Recruiting Manager

Position Summary

The Recruiting Manager will lead and execute a comprehensive recruiting strategy to attract hire and retain top talent across a scaling multi-state organization specializing in architecture civil engineering and federal civilian and DoD contracting. This role requires a dynamic and strategic recruiting professional who can design scalable hiring processes partner with technical and operations leaders and manage complex recruiting efforts both CONUS and OCONUS including candidates requiring Confidential Secret and Top-Secret security clearances.

Accommodation Requests

We are committed to providing access equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process contact our HR Director (April Hawkins) at or

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Develop and implement a company-wide recruitment strategy that aligns with organizational goals and supports growth across architecture civil engineering and federal contracting business units.
• Create recruiting plans for domestic and OCONUS staffing efforts ensuring compliance with federal contracting requirements and local labor laws.
• Partner with executive leadership and HR to forecast staffing needs assess labor market conditions and proactively develop talent pipelines.
• Drive initiatives to enhance employer branding and position the company as an employer of choice in the architecture engineering and federal contracting markets.

Recruitment Operations

• Lead full-cycle recruiting efforts for technical cleared and non-cleared positions across all business units.
• May manage mentor and lead some members of the HR departments recruiting staff. Will collaborate with all HR staff involved in sourcing recruiting and hiring efforts.
• Ability to create a strategy for quick turn solicitations that often require short turn-around times for recruiting suspense.
• Oversee recruitment for CONUS and OCONUS projects including positions supporting overseas federal contracts logistics and life support services.
• Manage relationships with recruiting vendors job boards and clearance networks to ensure effective sourcing of cleared and specialized candidates.
• Ensure recruiting compliance with all applicable laws federal contracting clauses (e.g. OFCCP EEO and FAR/DFARS requirements) and internal policies.
• Coordinate recruiting efforts with hiring managers recruiting staff and leadership across states and projects.

Security-Cleared & OCONUS Recruiting

• Oversee recruitment strategies for Confidential Secret and Top Secret cleared personnel in accordance with DoD and government client requirements.
• Partner closely with Facility Security Officers (FSOs) to verify and manage candidate clearance statuses.
• Lead recruiting efforts for OCONUS project deployments including pre-screening for suitability visa/work authorization coordination and logistical onboarding planning.

Data Systems and Continuous Improvement

• Utilize ATS and HRIS systems to track metrics analyze recruiting effectiveness and provide leadership with regular reports on key performance indicators.
• Identify and implement tools and systems that improve sourcing tracking and communication efficiency.
• Continuously assess and refine recruiting processes to improve speed quality and candidate experience.

Education Experience and Technical Skills

Required Education Licensure/Certifications or Experience:

• Bachelors degree in human resources business administration or a related field.
• 10 years of progressive recruiting experience including 3 years in a leadership or management role.
• Proven experience recruiting for architecture engineering and/or federal contracting environments.
• Demonstrated experience with OCONUS recruiting and logistics for overseas assignments.
• Experience recruiting for Confidential Secret and Top Secret cleared positions.
• Strong understanding of federal contracting regulations FAR/DFARS and OFCCP compliance.
• Ability to design and execute recruiting strategies across diverse technical and professional disciplines.
• Familiarity with architecture and civil engineering licensure or credentialing pathways.
• Prior experience with applicant tracking systems (ATS) and HRIS integration (e.g. Deltek Workday ClearCompany or similar).
• Must have Real ID or valid United States Passport in order to undergo commercial air travel

Preferred Education Licensure/Certifications or Experience:

• PHR SPHR or SHRM-CP/SCP certification.
• Experience recruiting for contingency or expeditionary operations under federal contracts that occur in high-risk geographic locations.

Work Environment

This position may be performed remotely or in an office environment depending on business needs and employee location.

• When performed remotely the employee will work from a home office in a professional distraction-free environment with reliable internet connection.
• When performed in-office the employee will be exposed to a temperature-controlled low-noise office setting with standard office equipment such as computers phones photocopiers and filing cabinets.
• The role requires periodic travel to attend career fairs university events large industry summits recruiting conferences and company sites both domestically and internationally.

Physical Demands

Sitting/Standing: This role is generally sedentary performing sitting work utilizing technological office equipment including a laptop mouse keyboard computer monitors telephones scanners and copiers.

Walking: This role requires the ability to move about inside the office to access the required technological equipment.

Stooping/Kneeling/Crouching/Crawling: This role may require stooping to reload printer trays with print paper moving equipment and managing cords.

Using Hands/Fingers: This role constantly operates technological office equipment such as laptops mice keyboards computer monitors telephones scanners and copiers.

Talking/Hearing: This role requires constant communication with others in the organization to exchange information review information and make decisions about information.

Seeing: This role requires seeing viewing and distinguishing all aspects of internal and external communications.

Carrying/Lifting: This role requires lifting up to 20lbs to transport technological office equipment to and from various workspaces.

Equal Employment Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran.

Native American Hiring Preference

Our parent company Mno-Bmadsen prefers to hire Pokagon citizens who are qualified and suitable for available positions. For purposes of this section qualified means that the applicant meets the technical and experiential needs for employment; and suitable means that the candidate appears to be the best fit considering present circumstances and conditions. Targeted preference is in the following order:

• First to qualified Pokagon Band citizens; and
• Second to qualified spouses and qualified custodial parents; and
• Third to other qualified Native Americans; and
• Fourth to all other qualified applicants

Any determinations as to the applicability of the Pokagon hiring preference are at the discretion of each Company President.

Required Experience:

Manager