Become Part of Our Team

As an industry leader Balfour Beatty offers employees a comprehensive benefits package that includes competitive salaries, comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits, paid time off and volunteer hours, education assistance and much more including:

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance 
• Health Savings Account
• 401(k) with company match
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Dependent & Medical Reimbursement)
• Vacation Time
• Sick Time
• Holidays
• Paid Personal Days
• Paid Volunteer time
• Tuition Assistance
• Employee Referral Bonus

Summary

Balfour Beatty Construction is seeking a Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our team. The Talent Acquisition Specialist performs the full recruitment cycle, to include: sourcing, recruitment strategy, candidate screening and initial interviews, and candidate flow processes through final dispositioning in the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) for all positions in Balfour Beatty Construction.

Professional Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to build constructive partnerships with hiring managers and HR leaders to source, screen, and hire best fit talent for open positions. 
• Demonstrated ability to develop and leverage industry and professional networks to connect Balfour Beatty with the best talent sources.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize, organize, and effectively manage a high volume of open positions with the necessary sense of urgency.
• Resourcefulness, resiliency, and a willingness to always learn and share new things.
• Possesses interpersonal savvy and effective verbal communication skills – able to build trust and credibility with hiring managers, HR leaders, and potential candidates.
• Possesses organizational savvy – able to influence and work effectively with all levels of management.
• Ability and willingness to travel (up to 25%) as needed or requested for: recruiting events, job fairs, partnering sessions with HR leaders and hiring managers.
• Conscientious attention to detail.
• Possesses professional and clear writing skills, with minimal errors.

Sourcing and Recruiting:

• Partner with Talent Acquisition Coordinator to create and post all requisitions including prequalification questions for job postings.
• Proactively search for candidates through resume mining, industry-specific organizations, college events, network searches, partner recruiting sites, and initial phone screens.
• Manage both internal and external applicant flow in the ATS.
• Partner with hiring managers to understand needs of the organization.
• Conduct kick-off calls with hiring managers prior to posting new job openings, and bi-weekly recruiting update calls with HR leaders and hiring managers.
• Support Talent Acquisition Manager on assessing which roles to partner with external recruiting firms.
• Works with Talent Acquisition Manager to identify appropriate posting sites/venues for open positions.

Candidate Experience:

• Manage the candidate experience, to include: scheduling phone/in-person interviews, providing timely follow-up at each stage, assisting with travel arrangements (if necessary), making initial offer to candidate (manages offer process between candidate, hiring manager, and HR leaders).
• Complete the candidate experience at the appropriate time by dispositioning and notifying applicants who were not offered the role

Process Integrity:

• Create and distribute Weekly reports for Regional HR Manager Team and Executive team.
• Ensures ATS is up to date and accurate – dispositions candidates at each stage based on qualifications, pre-screening responses, interviews, offers, etc.
• Work with Regional HR Manager Team to ensure same for their positions of responsibility.
• Ensure Balfour Beatty’s AAP/EEO and OFCCP compliance through ethical behaviors and disciplined execution of our processes.
• Thorough understanding of current laws and legislation; enforces our recruiting procedures with our hiring managers, partner agencies and applicants to ensure fair and respectful treatment of all candidates.

Minimum Requirements:

• Associates degree in a Human Resources-related field.
• Minimum 5 years talent acquisition experience in a multi-location organization.
• Minimum 2 years talent acquisition experience in commercial construction.
• Experience working in Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS).
• Experience recruiting in a multi-state, multi-office organization.

Preferred Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or related field
• RPO Experience

Work is performed in an office environment.

Regularly uses hands to manipulate phones, computer keyboard and similar tools.  Ability to view computer screens, mobile devices, and other electronic equipment, for extended periods of time.  Sit and stand to perform administrative work.  Regularly lift and move office supplies up to 20 lbs.

About Us

Balfour Beatty US is an industry-leading provider of general contracting, at-risk construction management and design-build services for public and private sector clients across the nation. Performing heavy civil and vertical construction, our teams build the unique structures and infrastructure that play an important role in how people live, work, learn and play in our communities. Our teammates have an instinctive passion for innovating that is fueled by a relentless curiosity, a drive to employ lean practices and processes and the determination to find a better way. Through Zero Harm®, we are challenging the construction industry’s assumptions about safety. We believe that no level of harm should come to anyone as a result of our business.

Consistently ranked among the nation’s largest building contractors by Engineering News-Record, our US business is a subsidiary of London-based Balfour Beatty plc (LSE: BBY).

Balfour Beatty is an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of a diverse workforce. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other criteria protected by federal, state or local law.