Talent Acquisition Lead

Paschal Air, Plumbing & Electric • Dallas, TX

10d

About The Position

Paschal Home Services is seeking a strategic, hands-on Talent Acquisition Lead to build and lead the company’s talent acquisition function across HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and support teams in Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. The role owns recruiting strategy and delivery, partnering with the HR Director, Regional General Managers, hiring managers, and field leadership on workforce planning, hiring priorities, and the candidate experience.

The Talent Acquisition Lead will personally recruit for priority, leadership, and hard-to-fill positions; develop talent pipelines; and manage external recruiting partners. The role will lead selection and implementation of a new applicant tracking system, identify opportunities to use AI and automation, and ensure responsible and compliant use of these tools. It will also create scalable recruiting processes, support hiring managers, improve onboarding and early retention, strengthen the employer brand, and manage recruiting analytics, planning, budget, and compliance.

Paschal Home Services is a privately held, non-private-equity-backed home services provider with 13 locations and more than 400 employees. The company describes this as an opportunity to shape recruiting practices directly, implement ideas quickly, and potentially grow into a larger Talent Acquisition leadership role as the company and recruiting team expand.

Requirements

• Comfort developing long-term recruiting strategies while actively sourcing, screening, and hiring skilled trades talent.
• Ability to identify practical ways to streamline processes, improve efficiency, and use 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 to improve recruiting processes and outcomes.
• Comfort using data, spreadsheets, and dashboards to measure recruiting performance and inform decisions.
• Ability to lead system implementations, manage vendors, and drive adoption of new tools and processes.
• Ability to build strong relationships with field leaders, influence decisions, and communicate recommendations effectively to leadership.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, growing company, adapt to change, and value 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, and positive candidate experience.
• Lead evaluation, selection, and implementation of a new ATS, including requirements, vendor demonstrations, ROI analysis, data migration, HRIS integration, configuration, and user training.
• Identify and implement AI and automation in the hiring workflow, including candidate screening, two-way text messaging, interview self-scheduling, reminders, and offer and onboarding workflows.
• Ensure responsible use of AI in hiring, including human oversight, monitoring for adverse impact, 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.
• 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 based on 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, and applicable company policy requirements.
• 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: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed