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Regional Craft Recruiter - Austin Industrial

Austin Industries

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Location
Decatur, IL
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Job overview

The Craft Recruiter coordinates and administers hiring skilled craftsmen to meet current manpower needs. The role includes outreach, job postings, screening applications, interviewing candidates, administering craft tests, and communicating with candidates and site managers. The recruiter also analyzes craft needs for current and forecasted projects, builds relationships through industry events, and supports hiring decisions with background and reference investigations.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Craft RecruitingCandidate ScreeningInterviewingCraft TestingBackground InvestigationsLegal ComplianceRelationship BuildingManpower ForecastingCommunicationApplicant TrackingTravel

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience3-5 Years Craft RecruitingValid Driver's License

Full job description

Description

Craft Recruiter

The purpose of this job is to assist in the coordination and administration of hiring skilled craftsmen to meet current manpower needs, including outreach programs, job postings, screenings, resumes and job applications, performing interviews, administering craft tests, serving as the primary point of contact for candidates, and continuous communication with site managers.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

  • Analyze information provided on prospective employee applications, conduct personal interviews, and determines suitability for employment. When applicants are determined to be qualified, perform additional background reference investigation (e.g., verification of licenses/certifications, reference checks, work history) to obtain adequate information on which to base a hiring decision.

  • Perform proper interviewing and hiring processes to ensure legal compliance

  • Attend conferences, associations, career fairs, and other networking events to build relationships, represent INDL, and develop a better understanding of the regional employment market

  • Analyze craft needs for current and forecasted projects through discussions with operations managers, project managers, and superintendents

  • Communicate daily with site managers to ensure current manpower needs are being met in a timely manner with qualified candidates

  • Track applicants and provide reports to craft recruiting manager, as needed

  • Ability to travel locally and throughout the US for transitions and/or recruitment needs

  • Other duties as assigned

Qualifications Required for this Position

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree preferred or combined higher education with work experience also considered

Experience

  • Three to five years of experience in craft recruiting - Heavy Industrial and SIPA

Austin Industrial is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

No Third-Party Inquiries Please

  • This Company does not accept and will not consider unsolicited resumes or any other unsolicited candidate information submitted to the Company or any of its employee-owners by staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiters in response to a posted vacancy. The Company will not pay any placement fee(s) without a written agreement to do so ( i.e. , payment must be required pursuant to the terms of a written agreement).

Accessibility Note

  • If you are a job seeker with a disability and require reasonable accommodation to apply for one of our jobs or have accessibility concerns, please contact the People Services Team at (877) 831-1217.

Qualifications

Education

Preferred

  • Bachelors or better

Licenses & Certifications

Preferred

  • Valid Driver's License

Experience

Required

  • 3-5 years: 3-5 years

Equal Opportunity Employer

This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws.

For further information, please review the Know Your Rights (https://www.eeoc.gov/poster) notice from the Department of Labor.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,603 open Recruiter jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Illinois median$62–84K/yr44 salary ranges
  • US median$30–36/hr357 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 68 open Recruiter jobs in Illinois and 2,603 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Illinois
Experience
This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Recruiter postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (1,775 postings).
Education
311 of the 2,603 open Recruiter jobs (12%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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