Senior Recruiter
About the job
- A bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Four or more years of recruiting experience across multiple disciplines and organizational levels.
- Demonstrated success in proactive sourcing and headhunting.
- Experience identifying, engaging, and attracting passive candidates through targeted outreach and relationship building.
- Experience recruiting nationally for field-based, traveling, leadership, construction, industrial, or specialized technical roles.
- Experience using applicant tracking systems, sourcing platforms, and recruiting analytics tools.
- Strong relationship-building, communication, influencing, and consultative skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, and build credibility with candidates, hiring managers, and business leaders.
- Lead full-lifecycle recruiting for national roles, from sourcing and screening through interviewing, selection, and offer negotiation.
- Proactively source and headhunt high-quality talent using creative and targeted strategies to identify candidates who may not be actively seeking new opportunities.
- Build and maintain strong pipelines of passive and active candidates for current and future hiring needs.
- Recruit nationally for traveling field leadership, construction, industrial, and specialized technical positions.
- Partner with hiring managers and business leaders to understand staffing needs and develop tailored recruiting strategies.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring teams by providing guidance on talent markets, candidate availability, compensation expectations, and sourcing approaches.
- Develop and maintain relationships with prospective candidates throughout the recruiting process and beyond.
- Ensure a positive, responsive, and professional candidate experience from initial outreach through onboarding.
- Utilize applicant tracking systems, sourcing platforms, recruiting analytics, and other recruiting technologies to support sourcing, applicant management, reporting, and decision-making.
- Continuously improve sourcing strategies, recruiting tools, interview processes, and overall hiring practices.
- Use recruiting data, market insights, and performance metrics to evaluate and strengthen recruiting effectiveness.
- Ensure recruiting practices comply with applicable federal and state employment laws and company policies.
- Experience supporting hard-to-fill or highly specialized positions.
- PHR, SHRM-CP, or other relevant professional certification.
- Experience using market intelligence tools and recruiting data to inform talent acquisition strategies.
- Established professional networks within construction, industrial, technical, or field leadership talent markets.
About the company
Interstates provides electrical, automation, and operational technology services for industrial facilities. They design, install, and integrate electrical systems, control-and-automation solutions, and OT services to optimize manufacturing and processing operations. Their approach is an integrated, one-stop solution with engineering, project management, and field services delivered by a team treated like family, emphasizing safety, education, and career growth. They leverage a long history (over 65 years) to offer national and global reach with a focus on collaboration and trust across industries like food & beverage, consumer goods, energy & chemical, mining, and water/wastewater. The goal is to help industrial customers build reliable, efficient, and compliant facilities by providing end-to-end electrical, automation, and OT capabilities through a trusted partner relationship.
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Sioux Center, Iowa
Founded
1953
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Interstates completed Hull Coop's 2025 mill retrofit, proving complex brownfield execution.
- Its 2025 Utah Flour Mill project won integrated electrical and automation work.
- Interstates Engineering acquired TerraSite Design, widening survey, planning, and municipal project reach.
What critics are saying
- Interstates depends on industrial capex clients like food and manufacturing through 2026.
- Sioux Falls expansion started April 2026; underutilized space would pressure margins.
- Competitors like Burns and McDonnell can undercut turnkey bids, shrinking Interstates into commodity labor.
What makes Interstates unique
- Interstates pairs electrical construction, engineering, and automation under one Integrated Project Delivery model.
- Its 2026 Sioux Falls expansion adds training, innovation, and collaboration capacity.
- Its 2026 digital newsletter shift signals disciplined internal communications and brand continuity.
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Benefits
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Vacation
- Flexible Schedule
- Hybrid Work Options
- Family Planning Benefits
- Fertility Treatment Support
- Conference Attendance Budget
- Professional Development Budget