Talent Acquisition Lead

Paschal Air, Plumbing & Electric • Kansas City, MO

10d

About The Position

Paschal Home Services is seeking a strategic, hands-on Talent Acquisition Lead to own and develop the company’s talent acquisition function. The role recruits for priority, leadership, and hard-to-fill positions across HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and support teams in Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas, while improving recruiting systems and processes as the company grows. The Lead works closely with the HR Director, Regional General Managers, field leaders, and hiring managers on workforce planning, recruiting priorities, and candidate experience.

The position leads evaluation and implementation of a new applicant tracking system, applies AI and automation to reduce manual work and time-to-fill, and ensures responsible and compliant use of hiring technology. It also develops scalable recruiting processes, supports onboarding improvements and early-retention efforts, strengthens the employer brand, owns recruiting analytics and planning, and manages the recruiting budget and external recruiting partners.

Requirements

• Experience developing recruiting strategies while actively sourcing, screening, and hiring skilled-trades talent.
• Ability to improve recruiting processes, streamline work, and apply automation.
• Self-starter who takes initiative, solves problems, and follows through without constant direction.
• Hands-on experience with applicant tracking systems, automation, and AI tools for recruiting.
• Ability to use data, spreadsheets, and dashboards to measure performance and support decisions.
• Ability to lead system implementations, manage vendors, and drive adoption of new tools and processes.
• Strong relationship-building, influencing, and communication skills with field leaders and leadership.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, growing company, adapt to change, and support execution, accountability, and a positive candidate experience.

Responsibilities

• Personally recruit for priority, leadership, and hard-to-fill roles.
• Work with field leadership to set requisition priorities across locations based on the annual hiring plan, open needs, and business impact.
• Build talent pipelines through trade schools, apprenticeship programs, referrals, community and military transition partnerships, and competitor talent mapping.
• Manage external recruiting partner relationships, including scope of work, service levels, quality of hire, placement guarantees, and cost per placement.
• Partner with hiring managers and leaders to provide a fast, consistent, positive candidate experience.
• Lead evaluation, selection, and implementation of a new ATS, including business requirements, vendor demos, ROI analysis, data migration, HRIS integration, configuration, and user training.
• Identify and implement AI and automation in the hiring workflow, including screening, two-way text messaging, interview self-scheduling, reminders, and offer and onboarding workflows.
• Ensure responsible use of AI in hiring, including human oversight of hiring decisions, adverse-impact monitoring, and compliance with applicable requirements.
• Own recruiting technology configuration, permissions, templates, integrations, and documentation.
• Design and document scalable recruiting processes, playbooks, and standard operating procedures.
• Support hiring managers with structured interview guides, scorecards, mobile-friendly tools, and training.
• Partner with HR and operations to improve onboarding and reduce 90-day turnover using early-tenure and exit data to identify root causes.
• Strengthen the employer brand and employment value proposition across job postings, career pages, social media, and hiring events.
• Own recruiting metrics and reporting, including time-to-fill, source of hire, cost per hire, offer acceptance, 90-day retention, and agency performance by location and job class.
• Maintain the annual hiring plan and recruiting capacity model with the HR Director, forecasting needs using headcount budgets, attrition, and seasonality.
• Manage the recruiting budget, including job advertising, agency fees, recruiting technology, and events.
• Ensure recruiting practices comply with EEO, background check, I-9, recordkeeping requirements, and applicable company policies.
• Complete other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with performance bonus earning opportunities.
• Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, and retirement plans.
• Paid Time Off and paid holidays.
• Opportunity to build a rewarding career within a growing organization.
• Privately owned company with long-term leadership stability and no private equity backing.

What This Job Offers

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