Craft Recruiter

Job Scope: The Senior Craft Recruiter partners closely with Construction, Operations, Project Controls, Human Resources, and Site Leadership teams to develop proactive workforce strategies, build sustainable talent pipelines, and ensure the successful delivery of project staffing requirements. This position provides leadership, guidance, and mentorship to recruiting team members while driving continuous improvement in recruiting processes, sourcing strategies, and workforce planning initiatives.
Primary responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Recruit craft personnel for welding, insulation, coatings, construction, electrical operations throughout the Louisiana region.

• Develop and maintain relationships with field personnel, supervisors, foremen, and industry contacts to generate candidate referrals.

• Source candidates through networking, referrals, industry relationships, job boards, community outreach, and local recruiting efforts.

• Screen and interview candidates to assess qualifications, work history, certifications, and craft experience.

• Verify employment history and evaluate candidate suitability for specific project and workforce needs.

• Partner closely with operations leaders to understand manpower requirements and workforce planning needs.

• Maintain candidate pipelines for ongoing and future workforce demands.

• Manage candidate communications throughout the recruiting process.

• Utilize recruiting systems, databases, and reporting tools to track recruiting activity and hiring progress.

• Attend hiring events, workforce development programs, and industry networking opportunities as needed.

• Ensure compliance with company hiring policies and procedures.

Education: High School Diploma or equivalent is required.  Advanced coursework is highly preferred.

Certification: No certification is required for this position.

Experience: This position requires 3 or more years of experience recruiting, workforce development, manpower coordination, craft supervision or related experience.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Experience within scaffolding, insulation, coatings, industrial construction, maintenance, turnaround, refinery, petrochemical, or related industries strongly preferred.

• Strong understanding of craft labor recruiting and workforce planning.

• Ability to assess candidate qualifications and verify applicable trade experience.

• Strong relationship-building and networking skills.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and recruiting systems.

• Excellent communication and organizational skills.

• Ability to work independently while partnering closely with operations leadership.

• Prior experience recruiting craft labor in industrial or construction environments.

• Existing network within the Louisiana industrial construction market.

• Experience supporting refinery, petrochemical, power generation, maintenance, or turnaround projects.

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to sit, stand or walk for long periods of time.

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We work to create an environment founded on trust, personal integrity, and a “team mentality” so that each person understands the value of their contributions both on a project and company-wide level. We know that each person on our team contributes to the success of our company by pairing expertise and passion to meet and exceed the needs of the clients we serve across the globe.  

Our safety culture protects and promotes the well-being of every person who works with us and every person touched by our work. 

As a 100% Teammate owned company, we proudly offer a comprehensive benefits package including, paid holidays, personal paid time off, medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, 401(k), and other benefits to eligible Teammates.

Hargrove is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, national origin, religion, age, sex (including gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy, sexual identity, marital or family status), disability, military service or obligations, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Hargrove is a drug-free workplace.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.