Strategic Talent Acquisition Specialist (Hybrid)

About the position

Reporting to the Senior Vice President, HR, the Bilingual (EN/FR) Strategic Talent Acquisition Specialist/Manager exists to elevate and align the Company’s existing recruitment practices across Kiena, Eagle River and the Corporate office. Recruitment activity is already taking place at the site level; this role is responsible for strengthening the overall framework, creating a more unified approach, and ensuring that recruitment practices are consistent, effective, and reflective of both corporate priorities and site-specific realities. This position is strategic as it will standardize and implement recruitment processes, candidate experience expectations, employer brand standards, LinkedIn recruitment activity, and recruitment reporting across all locations. It is also hands-on, with direct accountability for full-cycle corporate recruitment. Key outcomes include establishing a unified recruitment framework across all locations, strengthening employer brand consistency, improving corporate recruitment execution, and partnering directly with site teams to support recruitment needs as required, build proactive talent pipelines, and enhance recruitment reporting and visibility for HR leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the alignment of recruitment practices across Kiena, Eagle and Corporate ensuring site-based recruitment teams operate within a consistent recruitment framework while retaining appropriate flexibility for regional labour market and operational needs.
  • Establish, standardize, and implement recruitment processes, tools, candidate experience standards, and reporting practices across all locations in partnership with site-based recruitment teams.
  • Manage full-cycle recruitment for corporate roles, including intake meetings, job postings, sourcing, screening, interviews, offer management, and onboarding coordination.
  • Develop and implement a cohesive employer brand approach for recruitment activities, ensuring a consistent look, feel, and message across career fairs, campus events, LinkedIn content, recruitment campaigns, and candidate-facing materials.
  • Own the Company’s LinkedIn presence from a talent acquisition perspective, including recruitment content planning, employee stories, career opportunities, site highlights, company milestones, and performance monitoring.
  • Collaborate with the Communications Manager on recruitment-related LinkedIn and employer brand content, with Communications approval maintained until brand, tone, and workflow alignment are established.
  • Collaborate with Communication Manager to design and standardize recruitment collateral, including presentation materials, booth assets, digital templates, and bilingual candidate-facing materials for use across all locations.
  • Leverage ATS data, LinkedIn analytics, and recruitment metrics to identify trends, measure effectiveness, mitigate hiring risks, and provide regular reporting and recommendations to HR leadership.
  • Provide guidance to site-based recruitment teams on sourcing strategies and regional labour market conditions.
  • Identify and leverage skilled workforce programs that support mining sector for long term for talent pipeline.
  • Collaborate on special projects such as student programs, vendor relationships, HRIS implementations etc.

Requirements

  • Post-secondary education in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field, combined with 8-10 years of progressive recruitment or talent acquisition experience
  • Bilingualism in English and French, both written and verbal, is mandatory.
  • Experience in mining, natural resources, or heavy industry is preferred.
  • Prior experience supporting recruitment across multi-site or geographically distributed organizations is highly preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence, align, standardize, and implement practices across stakeholders and sites.
  • Experience with ATS is required.
  • Proficiency with LinkedIn Recruiter is required.
  • Strong sourcing capability, full-cycle recruitment expertise, candidate pipeline development, recruitment marketing, data-informed decision-making, stakeholder partnership, and the ability to create a consistent, professional, bilingual candidate experience.

Benefits

  • Market competitive base pay / salary, commensurate with experience and qualifications
  • Annual performance-based bonus opportunity
  • Access to comprehensive extended health and dental coverage for employee and eligible dependents beginning on day 1 of employment (short-term disability coverage begins after 3 months)
  • Healthcare spending account
  • Wellness benefit as an annual incentive
  • RRSP matching
  • Stock option plan participation
  • Flexible work arrangements (hybrid model)
  • Professional development opportunities and certification support
  • 4 weeks vacation plus statutory holidays
  • Programs to support the long-term well being of our team members (i.e. Employee Assistance Program)
  • Mental Health Awareness Month
  • Family Day & Annual Holiday events
  • Local community partnerships
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