiring surges, ensuring seamless execution under tight timelines.
- Implement efficient, high-impact recruitment solutions for scaling teams in industrial
- environments.
- Drive continuous process improvements to streamline hiring, enhance candidate experience, and reduce time-to-fill.
Candidate Experience & Follow-Through
- Provide a best-in-class candidate experience, ensuring clear communication and timely updates.
- Maintain strong follow-through, keeping candidates engaged throughout the hiring process.
- Leverage data and metrics to track recruiting effectiveness and improve hiring outcomes.
- Data-Driven Decision Making & Technology
- Analyze hiring trends, market data, and candidate pipelines to make informed recruitment decisions.
- Utilize ATS, and recruitment analytics tools to track metrics and optimize hiring strategies.
- Continuously refine recruiting KPIs, including time-to-fill, quality of hire, and retention.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of full cycle recruiting experience, preferably in heavy industrial, manufacturing, or high-volume hiring.
- Experience in fast-paced, hyper-growth environments with a track record of hiring at scale.
- Ability to think independently, problem-solve, and influence business leaders.
- Strong consultative, communication, and relationship-building skills.
- Proficiency with ATS systems, sourcing tools, and recruitment marketing strategies.
- High level of initiative, creativity, and adaptability in solving recruitment challenges.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience recruiting for industrial plant environments (manufacturing, logistics, energy and utilities etc.).
The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv’s Core Principals & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.
OUR CORE PRINCIPALS: Safety. Integrity. Respect. Teamwork. Diversity & Inclusion.
OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES
Customer Focus
Operational Excellence
High-Performance Culture
Innovation
Financial Strength
OUR BEHAVIORS
Own It
Act With Urgency
Foster a Customer-First Mindset
Think Big and Execute
Lead by Example
Drive Continuous Improvement
Learn and Seek Out Development
About the TeamSkills Required
- 5+ years full-cycle recruiting experience
- Experience hiring at scale in fast-paced, hyper-growth environments
- Proficiency with ATS systems, sourcing tools, and recruitment analytics/marketing strategies
- Strong consultative, communication, and relationship-building skills
- Ability to think independently, problem-solve, and influence business leaders
- High level of initiative, creativity, and adaptability
- Experience recruiting in heavy industrial, manufacturing, or high-volume environments
- Legally authorized to work in the United States; employer will not provide sponsorship
Vertiv Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vertiv and has not been reviewed or approved by Vertiv.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with standard medical, dental, and vision plans plus wellness and mental-health resources. Core offerings also include disability and life insurance and an Employee Assistance Program.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes paid holidays and PTO typical of large employers, and many U.S. salaried roles feature flexible or "unlimited" PTO approaches. These programs are part of a structured, global total rewards framework.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered fair at start for many office-based, engineering, and field service roles, and total compensation packages are viewed as stable. In some hourly manufacturing settings, overtime opportunities help boost overall earnings.
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What We Do
Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to ensure its customers’ vital applications run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs approximately 20,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. For more information, and for the latest news and content from Vertiv, visit Vertiv.com.
