Talent Acquisition Partner-Skilled Trades

Meriton•Irving, TX

About The Position

Meriton is hiring a Talent Acquisition Partner to own full-cycle recruiting for its national platform businesses, primarily focusing on parts, rental, and service technicians. The role partners with platform leaders, hiring managers, and the Talent Strategic Partner to develop strategies that meet hiring demand across multiple locations and markets, while remaining flexible to support other operational requisitions as business needs evolve. The recruiter builds targeted sourcing strategies and talent pipelines, manages requisitions through the applicant tracking system, coordinates interviews, extends offers within approved parameters, and manages the offer-to-start handoff. The role is accountable for a responsive candidate experience, clear communication with hiring managers about pipeline status and market conditions, accurate ATS records, and a clean onboarding handoff that includes trade-specific certification or licensing needs. Key performance indicators include time-to-fill, pipeline volume and candidate quality, offer-acceptance rate, and responsiveness to requisition assignments. The listed salary range is $85,000–$95,000, with the actual range dependent on qualifications, experience, internal equity, and the budgeted amount for the specific role and location. Employment practices are not influenced by legally protected status, and reasonable accommodations will be made for qualified individuals with disabilities unless doing so would cause undue hardship.

Requirements

At least 5 years of full-cycle recruiting experience, preferably supporting multi-location or national organizations across sales, parts, rental, operations, or related positions.
Demonstrated ability to build talent pipelines through proactive sourcing, industry networking, employee referrals, job boards, and competitor research.
Experience managing a diverse portfolio of requisitions and adapting sourcing strategies, screening criteria, and candidate messaging based on the position and market.
Proficiency with applicant tracking systems and recruiting metrics.
Strong organizational, communication, and hiring-manager partnership skills.

Responsibilities

Manage full-cycle recruiting for parts, rental, service technician, and related operational positions across assigned national platforms.
Develop targeted sourcing strategies and talent pipelines using industry networks, competitor research, employee referrals, job boards, and proactive outreach.
Partner with hiring managers to understand each business, market, and position and identify candidates with appropriate industry knowledge, technical capabilities, sales experience, and cultural alignment.
Support additional requisitions across national platforms as hiring priorities and business needs change.
Adapt sourcing channels, screening criteria, and candidate messaging to different roles and markets.
Communicate requisition volume, pipeline challenges, and capacity concerns to the Talent Strategic Partner to support prioritization and resource allocation.
Source, screen, and schedule candidates through the ATS for assigned requisitions.
Coordinate interview logistics with Operating Company hiring managers and provide timely candidate feedback.
Extend offers within approved parameters and manage the offer-to-start handoff.
Deliver a responsive, professional candidate experience from first contact through start date.
Keep Operating Company hiring managers informed about pipeline status and market realities.
Hand off new hires to onboarding, including trade-specific certification or licensing needs.
Maintain accurate, up-to-date requisition and candidate status in the ATS.