Senior Talent Acquisition Partner - Construction
$100,000–$125,000 year
HybridCharlotte, North Carolina, United States or Austin, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Own the end-to-end recruiting lifecycle for construction roles, from intake through offer acceptance and onboarding handoff. Manage high-volume and specialized requisitions concurrently across multiple markets and project pipelines, while partnering with hiring managers to define role requirements, interview strategy, and candidate profile expectations. Serve as a trusted advisor to Construction leaders and other departments, aligning recruiting strategy with business goals, project timelines, and workforce plans through data-driven insights and proactive pipeline development. This role offers exposure to executive and senior leadership within NRP's multifamily development and general contracting operations.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field
- Minimum 5 years of full-cycle recruiting experience
- Direct experience supporting construction, real estate development, or related industries
- Proven experience in active sourcing hard-to-fill and passive talent, including Boolean search, LinkedIn Recruiter, competitor mapping, and direct outreach
- Proven success recruiting for roles such as Project Managers, Project Superintendents, Preconstruction, or similar construction positions
- Demonstrated experience operating in a high-volume, multi-market environment
- Versatility to support recruiting across multiple business lines
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and operate as a strategic business partner
- Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills across all levels of the organization
- Strategic thinking with the ability to translate market and recruiting insights into clear action
- High level of ownership, accountability, urgency, and follow-through
- Ability to balance day-to-day execution with long-term talent planning
- Excellent verbal and written communication and influencing skills
- Strong consultative skills, able to credibly challenge while preserving trust and partnership
- Data fluency, comfortable analyzing recruiting metrics and presenting insights to leaders
- Current knowledge of employment laws, market trends, and construction industry talent dynamics
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Teams, CoPilot)
- Experience leveraging AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT/Copilot, LinkedIn AI-Assisted Search, hireEZ, SeekOut)
- Proficient in Workday ATS, LinkedIn Recruiter, and sourcing platforms
- Comfortable with reporting dashboards and recruiting analytics
- Ability to travel for project site visits, market hiring events, candidate meetings, and industry conferences
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field preferred
- Equivalent professional experience considered
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