Job Description
The Senior Talent Acquisition Partner acts as a strategic recruiting advisor to hiring managers and HRBPs, owning the full recruiting lifecycle to shape and execute hiring strategies that support business growth.
Prime Responsibilities and Major Factors in Evaluating Performance:
1. Partner with hiring managers and HRBPs to deliver hiring strategies aligned to defined roles and business needs. Coach hiring managers on effective interviewing and hiring decisions.
2. Serve as a strategic advisor on talent availability, sourcing approach, and hiring priorities.
3. Lead full cycle recruiting for assigned client groups, from intake through offer acceptance. Utilize advanced sourcing techniques (LinkedIn Recruiter, industry networks, cold calling) to find specialized talent.
4. Build and maintain proactive talent pipelines, including campus and early-career hiring.
5. Coach hiring managers on effective interviewing and hiring decisions using consistent and fair evaluation practices.
6. Negotiate complex compensation packages and close offers with candidates.
7. Support employer branding efforts to represent the organization in the talent market in conjunction with the marketing team.
8. Use recruiting insights and data to improve hiring outcomes and processes while ensuring compliant hiring practices.
Additional Responsibilities:
1. Performs other duties as assigned.
2. Observe the Hitchiner Code of Conduct, safety and quality guidelines.
Minimum Acceptable Qualifications:
• 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with demonstrated success partnering with hiring managers on complex or high-impact roles.
• Experience operating as a strategic advisor to the business, not solely as a transactional recruiter. Ability to translate business needs into effective hiring strategies in partnership with HR.
• Strong understanding of talent markets, sourcing strategies, and candidate assessment.
• Proven ability to build relationships with and influence, challenge, and coach hiring managers to improve hiring outcomes.
• Experience building and maintaining talent pipelines, including campus or early-career recruiting. Working knowledge of employment laws and fair hiring practices.
• Experience in high volume recruitment, preferably within a manufacturing and engineering environment. Aerospace background is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to work in a fast-paced environment, self-starter attitude with a drive to be successful.
What does success look like in this role:
• Representation: Provides a positive first impression; acts as the “face of the business” to prospective hires; professional; maintains and furthers the Hitchiner brand as a preferred employer in the marketplace.
• Quality of hire: Successfully places high impact, difficult-to-fill exempt roles, evidenced by strong performance reviews and high retention rates of the individuals hired.
• Candidate experience: Provides an exceptional, professional candidate and hiring manager experience, resulting in positive feedback and high engagement throughout the process.
• Pipeline diversity: Proactively builds and manages a diverse and robust talent pipeline for future salaried openings.
Why Join Hitchiner?
• Mission-critical manufacturing: We use advanced automation and cutting edge equipment to support industries where precision and reliability matter.
• Internal mobility: We deeply invest in our people, offering training and leadership development opportunities so that employees can grow their careers with us.
• We win together: All full-time employees are eligible to participate in our annual profit-sharing bonus.
• Beautiful location: Fully updated and modernized buildings on a campus offering an onsite restaurant and gym.
Employee Benefits
Full time employees may elect to participate in a number of benefit programs, including Hitchiner’s Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance plans, flexible spending accounts, and 401(k) Employee Retirement Contribution Plan. The Company provides employees with basic company-paid short-term, long-term, and basic life/AD&D insurance.
Employees also have access to education and tuition reimbursement, wellness rewards, Employee Assistance Program, and our free onsite fitness center.
About Hitchiner
Founded in 1946 and headquartered in Milford, New Hampshire, Hitchiner Manufacturing is the premier supplier of high-volume, complex thin-wall investment castings and fully finished casting-based components to the automotive, aerospace and defense markets.
Additional Information
This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days. The posting will remain active until the position is filled or a qualified pool of candidates is identified.
Hitchiner Manufacturing is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected status.
This position involves access to technical data, materials, and/or hardware subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Employees must be able to meet export control eligibility requirements as a condition of employment. Who is considered a U.S. Person? A U.S. Person can be one of the following: U.S. Citizen, a U.S. lawful permanent resident (Green Card holder), a refugee or asylee admitted under the U.S. law, or certain protected individuals under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3). Learn more about the ITAR here. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Hitchiner participates in the E-Verify program to confirm work authorization for all new hires in accordance with federal law.
