Who you are
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience in university recruiting, campus relations, full-cycle recruiting, recruiting coordination, or career services
- Highly organized, with the ability to juggle many events, candidates, and deadlines at once without dropping details
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; comfortable engaging with students, faculty, and senior engineers alike
- Willingness and ability to travel frequently, including some evenings and weekends during peak recruiting season
- Thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and team-oriented environment
- Experience recruiting interns and new grads for technical roles in engineering, software, or manufacturing
- Track record of building or scaling a campus program, owning school relationships, or running an intern program end to end
- Experience with an applicant tracking system (Ashby preferred) and campus recruiting platforms such as Handshake or Yello
- Familiarity with the defense, aerospace, or maritime industries, or with maritime academies, ROTC, or service academy programs
- Experience using data to evaluate school and event performance and to influence hiring strategy
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
- Extended periods of standing and walking at career fairs and campus events
- Frequent air and ground travel to campuses, including some evenings and weekends
- Manual dexterity to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and other office equipment
- Visual acuity to read screens, documents, and reports
- Lifting and carrying items up to 20 pounds occasionally (e.g., booth materials, event supplies, packages)
What the job involves
- Saronic is seeking a University Recruiter to help build the pipeline of interns and new grads who will design, build, and operate the next generation of autonomous maritime vessels
- You will partner with our University Recruiting team and hiring managers to find top student talent, run standout campus events, and deliver a great experience for students from the first conversation at a career fair to their first day on the job
- Whether you are early in your recruiting career and love working with students, or a seasoned campus recruiter ready to help shape strategy at one of the fastest-growing companies in defense technology, we want to hear from you
- Partner with hiring managers across engineering, manufacturing, and operations to understand intern and new grad needs and translate them into campus hiring plans
- Drive full-cycle recruiting for intern and new grad roles: sourcing, phone screens, interview coordination, debriefs, offers, and closing
- Plan and execute campus recruiting events from start to finish: career fairs, info sessions, tech talks, and student org partnerships, including logistics, travel, swag, and booth staffing
- Travel to target universities and maritime academies during fall and spring recruiting seasons to represent Saronic, engage students, and identify top talent on site
- Build and maintain relationships with career centers, faculty, and student organizations such as engineering societies, robotics teams, and ROTC and veteran groups
- Help shape school strategy by identifying which campuses, programs, and events best match the roles we are hiring for
- Manage candidate pipelines in Ashby, keeping data clean and accurate, and track event results and pipeline metrics to guide where we invest
- Support the full intern program lifecycle: offer logistics, pre-boarding, onboarding, summer programming, and intern to full-time conversion
- Recruit and organize Saronic employee volunteers, including alumni ambassadors and engineers, to staff campus events
- Deliver a responsive, student-first candidate experience with timely follow-ups, clear communication, and genuine care