Talent Acquisition Specialist

Company Description

Company Overview:

Founded in 1912, Illinois Tool Works Inc. (NYSE: ITW) is a diversified, Fortune 500 manufacturing company that delivers specialized expertise, innovative thinking and value-added products to meet critical customer needs in a variety of industries.  Ranked among Fortune Magazine’s most admired companies, the company focuses on solid growth, improving profitability and strong returns across its worldwide platforms and divisions.  These divisions serve customers and markets around the globe, with a significant presence in developed as well as emerging markets.  ITW’s revenues total $14.8 billion in 2018.

Job Description

SUMMARY

Traulsen is proud to be known as the premier name in refrigeration for the foodservice market since its founding in in 1938. Though we sell to our customers across the globe, every Traulsen product is engineered, fabricated, assembled, and tested at our facility in Fort Worth, Texas. We are a part of ITW Food Equipment Group, a collection of leading food service equipment manufacturers with shared goals for the highest quality commercial kitchen products.

As the Talent Acquisition Specialist, you provide human resource support across multiple stages of the employee experience with focus on recruitment, onboarding, workforce planning, employee relations, and talent development.  You will establish and maintain effective working relationships with individuals at all levels of the organization and will be able to adapt and perform according to varying work situations.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide leadership in search strategy development, candidate sourcing, experience and screening, and translating business strategy into talent and recruitment strategy
• Bring a focus on data. You're excited by the role data can play in improving recruiting outcomes, individual performance, and processes. Your experience will help you build the best approach to working with our partners and building our candidate pipelines
• Partner closely with managers. You'll be naturally curious and inquisitive, seeking to understand the what and the why and not afraid to ask if what we do today is the right way to approach tomorrow
• Care. You'll share our values and exhibit them in your actions and communication with colleagues and candidates. You'll want everyone you interact with to leave with an enhanced opinion of Traulsen and the recruiting function
• Guide highly scalable operational initiatives, process optimization, project management, and recruiting strategy development; manage partner and vendor relationships
• Collaborate with leadership to ensure talent acquisition excellence
• Discover and implement recruitment innovation, techniques, and strategies through technology, tools, events, data, and analytics

Qualifications

Education and Work Experience

Requires a bachelor’s degree with a minimum 8 years of talent acquisition and development experience. 

• At least 3 years of experience of full-cycle recruitment, with comfort guiding both candidates and hiring managers through a start-to-finish hiring process
• Revenue responsibility of $250-300MM and reports to the Senior HR Manager.

Desired Education/Experience

Certificates and Licenses

• CPCC or equivalent certification preferred
• PHR, SPHR or SHRM CP or SHRM SCP preferred.

Job —Specific Knowledge

• Proven experience recruiting in a high growth environment
• Proven track record of exceeding hiring goals while forming successful relationships with hiring partners in a constantly evolving environment
• Dedication to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with a passion to advocate for more inclusive approaches to hiring
• Command of metrics including pipeline data, hiring forecasts, and recruiting capacity
• High aptitude for coaching, mentoring and developing talent
• Collaboration skills with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization
• A deep understanding of sourcing technology, market trends, and talent strategy
• Proven experience in designing and facilitating training along with onboarding personnel

Competencies

• Highly developed communication skills with an ease of communication style
• Proficient use of recruiting tools such as SmartRecruiters and LinkedIn
• Intermediate Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Experienced with talent and leadership coaching.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS & WORK ENVIRONMENT

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is:

• Regularly required to sit or stand using computers and various communication devices
• Frequently required to interact with employees and visitors
• Occasionally required to lift less than 20 pounds

Working Conditions

• Office environment
• Occasional exposure to factory and warehouse environments

Hours of Work

• Monday – Friday, 8 hours per day with flex starting times.
• Infrequent weekends as work demands may require.

Additional Information

Benefits:

Take this opportunity to join a successful and enthusiastic global team where you can make a significant impact immediately. You will enjoy a competitive salary and a generous benefits package that includes health, dental, life, LTD insurance, 401k (with company match), employee assistance, wellness and 100% tuition reimbursement programs. ITW is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

ITW is an equal opportunity employer. We value our colleagues’ unique perspectives, experiences and ideas and create workplaces where everyone can develop their careers and perform to their full potential. 

As an equal employment opportunity employer, ITW is committed to equal employment opportunity and fair treatment for employees, beginning with the hiring process and continuing through all aspects of the employment relationship. 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, disability, protected Veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.