The Opportunity

Position: Talent Acquisition Manager

Employment Type: Permanent

Employment Level: Senior

Location: 800 Kipling Avenue, Toronto, ON

Department: Human Resources

Reports to: Director, Talent Management & Recruitment

Hours per week: 40

Number Required: 1

Salary Range: $125k - $130k annual. Exact compensation may vary depending on the individual experience and qualifications of each candidate. Applicants with greater or less than the minimum qualifications for this posted opportunity may be considered for alternate opportunities.

What We Offer

At Kinectrics, employees are recognized for their knowledge, experience, and contributions while working in a highly technical and challenging environment. Kinectrics puts you in the driver's seat of your own career, setting you up alongside industry experts who will help you develop the skills essential to your professional growth in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and rewarding work culture.

• Purpose: The work we do each day helps communities around the world. Find satisfaction in work that really matters, working alongside and as part of the best and brightest in the industry.
• Growth: To keep pace with Canada's expanding energy and utility sector, we are growing more each day, which means more opportunities for you. We encourage our employees to grow alongside our company thanks to a number of significant training and personal development opportunities.
• Innovation: Our staff proudly develop innovations that push the industry forward.
• Diversity: The company is dedicated to promoting diversity in its workforce, up to and including the senior management level. Our diversity committee ensures we stay up to date on leading trends and best practices, creating a desirable workspace for each and every one of our employees.
• Total Compensation: Your talent deserves to be recognized. Kinectrics offers a competitive total compensation package unmatched by most industries throughout North America. Salary is just one component of the total rewards you will receive when working for Kinectrics. Other elements may also include pay for performance programs (merit pay and discretionary annual performance bonuses), comprehensive health benefits and wellness programs, membership discounts, employee referral bonus, eligibility for our pension plan, career development programs, and professional development/educational reimbursements.

Accountabilities: How You Will Make an Impact

Kinectrics is seeking an experienced Talent Acquisition Manager to lead and strengthen recruitment strategies and practices that enable Kinectrics to attract, assess, select, and hire high-quality talent across the organization in Canada and internationally.

In this role, you will report to the Director Talent Management & Recruitment; you will partner closely with leaders to develop and execute recruitment strategies, support workforce plans, strengthen sourcing and selection practices, and ensure an effective and consistent candidate and hiring-manager experience.

The ideal candidate brings strong experience in talent acquisition, recruitment strategy, early careers, and leading recruitment activities within a complex engineering, consulting or technical environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead talent acquisition strategies and recruitment activities across Kinectrics, including international recruitment
• Personally lead searches, including senior level, technical and engineering roles with narrow candidate pools.
• Support and coach recruiters to deliver high-quality, timely recruitment outcomes
• Build recruiter capability in intake consulting, interviewing best practices, market mapping and closing candidates.
• Partner with HR Advisors and business leaders to understand workforce requirements, hiring priorities, and critical talent needs
• Develop and implement effective sourcing, assessment, selection, and recruitment practices and build proactive pipelines for specialized and difficult-to-fill roles
• Lead Early Careers recruitment and build strategic relationships with universities, colleges, technical schools, co-op offices, and other educational partners
• Strengthen the candidate and hiring-manager experience, employer brand, and use recruitment data and insights to improve talent acquisition outcomes

Prior Experience & Qualifications

• Post-secondary education in HR, Business, or Engineering, CHRL designation or equivalent an asset
• Minimum eight years of progressive talent acquisition or recruitment experience, including at least 3 years' experience leading recruiters or a talent acquisition function in an engineering, consulting, or technical environment
• Excellent influencing, negotiation, and relationship-building abilities with sound judgement and
• Experience developing sourcing strategies and pipelines, building employer brands and managing complex recruitment requirements, and improving recruitment processes
• Experience with Early Careers, campus, student and/or graduate recruitment and developing relationships with educational institutions
• Experience supporting recruitment across multiple business units, locations or jurisdictions
• Experience with Workday, recruitment metrics/analytics, and unionized environment highly desired

If you are passionate about connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities, building early-career pipelines, and strengthening recruitment practices that support organizational growth, we would love to hear from you.

This role requires the successful candidate to complete the security clearance process. The security clearance process is conducted in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) and may take up to 12 months to complete.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.