Manufacturing Recruiter - Competitive Pay

In this role, you'll partner with plant leaders and hiring managers to recruit hourly and salaried talent, including production employees, maintenance technicians, CDL drivers, supervisors, and other key positions.

We're looking for a proactive, full-cycle recruiter who understands food and meat manufacturing, knows how to find difficult-to-reach candidates, and can move hiring processes forward with urgency, organization, and sound judgment.

About the job:

• Multi-site/Full time.

• Salary range: $65,000 to $75,000 + Annual Bonus: $5,000.

What You'll Do:

• Manage full-cycle recruiting from requisition intake through offer acceptance and onboarding coordination.
• Partner with hiring managers and plant leadership to understand staffing needs, hiring priorities, and position requirements.
• Recruit for hourly production, warehouse, maintenance, transportation, plant leadership, and professional positions across Prime Meats' plants and distribution centers.
• Generate a consistent and sufficient flow of qualified candidates to support hiring demand, maintain momentum throughout the selection process, and meet staffing goals for assigned positions.
• Create, segment, and maintain ready-to-engage candidate pools by role, location, skill set, and hiring priority to support current openings and anticipated workforce needs.
• Source candidates through Indeed, LinkedIn Recruiter, direct outreach, referrals, networking, trade and driving schools, community partnerships, job fairs, driver communities, veteran hiring organizations, and other creative channels.
• Review resumes, conduct phone interviews, and assess candidates for technical qualifications, reliability, coachability, safety mindset, and overall fit.
• Present qualified candidates with clear interview recommendations and assessment notes
• Coordinate interviews, gather hiring manager feedback, and maintain momentum throughout the hiring process.
• Provide timely, professional communication to candidates at every stage.
• Coordinate background checks, employment verifications, drug screenings, DOT/CDL qualification requirements, and other pre-employment requirements.
• Maintain accurate applicant tracking system (ATS) records and recruiting documentation.
• Track recruiting activity, pipeline health, time-to-fill, offer acceptance, source effectiveness, and other key hiring metrics.
• Meet established weekly and monthly recruiting targets, including qualified candidate submissions, interviews, offers, hires, pipeline coverage, and time-to-fill expectations.
• Monitor local labor markets, wage trends, competitor hiring activity, and talent availability across Prime Meats' Eastern U.S. footprint.
• Support recruiting events, workforce development partnerships, and employer-branding initiatives as needed.
• Ensure recruiting practices comply with federal, state, and local employment laws.

Preferred Experience:

• 3+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience for multi-site meat processing or food manufacturing operations (hourly/salary).
• Experience supporting high-volume hourly hiring and recruiting in manufacturing, food processing, or industrial environments
• Strong sourcing skills (Indeed, LinkedIn Recruiter, referrals, networking)
• Strong interviewing, candidate assessment, and hiring manager partnership skills.
• Bilingual English/Spanish required
• SHRM, HRCI, AIRS, or related recruiting certification
• Experience using ATS/AI-powered talent acquisition tools for sourcing, screening, and candidate engagement.

Why Join Prime Meats?

• Growing and stable organization
• High-impact role with direct leadership visibility
• Competitive compensation and career growth opportunities

Apply today and help us build the teams that keep Prime Meats moving forward.