Recruitment Lead

ATCO Ltd.$90K — $110K *
Staffing
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in recruitment and talent acquisition
  • Experience leading recruitment in fast-paced or project-based environments
  • Proven ability to recruit across diverse talent segments
  • Experience with large-scale hiring and workforce planning
  • Strong understanding of recruitment best practices and compliance
  • Demonstrated leadership capabilities in team coaching and stakeholder influence
  • Ability to navigate complex labor environments and multiple jurisdictions

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a high-performing recruitment team
  • Provide strategic oversight for full-cycle recruitment
  • Create workforce attraction strategies tailored to business needs
  • Collaborate with leaders for alignment on hiring plans
  • Support recruitment for project mobilizations and large hiring initiatives
  • Utilize labor market intelligence to enhance talent strategies
  • Ensure a positive experience for candidates and hiring managers
  • Drive improvements in recruitment processes and tools
  • Support complex searches with proactive sourcing
  • Build partnerships with educational institutions and industry networks

Benefits

  • Competitive pay and incentive plan
  • Flexible benefits program
  • Vacation days, flex days, and wellness day
  • Onsite gym and reflection room
  • Diverse and inclusive work culture
  • Opportunities for professional growth
  • Support from management for personal development
Full Job Description
Job Description

As we continue to grow, we're looking for a strategic and experienced Recruitment Lead to help shape our workforce and drive talent strategies that support business success.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys partnering with senior stakeholders, and is passionate about recruitment and building high-performing teams. You'll play a key role in workforce planning, project mobilizations, recruitment strategy, and the continuous evolution of our talent acquisition function. You'll work closely with business leaders, HR partners, and operational teams to ensure we attract and hire the talent needed to support our projects and growth objectives.

We're looking for a strategic recruitment professional who combines leadership capability with hands-on talent acquisition expertise. This is a full-time, permanent, in office position.

Job Responsibilities
• Lead, coach, and develop a high performing team, fostering a collaboration and exceptional service delivery.
• Provide strategic leadership for full-cycle recruitment across executive, senior leadership, professional, technical, skill trades and critical positions.
• Develop workforce attraction and recruitment strategies that addresses talent requirements.
• Partner with leaders to anticipate workforce needs and support hiring plans aligned with business priorities.
• Lead recruitment support for project mobilizations, growth initiatives, and large-scale hiring programs.
• Leverage labour market intelligence and hiring recommendations to strengthen talent pipeline strategies.
• Champion an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience.
• Drive recruitment operational excellence through process improvements, governance and reporting
• Identify recruitment process gaps and lead the development, implementation, and ongoing improvement of standardized tools, templates, workflows, and controls.
• Provide strategic support for complex and hard-to-fill searches through proactive sourcing and talent engagement strategies.
• Build strategic external partnerships with educational institutions and industry networks.

Job Qualifications
• 7+ years of progressive experience in recruitment and talent acquisition.
• Demonstrated experience leading recruitment delivery in complex, fast-paced or project-based environments.
• Proven experience recruiting across diverse talent segments.
• Experience leading workforce planning, large-scale hiring initiatives, and project-based recruitment.
• Strong knowledge of recruitment best practices, employment legislation, and hiring compliance.
• Demonstrated leadership capability with the ability to coach and develop teams, influence senior stakeholders and manage competing priorities.
• Experience improving and leveraging recruitment systems, reporting, automation, tools and standardized operating processes.
• Ability to operate effectively across multiple jurisdictions, collective-agreement environments and geographically dispersed work locations.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with day-to-day execution in a fast-moving environment.

What We Offer:
Competitive pay, incentive plan, and flexible benefits program.
Vacation days, flex days and a wellness day.
Onsite gym and reflection room.
Work in a diverse, inclusive, supportive, and future-focused culture
Opportunities to craft your own professional growth.
Continued support from the management team to champion your growth

If you're passionate about talent acquisition, workforce strategy, and building exceptional teams, we'd love to hear from you.

We thank everyone for their application; however, only those being considered for an interview will be contacted.

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