Recruiter - Ascendion

About Ascendion

Ascendion is an AI-native software engineering disruptor helping businesses innovate faster, smarter, and with greater impact. We partner with enterprise clients across North America, the UK, Europe, and APAC to solve complex challenges in data, experience design, software product engineering, and workforce transformation. Powered by expert engineers, thousands of AI agents, and our Engineering to the Power of AI (EngineeringAI) method, we deliver measurable outcomes that build trust, unlock value, and accelerate growth.

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Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life

We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:

• Build the coolest tech for the world’s leading brands
• Solve complex problems - and learn new skills
• Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients
• Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience

Experience a community of change makers!

Join a culture of high-performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.

Do you have the right skills and experience for this role Read on to find out, and make your application.

About the Role

Job Title: Recruiter

Location : Seattle, WA (Hybrid)

Key Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end recruitment for blue-collar, skilled-trade, and semi-skilled roles across construction, manufacturing, industrial, facilities, logistics, and infrastructure projects.
• Partner with hiring managers, project managers, site supervisors, and client stakeholders to define manpower needs, role requirements, timelines, and hiring priorities.
• Source candidates through job portals, referrals, employee networks, trade schools, ITIs, community organizations, recruitment drives, walk-ins, WhatsApp groups, and local sourcing channels.
• Build and maintain active talent pipelines for roles such as electricians, welders, fitters, plumbers, HVAC technicians, millwrights, industrial mechanics, maintenance technicians, machine operators, drivers, helpers, and general labor.
• Screen candidates through phone, video, and in-person interviews to assess experience, trade skills, certifications, safety awareness, availability, mobility, compensation expectations, and role fit.
• Coordinate technical assessments, trade tests, client interviews, background checks, medical checks, documentation verification, and pre-joining requirements as applicable.
• Manage offer discussions, candidate closeout, joining formalities, onboarding follow-up, and deployment readiness.
• Travel regularly to client offices, construction sites, manufacturing facilities, and local hiring events to conduct interviews, recruitment drives, and stakeholder meetings.
• Maintain accurate candidate, requisition, interview, and pipeline data in the ATS/CRM; provide regular updates on hiring progress, challenges, and manpower forecasts.
• Support workforce planning, project mobilization, backfill hiring, and retention initiatives in collaboration with client and internal teams.
• Ensure hiring activity aligns with client expectations, quality standards, compliance requirements, and project schedules.

Required Qualifications

• 2-5 years of recruitment or talent acquisition experience, preferably in staffing, RPO, construction, manufacturing, engineering, industrial, or manpower-intensive sectors.
• Demonstrated experience recruiting blue-collar, skilled-trade, or high-volume site-based roles.
• Familiarity with construction and manufacturing job families, trade qualifications, certifications, shift patterns, safety requirements, and project-based hiring needs.
• Willingness to travel frequently to client locations, project sites, and recruitment events.
• Strong sourcing, screening, stakeholder-management, negotiation, and candidate-engagement skills.
• Ability to manage multiple requisitions, work under tight deadlines, and deliver in fast-paced project environments.
• Proficiency with ATS/CRM systems, Excel/Google Sheets, job boards, and candidate-tracking tools.

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual salary rate for this position is between $40,000 - 60,000 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits:

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [10-15 days of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System]

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