Senior Recruiter & HR Generalist

About Ferguson Construction & Our Culture

Ferguson Construction (FC) is a regionally established General Contractor that has been in business for over 100 years. FC has vast experience in the heavy and light industrial, commercial, healthcare, and institutional markets. Along with our in-house design department, Ferguson self performs concrete, masonry, steel erection, general carpentry, and sheet metal roofing and siding trades. FC corporate headquarters is located in Sidney, Ohio. FC operates regional offices in Sidney, Dayton and Columbus, Ohio, as well as east of Indianapolis, Indiana. The company employees 325 employees and is growing.

This position is based in our Columbus, Ohio regional office. It is an on-site position with lots of room for upward career progression.

Ferguson is different from other General Contractors in a variety of ways. One of the more noteworthy aspects of the organization is the fact that two of our senior-most executives, our CEO and President, have been with the organization a combined 71 years. This provides unique stability that unifies the organization in a way that affords material competitive advantage. Ferguson is very collegial, collaborative and friendly. It is a highly principled organization that offers all employees opportunities to contribute, develop and flourish in ways other organizations don't offer. Our culture is very family-friendly and supportive of employees who have obligations outside of work.

About This Position Required: Bachelor's degree and 2 or more years of prior recruiting experience

The Senior Recruiter & HR Generalist is responsible for all aspects of Human Resources administration for the Columbus region. They will own recruiting for both construction trades and administrative office positions. The SHRBP will have responsibility for passive candidate recruitment on LinkedIn, posting jobs, scheduling and interviewing applicants, extending offers, pre-hire onboarding, and conducting orientation.

This position will also support the CHRO directly in a variety of special projects, including the Construction Mentorship Program that offers high school students opportunity to work in construction. Passive and active candidate recruiting is a primary and predominant part of this position. We are looking for someone with strong interpersonal, communication and organization skills who can confidently support leaders and employees alike.

Frequent interaction on a daily basis is required with employees in the office and on active construction job sites. Our business is a really fun place to work, and we're looking for someone who is ready to take their HR career to the next level working with a very strong HR team.

While being focused on recruiting, in addition, the SHRBP will have regional responsibility for supporting corrective actions/employee relations, daily timekeeping reconciliation, onboarding, offboarding, service awards administration and training.

The position reports to the Chief Human Resources Officer. Peers include two other regional HR Generalists, a Benefits Manager and HRIS Analyst. Our team works well together, and we are looking for someone with strong collaboration skills to join us. We work hard to make the atmosphere supportive, and focused on learning new things that make our service to the business better each day.

Job Responsibilities

Columbus region support

Recruiting, school relationships, orientation, onboarding, timekeeping, corrective actions, special projects.

Recruiting tools, reporting and advertising

Update Open Position Report weekly
Post positions as needed outside of standard ATS push boards when more candidates needed
Run ads as needed to generate more candidates
Work with Marketing to run special ad campaigns on Facebook and LinkedIn Search for passive candidates on LinkedIn, Indeed and other sources Update ATS and Onboarding workflows as needed in iSolved Complete daily resume reviews
Complete all state funded initiative compliance requirements for training reimbursements
Work with Marketing to keep recruiting brochures, cards and other resources updated
Work with Marketing to keep recruiting videos updated

Campus recruiting

Maintain master roster of high schools, career centers, community colleges, colleges, univ, career centers
Maintain relationships with representatives at all of those schools
Schedule all on campus information sessions and recruiting events such as job fairs
Coordinate all Co-op hiring
Coordinate all Apprentice hiring

Performance evaluations

Support completion of performance evaluations on an annual, semi-annual and new hire basis. The SHRBP will have responsibility to coordinate evaluations for the entire company, with close support from our regional HR representatives.

HRIS Administration for the region: basically onboarding and offboarding.

Requirements

Bachelors degree in Business, HR, Psychology or similar - required.

Minimum 2 years experience as a recruiter or HR Generalist who does recruiting - required.

Positive attitude and strong ability to work as part of a highly collaborative team

Outgoing, assertive, results-oriented
We look forward to receiving your application!