HR Operations Specialist III

Company Description

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts – planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers – leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let’s get started.

Job Description

AECOM is seeking a Talent Acquisition Project Operations Specialist to join our team.  This role can be based in any location near an AECOM office and has the ability to work remotely. This role will focus on planning and executing talent acquisition projects with varying levels of scope and complexity across the global AECOM landscape.  You will work with many areas of our globe to optimize and standardize our processes while helping us be innovative and challenge the status quo.

Our AECOM Talent Acquisition team is a spirited group of professionals who are committed to building our company’s greatest asset- our people. We enjoy working together in a collaborative culture, identifying and delivering high performing talent. We are driven by our passion to help others build their careers. This passion has resulted in AECOM being named one of the “World’s Most Admired Companies” by Fortune Magazine.

Keys to success for this role include the ability to communicate effectively, build trust across multiple teams and workstreams and build partnerships across the business. This is an empowered individual contributor role. A strong candidate for this role is one who takes initiative and uses problem-solving skills to think beyond the task to the outcome that needs to be achieved.

This role will:

• Execute talent acquisition & onboarding project initiatives, help us to manage change, communicate effectively, drive functional excellence, process improvement, and transition new technology and process to partners when appropriate, while providing superior customer support; serving as a junior business analyst in our talent acquisition space
• Assist with our vendor management and integration partners including providing SmartRecruiters production support, which includes researching and resolving elevated problems, responding to inquiries, and educating users
• Work cross-functionally on technology initiatives as well as talent acquisition training support and implementation, working with our service center partners and scopes of work and helping to support our recruitment marketing initiatives

This role will support our global talent acquisition function at AECOM.  At times the role will require attending meetings or providing support outside of the successful candidate’s local time zone.  The successful candidate must have the ability to work outside their local time zone. 

Job Summary:

• Proactively plans, schedules, conducts or coordinates detailed functions of human resources (HR) duties for large location or multiple offices in a geography.
• Independently advises operations on complex HR matters and is relied on heavily for individual's expertise.
• Alternatively, incumbent may also be in this career level if he/she carries out complex or novel assignments in their assigned location or works on strategic HR projects for the organization.
• Performs most assignments independently with instruction on the general expected results.
• Receives technical guidance on unusual or complex problems and supervisory approval on proposed action plans.
• Works independently to craft solutions.

Equally important to your professional experience, your skills will include:

• The ability to communicate and present clearly and logically and adjust content/approach based on the audience.
• The ability lead teams without authority; ability to promote a one-team culture in delivering solutions.
• The ability to be highly agile, (you are able to learn new tools/platforms quickly and assess their benefits to existing project management processes/governance)
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to details and technicalities.
• Excellent organizational and technical skills.
• Good interpersonal and multi-tasking skills

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 4 years of professional work experience
• Previous project management experience. 
• Previous experience with recruitment and talent acquisition initiatives
• Previous experience utilizing SmartRecruiters Applicant Tracking System (ATS)

Preferred Requirements:

• Workday Human Capital Management (HCM)experience
• Previous experience supporting marketing initiatives 
• Our ideal candidate will be analytical and process oriented – you enjoy mapping our processes and the analysis of data. You are able to identify problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions. 
• You have a strong attention to detail.
• You have excellent cross-functional teamwork skills and can collaborate effectively
• You have internal drive and are dedicated to delivering against commitments.
• You have strong communication skills.
• You are able to independently prioritize and accomplish multiple tasks within established timeframe.
• You are able to consult, communicate with and influence a variety of audiences including business partners, stakeholders, and team members to meet project deliverables.
• You have a demonstrated experience building relationships across all levels of an organization and collaborating with cross-functional teams across multiple locations.
• You are willing and able to work across time zones as needed – this is a global role and will sometimes require meeting attendance and or participation outside normal local working hours.
• Your experience includes working in a consulting engineering or professional services environment.
• Your experience includes working in a highly matrixed global and/or Fortune 500 organization.

Additional Information

• Sponsorship for US Employment Authorization is not available for this position.
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM! Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.