Construction industry recruitment of Consultants for leadership positions on the Owner’s side. I find PM/CM professionals with a specific sector focus in Education, Corrections, Healthcare, and Civic/Municipal. Geographic coverage includes California, Arizona, Central Texas, and Utah. We are 100% employee owned with a profit sharing plan. My focus is two-fold: strong technical competence with relevant market sector experience, and clear company cultural fit. We want others who share in our desire to find an honest career and long term home. Our public sector clients are stable and loyal. We inspire to be the same. Kitchell has 4 divisions, I represent Kitchell CEM. Learn more here: https://www.kitchell.com/about/

Full Life cycle recruitment responsibilities for the West Region of Michael Baker - a professional design firm providing a full continuum of engineering and consulting services, including: Design, Planning, Landscape Architecture, Environmental, Survey/Mapping and including a supporting practice in Construction and Program ManagementThe core discipline is Civil Engineering and the scope of projects are primarily in Transportation (highways and bridges) as well as in Land Development and Environmental (water, air, and noise) in both the public and private sectorWork within a team of Talent Acquisition professionals based across the US with our headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA where the company was originally founded over 75 years agoPerform pure recruitment with focused outreach via direct calls and valued networkingOur employee base at its core are Certified Professional Engineers who collaborate across disciplines

•Full life cycle recruitment responsibilities supporting Construction Professionals across core sectors of: Healthcare, K-12 / Higher Education, Transportation, Justice, Public Buildings, and Waste Water• Subgroups within our core sectors include, Data Centers, Rail, Correctional Facilities, and Courthouses •Perform searches and outreach to potential candidates and applicants to evaluate their experience, skill level, and integrity required for our current and future projects and clients•Meet with internal Hiring Managers and Business Development professionals for the purpose of forward looking forecasting of staffing needs and evaluation of applicant pipeline

•Full life cycle recruitment responsibilities for the Buildings and Infrastructure (B&I) Team within Jacobs based out of the Irvine, CA office•Core area of support was along the entire western corridor of the US from San Diego to Seattle and inland across the Sunbelt through Texas to New Orleans •Our end clients require construction professionals with large project experience in specific environments such as high-rise, education and correctional facilities, hospitals, and industry specific manufacturing facilities and data centers•Perform searches and initial screenings of potential candidates to evaluate their experience, skill level, and integrity required for current and future open positions•The facilitation of interviews as well as the approval and extending of offers •Coordinate with other Talent Acquisition team members nationwide to collaborate on critical needs and process improvement •Work in conjunction with Human Resources to facilitate a smooth and efficient on-boarding process and experience for new hires•Meet with internal hiring managers daily for the purpose of tracking current employee availability for project re-assignment and forward looking forecasting of staffing needs

•In Country Regional office affiliation: Beijing Hill International Construction Consulting Company Limited•International full life cycle recruitment of Construction Management and Engineering professionals primarily for multi-million dollar projects in Asia (Specifically now: India, Afghanistan, and China) with support across MENA•Conduct candidate search and initial screenings over the phone, Skype, through LinkedIn and via email•Facilitate interviews with Senior Management, extend offers of employment, and conduct reference calls•Engage all declined applicants with correspondence with the use of appropriate and sensitive language as often international contracts and clients require specific age, nationality and/or have hard Visa restrictions •Coordinate with other Hill International HR and Recruitment professionals based in Athens, the Middle East, Europe, and North America to insure a global Hill footprint regarding talent acquisition, the execution of new hire processing, mobilization, and assistance with CV searches for proposal builds•Management two direct reports, one based in Gurgaon, India and the other within the office in Beijing, China

•Acted as an Interval Data Analysis within the Meter Data Management group inside the Revenue Services of Southern California Edison, the primary energy utility in Southern California•Collect, calculate, and resolve any inconsistencies or errors of the power usage data gathered through the Edison SmartConnect meter network of electrical power meters for both residential and commercial customers •Retrieval and/or correction of power usage data broken into 15 minute intervals which is resolved inside a proprietary interface application and network which is connected wirelessly throughout the entire Edison region •Exposure to confidential information on a daily basis while accurately calculating power usage for Edison customers to insure their bills are delivered correctly, continuously, and uninterrupted •Work within a ‘frontier’ group of analysts to continuously define and re-define procedures and techniques in real time as this job function and its components are both new to Edison as well as the utility industry as a whole•Mentor newer team members with the nuances of the complex work performed such as editing customer usage, communicating with the field personnel, and how to lower the number of keystrokes needed to complete the work to promote a safer work environment through ergo-centric dual handed work habits •Edison ECON (Employee Contribution) Team member, 2011•Edison Grassroots Safety Team member, 2013

