Manager, Talent Acquisition - Hourly

Our manufacturing teams are essential to delivering operational excellence and supporting continued business growth. To meet increasing demand, we are seeking a strategic and results-driven Manager, Talent Acquisition – Hourly Recruitment with a strong focus on high-volume hourly and factory recruiting .

This role is critical in ensuring our plants are fully staffed with skilled, reliable talent while delivering an efficient, scalable, and positive candidate experience. You will partner closely with plant leadership, operations, and HR to support workforce planning, reduce time-to-fill, and proactively build pipelines for frontline talent.

As a Manager, Talent Acquisition - Hourly , you will lead full-cycle recruitment for hourly manufacturing roles across production, assembly, maintenance, and warehouse operations. You will serve as a trusted advisor to hiring managers, balancing speed, quality, and compliance in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.

This role supports Rheem North America/ Manufacturing Operations and is based in Atlanta, GA, Fort Smith, AR, Lewisville, TX, or Montgomery, AL (Hybrid) . This role follows our hybrid work arrangement, with team members working in the office Monday through Thursday and remotely on Fridays.

Partner closely with plant leaders and HR to understand workforce needs, shift requirements, turnover trends, and hiring forecasts

Develop and execute high-volume sourcing strategies using job boards, community outreach, hiring events, staffing partners, and local networks

Drive efficient hiring processes including screening, interview coordination, and rapid decision-making to meet production demands

Deliver a positive and engaging candidate experience, particularly for frontline workers who may be new to the workforce

Coordinate and support hiring events, job fairs, and onsite recruitment days

Collaborate with HR and operations to ensure smooth onboarding, pre-employment steps, and start-date readiness

Provide guidance on market conditions, local labor trends, and competitive hiring practices

Track recruiting activity and maintain accurate data in the ATS, providing regular updates on pipeline health, hiring progress, and risks

Ensure compliance with all employment laws, company policies, and hiring practices

Lead, coach, and develop a team of four Talent Acquisition professionals, ensuring balanced workload distribution, strong performance management, and ongoing professional growth through structured coaching, feedback, and development planning

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or related field (or equivalent experience)

7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with 3+ years in high-volume or hourly recruiting (manufacturing, distribution, or similar environment preferred)

Proven success hiring for frontline/hourly roles in fast-paced environments

Experience managing multiple high-volume requisitions simultaneously

Strong understanding of recruiting strategies for local labor markets and shift-based roles

Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with both candidates and operations leaders

Ability to work with urgency and adaptability in a dynamic production environment

Working knowledge of federal and state employment laws

Experience using ATS platforms and MS Office tools

HOW TO STAND OUT

Experience supporting manufacturing, warehouse, or industrial workforce hiring

Creative sourcing approach including community partnerships, referrals, and events

Experience improving time-to-fill, attendance rates, and first 90-day retention

Oracle Recruiting Cloud (ORC) experience

Comfort working onsite with plant leadership and adapting to changing production needs

As a leader at Rheem, how you achieve results is as important as the results you achieve. While LEADING OTHERS, you will be expected to demonstrate the following competencies and behaviors:

Aligning Performance for Success

Applying Business Knowledge

Building Talent

Building Trusting Relationships

Communicating with Impact

Customer-Orientation

Delegating Tasks

Executing/Leading the Team

Facilitating Change

Fostering Relationships/Emotional Intelligence

Influencing

Problem Solving & Decision Making

Supporting Innovation

Equivalent combination of education, experience, and skills may supplement above minimum job requirements.

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At Rheem, we engineer products for life. For home life. For work life. For the life of the planet we all share. Backed by over 100 years of expertise, we’re passionate about product innovation and boldly committed to sustainability. Our full line of global air and water solutions deliver reliable performance, comfort and energy savings for residential and commercial applications worldwide. From engineers to accountants, sales professionals to support experts, Rheem depends on people to power our innovations. Join Rheem and help shape the future of products that impact lives—every day.

Our Behavior Based Values set us apart:

Listening to Understand – Open mind, learning from others, accepting feedback, embracing the objective

Contributing Respectfully - Sharing opinions, valuing ideas, sharing opposing perspectives with respect

Thinking Creatively – Applying creativity, seeking improvements, understanding from the customers’ lens

Acting with Responsibility – Owning decisions and actions, acting with integrity, embracing accountability

Rheem is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Rheem encourages all qualified candidates to apply, including those of any race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. The job description above has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equivalent combination of education, experience, and skills may supplement above minimum job requirements.

For U.S. Based jobs, please note that Rheem is unable to hire candidates to be employed in the following states: Alaska, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, or Vermont.

Rheem and its subsidiaries do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of an executed Recruitment Services Agreement, there will be no obligation to any referral compensation or recruiter fee.