Senior Talent Advisor - CDBS
About The Position
Cummins is seeking a Senior Talent Advisor to join its Talent Acquisition team, supporting the Cummins Drivetrain and Braking Systems Business Unit in Fletcher, North Carolina. The role leads and coordinates hourly recruiting operations across multiple facilities, develops sourcing strategies and talent pipelines for high-volume manufacturing and skilled roles, and partners with site leadership, Human Resources, and hiring managers to align recruiting with business and production needs. The Senior Talent Advisor provides leadership, coaching, and workload coordination for recruiters supporting approximately 12 facilities in the United States and Canada. The role serves as an escalation point for recruiting challenges, oversees recruiting performance and process consistency, and uses workforce data and labor-market insights to improve hiring results. It also builds community and workforce-development partnerships, supports early-career and apprenticeship initiatives, and ensures a consistent, compliant candidate experience through recruiting and onboarding. The position requires a college, university, or equivalent degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience. Experience supporting multi-site manufacturing, distribution, or industrial environments is preferred. Cummins is an equal opportunity employer.
Requirements
- College, university, or equivalent degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated ability to lead recruiting teams and influence diverse stakeholders while balancing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong expertise in high-volume talent acquisition, candidate assessment, workforce planning, and talent-pipeline development within manufacturing, operations, or similar environments.
- Proven ability to use recruiting analytics, market intelligence, and performance metrics to inform decisions and drive continuous improvement.
- Exceptional communication, consulting, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to collaborate across organizational levels.
- Proactive, customer-focused mindset with sound judgment, adaptability, and commitment to inclusive and efficient hiring outcomes.
- Ability to maintain accurate applicant-tracking-system records, reporting, and documentation while ensuring compliance with company policies and employment practices.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting multi-site manufacturing, distribution, or industrial environments.
- Strengths in stakeholder management, adaptability, communication, collaboration, customer focus, data-driven decision-making, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate hourly recruiting operations across multiple facilities to meet workforce demands.
- Develop targeted sourcing strategies and sustainable talent pipelines for manufacturing, production, skilled-trades, and technician roles.
- Partner with site leadership, Human Resources, and hiring managers to align recruiting priorities with business objectives and production needs.
- Provide leadership, coaching, mentoring, training, and workload coordination for recruiters supporting approximately 12 facilities in the United States and Canada.
- Serve as the primary escalation point for recruiting challenges, stakeholder concerns, and complex hiring needs.
- Lead recruitment for production, manufacturing, warehouse, maintenance, technician, and skilled-trades positions.
- Develop sourcing strategies for specialized talent, including electricians, welders, maintenance technicians, machinists, and CNC operators.
- Build partnerships with community colleges, technical schools, apprenticeship programs, workforce-development agencies, and community organizations.
- Support early-career, school-to-work, internship, and apprenticeship initiatives.
- Coordinate hiring events, job fairs, community outreach, and onsite recruiting activities.
- Establish consistent recruiting processes, communication standards, and service expectations across facilities.
- Monitor and analyze recruiting metrics, including requisition aging, time-to-slate, time-to-offer, time-to-fill, offer acceptance, candidate conversion, and start-date completion.
- Conduct recruiting reviews to identify hiring barriers, workforce risks, and process-improvement opportunities.
- Use labor-market intelligence and recruiting data to adjust sourcing strategies and respond to changing workforce demands.
- Partner with site leadership to forecast seasonal hiring, production growth, attrition replacement, and workforce-planning needs.
- Collaborate with external recruiting partners and vendors while maintaining accountability and performance expectations.
- Promote recruiter effectiveness through coaching, workload balancing, best-practice sharing, and operational support.
- Maintain accurate applicant-tracking-system records, reporting, and documentation, and ensure compliance with company policies and employment practices.
- Provide regular updates and strategic recommendations to Talent Acquisition and business leadership on hiring demand, staffing risks, and recruiting progress.
- Ensure a consistent, compliant, and exceptional candidate experience throughout recruiting and onboarding.
- Champion continuous-improvement initiatives to enhance recruiting efficiency, stakeholder satisfaction, and talent-acquisition performance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
