Senior Talent Acquisition Partner – Corporate Functions
Build an Aviation Career You’re Proud Of
At StandardAero, we use our ingenuity and know-how to find solutions for everything from the simple to the most complex challenges in aviation. Together, we get the job done — and done well. Our stability, global reach, and respectful culture provide the foundation for building a long-term career with a team you can count on.
As a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner supporting Corporate Functions, you will play a critical role in attracting and hiring top talent across key enabling organizations such as Information Technology, Finance, Legal, Human Resources, Engineering, Supply Chain and other corporate disciplines. In this role, you will partner closely with executive-level leaders to develop and execute recruiting strategies that support StandardAero’s current and future business needs.
What You’ll Do
Executive-Level Talent Partnership
- Partner directly with executive and senior leadership (ELT/SLT) to understand strategic workforce priorities and deliver high-impact talent acquisition solutions.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders, providing market intelligence, talent availability insights, and recommendations on search strategy, compensation competitiveness, and hiring timelines.
Full-Cycle & Executive Search Delivery
- Lead full-cycle recruiting for a portfolio of corporate function roles, including executive, senior leadership, and highly specialized professional positions.
- Apply executive search methodologies, including targeted research, passive candidate engagement, and confidential outreach.
- Manage complex and often sensitive searches from intake through offer acceptance, ensuring a high-touch, professional experience for candidates and stakeholders.
Sourcing Strategy & Market Intelligence
- Develop and execute proactive sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill and business-critical roles across IT, Finance, Legal, HR, and related disciplines.
- Leverage experience recruiting in the aviation and aerospace industry to inform sourcing approaches and stakeholder discussions.
- Monitor labor market trends, competitive hiring activity, and industry dynamics to continuously refine recruiting strategies.
Data, Process & Collaboration
- Use recruiting metrics and pipeline data to assess progress, identify risks, and provide clear, data-driven updates to executive stakeholders.
- Ensure compliance with StandardAero recruiting processes, employment regulations, and data privacy requirements.
Partner closely with the broader Talent Acquisition team to drive consistency, share best practices, and support continuous improvement initiatives and strategic TA projects.
What You’ll Bring
Required
- Bachelor’s degree
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a strong focus on professional or corporate functions (e.g., IT, Finance, Legal, HR).
Preferred
- Demonstrated experience partnering with senior and executive-level leaders in a complex, matrixed organization.
- Proven ability to manage multiple complex searches simultaneously while maintaining a consultative, service-oriented approach.
- Prior experience in executive search, either in-house or with an external search firm.
- Experience recruiting within the aviation or aerospace industry.
- Advanced sourcing expertise with the ability to identify and engage passive, senior-level talent.
- Strong business acumen and consultative mindset with the ability to influence and advise leaders at all levels.
- Data-driven approach to talent acquisition, including the use of recruiting metrics to inform decisions and drive outcomes.
- Proficiency with applicant tracking systems and sourcing tools (LinkedIn Recruiter experience preferred).
- Excellent communication, discretion, and relationship-building skills.
StandardAero Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about StandardAero and has not been reviewed or approved by StandardAero.
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Retirement Support — Provides a 401(k) and has added an Employee Stock Purchase Plan and an Incentive Award (equity) plan, expanding long-term savings and ownership options. These programs complement base pay with additional wealth-building mechanisms.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Includes PTO, paid holidays, sick time, bereavement leave, military leave, and parental leave, with some roles accruing PTO that can increase with service. Eligibility for benefits typically begins the first day of the month after hire, indicating structured access to time-off programs.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Offers tuition assistance, job training/conferences, company events, and an Employee Assistance Program as part of a comprehensive package. The inclusion of learning support and EAP provides development and wellbeing resources beyond core insurance and retirement.
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What We Do
StandardAero has become one of the aerospace industry’s largest independent maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) providers. Our company’s success is the outgrowth of the synergistic merger of businesses with complementary specialties that have exponentially increased our capabilities and generated unprecedented customer commitment and value. StandardAero offers extensive MRO services and custom solutions for business aviation, commercial aviation, military, and industrial power customers. Nearly 6,600 professional, administrative and technical employees work in more than 50 major facilities worldwide, with additional strategically located regional service and support centers all across the globe. Services include MRO for aircraft and rotorcraft engines, auxiliary power units, components; airframe services including major alterations; FAA authorized avionics capabilities; comprehensive engineering services; and custom exterior and interior design, completion, and paint. We provide these capabilities through our network of specialized facilities and mobile service teams. StandardAero is owned by Carlyle, a global investment firm with deep industry expertise that deploys private capital across four business segments: Corporate Private Equity, Real Assets, Global Credit, and Investment Solutions.
