Talent Acquisition Specialist

Encore Fire Protection • Needham, MA

20d

About The Position

Encore Fire Protection is hiring a Talent Acquisition Specialist to support the company’s growth by finding, hiring, and supporting employees across field and corporate roles. The role owns full-cycle recruiting, maintains a high-volume candidate pipeline, protects the candidate experience, and partners with leaders to address immediate hiring needs and longer-term growth goals. The company describes the position as operating in a fast-moving, private equity-backed environment, with an emphasis on urgency, quality, structure, and consistency.

The Talent Acquisition Specialist will manage application review and responses, maintain the applicant tracking system, coordinate with vendors and internal stakeholders, develop job descriptions, observe interviews, and support onboarding in collaboration with the Talent, Culture, and People team. As the role develops, responsibilities will expand to include sourcing, hiring-manager partnerships, conducting and participating in interviews, contributing to hiring decisions, delivering offers, and supporting team projects.

Encore Fire Protection is described as the East Coast’s largest full-service fire protection company, with over 2,200 employees and more than 90,000 customers. The company emphasizes continuous growth, innovation, safety, and delivering a superior experience to its customers.

Requirements

• At least two years of full-cycle recruiting experience, ideally in a fast-paced or growing company.
• Strong sourcing, interviewing, and relationship-building skills.
• Proficiency with applicant tracking systems and other recruitment tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including comfort interacting with all levels of the organization.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• A genuine passion for finding and hiring talent and representing the company brand professionally and thoughtfully.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field.
• Experience recruiting in a private equity-backed or high-growth environment.
• Experience supporting multi-location or multi-state hiring.
• A track record of building or refining recruiting processes, workflows, or candidate-experience initiatives.
• Comfort presenting recruiting data and metrics to leaders and using insights to guide decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle recruiting for a mix of field and corporate roles and keep a high-volume candidate pipeline organized while maintaining a human touch.
• Review applications and ensure candidates receive timely responses.
• Maintain the applicant tracking system, communicate with vendors, and troubleshoot issues through resolution.
• Meet with stakeholders, including the Executive Leadership Team and hiring managers, to facilitate candidate review and interview scheduling.
• Generate new and updated job descriptions that reflect the company’s culture and business needs.
• Observe first- and second-round interviews to understand the process and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Work with the Talent, Culture, and People team to support and execute new-hire onboarding.
• Develop partnerships with hiring managers to understand business objectives and support talent sourcing.
• Proactively source candidates and initiate conversations across key roles and markets.
• Lead first-round interviews, participate in second- and third-round interactions, and contribute to hiring decisions.
• Prepare and deliver offer letters to candidates.
• Take on projects that support the growth and evolution of the Talent, Culture, and People team.

Benefits

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience.
• Opportunity to earn performance-based bonuses tied to personal effectiveness and contributions to the team.
• Casual work environment and flexible dress code, with branded company swag.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Fidelity 401(k) plan with a company match.
• Company-paid life insurance policy of $50,000.
• Access to web-based productivity tools.
• People-focused culture that encourages experimentation, learning, and improvement.

What This Job Offers

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