What We Offer:
Our excellent salary and benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long-term disability coverage, education reimbursement, 401(k), performance bonuses, and an employee stock program. Employee Resource Groups and Programs offered include the Young Professionals Group, Women at Wade Trim, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Professional Development, Leadership Development, Mentor Program, Sustainability Program, and Wellness Program.
Position Description:
Wade Trim is building its first dedicated in-house Talent Acquisition function, and this role is central to that effort. You'll join a small, growing team at a moment when your fingerprints will be on the processes, partnerships, and candidate experience that define recruiting at Wade Trim for years to come.
The Senior Talent Acquisition Partner owns full life-cycle recruiting for Wade Trim's senior-level, specialized, and hard-to-fill technical positions — including senior engineers, project managers, and discipline leads across all practices. Reporting to the Talent Acquisition Manager, this role acts as a strategic, consultative partner to practice and business unit leaders, builds proactive pipelines for niche AEC talent, and helps mentor junior recruiters as the in-house TA function matures. This is a highly visible role for an experienced recruiter who wants ownership over their requisitions and a genuine hand in shaping how a growing TA team operates.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage full life-cycle recruiting — intake, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer negotiation, and close — for senior and specialized technical roles across Wade Trim's engineering and consulting practices.
- Partner directly with practice leaders and hiring managers as a trusted advisor on hiring strategy, market conditions, competitive positioning, and search timelines.
- Build and sustain pipelines of active and passive candidates for hard-to-fill AEC disciplines through direct sourcing, LinkedIn Recruiter, industry associations, professional networks, and conferences.
- Serve as a brand ambassador who can clearly and credibly communicate Wade Trim's employee-ownership model, culture, and career growth opportunities to prospective hires.
- Own requisitions end-to-end in Lever (Wade Trim's applicant tracking system), including job posting optimization, candidate pipeline management, and hiring manager reporting.
- Contribute to building scalable TA processes and playbooks as Wade Trim continues to stand up its first dedicated in-house recruiting function.
Minimum qualifications
- 7 years of full life-cycle recruiting experience.
- Demonstrated success sourcing and closing candidates for niche or highly technical roles in a competitive talent market.
- Proven ability to advise, influence, and build credibility with hiring managers and senior leaders.
- Hands-on experience with an applicant tracking system (Lever experience a plus) and LinkedIn Recruiter or comparable sourcing tools.
- Strong communication, relationship-building, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent searches under competing deadlines.
Preferred qualifications
- Prior recruiting experience at a peer AEC, engineering, or infrastructure consulting firm.
- Experience recruiting for, or communicating the culture of, an employee-owned (ESOP) organization.
- Experience informally mentoring or leading junior recruiting staff.
About Wade Trim:
Wade Trim is committed to maximizing the value of infrastructure investments. We’ve been solving complex engineering challenges for a century. We customize our work approach to fit each project using a collaborative, friendly style to deliver solutions our clients can stand behind.
Our supportive culture recognizes and strives to fulfill collective client, company, and individual needs. Mentoring and building skills of Wade Trim staff is a priority. Frequent interaction among staff is encouraged, company leadership is easily accessible, and opportunities are provided for staff to help shape the firm’s future through strategic planning. Work/life balance is supported through a flexible, hybrid work schedule that brings team members together in the office at least three days a week and connects them virtually when working from home.
To solve our clients’ toughest challenges, we’ve devoted ourselves to delivering innovative solutions. Our Office of Applied Technology (OAT) is dedicated to seeking new technologies or ways to apply existing technologies to enhance value to our clients and positively impact communities. All staff are encouraged to share ideas and suggestions for innovative technologies or processes to adopt. This open-minded approach enables us to advance technology, foster innovation, and stay ahead of our clients’ needs.
Wade Trim’s success is shared by the employees that make it happen. Since our beginning, our firm has been 100% employee owned. This cultivates an ownership mindset that benefits our work approach, collaborative culture, and ability to deliver client solutions. We believe employee ownership drives the sustainability and growth of our firm and provides all our employees with opportunities for financial success.
If you are looking for a challenging and rewarding career in a friendly environment, please submit your resume by visiting the Careers section of our website at http://www.wadetrim.com/careers.
Wade Trim does not accept unsolicited resumes, candidate profiles, or CVs from third-party recruiters or employment agencies. Any submission made without a valid, signed agreement and an approved engagement request from Wade Trim’s People Services Team will be considered the property of Wade Trim. Wade Trim reserves the right to pursue and hire any candidate submitted through unsolicited means without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. A valid agreement can only be signed by the Director of People Services. Resumes or candidate profiles submitted at the request of a Wade Trim employee who is not authorized by the People Services team do not constitute a valid engagement. Recruiters and agencies must have a current, written agreement authorized by the Director of People Services to be considered an approved vendor.
Wade Trim is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.