The posting
Job Description
Job Summary:
We are looking for a Senior Talent Advisor – CDBS to join our Talent Acquisition team,supporting our Cummins Drivetrain and Braking Systems Business Unit, in Fletcher, NC.
In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:
- Lead and coordinate hourly recruiting operations across multiple facilities to ensure timely fulfillment of workforce demands.
- Develop targeted sourcing strategies that build sustainable pipelines for high-volume manufacturing, production, skilled trades, and technician talent.
- Partner with site leadership, Human Resources, and hiring managers to align recruiting priorities with business objectives and production needs.
- Drive recruiter effectiveness through coaching, workload balancing, best-practice sharing, and operational support.
- Strengthen community and workforce-development partnerships to expand access to qualified talent and support long-term hiring initiatives.
- Utilize recruiting metrics, labor market insights, and performance data to improve hiring outcomes and inform talent acquisition strategies.
- Ensure a consistent, compliant, and exceptional candidate experience throughout the recruiting and onboarding process.
- Champion continuous improvement initiatives that enhance recruiting efficiency, stakeholder satisfaction, and overall talent acquisition performance.
Responsibilities
To be successful in this role, you will need the following:
- Demonstrated ability to lead recruiting teams and influence diverse stakeholders while balancing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong expertise in high-volume talent acquisition, candidate assessment, workforce planning, and talent pipeline development within manufacturing, operations, or similar environments.
- Proven capability to leverage recruiting analytics, market intelligence, and performance metrics to drive data-informed decisions and continuous improvement.
- Exceptional communication, consulting, and relationship-building skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across organizational levels.
- A proactive, customer-focused mindset with strong judgment, adaptability, and a commitment to delivering inclusive and efficient hiring outcomes.
Education, Licenses, Certifications:
- College, university, or equivalent degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field or equivalent experience required.
Qualifications
Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Key Competencies:
- Provide leadership, coaching, and workload coordination for recruiters supporting hourly hiring across approximately 12 facilities in the United States and Canada.
- Serve as the primary escalation point for recruiting-related challenges, stakeholder concerns, and complex hiring needs.
- Lead recruitment efforts for production, manufacturing, warehouse, maintenance, technician, and skilled-trades positions.
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies for specialized talent including electricians, welders, maintenance technicians, machinists, CNC operators, and other hard-to-fill manufacturing roles.
- Partner with community colleges, technical schools, apprenticeship programs, workforce-development agencies, and community organizations to strengthen talent pipelines.
- Support early-career, school-to-work, internship, and apprenticeship initiatives that build long-term workforce capability.
- Coordinate hiring events, job fairs, community outreach programs, and onsite recruiting activities to increase candidate engagement and hiring success.
- Establish consistent recruiting processes, communication standards, and service expectations across supported facilities.
- Monitor and analyze recruiting performance metrics including requisition aging, time-to-slate, time-to-offer, time-to-fill, offer acceptance rates, candidate conversion, and start-date completion.
- Conduct routine recruiting reviews to identify hiring barriers, workforce risks, and opportunities for process improvement.
- Utilize labor market intelligence and recruiting data to adjust sourcing strategies and respond to changing workforce demands.
- Partner with site leadership to forecast seasonal hiring, production growth, attrition replacement, and workforce planning needs.
- Collaborate with external recruiting partners and vendors to supplement sourcing efforts while maintaining accountability and performance expectations.
- Promote recruiter development through coaching, mentoring, training, and knowledge sharing.
- Maintain accurate applicant tracking system records, reporting, and documentation while ensuring compliance with company policies and employment practices.
- Provide regular updates and strategic recommendations to Talent Acquisition and business leadership regarding hiring demand, staffing risks, and recruiting progress.
- Preferred experience supporting multi-site manufacturing, distribution, or industrial environments.
- Preferred strengths include stakeholder management, adaptability, communication, collaboration, customer focus, data-driven decision-making, and continuous improvement.
Please note that the salary range provided is a good faith estimate on the applicable range. The final salary offer will be determined after considering relevant factors, including a candidate’s qualifications and experience, where appropriate.
About Us
Cummins is an equal opportunity employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, sex, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity, or other status protected by law.
