Senior Technical Recruiter

McMaster-Carr•Chicago, IL

About The Position

We’re expanding our engineering teams to take on a bold set of customer-focused challenges. As a Senior Technical Recruiter, you’ll play a critical role in shaping the future of our tech organization by making sure exceptionally talented people are the driver, not the bottleneck, to realizing our ambitions. Your work will directly impact our ability to scale high-performing teams, accelerate product development, and push the boundaries of operational excellence that enables us to deliver same-day or next-day orders with unmatched reliability. By identifying and attracting top-tier engineering talent, you will help drive the innovation that keeps McMaster-Carr at the forefront of e-commerce. Beyond building technical teams, you’ll influence how McMaster-Carr attracts and hires talent across the business. You’ll bring a strategic, full-cycle approach to recruiting, with a sharp focus on sourcing and evaluating exceptional candidates. By combining market insight, data fluency, and storytelling, you’ll help hiring teams make smarter decisions and build stronger pipelines for critical roles. Your ability to connect the dots between business needs and talent strategy will elevate our recruiting function and ensure we stay ahead in a competitive and dynamic market.

Requirements

Energized by the challenge of finding and hiring exceptional technical talent.
Thinks like a strategist, curious about how teams grow, how markets shift, and how to connect the right people to the right opportunities.
Takes ownership of outcomes, not just tasks, and balances creativity with structure, curiosity with clarity, and vision with execution.
Excited by the power of technology, especially AI, to transform how recruiting teams work.
Understands how AI can be a strategic asset, enhancing sourcing, screening, and evaluation to help teams work smarter, move faster, and make better hiring decisions.
Curious about emerging technologies and eager to experiment with new approaches that improve efficiency, decision-making, and candidate experience.
Driven by both the human side of recruiting and the business impact of great hires.
Builds trust, shares context, and elevates those around you.
Brings strong judgment to candidate evaluation, recognizing diverse technical experiences and assessing capability with clarity and care.
A clear communicator and a collaborative partner to stakeholders across the business.
Focuses on improving team effectiveness and driving measurable hiring outcomes that support long-term growth.

Responsibilities

Proactively source candidates through a variety of channels, building strong, long-term relationships with top engineering talent.
Design and refine outreach frameworks and prospect management systems that strengthen pipelines and support future hiring needs.
Develop and execute strategies to market roles effectively, showcasing our unique value proposition to attract the right candidates.
Evaluate candidates for both leadership and technical capability while upholding our rigorous hiring standards. Effectively navigate diverse technical backgrounds to determine whether candidates provide compelling evidence to advance to interviews with hiring managers.
Work closely with hiring managers and leaders to understand organizational goals and translate them into actionable hiring plans.
Help craft and continuously improve structured, inclusive, efficient, and effective interview processes.
Use recruiting metrics and market insights to inform strategies and optimize hiring outcomes.
Explore and apply AI tools to improve sourcing, screening, and decision-making. Share learnings and help scale effective practices across the team.