Talent Acquisition Partner, Aerospace Engineering

Metrea•Tampa, FL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refuelling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats. Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific. At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately. Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific. Work Arrangement: Onsite-Tampa, FL. Relocation support available for individuals + family per Metrea’s relocation policy. Position Summary At Metrea, we seek out the most complex national security challenges and proactively develop elegant solutions - those solutions start with our people and their ability to deliver mission-critical effects around the world. Our Talent Acquisition team is focused on delivering equally compelling and strategic hiring solutions through deep recruiting expertise, consultative partnership, and analytical rigor. In this role, you will be a strategy and execution partner within Metrea’s Aerospace Engineering Group (AERO) – one of the fastest growing areas of the enterprise – helping to shape and drive the talent engine behind rapid aircraft modification and mission delivery. Embedded within a uniquely integrated ecosystem – spanning the Airborne Asset Adaptation (A3) Cell, Aircraft Integration Center (AIC), and Aerospace Design (ASD) – this role serves as the connective tissue between vision and capability. This role is well suited to a recruiter with a strong market intelligence mindset - someone who can lead complex searches across specialist talent markets while bringing insight and clarity to hiring leaders and the broader People team. Beyond delivery, you will help elevate Metrea’s capability in talent markets where we are still building depth, using market mapping, external insight, and repeatable hiring approaches to improve how we hire over time. Success in this role requires someone who thrives in process creation, exercises strong judgment, and has a track record of delivering complex searches in high-expectation, highly specialized stakeholder environments.

Requirements

Relevant in-house or search experience delivering highly specialized and difficult-to-fill roles, ideally within technical, operational, engineering, or industrial environments.
Proven track record of leading complex searches across niche talent markets.
Strong sourcing capability with demonstrated success in building pipelines in unfamiliar, underdeveloped, or highly competitive talent markets.
A market intelligence mindset, with the ability to map talent pools, identify target organizations, assess talent availability, and translate external insight into hiring strategy.
Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build trust and credibility with senior hiring leaders and candidates alike.
Strong judgment in balancing rigor with flexibility across different search types and business needs.
Experience improving hiring capability through insight-sharing, process enhancement, and structured search approaches.
Experience managing multi-stage, high-touch recruitment processes across complex stakeholder groups.
Experience with Greenhouse or other applicant tracking systems.

Nice To Haves

Prior aviation, aerospace, manufacturing, or engineering hiring experience is advantageous but not essential.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end recruitment for highly specialized, difficult-to-access technical and operational roles spanning individual contributor, specialist, and leadership hiring.
Build and execute market-informed sourcing strategies across specialist talent pools including aircraft supply chain, FAA 21 and 145 environments, avionics, integration engineering, maintenance, and production.
Develop deep understanding of external talent markets and use data and insight to guide hiring leaders on talent availability, market constraints, and competitive dynamics.
Partner closely with senior stakeholders, bringing clear recommendations, thoughtful challenge, and sound judgment throughout the hiring process.
Develop targeted pipelines through direct sourcing, market mapping, and proactive relationship-building across niche talent pools.
Strengthen Metrea’s capability in emerging talent markets through market mapping, insight sharing, and the development of repeatable hiring approaches.
Guide hiring managers through structured and high-quality selection processes leveraging data to improve decision-making and candidate experience.
Identify opportunities to improve recruitment practices, search methodology, and pipeline strategies for specialist hiring.