Recruiter - Military Programs

What You'll Do:

Recruiting Responsibilities

• Focuses on filling exempt and non-exempt positions
• Cold calls and pre-screens potential passive candidates to determine correct fit for open positions
• Confers with management and discusses long-range personnel needs to prepare and implement recruitment program
• Conducts pre-interview screenings, reference checks, and employment verifications on prospective candidates to ensure organization qualifications are met, as determined between recruiter, and hiring managers
• Conducts initial prescreens with candidates to obtain specific work history, education and training, job skills, compensation needs, and other qualifications and/or needs of applicants
• Informs applicants of job duties and responsibilities, compensation and benefits, work schedules and working conditions, company and union policies, promotional opportunities, and other related information
• Corresponds with job applicants to notify them of employment consideration
• Ensures compliance with all local, state, and federal laws and regulations, including Affirmative Action and OFCCP regulations
• Completes and submits all required reporting by the set due dates, including weekly metrics for the Recruiter Scorecard
• Facilitates the partnerships between hiring managers to effectively engage with passive candidates based upon existing relationships.
• Utilizes the ATS to process, manage and communicate with candidates outside of the ATS (“passive candidates”)
• Collaborates with regional recruiting staff as well as the corporate recruiting team to ensure all recruiting goals are met
• Learns ECS standards of recruiting practices and OFCCP rules and regulations from the Recruiting Support team

 

Military Specific Responsibilities

• Primary responsibility is to establish, maintain, and grow the ECS Military Recruiting Program
• Builds and maintains military specific candidate databases for all markets
• Attends monthly Military Recruiting sub-committee calls and any additional calls related to Military Recruiting, as assigned
• Assists with the implementation of the Military Careers webpage in conjunction with the Marketing team and Director of Talent Acquisition
• Provides consultation on MOS code translation for ECS jobs
• Provides consultation on qualification translation for ECS jobs, including writing adjacent qualifications from military experience for all ECS job titles
• Contributes to the implementation of the ECS SkillBridge program and partnering with SkillBridge liaison organizations
• Researches and identifies state-based programs for ECS to partner with; aides in partnering with said organizations
• Identifies Veteran Hiring Medallion criteria and assists with elevating ECS Military Recruiting Program to meet requirements to qualify ECS for the Veteran Hiring Medallion designation
• Ensures attendance at military-focused career fairs
• Agrees to act as the face of ECS Military Recruiting
• Identifies other veterans and military-affiliated ECS employees for the Veteran Ambassador Program
• Leads Veteran Ambassador program, including helping to develop the ambassador role, identifying potential ambassadors, holding ambassadors accountable, and tracking success of ambassadors
• Continues to maintain existing relationship with HBI and spearheads relationships with future HBI locations
• Provides guidance to hiring managers on compensation packages for veterans entering the ECS workforce based on pay received in the military
• With the assistance of the Recruiting Support team, tracks metrics associates with the Military Recruiting Program and reports those to the Director of Talent Acquisition

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What We're Looking For:

Required Qualifications

• BA/BS in Human Resources or similar preferred
• 2 – 5+ years of experience
• Military experience strongly preferred 

The expected pay range for this role and location is $75,000 - $90,000/year. The final agreed-upon compensation will be determined based on specific location and other individual qualifications.

Who We Are:

ECS Group of Companies (ECS) was founded in 1988 with the goal to raise the standards of professional engineering consulting. Today, we are a leader in geotechnical, construction materials, environmental and facilities consulting services. We are employee-owned with more than 3,000 employees in 100+ offices and testing facilities coast to coast. ECS is currently ranked #60 in Engineering News-Record’s Top 500 Design Firms (April 2026), #148 in Engineering News-Record’s Top 200 Environmental Firms (October 2025) and #50 in Zweig Group’s Hot Firm List (May 2025). For additional information about ECS, visit: www.ecslimited.com.

 

ECS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. To learn more, click here.