Lead/Manager, Production Recruiting

The role

This person will serve as a player-coach for the Production Recruiting team. They will personally own production requisitions and provide day-to-day leadership to recruiters to support production operations.

What you will do

• Own full-cycle recruiting for a portfolio of production positions.
• Recruit roles such as CNC Machinists, Production Technicians, and Quality Inspectors.
• Develop targeted sourcing strategies for specialized production talent.
• Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and direction to the Production Recruiting team.
• Help recruiters prioritize workloads based on business-critical hiring needs.
• Partner with Production leadership and hiring managers to align on requirements.
• Manage candidates throughout the recruiting process.
• Use recruiting data to evaluate team performance and improve effectiveness.
• Ensure candidate and requisition activity is maintained in Greenhouse.
• Identify opportunities to improve production recruiting through technology and automation.

Required qualifications

• Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls
• 6+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with significant experience supporting production, manufacturing operations, skilled trades, or technician hiring.
• Demonstrated experience recruiting for positions such as CNC Machinists, Production or Manufacturing Technicians, Quality Inspectors, Metrology Technicians, Maintenance Technicians, Production Supervi
• Experience leading, mentoring, or providing day-to-day direction to recruiters.
• Strong sourcing skills to identify and engage active and passive candidates.
• Experience managing high-volume hiring alongside difficult-to-fill skilled production searches.
• Strong hiring manager partnership and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience using an applicant tracking system such as Greenhouse.
• Ability to use recruiting data and pipeline metrics to identify problems and drive action.
• Strong communication, organization, judgment, and follow-through.

Nice to have

• Experience recruiting in advanced manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, defense, industrial technology, or hardware environments.
• Experience recruiting in a high-growth or rapidly scaling production environment.
• Experience recruiting skilled production talent in Southern California or another highly competitive manufacturing market.
• Experience building recruiting partnerships with trade schools, technical programs, workforce organizations, military/veteran programs, and community organizations.
• Experience with production hiring events, career fairs, high-volume sourcing campaigns, or other scalable recruiting strategies.
• Previous experience as a Lead Recruiter, Recruiting Lead, or similar player-coach role.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity plan
• Discretionary results-based incentive bonus opportunities
• Paid vacation
• Paid sick time
• Company holidays including a year-end shutdown
• Paid parental leave
• HMO and Premium PPO health and wellness options
• Company-sponsored life insurance
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Reimbursement opportunities for learning and development initiatives

Before you apply

• Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls

About the company

Divergent is building the new industrial age. Their integrated engineering and manufacturing platform transforms complex designs into production-ready solutions for automotive OEMs, aerospace, and defense companies.