Talent Acquisition Manager Jobs in Virginia

INTRODUCTION

What You'll Do:

• Manages the recruiting teams of multiple subsidiaries and/or Corporate, ensures open requisitions are filled in an effective, efficient manner with the most qualified candidates
• Works to develop recruiting team competencies and skills
• Ensures team remains productive throughout the day, follows established processes, prioritizes their actions, and focuses on the best opportunities
• Provides training, support, and desk-level coaching to assigned team
• Educates hiring managers on talent acquisition methods and programs, closing deals, and regulatory requirements
• Maintain relationships with branch managers, subsidiary presidents, board members, corporate staff, and hiring managers in assigned regions
• Works with hiring and regional managers within assigned regions to develop a recruitment plan for all new open professional level positions, anticipating some to be more labor-intensive than others
• Facilitates the partnerships between hiring managers to effectively engage with passive candidates based upon existing relationships
• Proactively establishes and identifies recruiting process enhancements to ensure a strong candidate pipeline for multiple skillsets
• Crafts and communicates recruiting strategies and provides timely updates to the Director of Talent Acquisition, executive leadership, and hiring managers
• Implements policies and procedures related to all phases of talent acquisition activities
• Completes and submits all required reporting by the set due dates
• Confers with management and discusses long-range professional personnel needs to prepare and implement a recruitment program
• Researches, evaluates, and implements new recruitment sources, training, and strategies to optimize recruiting processes
• Researches and recommends sourcing tools and recruiting software
• Assists with leading all sourcing strategies
• Creates processes that help ensure compliance with all local, state, and federal laws and regulations, including Affirmative Action and diversity initiatives
• Promotes recruiting strategies designed to attract diverse candidates

Recruiting Specific Duties:

• Focuses mainly on filling professional level positions within a region, which is considered a more significant challenge in developing sources of candidates than for the nonprofessional positions. Therefore, there will be a higher need for expertise in the following;
• Scouts talent markets and sources candidates globally for open positions
• Utilizes sourcing tools such as LinkedIn, competitor websites, information databases, the internet, various job boards, referrals, leveraging of data obtained from new employees hired from competitors, previous applicants stored in the ATS, state, and national licensing portals, internal employees based on transfer preferences, and professional networking sites effectively to search for quality professional passive candidates
• Cold calls and pre-screens potential passive candidates to determine correct fit for open professional positions
• Utilizes the ATS to process, manage, and communicate with candidates outside of the ATS (“passive candidates”)
• Conducts pre-interview screenings and reference checks on prospective candidates to ensure organization qualifications are met, as determined between the recruiter and hiring managers
• Conducts initial interviews to obtain specific work history, education and training, job skills, compensation needs, and other qualifications and/or needs of applicants
• Informs applicants of job duties and responsibilities, compensation and benefits, work schedules and working conditions, company and union policies, promotional opportunities, and other related information
• Arranges travel and lodging for selected applicants at company expense
• Builds and maintains market-specific candidate databases for all markets within a region
• Work with external recruiters and employment agencies to identify and recruit candidates, as needed
• Assists with non-professional positions on a case-by-case basis
• Occasionally visits branch offices to gain an understanding of the local office culture and personnel
• Researches and attends local networking, engineering organization, and career fair events when appropriate
• Stays abreast of competitor business activities that might affect recruiting efforts (acquisitions, lay-offs, branch closings, etc.)

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• BA/BS in Human Resources or similar preferred
• 6 - 8 years of related experience working in the engineering or consulting industry, for an executive search firm, or in a position with hiring/firing authority

WHO WE ARE

ECS Group of Companies (ECS) was founded in 1988 with the goal to raise the standards of professional engineering consulting. Today, we are a leader in geotechnical, construction materials, environmental and facilities consulting services. We are employee-owned with more than 3,000 employees in 100+ offices and testing facilities coast to coast. ECS is currently ranked #60 in Engineering News-Record’s Top 500 Design Firms (April 2026), #148 in Engineering News-Record’s Top 200 Environmental Firms (October 2025) and #50 in Zweig Group’s Hot Firm List (May 2025).

ECS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. To learn more, click here.