Love connecting with people? Have a knack for recognizing talent? Come help us find the people who make Empire Candle great!

Empire Candle Co. is looking for an enthusiastic, personable, and motivated Talent Acquisition Specialist to join our HR team. This is a great opportunity for someone early in their HR career who is ready to learn, grow, and take ownership of an important part of our business: bringing great people to our team.

As our Talent Acquisition Specialist, you'll be the face of hiring at Empire Candle. You'll connect with candidates, build relationships, coordinate interviews, support hiring events, and help identify individuals who are a great fit for our teams and company culture.

We're looking for someone with the right personality, work ethic, professionalism, and willingness to learn. Someone who is comfortable stepping outside their comfort zone, enjoys meeting new people, and understands that a great candidate experience starts with a great first impression.

Location: Kansas City, KS

Position Type: Full-time, On-Site

Position Overview

The Talent Acquisition Specialist is responsible for executing the Full Cycle recruitment process (Internal and external) to fill requisitions in a timely and quality fashion, that meets organizational requirements. The Talent Acquisition Specialist will also be responsible for support of our HRIS (Paycor). Additionally, the Talent Acquisition Specialist will work closely with managers to gain a comprehensive understanding of the company’s hiring needs for every role. The Talent Acquisition Specialist will on average be responsible for 20-25 requisitions with an expectation of working on pace to fill positions in accordance with business needs.

Essential Job Functions

Execute recruiting strategies to source candidates (referrals, networking, internet, website, postings, etc.), interview candidates (by phone or in person) and appropriately qualify and pre-screen candidates in order to present a quality, diverse, and timely candidate pool to the hiring manager.
Collaborate with hiring managers and business leaders to conduct intake meetings to define hiring needs, establish ideal candidate profiles and selection criteria, and develop an effective interview process.
Generate robust and diverse candidate pools for open requisitions, engaging in proactively, creative and productive data-backed sourcing activities.
Manage the talent acquisition processes within the HRIS environment while being flexible and nimble to the business and evolving requirements.
Actively updates applicant tracking systems to ensure they keep up with status changes for candidates throughout the Talent Acquisition process.
Assist with interview preparation and debrief, to ensure positive candidate experience and hiring manager support.
Guide the hiring leaders throughout the interview and selection process to ensure a smooth recruiting engagement leading to an effective hire.
Successfully make offers to applicants on behalf of hiring managers.
Collecting I-9 documents, assisting new hires with I-9 completion and submission into E-Verify.
Provide input on improving the overall onboarding employee experience.
Support the onboarding of new hires and ensure readiness for start date.
Conduct new hire orientations and ensure a positive employee onboarding experience.
Manage internal transfer process, including screening, coordination of internals interviews with hiring manager.
Develop and provide training to relevant stakeholders on the TA processes both functionally and within the HRIS environment.
Timely and accurate use of HRIS analytics, to include tracking and reporting used for metrics.
Utilize social media networking programs to ensure high visibility of Empire Candle Co. with potential candidates.
Acts as a brand ambassador to internal and external talent to promote Empire Candle as the employer of choice.
Partner with applicable teams including IT, Payroll and HR to proactively problem solve for new hire issues.
Support any internal and external audits regarding HR/TA processes, ensuring compliance to existing audit standards.
Provide hands on support to the HR functional team and business.
Manage application/resume files and retention according to company policy.
Required to maintain the confidential nature of all employees and company proprietary and privileged information used or observed while performing job duties.
Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or related field preferred.
Minimum of 1-3 years relevant Full-Cycle Recruiting experience; prior manufacturing/distribution recruiting is a plus.
Experience managing and navigating HRIS systems; Paycor experience a plus.
Experience with applicant tracking systems throughout recruiting lifecycle and reporting metrics.
Exceptional interviewing and people assessment capabilities.
Proven ability to work in a productivity-focused environment and deliver consistent results with urgency.
Must have a strong customer focus and be able to build relationships and establish trust, respect, competence and confidence effectively and quickly with hiring managers and candidates.
Natural self-starter, decisive, high energy and can-do attitude with strong time management skills.
Exercise a high degree of confidentiality, professionalism, poise, tact and diplomacy to accomplish objectives while under pressure.
Able to work independently as well as collaborating with a team.

Physical Requirements

Prolonged periods sitting at desk and working on a computer.
Position requires the ability to stand; walking around office and plant; lifting and carrying up to 35 pounds on an as needed basis.

Why Join Empire Candle?

This is more than just a recruiting position. It's an opportunity to build your HR career, develop your recruiting skills, work alongside an experienced HR team, and make a real impact on the people who make our business successful.

You'll have the opportunity to take ownership, bring new ideas to the table, build relationships throughout the community, and grow professionally as you help shape our workforce.

If you're a natural connector, love working with people, and are ready to turn your interest in HR into a career, we'd love to meet you!

WHAT WE OFFER

Benefits: Health, dental, vision, STD, Basic & Voluntary Life insurance

Savings Plan: 401k Plan w/ strong employer match

Work/Life Balance: PTO + seven (7) Paid Holidays

Education: Tuition Reimbursement Program

Health & Fitness: FREE Planet Fitness Membership

Good Smells: Largely discounted Candles + FREE candle giveaways

Diversity & Inclusion: We are candlemakers, who come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We celebrate all dimensions of diversity and currently employee ten (10) various nationalities, from twenty-one (22) countries.

And, we smell good too!

Equal Opportunity Employer

Empire Candle CO., LLC provides a competitive compensation and benefits package and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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