Senior Recruiter

Position Senior Recruiter Location McLean, VA (Onsite) Summary As a Senior Recruiter, you are a talent consultant and a business partner. You will own and execute a comprehensive recruitment strategy, leveraging data and creativity to find top-tier talent across the country to help our team's Build What Matters. You thrive on autonomy, high-stakes networking, and driving organizational growth. Responsibilities Strategic Partnership & Consulting Business Advisor: Serve as a strategic partner to hiring teams, providing market intelligence and competitor research to guide informed, high-impact hiring decisions. Compensation Strategy: Partner with HR Business Partners to analyze internal data and external labor market trends to provide competitive, data-driven salary recommendations. Talent Advocacy: Build deep relationships with internal talent to support succession planning and advise on internal career mobility. Innovative Sourcing & Execution Drive Growth: Design and implement aggressive sourcing and advertising strategies, with a heavy emphasis on targeted diversity recruitment and reducing agency reliance. Brand Ambassadorship: Represent Clark at national hiring events, professional networking conferences, and industry-specific forums. Pipeline Building: Proactively identify and engage passive candidates through sophisticated cold calling, social sourcing, and professional networking. Operational Excellence Presence & Connection: Based onsite at our McLean, VA office, you will frequently visit and work from Clark project sites across the DMV region to build direct relationships where the work happens. Process Evolution: Own the candidate experience from end-to-end; proactively seeking continuous improvement and developing new solutions to complex problems. Data-Driven Insights: Leverage our ATS and people analytics to track applicant flow, measure source effectiveness, and deliver weekly performance updates to leadership. Collaborative Integrity: Work as a self-motivated team player who values interpersonal relationships, collaborates with empathy, and maintains total discretion regarding confidential information. Excellence in Action: Take personal responsibility for delivering excellence in every task, from high-level strategy to meticulous administrative follow-up. Required Qualifications Expertise: Comprehensive experience in full life-cycle recruiting with a proven track record of successfully sourcing passive talent. Client Focus: Exceptional customer service orientation with the ability to build high-trust relationships with internal stakeholders and external candidates. Technical Savvy: Applied experience with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and standard business suites (Office, G Suite). Core Skills: Strong negotiation tactics, analytical thinking, and a meticulous eye for detail. Character & Adaptability: A self-motivated team player who acts with total integrity, maintains discretion, and has the proven ability to capitalize on challenges and successfully pivot as needed. Requirements & Travel: BA/BS or equivalent work experience; willingness to travel up to 10%. Preferred Qualifications Dual Experience: 5+ years recruiting experience ideally with a combination of both agency/search firm and corporate recruiting experience. National Reach: Demonstrated ability to recruit on a national level for multiple geographically diverse locations. Assessment Skills: Expertise in competency-based and behavioral interviewing techniques. Tech Stack: Prior experience with Workday ATS, CRMs, or labor market insight tools. The work environment and requirements described below are representative of those necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this role. The Physical Side of the Role: Given that a good portion of your day will be spent at a desk, you should be comfortable with prolonged periods of focused work, whether it's collaborating with colleagues, analyzing data, or developing strategies. The role demands effective communication and sharp visual acuity for reviewing complex documents and performing detailed computer work. While there are times for quiet concentration, you'll also be expected to move actively throughout the office and travel occasionally to various locations, including dynamic construction sites, utilizing different modes of transportation. The ability to lift and move objects up to 10 pounds regularly, and up to 25 pounds on occasion (think a box of files or small office equipment), is also required. Your Work Environment: Your primary workspace will be in our professional office, which has a typical, quiet-to-moderate noise and light levels. As part of your work, you may also be required to visit active construction sites. These environments are naturally more dynamic and can include exposure to outdoor weather conditions, louder noise, and moving equipment. Your safety is our top priority, and you'll be expected to follow Clark Construction's safety policies and procedures, and all applicable laws, at all locations. Our High-Performing Culture: This is a demanding, high-performance environment. We are looking for candidates who are energized by challenge, thrive under pressure, and are prepared to do what it takes to achieve exceptional results. Success in this role requires significant commitment, including flexibility to work extended hours, especially during critical project phases or client deadlines. Beyond regular working hours, there will be occasions where business needs require your attention, particularly for time-sensitive matters or emergencies. You are expected to monitor and respond to communications (phone calls, emails, text messages) as required to address these situations effectively. Your ability to manage these expectations and be responsive when critical issues arise is key to your success in this role and our collective success as a team. A Drug Free Workplace: Clark promotes a drug free workplace. A pre-employment drug “fitness for duty” screening is required, and the company conducts random quarterly drug “fitness for duty” tests. Clark offers a total compensation package that includes base salary, bonus potential, and a comprehensive benefits package including health/dental/vision benefits, paid time off, retirement/401k, and Company Contribution plan. Additional benefits include life insurance, commuter benefit, short & long term disability, fitness reimbursement, FSA, tuition reimbursement, back-up daycare, tutoring & family support benefits, EAP/Work-Life assistance, and a holiday contribution program. For this role the base salary range is $50,000 -140,000. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location. Base pay is one part of the Total Compensation Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work. https://www.clarkconstruction.com/careers/clark-experience #LI-LP1 #ZR Clark Construction Group is one of the largest building and infrastructure companies in the United States. Our portfolio spans every major building market, from public to private, corporate to cultural, education to entertainment, and the infrastructure connecting it all – power, transportation, water, and roadways. Since 1906, we’ve been delighting and delivering value to our clients and project partners, providing diverse opportunities for our team, and strengthening the communities where we live. With offices strategically located across the country, we pride ourselves on being a local builder with national reach. Learn more about Clark Construction. There is a sense of camaraderie that comes with delivering impactful projects as a team. It creates a sense of humility and fosters pride in the work we do. At Clark, we are proud to build what matters, together. Learn more about careers at Clark. Find even more opportunities with the Clark Group, our collection of companies – delivering construction and asset solutions for clients across the United States. Clark Group's capabilities span the entire asset lifecycle – from project development and financing to construction and facility maintenance. Asset Solutions Altura Associates Coda Edgemoor Infrastructure & Real Estate S2N Technology Group Building & Infrastructure Atkinson Construction Shirley Contracting Company C3M Power Systems Equal Opportunity Employer Clark Construction Group, LLC (and its subsidiaries and affiliates) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law. Clark promotes a drug-free workplace.  Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws: Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), and Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA). Clark is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please email leaveofabsence@clarkconstruction.com or call (800) 655-1330 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Authorization to Work Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis in order to be considered.