Talent Acquisition Manager

Southeast Connections is seeking an experienced Talent Acquisition Manager to lead and support recruiting activities across South Gas Regions.

This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for the day-to-day effectiveness of the recruiting function, including recruiting team leadership, skilled-trades hiring, recruiting technology, sourcing platforms, social media, vendor management, budgeting, reporting, and talent acquisition metrics .

The Talent Acquisition Manager will work closely with operational leaders to understand workforce needs, establish recruiting priorities, address hiring challenges, and ensure the recruiting team provides responsive and effective support to the business.

The ideal candidate brings direct experience recruiting skilled trades and field professionals , understands the urgency of high-volume operational hiring, and knows how to build strong relationships with hiring managers and field leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and support day-to-day recruiting activities across assigned South Gas Regions.
• Manage, coach, and develop members of the Talent Acquisition team.
• Conduct regular recruiting team meetings to review priorities, hiring activity, challenges, and performance.
• Partner closely with operational leaders and hiring managers to understand current and future workforce requirements.
• Support recruiting for skilled trades, field operations, and other business-critical positions .
• Ensure recruiters remain responsive to candidates, hiring managers, and changing operational priorities.
• Monitor recruiting pipelines and identify potential bottlenecks, aging requisitions, sourcing challenges, and hiring risks.
• Oversee the effective use and administration of Fountain and other recruiting technology.
• Manage and evaluate job boards, social media, sourcing tools, and job-search platforms.
• Develop and support sourcing strategies for difficult-to-fill and high-volume positions.
• Monitor recruiting activity and results through established KPIs, dashboards, and recruiting metrics .
• Analyze recruiting data to identify trends, performance gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
• Prepare recruiting reports and communicate hiring progress, challenges, and results to leadership.
• Support Talent Acquisition budgeting, expense management, and forecasting.
• Review and manage recruiting-related vendor invoices and expenditures .
• Manage relationships with external recruiting vendors and service providers as needed.
• Help ensure recruiting resources and advertising investments are used effectively.
• Promote consistent recruiting processes and practices across regions.
• Identify opportunities to improve recruiting workflows, candidate experience, hiring-manager responsiveness, and overall hiring efficiency.
• Support recruiting campaigns, hiring events, and other workforce initiatives as business needs require.
• Travel to operational locations, hiring events, meetings, and other business locations as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is required with 5+ years' experience or 10 years, in lieu of a degree.
• Demonstrated experience in Talent Acquisition, recruiting, or staffing , including experience leading or supervising recruiters.
• Prior experience recruiting skilled trades and field-based professionals is required .
• Experience supporting high-volume and geographically dispersed hiring environments strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of sourcing, candidate pipeline development, interviewing, selection, and recruiting operations.
• Experience working directly with operational leaders and hiring managers.
• Experience with applicant tracking systems and recruiting technology; Fountain experience is highly desirable .
• Experience using job boards, social media, sourcing platforms, and other recruitment marketing channels.
• Strong analytical skills with experience monitoring and interpreting recruiting metrics and KPIs .
• Experience with recruiting budgets, vendor relationships, invoices, and/or recruitment advertising expenditures.
• Strong leadership, coaching, and team-development capabilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Highly responsive with a strong sense of urgency and follow-through.
• Ability to prioritize competing hiring needs in a fast-paced operational environment.
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, and relationship-management skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a hybrid/remote environment while maintaining strong engagement with recruiters and operational leaders.
• Ability and willingness to travel as business and hiring priorities require .

Preferred Experience

Experience recruiting within natural gas distribution, utility construction, infrastructure, construction, skilled trades, energy, or a similar field-based environment is strongly preferred.

Experience recruiting positions such as construction laborers, equipment operators, directional drill operators, foremen, CDL professionals, safety professionals, project management, and other skilled field personnel is particularly valuable.

What We Are Looking For

We are looking for a Talent Acquisition leader who understands that successful recruiting requires more than managing requisitions.

This person must be able to lead a recruiting team, understand the numbers, build credibility with operations, recognize hiring bottlenecks, challenge inefficient processes, and respond quickly when business priorities change .

The successful Talent Acquisition Manager will balance strategic oversight with hands-on execution and understand that recruiting is ultimately about connecting the right people with the business at the right time.

For an organization dependent on skilled field talent, recruiting must remain closely connected to operations. This role will help ensure that connection remains strong, responsive, measurable, and effective.