About This Role
Leading and developing the company's recruiting capability is the core of this role, which involves strengthening how talent is found and selected across the organization. This is a player-coach position where you will lead an internal recruiting team, manage external recruiting resources, and personally handle a portfolio of searches. You will work closely with the Field HR team, providing recruiting expertise and talent-market insights to support the broader HR partnership with the business.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the internal recruiting team
- Manage external recruiting resources as an extension of the internal team
- Set priorities, allocate work, and ensure appropriate capacity and results for recruiting efforts
- Manage a personal portfolio of searches
- Step into high-priority or difficult searches when needed
- Serve as the recruiting systems expert and oversee the team's use of the applicant tracking system and related technology
- Lead the recruiting workstream during the transition to Rippling ATS in Q1 2027 (Greenhouse is the current ATS)
- Design practical workflows for recruiters and hiring managers, considering Field HR and candidate experience
- Maintain an open and transparent relationship with Field HR
- Proactively share recruiting progress, market conditions, hiring-manager issues, and emerging risks with Field HR
- Seek Field HR's perspective and knowledge of their businesses
- Ensure Recruiting and Field HR remain connected in supporting regional needs
Requirements
- Purpose-driven individual passionate about restoration and sustainability
- Desire for work to make a lasting environmental impact
- Initiative, integrity, and a strong work ethic
- Collaborative mindset, valuing teamwork, open communication, and diverse perspectives
- Resilient, adaptable, and resourceful in the face of challenges
- Intellectually curious and eager to learn
Benefits
- Meaningful work that contributes to restoring streams, wetlands, forests, and landscapes, and delivering projects that improve resilience, water quality, and habitat
- Connected partnership with Field HR and business leaders, offering recruiting expertise and market insight
- Opportunity to improve recruiting operations, candidate experience, reporting, assessment tools, and recruiting technology
- Variety in hiring needs across multiple regions and levels, spanning environmental, engineering, construction, project management, sales, and corporate functions
About the Company
RES is the nation's largest dedicated provider of Nature-based Solutions. The company restores land and waters, builds natural resilience into communities, and maintains projects until they are thriving. This work requires talented people across science, engineering, construction, land management, operations, and business functions.
