Sr Talent Acquisition Recruiter (Strategic Hiring)

Zachry Group • Houston, TX

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About The Position

The Senior Recruiter, Strategic Hiring is responsible for building, maintaining, and optimizing forecast-driven talent pipelines for business-critical leadership and professional positions across Zachry Group. This role focuses on workforce readiness, talent market intelligence, and long-range candidate engagement to ensure the organization maintains access to highly qualified talent aligned with current and future business needs.

Working closely with the Director of Strategic Hiring, Workforce Planning, and business leaders, this position translates workforce forecasts, business growth projections, and succession planning insights into targeted sourcing strategies and sustainable talent pipelines. The Senior Recruiter develops and maintains relationships with leadership talent, technical professionals, and other hard-to-find candidates while ensuring pipeline readiness and alignment with anticipated hiring demand.

Unlike traditional requisition-based recruiting roles, this position emphasizes talent mapping, competitive intelligence, relationship development, networking, and pipeline management to support future workforce requirements. Success in this role requires a strong understanding of talent markets, creative sourcing strategies, and the ability to build candidate communities that support long-term organizational growth.

This role primarily supports management, director-level, executive-level, and other business-critical positions across Engineering, Nuclear, Operations, Project Controls, Supply Chain, and other strategic functions throughout the organization.

Requirements

• Experience in building, maintaining, and optimizing forecast-driven talent pipelines.
• Experience in workforce readiness, talent market intelligence, and long-range candidate engagement.
• Ability to translate workforce forecasts, business growth projections, and succession planning insights into sourcing strategies and talent pipelines.
• Experience in developing and maintaining relationships with leadership talent, technical professionals, and hard-to-find candidates.
• Experience in talent mapping and competitive intelligence.
• Experience in relationship development, networking, and pipeline management.
• Strong understanding of talent markets.
• Creative sourcing strategies.
• Ability to build candidate communities.
• Experience supporting management, director-level, and executive-level positions.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and optimize forecast-driven talent pipelines for business-critical leadership and professional positions.
• Focus on workforce readiness, talent market intelligence, and long-range candidate engagement.
• Translate workforce forecasts, business growth projections, and succession planning insights into targeted sourcing strategies and sustainable talent pipelines.
• Develop and maintain relationships with leadership talent, technical professionals, and other hard-to-find candidates.
• Ensure pipeline readiness and alignment with anticipated hiring demand.
• Conduct talent mapping and competitive intelligence.
• Develop networking and pipeline management strategies to support future workforce requirements.
• Build candidate communities that support long-term organizational growth.
• Support management, director-level, executive-level, and other business-critical positions across Engineering, Nuclear, Operations, Project Controls, Supply Chain, and other strategic functions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed