Manager of Talent Acquisition, High Volume Placement

Overview

Position Summary

At GeoStabilization International (GSI), we solve some of the toughest infrastructure challenges in North America - stabilizing slopes, preventing landslides, and protecting communities from natural hazards. Our engineers and field experts work in extreme conditions to deliver fast, safe, and lasting solutions.

We're looking for a Manager of Talent Acquisition High Volume Placement - a high-impact recruiting leader who can drive coordinated, on-time delivery of construction crew hires against revenue forecasts.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-moving, results-driven culture and can develop the systems, discipline, and talent pipelines needed to fill critical roles in a growing, high-demand environment.

You'll personally recruit while coaching a small team of front-line recruiters managing hiring needs across the front line operational units within the GSI portfolio. You'll set standards for sourcing quality, interviewing discipline, and talent calibration across the business.

Responsibilities

Leadership & Team Development

• Lead, mentor, and coach a team of 3-5 recruiters and an offshore sourcing team while supporting front-line hiring.
• Set clear performance expectations, driving accountability through daily visual management, pipeline reviews and continuous improvement.
• Partner closely with the Head of Talent Acquisition to design and execute strategies that raise the problem-solving skills, learning agility, and career-mindedness of our front-line crews.
• Build and manage recruiter playbooks, interview frameworks, and scorecards to ensure consistent selection quality.
• Drive adoption of structured interviews and data integrity in our ATS, ensuring every hire meets GSI's performance and leadership potential standards.

Hands-On Recruiting Execution

• Personally recruit for senior-level crew and operations roles.
• Partner directly with business and operations leaders to continue refining our workforce plan, demand plan, and hiring success models.
• Ideate, test and manage a variety of tools and programs designed to increase the volume and quality of the front-line applicant funnel based on specific business requirements.
• Manage the candidate journey to maximize speed, pull-through rates and quality

Operational Excellence, Analytics & Insights

• Use various KPI and operational data to discover, investigate and launch improvements in areas of opportunity in collaboration with the team, customers and other stakeholders.
• Partner with Recruitment Marketing to align brand messaging, job postings, and candidate engagement campaigns.
• Continuously evaluate tools, technology, and processes to improve recruiter efficiency and candidate quality.
• Serve as a culture carrier for the TA function - modeling professionalism, ownership, and data-driven decision-making.

Qualifications

Required:

• 6-10 years of progressive recruiting experience, including high-volume, workforce demand driven recruiting.
• Minimum 2 years leading or mentoring recruiters, sources, or talent specialists.
• Proven success improving fill rates, attrition, and other critical high-volume KPIs.
• Demonstrated ability to manage a fluid requisition demand and projects, while maintaining quality and speed for both you and the team.
• Strong command of recruitment process, tools and systems related to high-volume recruitment.
• Excellent interpersonal and storytelling skills with the ability to influence both senior leaders and top-tier candidates.
• Analytical mindset - comfortable using recruiting data to identify gaps, coach team members, and improve performance.

Preferred:

• Experience recruiting high volume in the construction, manufacturing, trades or similar environments.
• Strong understanding of behavioral and competency-based interview frameworks.
• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, or Engineering-related field.
• Demonstrated career progression and leadership trajectory within Talent Acquisition.

What Success Looks Like

Within your first 90 days, you will

• Understand the business, work, job structures and workforce/demand planning process.
• Establish rhythm and performance expectations with your recruiter team - daily and weekly pipeline and metric reviews.
• Partner with TA leadership and recruitment marketing to focus offshore sourcing, pipelining and candidate experience models to improve time to slate, time to fill, pull-through and quality metrics across critical job categories.
• Help stand up a new ATS and integrate sourcing tools.
• Be recognized by business leaders as a trusted advisor on hiring strategy and talent quality.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive base salary (Denver market range: $105,000-$125,000, commensurate with experience)
• Annual performance-based incentive bonus
• Participation in the company equity share program
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Relocation assistance available for candidates willing to move to Westminster, CO
• Career path toward Director of Talent Acquisition or Head of Recruiting for top performers

Why Join GSI

At GSI, you won't just fill jobs - you'll build teams that stabilize mountains, protect communities, and save lives. Our work combines innovation, speed, and mission-driven purpose - and our people reflect that same standard of excellence.

You'll be part of a TA team that's redefining what "great hiring" looks like in construction and engineering - where data, discipline, and creative sourcing meet real-world impact.

GSI is an equal opportunity employer.