Our 100% employee-owned team of nearly 500 engineering and design professionals is seeking a Talent Acquisition Specialist to help build the workforce that powers TKDA's continued growth and success.
As TKDA continues its growth journey beyond 500 employee-owners and toward the next chapter of our strategic vision, this position will play a key role in attracting, engaging, and securing talent across the career spectrum, from students and early-career professionals to experienced technical leaders and industry experts.
This is a recruiting-focused position with a strong emphasis on proactive sourcing, passive candidate outreach, talent pipeline development, and relationship building. A significant portion of your time will be spent identifying and engaging professionals who may not be actively seeking a new opportunity while building long-term relationships that support current and future hiring needs.
Beyond recruiting, you'll help strengthen TKDA's employer brand by showcasing our people, culture, projects, employee ownership experience, and career opportunities through social media, recruitment marketing, and employee engagement initiatives.
If you enjoy building relationships, uncovering talent others overlook, and playing a meaningful role in an organization's growth and future success, we'd welcome the opportunity to connect!
Primary Responsibilities
- Lead full-cycle recruiting efforts for technical, professional, leadership, and early-career positions.
- Develop sourcing strategies and proactively engage passive candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, referrals, networking, talent mapping, and industry connections.
- Build and maintain talent pipelines that support both immediate and future workforce needs.
- Partner with hiring managers to understand staffing needs, define talent profiles, and develop recruiting strategies.
- Deliver a high-touch candidate experience from initial outreach through onboarding.
- Partner with Marketing and HR to strengthen TKDA's employer brand by promoting our culture, employee ownership model, career opportunities, employee stories, and project work through social media, recruitment marketing, and talent attraction initiatives.
- Support campus recruiting activities, internship programs, career fairs, and university partnerships.
Maintain recruiting activity within ATS and HRIS systems while contributing to continuous process improvement.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business, marketing, communications, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Five or more years of experience leading full-cycle recruiting efforts.
- Strong sourcing skills, including experience leveraging LinkedIn Recruiter, talent mapping, networking, and referral strategies to identify high-quality candidates.
- Demonstrated success building and nurturing talent pipelines and professional networks.
- Strong consultative and influencing skills with the ability to partner effectively with hiring managers and business leaders
- Exceptional organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and competing deadlines
- Creativity and strategic thinking in developing talent attraction and employer branding.
- Strong relationship-building, communication, and candidate engagement skills.
- Proficiency with ATS, HRIS, and recruiting technologies.
Advantageous Qualifications
- Experience recruiting architecture, engineering, environmental, construction, or other technical professionals.
- Experience developing employer branding, recruitment marketing, or employee advocacy initiatives.
- Experience supporting regional or national recruiting efforts.
- Experience building social media content that showcases company culture, employee experiences, projects, and day-to-day operations.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in human resources, business administration, or related field
- Five to ten years of experience leading full-cycle recruiting for technical and nontechnical positions
- Prior experience building and nurturing a passive and targeted talent network of entry to senior-level technical professionals
- Proven success utilizing traditional sourcing methods and executing innovative talent engagement and acquisition strategies
- High degree of organization, attention to detail, professionalism, and ability to adjust to ambiguity and changing priorities
- High proficiency with LinkedIn Recruiter and MS Teams
- Strong proficiency with ATS and HRIS platforms
- Reside within regular commuting distance of Bloomington, MN and maintain a consistent in-office presence (hybrid 3-2 available)
- Occasional local and/or overnight travel for campus events, on-site interviews, and regional office visits
- Authorized to work in the United States for any employer without visa sponsorship
- Prior experience sourcing architecture and engineering talent
- Prior experience sourcing talent on a regional or national level
- Experience evaluating and optimizing ATS/HRIS functionality
What We Do
TKDA is a 100 percent employee-owned firm established in 1910, providing comprehensive engineering, architecture, and planning services. The company serves public and private clients across the United States, focusing on four primary markets: Industrial and Manufacturing, Transportation, Buildings and Sites, and Water. With a commitment to quality, innovation, and safety, TKDA delivers integrated design solutions that help communities and businesses grow while meeting critical project timelines and budget constraints.
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