Divergent

Recruiting Manager, Engineering (Manufacturing)

In short

Recruiting Manager role leading and personally executing full-cycle technical recruiting for engineering teams at an advanced manufacturing company serving automotive, aerospace, defense, and robotics industries. Requires managing a team of recruiters, sourcing hard-to-find engineering talent, and improving recruiting workflows with automation and AI-enabled tools. Demands 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience with significant technical/engineering focus and 2+ years managing recruiters, plus U.S. export-control access eligibility. Onsite role in Torrance, California.

Location
Torrance, California, United States
Salary
$127,520–$203,420 USD per year
Company
Advanced engineering and manufacturing company building production-ready systems for automotive, aerospace, defense, robotics, and other demanding industries.
What you will do
•Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineering and technical recruiters.
•Personally manage full-cycle recruiting for critical, senior-level, specialized, and difficult-to-fill engineering roles.
•Partner with engineering leaders and hiring managers on intake, candidate profiles, interview plans, sourcing strategies, and hiring priorities.
•Source and engage passive candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, Greenhouse, referrals, targeted research, and networking.
•Monitor recruiting metrics, pipeline health, requisition aging, time to fill, offer acceptance, and recruiter capacity.
•Improve recruiting workflows through technology, automation, and AI-enabled tools while maintaining human oversight.
Requirements
•Ability to lawfully access information and technology subject to U.S. export controls.
•8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including significant engineering or highly technical recruiting.
•2+ years of directly managing, leading, or formally developing recruiters.
•Demonstrated success sourcing and closing difficult-to-find engineering talent while managing an active requisition workload.
•Experience supporting engineering organizations in aerospace, automotive, advanced manufacturing, robotics, hardware, defense, industrial technology, or other deep-tech environments.
•Strong technical sourcing, stakeholder management, analytical, organizational, and communication skills; Greenhouse and LinkedIn Recruiter experience are strongly preferred.
Nice to have
•Recruiting experience across mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, automation and controls, software, materials, structures, test, or systems engineering.
•Experience in high-growth, startup, or rapidly scaling engineering organizations.
•Experience developing recruiting dashboards, capacity models, or hiring-performance reports.
•Experience implementing recruiting technology, automation, AI-enabled sourcing, or candidate-assessment tools.
•Experience recruiting for roles subject to U.S. export-control requirements.
Culture & Benefits
•Competitive salary with equity and discretionary results-based incentive bonus opportunities.
•Paid vacation, sick time, company holidays, year-end shutdown, and paid parental leave.
•HMO and Premium PPO health plans, company-sponsored life insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
•Learning and development reimbursement opportunities.
•Collaborative, high-performing, mission-driven environment focused on innovation and reducing the manufacturing footprint.

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