Field Recruiter

Field Recruiter — Skilled Trades (Bilingual English/Spanish)

$50,000–$80,000 base + performance bonus · Full-time · Wappingers Falls, NY (field-based across the Hudson Valley, Westchester & Fairfield County, CT)

This is a recruiting job for someone who hates sitting at a desk.

The best tradespeople in our market aren’t on job boards — they’re at supply house counters at 7am, in trade school shops, and on crews where somebody’s cousin knows exactly who we should hire. Your job is to go find them, win them over, and bring them to Neave.

What you’ll actually do

• Spend 2–3 days a week in the field: service area recruiting such as in areas where people are working, delis, gas stations, supplier-counter mornings, trade schools and BOCES programs, workforce agencies, career events, and community networks across our territory

• Run direct outreach to experienced technicians and skilled tradespeople — in English and Spanish

• Drive our employee referral program so every crew in every division sends you names

• Screen for the thing that matters most in our trades: reliability — and verify the rest: certifications, licenses (including CT SP-2), driving records, and real hands-on experience

• Partner with hiring managers in every division on staffing needs, interviews, and same-day feedback

• Move fast — our process runs contact-to-offer in under a week, and you own the funnel

• Report real numbers weekly: prospects, conversations, screens, assessments, offers, hires

Two ways into this job — and we’re hiring at both levels

• Proven recruiter ($65,000–$78,000 base): You’ve recruited skilled trades, construction, field service, or light industrial — agency or in-house — and you can show us the funnel numbers to prove it. You’ll take over a fully built recruiting system and run it from day one.

• Hungry convert ($45,000–$58,000 base): You come from outside sales, route sales, staffing coordination, or the trades themselves — maybe you’ve led crews and people naturally trust you. You’ve never had the title “recruiter,” but you live on outbound conversations and follow-up. We’ll teach you recruiting with a complete playbook; you bring the drive. Clear path to the top of the range as you produce.

Non-negotiables at either level

Fluent Spanish and English, valid driver’s license, and genuine comfort with outbound work — approaching people who aren’t looking, hearing “no,” and staying likable.

What you get

Your base plus a bonus for every hire who stays past 90- 180 days — so building teams that last, pays you directly. A monthly field budget you control — no permission slips to buy coffee for a supply counter. Medical, dental, 401(k). And Neave Outdoor is a 53-year-old, multi-division company (pools, landscape, construction, snow, holiday décor) where the people you hire can work year-round if they choose— which makes your pitch honest and your job easier.

How we hire for this role

We’ll ask you to show us the work — a simple sourcing plan, a sample outreach message, and a five-minute role-play where you recruit a happily employed technician. If that sounds fun instead of terrifying, you’re probably our person.

To apply

Send a résumé, or skip it and just message me about the hardest-to-fill role you ever closed — or the hardest sale you ever won. We respond within one business day.