Lincoln Electric is a high-performance industrial machinery and technology leader who helps customers manufacture and maintain vital equipment and infrastructure. Lincoln Electric’s innovative solutions enable higher quality and productivity across a variety of processes including welding, cutting, brazing, machining, process automation, and field repair. The Company leverages proprietary technologies and expertise in materials science, power electronics, automation, and intelligent software to help customers build better and achieve resilience in their operations. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Lincoln Electric is the essential ‘Linc’ that keeps the economy running. The Company operates 71 manufacturing and automation facilities across 20 countries and serves customers in over 160 countries. For more information about Lincoln Electric and its products and services, visit the Company’s website at https://www.lincolnelectric.com.
Location: Euclid - 22801 Req ID: 30405
Purpose
The Manager, Manufacturing Talent Acquisition leads the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of recruiting programs supporting Lincoln Electric's manufacturing operations. This role is responsible for building sustainable talent pipelines for production associates, skilled trades professionals, maintenance personnel, technicians, and other critical hourly and operations positions.
This leader develops scalable recruiting processes, workforce attraction strategies, community partnerships, recruitment marketing programs, and workforce planning initiatives that improve hiring speed, candidate quality, and overall recruiting effectiveness. Serving as a strategic partner to Operations, Human Resources, and business leaders, the Manager drives consistency, efficiency, and continuous improvement across the recruiting lifecycle while strengthening Lincoln Electric's employer brand.
The Manager oversees recruiting operations, talent analytics, and workforce planning efforts, leveraging market insights and recruiting data to anticipate workforce needs, improve hiring outcomes, and maintain a reliable pipeline of manufacturing and skilled trades talent. This role identifies best practices that may be scaled across the Americas in partnership with HR and Talent Acquisition leaders.
Primary Responsibilities
People Leadership
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of recruiters supporting manufacturing, operations, skilled trades, technical, and hourly hiring.
- Establish team goals, service-level expectations, operational standards, and performance metrics.
- Build organizational capability through coaching, performance management, development planning, and succession planning.
- Foster a culture of accountability, customer service, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision-making.
Talent Acquisition Strategy & Workforce Planning
- Develop and execute recruiting strategies for high-volume production, skilled trades, maintenance, technician, and other operations-critical positions.
- Partner with Operations and HR leaders to translate production forecasts, growth plans, attrition trends, and workforce requirements into proactive recruiting strategies.
- Design talent pipeline solutions for critical and hard-to-fill positions.
- Develop workforce planning processes that anticipate future talent needs and labor market challenges.
- Share scalable recruiting best practices across locations and support broader Talent Acquisition initiatives throughout the Americas.
Recruiting Operations & Continuous Improvement
- Lead initiatives that improve time-to-fill, candidate quality, candidate experience, and recruiter productivity.
- Standardize recruiting workflows, hiring practices, metrics, and hiring manager expectations across supported operations.
- Evaluate and implement recruiting technologies, automation tools, sourcing platforms, and process enhancements.
- Develop recruiting playbooks, training resources, and governance standards that drive consistency and accountability.
- Partner with HRIS and HR Operations teams to optimize system capabilities, reporting, and recruiting analytics.
Primary Responsibilities, Continued
High-Volume Manufacturing & Skilled Trades Recruiting
- Develop innovative sourcing strategies for welders, machinists, electricians, maintenance technicians, assemblers, operators, toolmakers, and other critical manufacturing talent.
- Build sustainable talent communities through workforce development organizations, trade schools, technical colleges, apprenticeship programs, military transition organizations, and industry associations.
- Lead hiring events, job fairs, open houses, apprenticeship recruiting efforts, and community workforce initiatives.
- Partner with Communications, Marketing, and Operations leaders to strengthen Lincoln Electric's employer brand within manufacturing and skilled trades talent markets.
Talent Analytics & Workforce Insights
- Establish and monitor key recruiting metrics, including:
- Time-to-fill
- Cost-per-hire
- Quality-of-hire
- Source effectiveness
- Offer acceptance rate
- Candidate conversion rates
- Recruiter productivity
- Utilize labor market intelligence and workforce data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Deliver workforce and recruiting insights to leadership and recommend actions based on data-driven analysis.
Strategic Partnerships
- Establish and maintain relationships with:
- High schools
- Technical schools
- Community colleges
- Skilled trades programs
- Workforce development organizations
- Veteran and military transition programs
- Apprenticeship organizations
- Community and economic development partners
- Promote Lincoln Electric as an employer of choice within manufacturing and skilled trades labor markets.
- Measure partnership effectiveness and focus resources on channels that produce sustainable talent pipelines.
Additional Responsibilities
- Ensure recruiting practices comply with applicable employment laws, regulations, and company policies.
- Partner with HR and Talent Acquisition leaders across the Americas to align recruiting strategies and share best practices.
- Lead special projects and strategic workforce initiatives as assigned.
- Perform additional responsibilities in support of Lincoln Electric's business strategy and operational objectives.
Qualifications
Required Education & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Leadership, or related field
- Seven or more years of progressive recruiting experience.
- Significant experience supporting high-volume manufacturing, operations, skilled trades, technical, production, or industrial recruiting.
- Three or more years of people leadership experience with demonstrated success leading and developing recruiting professionals.
- Experience leading recruiting process improvement, transformation, or workforce planning initiatives.
Preferred Qualifications
- Multi-site, regional, or Americas recruiting leadership experience.
- Lean, Six Sigma, Continuous Improvement, or related certification and application.
- SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, SPHR, or comparable professional certification.
- Experience with SuccessFactors, CRM platforms, sourcing technologies, talent analytics, and workforce reporting tools.
Required Skills & Capabilities
- Deep expertise in high-volume recruiting, manufacturing recruiting, skilled trades recruiting, workforce planning, talent pipeline development, employer branding, and recruitment marketing.
- Strong knowledge of labor market dynamics affecting manufacturing and skilled trades talent.
- Demonstrated success developing scalable recruiting strategies across multiple locations.
- Ability to leverage recruiting technology, analytics, and workforce data to drive recruiting decisions and outcomes.
- Strong operational mindset with proven ability to standardize processes and drive continuous improvement.
- Excellent consultative, influencing, communication, project management, and organizational skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Proficiency with applicant tracking systems, recruiting technology, Microsoft Office, and workforce analytics tools.
Key Success Outcomes
- Sustainable pipelines of production, skilled trades, maintenance, and technical talent that support current and future workforce needs.
- Improved recruiting efficiency, hiring quality, and candidate experience through scalable and standardized recruiting processes.
- Data-driven workforce planning and talent acquisition strategies that support operational growth.
- A strong employer brand and productive community partnerships that increase access to qualified talent.
- A high-performing recruiting team delivering consistent results, accountability, and customer service excellence.
Lincoln Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to promoting equal employment opportunity for applicants, without regard to their race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including, but not limited to, lactation), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.
