Job Description

POSITION OVERVIEW:

Our client is a site development contractor based in Manassas, Virginia with operations across multiple states in the Mid-Atlantic, Midwest and Southeast. The company specialized in large-scale projects and provides end-to-end solutions for data centers, industrial campuses and commercial developments.

The Head of Talent Acquisition will build and own the company’s talent engine from the ground up, reporting directly to the CEO. This is a hands-on, operator-style leadership role responsible for designing how the organization sources, attracts, assesses, hires, and onboards A-level salaried talent across critical value-creating roles. Starting as an individual contributor, the role will establish a proactive, pipeline-driven recruiting model that ensures the business is never forced into reactive or suboptimal hiring decisions. Over time, the role will define the right processes, tools, metrics, and team structure to support continued scale.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build the talent acquisition function from a blank slate, creating scalable strategies, processes, and simple systems that consistently deliver high-quality salaried talent. Although utilization of third-party search firms will be inevitable for select cases, the expressed purpose of this role is to substantially supplant reliance upon external search services.
• Partner directly with the CEO and senior leadership to translate aggressive growth plans into actionable recruiting roadmaps.
• Proactively source, engage, and maintain a bench of top talent across project management, estimating, safety, field leadership, and other critical roles.
• Recruit high potential “athletes,” including candidates outside traditional construction industry pipelines.
• Shape and communicate a compelling employer value proposition that differentiates the company from legacy construction competitors.
• Design and lead rigorous selection methodologies focused on performance, problem-solving ability, and cultural alignment.
• Coach hiring managers to consistently top-grade and make disciplined, high-quality hiring decisions.
• Own and design a structured 90-day onboarding experience with clear milestones, expectations, and retention decision points.
• Analyze recruiting and onboarding outcomes to continuously refine sourcing, assessment, and hiring strategies.
• Evaluate, justify, and implement pragmatic recruiting and onboarding tools where they materially improve outcomes.
• Justify, build and lead a lean, high-performing talent acquisition team as the business scales.

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5+ years of experience leading or materially scaling talent acquisition in a fast-growing, performance-driven environment.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university; Master's degree or Professional Certification are a plus.
• Proven success moving organizations from reactive hiring to proactive, pipeline-driven talent strategies.
• Strong hands-on recruiting background with experience personally sourcing, assessing, and closing high-impact salaried talent.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with CEOs and senior leaders as a business operator rather than a transactional HR leader.
• Experience recruiting for competitive, hard-to-fill roles such as project managers, estimators, safety professionals, or field leaders.
• Comfort operating without mature/expansive HR systems and selecting fit-for-purpose tools that enable speed and quality.
• Data-driven, commercially minded approach linking talent decisions directly to growth and profitability.
• Experience designing or overseeing structured onboarding programs with measurable 90-day outcomes.
• Willingness to travel regularly to stay close to field operations and talent markets.

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