University Recruiting Coordinator

Freese and Nichols seeking a University Recruiting Coordinator in our downtown Fort Worth corporate headquarters.  We are excited to see our current coordinator take on a new role helping develop our early career talent, which allows us to grow the team.

As University Recruiting Coordinator, you will support our university recruiting strategy and help facilitate the hiring process for our interns.  We are honored to have made the Top 100 Internship Program list presented by WayUp x Yello the past 3 years and need your help to compete again in 2026!

Your role:

As University Recruiting Coordinator you will help us meet our university recruiting goals.  We expect to hire 100+ interns and around 75 new graduates in 2026. While we are close to 80% of our hiring goal now, the university recruiting cycle will shift from hiring to onboarding and conversion within a few short months.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Assisting in shaping university recruiting strategy based on needs of business
• Supporting career fair strategy through planning, logistics, and attending career fairs of our strategic schools
• Facilitating hiring process for interns including assessing needs, posting jobs, screening candidates, collecting feedback from hiring teams, extending offers and facilitating preboarding requirements
• Assisting our Onboarding/Early Talent Specialist in planning and execution of events such as Intern Kickoff, National Intern Day, and internship program in general
• Researching best practices and benchmarks to help increase interns as a pipeline of talent
• Providing an excellent experience for our candidates
• Suggesting process improvements to help us be better

Your impact:

The Freese and Nichols Talent Acquisition Mission is:

To attract, select, and hire talented people to help them achieve their personal goals and for the success of the company in creating infrastructure that sustains our communities.

What success looks like:

Meeting our hiring goals and client and candidate feedback are the measures of success for this role.

The behavioral competencies that lead to success in this role include:

Communicates Effectively

Plans and Aligns

Customer Focus

Being Resilient

Drives Results

Instills trust

Collaborates

Directs Work

Growth opportunity:

We'll help set you up for success in this position through mentorship from peers and leadership.  Besides learning through experience, you will be part of our Talent Acquisition Learning Program powered by SocialTalent, a learning platform for talent acquisition professionals, featuring lessons from talent acquisition leaders from across the globe.

We'll empower you with a toolbox including talent acquisition technology such as Workday, HireRight, and Yello.

Flexibility:

You have the option of a hybrid schedule working up to 2 days remotely.  You also have the opportunity to work an alternative work schedule, with every other Friday off.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Exceptional interpersonal and organizational skills with a focus on details and results

Preferred

• 2+ years HR/recruiting support experience

At the heart of our culture is our LEADS values (Learn continuously, Engage as family, Act with integrity, Deliver quality, and Serve always).  Each year, our employee engagement survey confirms that our leaders and our employees live our values.

We strive to be the firm of choice for clients and employees through innovative approaches, practical results, and outstanding service.  For more than 130 years, we have been planning and designing the infrastructure our communities need:  developing water supplies, designing roadways and bridges, preparing for natural disasters, and much more.

Besides our comprehensive benefits package (see more at https://www.freese.com/services/benefits-that-work/), we offer paid overtime for salaried employees, an annual bonus, and access to company cabins in Red River, New Mexico.  We are proud of our flexible work environment which includes a hybrid schedule with up to 40% of remote work, and an alternative work schedule program which provides a day off every other Friday.

Join our team of 1,300+ employees as we grow from Virginia to Colorado. Learn more about working here at https://www.freese.com/careers/.

Freese and Nichols is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and prohibits employment discrimination for employees and applicants based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.