Senior Recruiter – Skilled Trades (Refrigeration & Maintenance)
Are you a recruiter who thrives in hard-to-fill, high-impact roles? Do you know what it takes to attract top-tier maintenance technicians, ammonia refrigeration specialists, and skilled trades talent in competitive markets?
We’re looking for a Remote Senior Recruiter who brings deep experience in skilled trades recruiting and knows how to identify, engage, and close talent that keeps critical operations running.
What You’ll Do
- Own full-cycle recruitment for high-demand skilled trades roles, with a focus on maintenance technicians, ammonia and Freon refrigeration specialists, and facility support talent
- Partner closely with operations leaders and HR to deeply understand workforce needs, technical requirements, and hiring challenges across multiple sites
- Build and execute targeted sourcing strategies to engage passive talent in competitive labor markets (including trade schools, unions, referrals, and niche platforms)
- Drive a high-touch candidate experience, from initial outreach through offer, ensuring strong engagement with hard-to-reach talent pools
- Lead intake sessions, calibration discussions, and debriefs to align hiring teams and improve selection quality
- Proactively develop talent pipelines to support both immediate hiring needs and future workforce planning
- Represent the company in the field by hosting and attending hiring events, job fairs, and community outreach initiatives
- Track and analyze recruiting performance, using data to optimize strategies and influence hiring decisions
How You’ll Make an Impact
- Fill critical, business-essential roles that directly support operational uptime and safety
- Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring leaders on market conditions, talent availability, and hiring strategy
- Bring creativity and persistence to crack tough reqs that require specialized skill sets
- Elevate recruiting practices by sharing market insights and best practices with the broader team
What You Bring
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with a strong focus on skilled trades, maintenance, or industrial hiring
- Demonstrated success recruiting for hard-to-fill roles such as refrigeration technicians, ammonia operators, or facility maintenance professionals
- Proven ability to source passive candidates using creative, non-traditional approaches
- Experience partnering with operations leaders in fast-paced, multi-site environments
- Strong working knowledge of ATS/CRM systems (Workday or similar preferred)
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills—you know how to influence and build trust quickly
- Highly organized and self-directed, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results remotely
- Willingness to travel up to 10% and support occasional flexible schedules based on hiring demands
Why This Role
This isn’t a high-volume, transactional recruiting role. This is for someone who:
- Enjoys digging into niche talent markets
- Takes pride in filling roles others struggle to close
- Wants to play a key role in supporting mission-critical operations
Why Lineage?
This is an excellent position to begin your career path within Lineage! Success in this role enables greater responsibilities and promotions! A career at Lineage starts with learning about our business and how each team member plays a part each and every day to satisfy our customers’ requirements. Beyond that, you’ll help us grow and learn on our journey to be the very best employer in our industry. We’ll ask you for your opinion and ensure we do our part to keep you developing and engaged as we grow our business. Working at Lineage is energizing and enjoyable. We value respect and care about our team members.
Lineage is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and is committed to compliance with all federal, state, and local laws that prohibit workplace discrimination and unlawful harassment and retaliation. Lineage will not discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical or mental disability or any other protected status under federal, state and local law.
Benefits
Lineage provides safe, stable, reliable work environments, medical, dental, and basic life and disability insurance benefits, 401k retirement plan, paid time off, annual bonus eligibility, and a minimum of 7 holidays throughout the calendar year.
Originally posted on Himalayas