Talent Acquisition Specialist
The opportunity
As a Talent Acquisition Specialist at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. You will be mentored and supported by industry leaders and given the tools to grow. You will also be involved in and contribute to our business strategy as we continue to evolve. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients.
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly motivated Talent Acquisition Specialist to support our growing regions. This role will play a critical part in building a strong pipeline of early talent, while also providing hands-on recruiting coordination, market intelligence, and employer branding support.
In this role you will:
Early Careers Recruiting & University Engagement (60%)
- Develop and execute a regional early careers recruiting strategy focused on hiring interns and entry-level professionals in cost management, construction management and estimating disciplines
- Partner with business leaders to identify early talent needs aligned with project pipeline demands
- Build and maintain partnerships with universities, including career centers, faculty, and student organizations
- Represent the firm at career fairs, info sessions, and industry networking events
- Coordinate and manage campus recruitment activities, including interview days, site visits, and internship programs
- Promote careers in cost management and owner’s rep services to students who may be less familiar with the field
Regional Talent Acquisition Administration (40%)
- Provide full-cycle recruiting coordination support for the Americas Talent Acquisition
- Collaborate with Learning & Development and Talent Management teams to align early careers hiring with training programs, career pathways, and retention initiatives
- Help ensure a seamless connection between recruitment, onboarding, and ongoing employee development
- Schedule interviews, manage candidate communications, and ensure a high-quality candidate experience
- Maintain ATS data integrity and track hiring activity across regional roles (project managers, cost analysts, schedulers, etc.)
- Support onboarding coordination for new hires
Talent Market Intelligence & Insights
- Conduct research on competitor hiring activity, compensation benchmarks, and talent availability within the US and Canada construction and consulting market
- Provide insights on talent pools across key disciplines (cost management, project controls, estimating, etc.)
We would love to hear from you if you:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred; preferred fields include HR, Business, or related disciplines
- 2–5 years of experience in recruitment support, campus recruiting, HR coordination, or talent acquisition
- Strong organizational and project management skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication abilities
- Ability to travel for campus events and networking
- We are open to this role being hybrid from any of our Linesight office locations or potential to be fully remote
At Linesight, we believe that our success is tied to the success of our employees, and we are committed to creating a workplace that is fair, equitable, and inclusive for everyone. We understand that creating an environment where all employees have an equal opportunity to thrive requires a concerted effort across every stage of their time with us, from hiring and onboarding to promotion, career growth, and development.
As part of this commitment, we have implemented a range of policies and initiatives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). This starts with our attraction pipeline and accessible job descriptions, designed to attract a broad range of candidates, and continuing throughout the employee life cycle with DE&I checks built in at every stage. Fairness, consistency, and transparency are the core principles for all our hiring, salary increase, and promotion decisions with built-in gender pay gap checks. Employee and family-friendly policies also enhance inclusion and equity in our teams.
About Corporate Services
An extensive range of corporate services expertise is required for an organisation of our scale and reach to be successful, and we have fantastic teams of professionals across a range of functions such as tax and finance, marketing, operations, and people and organisational development. Whether at the earliest stages of your career, or an experienced professional, we are committed to nurturing, supporting, mentoring, and stretching our people, so that you can maximise your potential and meet your career aspirations in your field of expertise.
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