Senior Recruiter

Position Senior Recruiter Location McLean, VA (Onsite) Summary As a Senior Recruiter, you are a talent consultant and a business partner. You will own and execute a comprehensive recruitment strategy, leveraging data and creativity to find top-tier talent across the country to help our team's Build What Matters. You thrive on autonomy, high-stakes networking, and driving organizational growth.

Responsibilities Strategic Partnership & Consulting Business Advisor:

Serve as a strategic partner to hiring teams, providing market intelligence and competitor research to guide informed, high-impact hiring decisions.

Compensation Strategy:

Partner with HR Business Partners to analyze internal data and external labor market trends to provide competitive, data-driven salary recommendations.

Talent Advocacy:

Build deep relationships with internal talent to support succession planning and advise on internal career mobility.

Innovative Sourcing & Execution Drive Growth:

Design and implement aggressive sourcing and advertising strategies, with a heavy emphasis on targeted diversity recruitment and reducing agency reliance.

Brand Ambassadorship:

Represent Clark at national hiring events, professional networking conferences, and industry-specific forums.

Pipeline Building:

Proactively identify and engage passive candidates through sophisticated cold calling, social sourcing, and professional networking.

Operational Excellence Presence & Connection:

Based onsite at our McLean, VA office, you will frequently visit and work from Clark project sites across the DMV region to build direct relationships where the work happens.

Process Evolution:

Own the candidate experience from end-to-end; proactively seeking continuous improvement and developing new solutions to complex problems.

Data-Driven Insights:

Leverage our ATS and people analytics to track applicant flow, measure source effectiveness, and deliver weekly performance updates to leadership.

Collaborative Integrity:

Work as a self-motivated team player who values interpersonal relationships, collaborates with empathy, and maintains total discretion regarding confidential information. Excellence in

Action:

Take personal responsibility for delivering excellence in every task, from high-level strategy to meticulous administrative follow-up.

Required Qualifications Expertise:

Comprehensive experience in full life-cycle recruiting with a proven track record of successfully sourcing passive talent.

Client Focus:

Exceptional customer service orientation with the ability to build high-trust relationships with internal stakeholders and external candidates.

Technical Savvy:

Applied experience with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and standard business suites (Office, G Suite).

Core Skills:

Strong negotiation tactics, analytical thinking, and a meticulous eye for detail.

Character & Adaptability:

A self-motivated team player who acts with total integrity, maintains discretion, and has the proven ability to capitalize on challenges and successfully pivot as needed.

Requirements & Travel:

BA/BS or equivalent work experience; willingness to travel up to 10%.

Preferred Qualifications Dual Experience:

2+ years in an agency/search firm setting combined with 2+ years of corporate recruiting experience.

National Reach:

Demonstrated ability to recruit on a national level for multiple geographically diverse locations.

Assessment Skills:

Expertise in competency-based and behavioral interviewing techniques.

Tech Stack:

Prior experience with Workday ATS, CRMs, or labor market insight tools. #LI-LP1 #ZR Clark Construction Group is one of the largest building and infrastructure companies in the United States. Our portfolio spans every major building market, from public to private, corporate to cultural, education to entertainment, and the infrastructure connecting it all - power, transportation, water, and roadways. Since 1906, we've been delighting and delivering value to our clients and project partners, providing diverse opportunities for our team, and strengthening the communities where we live. With offices strategically located across the country, we pride ourselves on being a local builder with national reach. Learn more about Clark Construction. There is a sense of camaraderie that comes with delivering impactful projects as a team. It creates a sense of humility and fosters pride in the work we do. At Clark, we are proud to build what matters, together. Learn more about careers at Clark. Find even more opportunities with the Clark Group, our collection of companies - delivering construction and asset solutions for clients across the United States. Clark Group's capabilities span the entire asset lifecycle - from project development and financing to construction and facility maintenance. Asset Solutions Altura Associates Coda Edgemoor Infrastructure & Real Estate S2N Technology Group Building & Infrastructure Atkinson Construction Shirley Contracting Company C3M Power Systems Equal Opportunity Employer Clark Construction Group, LLC (and its subsidiaries and affiliates) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law. Clark promotes a drug-free workplace. Applicants have rights under

Federal Employment Laws:

Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), and Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA). Clark is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please email leaveofabsence@clarkconstruction.com or call (800) 655-1330 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Authorization to Work Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis in order to be considered.