Talent Acquisition Consultant

Highlights of the job

Do you know how to turn the taps to increase the flow of top talent? Are you a talent pipeline expert who would love to hold a full-cycle recruitment role on a dedicated and collaborative North America-wide team?

EPCOR USA, a company known for its safety and operational excellence across our water and waste water distribution systems, is hiring a Talent Acquisition Consultant working out of our Phoenix, AZ office. 

As a Talent Acquisition Consultant, you will collaborate directly with leaders, hiring managers, internal and external clients, and the broader Human Resources team to provide a full range of talent acquisition services required by each business area. This includes partnering with the business managers/supervisors to understand and execute their strategic Talent Acquisition goals, identifying and resolving complex sourcing issues, and contributing to a variety of HR projects and initiatives.

What you’d be responsible for

• Delivering proactive and successful talent attraction and recruitment strategies.
• Ensuring the delivery of optimal results against appropriate performance metrics, such as:

       Alignment of candidate pool qualifications with vacancy requirements

       Supporting managers / supervisors in interview and selection process as needed

       Sourcing of passive candidates and creation of talent pipelines

       Timely completion of recruitment activities

• Working with front line managers to identify core people challenges and provide advice and guidance. Developing recruitment and sourcing tactics to address specific people issues within a business unit.
• Performing full-cycle, end-to-end recruitment for a specific business area encompassing exempt and non-exempt positions.
• Continually identifying opportunities and implementing solutions to improve upon current process and/or procedures.
• Supporting and equipping the business to effectively attract and source top talent, making the best decisions about internal and external placements, and onboarding new candidates
• Involvement in Certification training logistics or career fairs as needed
• Acting as an EPCOR ambassador at industry meetings and various external events.
• Building relationships with schools or colleges/universities to support talent pipeline and potential partnerships
• Proactively and productively partner with external recruitment firms to address hard-to-fill roles as necessary.

What’s required to be successful

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources (or related discipline) and/or an equivalency of a minimum of 3-5 years of experience in a recruiting role or related experience including progressively responsible experience in Human Resources.
• Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office (Work, Excel, Outlook) and related software.
• Experience with Oracle, LinkedIn, Indeed, and Jobvite or other Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS).
• Demonstrated ability to use social media and other online and non-traditional avenues to attract and interface with candidates.
• Proven attention to detail.
• Exemplary professional communication skills (both written and verbal).
• Self-starter with excellent time management, multi-tasking, organizational skills and ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and/or coach. 
• Periodic travel to facilities in the Phoenix metro area, as well as overnight travel to other locations in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

As our best candidate, you possess a high level of initiative, with the demonstrated ability to be proactive as opposed to reactive. You must be fully engaged in professional work and in the continuous improvement of business practices, recommending and making improvements on an ongoing basis. You also have a solid understanding of strategic sourcing techniques including how to engage with passive candidates and build robust talent pipelines. 

You are a team player, who shares information and expertise with others to enable them to accomplish group goals, and seeks opportunities to contribute to the knowledge and success of the team. You are an engaging, respected and credible professional, able to establish and maintain value-added relationships.