Talent Acquisition Consultant | Chicago, IL | Hybrid

Location: Chicago, Illinois 60606

Work arrangement: Hybrid, three days per week onsite

Employment: 12-month contract

Rate: $50 per hour

Working hours: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. or 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Target start: November 2026

Relocation: Not available

Visa sponsorship: Not available

The Opportunity

Own end-to-end recruitment for experienced sales and consulting professionals within a fast-moving professional-services environment. You will combine proactive sourcing, trusted stakeholder advice and a strong candidate experience to build high-quality talent pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders, hiring managers and HR colleagues to define requirements and recruitment strategies.

• Lead full-cycle recruitment from intake and sourcing through assessment, selection and offer.

• Build diverse pipelines using LinkedIn Recruiter, CRM, ATS and creative sourcing techniques.

• Engage and close passive sales candidates while maintaining timely, professional communication.

• Advise hiring managers on selection, interview practice, market conditions and offer strategy.

• Improve process efficiency and deliver a consistent, inclusive candidate experience.

• Use AI and technology-enabled recruiting tools appropriately.

Required Experience

• 7+ years of full-cycle recruitment experience.

• Agency recruitment experience combined with professional-services recruiting.

• A proven record of sourcing and placing mid-to-senior B2B sales professionals.

• Strong LinkedIn Recruiter sourcing, passive-candidate engagement and pipeline-development skills.

• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and advising hiring managers.

• Strong communication, relationship-building, negotiation, organisation and closing skills.

• Knowledge of employment law and recruitment best practice.

Preferred Experience

• Health and Benefits consulting, employee benefits, insurance brokerage or healthcare recruiting experience.

• Experience supporting sales organisations of approximately 20-25 professionals.

• Experience recruiting within a major professional-services, insurance or benefits organisation.

Benefits and Opportunity

An opportunity to deliver visible recruitment outcomes within a collaborative professional-services environment, supported by modern tools and experienced stakeholders.

Manufacturing Maintenance Manager - Plant Engineer - West Chicago, IL - $116,160 to $130,680

Manufacturing Maintenance Manager - Plant Engineer - West Chicago, IL
$116,160 to $130,680

Job Description

Reporting to the Plant Manager, the Maintenance Manager/ Plant Engineer is responsible for achieving the highest level of reliability for plant equipment through committed support for the Company’s Performance System (known as SPS), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), and strong ownership of the Maintenance Excellence process within their plant.

What you will be doing:

Ensure the safety of all employees by leading a comprehensive business safety process to prevent injuries.  Lead plant compliance of all federal, state and local environmental and safety regulations.

Effectively implement/maintain a reliability-centered maintenance process that drives machine uptime, improves OEE and lower operations costs by championing the business Maintenance Excellence process.

Provide department leadership to ensure the highest standards of plant condition and equipment performance are achieved and sustained.

Ensure maintenance department personnel possess the appropriate skills and are qualified and proficient. Identify and support technical training and development for department employees.

Scope and execute capital projects, participate in annual plant budgeting, manage department spend. Identify technical improvements to equipment/processes.

Apply reliability tools to determine the root cause of critical equipment failures and downtime. Identify the appropriate countermeasures and solutions to improve equipment reliability and prevent recurrence.

Perform as a key member of the plant leadership team – positive communicator and problem solver - driving for plant/process improvements, meeting objectives and setting the bar for performance standards.

Support pillar continuous improvement activities.

This position is located in  Chicago DuPage, IL.

We'd love to hear from you if:

Strong understanding of OSHA requirements related to equipment in-house.  Ability to identify gaps and assist in implementing countermeasures to achieve Zero Safety Incidents.

Ability to lead and develop a highly collaborative and effective team.

Excellent organization, project management and communication skills

Proficient in Root Cause Analysis techniques (FMEA’s, 5Why’s, ATS, etc.) and developing/implementing Countermeasures to drive Zero Breakdown culture.

Process-oriented.  Can identify gaps in any process and implement solutions.

Basic mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, instrumentation, lubrication and predictive maintenance understanding

Ability to manage costs and reduce/optimize where needed

Proficient in Microsoft Office and CMMS experience

Minimum experience 3+ years of successful experience leading a plant maintenance department in an industrial manufacturing environment and/or 5+ years of supervisory manufacturing experience.

Minimum education required: Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Maintenance, Engineering, or a related field.

Experience with CMMS preferred.

Experience in TPM or Reliability field preferred.

Compensation: 

The annual base salary range for this role is from $116,160 to $130,680, plus annual target bonus of 12.5% of base salary.

If applicable…An annual bonus is awarded to eligible employees upon attaining various business and individual goals as defined by the Company and the department leader.  This annual bonus is discretionary, and the Company has sole discretion to determine the amount of the award.