Join Orange EV, a fast-growing manufacturer of electric vehicles that are better for the earth, people and the bottom line. Make a difference for the world as part of a company leading the electric vehicle revolution.
Position Summary
The Senior Recruiting Specialist is responsible for working day-to-day recruiting activities and implementing recruiting processes and strategies. This position provides support to Orange EV hiring managers to identify, engage, assess, and hire the best candidates available to meet the company’s growing and changing business needs.
Position Responsibilities
- Manage full-cycle recruiting for multiple concurrent requisitions across manufacturing, engineering, operations, sales, and corporate functions.
- Partner with hiring managers to scope roles, set hiring criteria, and build realistic hiring plans and timelines.
- Collaborate to understand specific position requirements, job responsibilities, and how they relate to business goals.
- Provide hiring managers with comprehensive assessment on candidate background, work history, career progression, alignment to role and client culture, compensation, and employment restrictions
- Source active and passive candidates through job boards, LinkedIn Recruiter, employee referrals, and direct outreach, including for specialized or technical talent.
- Screen resumes and conduct phone/video interviews to assess skills, experience, and fit against defined criteria.
- Manage all communication and relationships with candidates and others involved with the search and research process. Ensure all correspondence is timely, professional, and results in a favorable impression with all candidates and clients
- Coordinate interview loops, gather structured feedback, and drive timely, consensus-based hiring decisions.
- Build and maintain talent pipelines for recurring or historically hard-to-fill roles.
- Track and report recruiting metrics and use them to inform strategy and operational efficiency.
- Identify and lead improvements to recruiting process, ATS workflows, and interview practices.
- Sell the culture and benefits to engage and recruit top talent to the organization
- Ensure all recruitment practices are compliant with all relevant local, state, and federal employment laws, as well as best practices within the search and recruitment field. Provide guidance and direction to hiring managers to ensure same
- Effectively manage a high degree of confidential information and ensure that such information is communicated and/or maintained in an appropriate and professional manner.
Position Qualifications
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including sourcing, screening, offer negotiation, and pipeline management
- Demonstrated success in recruitment, preferably with both exempt and non-exempt roles with recruiting for technical, manufacturing, engineering, or industrial roles.
- Proficiency with ATS and sourcing tools (LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search).
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience influencing and coaching hiring managers.
- General/strong knowledge of key business functions and/or industries. Must have an ability to relate to requirements and/or contacts associated with functions such as finance, marketing, operations, sales, information systems, or specific industry expertise
- Practical knowledge of compensation practices and market trends to effectively provide support to develop offer packages
- Proven ability to understand and implement effective recruiting strategies.
Ideal Candidates Will Also Have
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience recruiting within manufacturing, automotive, heavy equipment, or EV/clean-tech industries.
- Familiarity with workforce planning, compensation benchmarking, or employer branding initiatives.
- Ability to develop creative and innovative sourcing strategies
- Strong analytical, problem solving, and research skills
Physical Requirements
The ideal candidate must be able to complete all physical requirements of the job with or without reasonable accommodation:
- Work is performed in an office environment and requires the ability to operate standard office equipment and keyboards
- Work in a stationary position up to 75% of the time
Orange EV is an Equal Opportunity Employers and seek diversity in candidates for employment.
EEO Employer W/M/Vet/Disabled/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity
Skills Required
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including sourcing, screening, offer negotiation, and pipeline management
- Demonstrated recruitment success, preferably across exempt and non-exempt technical, manufacturing, engineering, or industrial roles
- Proficiency with ATS and sourcing tools, including LinkedIn Recruiter and Boolean search
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including influencing and coaching hiring managers
- Knowledge of business functions or relevant industries, including finance, marketing, operations, sales, or information systems
- Practical knowledge of compensation practices and market trends
- Ability to understand and implement effective recruiting strategies
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience recruiting in manufacturing, automotive, heavy equipment, or EV/clean-tech industries
- Familiarity with workforce planning, compensation benchmarking, or employer branding initiatives
- Ability to develop creative and innovative sourcing strategies
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and research skills
What We Do
Orange EV's heavy-duty electric trucks are commercially deployed from California to New York, working every day in the most rigorous environments. Orange EV is a Kansas City, Kansas original equipment manufacturer (OEM) that designs and delivers pure electric, industrial-strength vehicles that are better for the earth, people and bottom Line. “Spend 90% less in fuel to haul the same load with zero diesel & emissions” Fleet managers, financial officers, sustainability teams and cost-minded executives choose Orange EV’s pure electric terminal truck solution to improve performance and safety, while reducing cost and eliminating emissions. Orange EV customers operate terminal facilities in a wide range of industries: rail intermodal, distribution, parcel/package delivery, 3PL, trucking, retail, manufacturing, and more. The terminal facility is where cargo trailers are loaded or unloaded and need to be moved around the yard.