•International full life cycle recruitment of Construction Management engineering and technical management professionals for billion dollar and multi-million dollar projects within Dubai, United Arab Emirates•Extended offers, facilitated technical interviews with senior staff, conducted candidate initial screenings over the phone, in person, and over email, managed outside recruitment firms and negotiated hiring fees, and posted advertisements all the while maintaining direct contact with Senior HR Management team in Marlton, New Jersey•Direct contact and follow through over extended periods of time with each new-hire in regards to their relocation process, visa paperwork, degree attestation, cultural awareness information, and their new job responsibilities•Created a ‘first day experience’ template for all new-hires by working with the Office Manager and IT group which included my role of pre-employment paperwork handover, new-hire orientation, and bank correspondence•Provided employee relations consulting as Dubai present all employees with a complex and diverse working environment where often sensitive cultural differences create conflict involving religion, language, or gender bias•Facilitation of long and short term temporary housing for new and current employees by organizing the cleaning of temporary housing apartments, renewing leases, and working directly with hotels for the best corporate rates•Handled employee relations issues in regards to company policy and procedure handbook compliance, employee and family immigration paperwork issues, health benefits, and Sarbanes Oxley compliance request from the US•Actively managed the ever changing dynamic of employees completing assignments verses the need for them on new assignments, and balancing that with new hires and their immigration timelines, client demands, and budgets•Traveled to both Abu Dhabi and Al Ain for new-hire orientations and other HR procedures bi-weekly

•Vulcan Materials is a nationwide Fortune 1000 Aggregate Mining company •Perform all functions involved with the hiring of exempt, non-exempt, and hourly / union employees for the Western Division (CA). Disciplines included new college graduate and experienced Engineers, Accounting, Finance, Safety & Health, Environmental, Plant Mangers, and all levels involved with field operations•Recruiting of candidates through phone calls, on campus job fairs, Internet, email, and walk in applicants•Acted as the facilitator for all applicant interviews, conducted reference checks, coordinated relocations, extended both offers and declines and facilitated internal transfers•Acted as first contact liaison for campus visits with the students and their Student Services Department in order to interview and attract the most competitive new college graduate hires and interns for which almost all hires required relocation•Assisted with corporate training by stepping in for select portions of classes revolving around employee relations and hiring practices for the company•Internal clients included all levels of Management for both the Plant locations and the Division office•Developed interviewing tools to establish a consistent and measurable way to evaluate applicants•Passed a surprise audit due to a complete record of each job filled from open requisition through to hire and start

(Honeywell Utility Solution Division - Contract through Manpower Professional) • Assisted in the staffing of the office and field teams needed to (1) perform industrial size restaurant sink nozzle replacements to increase water conservation. And (2) to install radio wave sensors to residential air-conditioning units to regulate usage during blackout windows for SCE customers. Fields teams were in CA, UT, WA, and NV.

(Contracted through Volt Services Group) Contract completed•Assigned to hire both exempt and non-exempt union employees for the Transmission & Distribution Business Unit of SCE; the largest division of Edison International and one of the largest power utilities companies in the US. •Facilitated the entire hiring life cycle process from web posting to close for full time positions, which included EOE outreach, candidate pool screening, testing, interviewing, and extending both offers and declines to all candidates.•Individually responsible for the entire hiring life cycle for the position of Groundman. This process included managing three very large pools of candidates for review, testing, interviewing and hiring. All of which was completed monthly for set hard start dates through out the year to achieve hiring goals for the multiple service territories throughout Central and Southern California. Hire numbers ranged from 10 to 24 each month.

(Subcontractor to the DOT, TSA) Contract completed•Participated in the facilitation of the multi-million dollar contract to drive the hiring process for the federalization of all U.S. airports. •Responsibilities included: Candidate selection, behavioral interviewing, quality assurance overview of all the required government standard forms and background-check application documents.•Delivered multiple offers of employment and disqualifications. Performed salary negotiations. Conducted new hire orientations as well as process introduction and explanation to groups of candidates. Participated in the development and implementation of new process flows to improve efficiency of execution within a federal assessment center, a very cumbersome and volume driven hiring process. •Responsibilities were completed in New York, Florida, Utah and Hawaii. Performance of the project required a very high level of integrity and diligence.

Sr. Staffing Specialist, Engineering / Technical Division• As a member of Team Boeing, responsibilities involved staffing the primary customer’s Engineering and Information Technology needs with both contract and contract-to-hire candidates to work on the National Missile Defense Programs: NMD, GBMD, and THAAD. • Additional contract and direct hire recruiting was done for the Joint Strike Fighter Project (JSF) inside Northrop Grumman. Recruited for experienced Electrical, Systems, Aeronautical, and/or Mechanical Engineers with space and missile or fixed wing avionics project experience and who were in possession of active Security Clearance.

Assigned to the staffing of the Santa Barbara Remote Sensing Facility, an optical and space sensor satellite design and manufacturing facility Recruited senior level engineering professionals through continuous and direct interaction with Hiring Managers and other HR professionalsAccountable for the documentation and tracking of the entire new employee hiring life cycle. (Optical and Electro-optical Engineering Specialist, Electrical Engineers, Physicists, Software Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers etc.)

Provided HR consulting and full life cycle recruitment for the semiconductors design facility; University post graduate level placement department correspondence and interview facilitationContinuous interaction with Engineers and Engineering Hiring Managers on and off siteStaffing responsibilities included all members of ASIC design teams as well as Eng, Marketing professionals

Recruited degreed engineers and IT professionals for established accounts with direct client contact