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Every day, our teams design, manufacture, and assemble advanced systems for some of the world’s most demanding industries. Our integrated engineering and manufacturing platform transforms complex designs into production-ready solutions, helping customers move faster, build smarter, and deliver critical systems when they matter most. Divergent is a qualified Tier 1 supplier to global automotive OEMs and supports leading U.S. aerospace and defense companies. \nJoin us and help push the boundaries of what can be built.\nPurpose\nDivergent is seeking a Lead/Manager, Production Recruiting to serve as a player-coach for our Production Recruiting team. This role combines hands-on recruiting with day-to-day leadership of the recruiters responsible for hiring the skilled talent that supports our production operations.\nThe Lead Recruiter will personally own and fill production requisitions while helping the team prioritize hiring needs, build strong talent pipelines, remove recruiting roadblocks, and deliver against aggressive hiring goals. This person will partner closely with Production leadership and hiring managers to ensure recruiting resources are aligned with the most critical operational needs.\nThis is a hands-on leadership role for an experienced production recruiter who enjoys recruiting, developing others, and operating in a fast-paced advanced manufacturing environment.\nThe Role\nProduction Recruiting\nOwn full-cycle recruiting for a portfolio of production positions from intake through offer and close.\nRecruit across roles such as CNC Machinists, Production Technicians, Manufacturing Technicians, Quality Inspectors, Metrology Technicians, Maintenance Technicians, Material Handlers, Production Supervisors, and other skilled production positions.\nDevelop targeted sourcing strategies for high-volume, difficult-to-fill, and specialized production talent.\nProactively source candidates through LinkedIn, recruiting platforms, referrals, trade and technical schools, workforce programs, career fairs, community partnerships, and other relevant channels.\nConduct recruiter screens to assess relevant experience, technical qualifications, schedule availability, compensation expectations, work authorization requirements, and overall alignment with the role.\nBuild and maintain talent pipelines for recurring and anticipated production hiring needs.\nPartner with hiring managers to establish clear requirements, candidate profiles, interview processes, and recruiting timelines.\nManage candidates throughout the recruiting process and provide a high-quality candidate experience through offer acceptance.\nTeam Leadership & Coaching\nProvide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and direction to the Production Recruiting team while maintaining an individual requisition load.\nHelp recruiters prioritize workloads based on business-critical hiring needs, hiring timelines, and available recruiting capacity.\nCoach recruiters on sourcing strategy, candidate assessment, hiring manager partnership, pipeline management, and candidate closing.\nRegularly review recruiter pipelines and activity to identify gaps, aging requisitions, stalled candidates, and searches requiring additional support.\nJump into sourcing, screening, candidate management, or hiring manager discussions when additional support is needed to move critical searches forward.\nEstablish consistent recruiting practices, expectations, and service levels across the Production Recruiting team.\nSupport the onboarding, training, and development of recruiters and recruiting team members.\nCreate a collaborative team environment where recruiters share talent, sourcing strategies, market intelligence, and best practices.\nProduction Leadership Partnership\nServe as a key recruiting partner to Production leadership and front-line hiring managers.\nLead and support recruiting intake meetings to ensure clear alignment on candidate requirements, technical qualifications, interview processes, and hiring urgency.\nEstablish regular recruiting cadence meetings with key Production leaders to review priorities, pipelines, aging requisitions, upcoming hiring needs, and roadblocks.\nProvide hiring managers with visibility into talent availability, candidate pipelines, recruiting activity, and market challenges.\nCoach hiring managers on effective candidate evaluation, interviewing, timely feedback, and recruiting best practices.\nEscalate hiring risks, capacity constraints, and process bottlenecks when appropriate.\nAdjust recruiting resources and sourcing strategies as production hiring priorities change.\nRecruiting Operations & Performance\nUse recruiting data to evaluate team performance and identify opportunities to improve recruiting speed and effectiveness.\nMonitor metrics such as time to fill, time in stage, pipeline health, sourcing activity, offer acceptance, aging requisitions, and progress against hiring plans.\nEnsure candidate and requisition activity is accurately and consistently maintained in Greenhouse.\nPartner with Recruiting leadership on recruiting capacity, prioritization, workforce planning, and process improvements.\nIdentify opportunities to improve production recruiting through technology, automation, AI, sourcing tools, events, partnerships, and more efficient workflows.\nMaintain consistent candidate assessment and recruiting standards across Production hiring.\nBasic Qualifications\nAbility to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls \n6+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with significant experience supporting production, manufacturing operations, skilled trades, or technician hiring.\nDemonstrated experience recruiting for positions such as CNC Machinists, Production or Manufacturing Technicians, Quality Inspectors, Metrology Technicians, Maintenance Technicians, Production Supervisors, or similar roles.\nExperience leading, mentoring, or providing day-to-day direction to recruiters.\nStrong sourcing skills with the ability to personally identify and engage both active and passive candidates.\nExperience managing high-volume hiring alongside difficult-to-fill skilled production searches.\nStrong hiring manager partnership and stakeholder management skills.\nExperience using an applicant tracking system such as Greenhouse.\nAbility to use recruiting data and pipeline metrics to identify problems and drive action.\nStrong communication, organization, judgment, and follow-through.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience recruiting in advanced manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, defense, industrial technology, or hardware environments.\nExperience recruiting in a high-growth or rapidly scaling production environment.\nExperience recruiting skilled production talent in Southern California or another highly competitive manufacturing market.\nExperience building recruiting partnerships with trade schools, technical programs, workforce organizations, military/veteran programs, and community organizations.\nExperience with production hiring events, career fairs, high-volume sourcing campaigns, or other scalable recruiting strategies.\nPrevious experience as a Lead Recruiter, Recruiting Lead, or similar player-coach role.\nPay Range\n$126,160—$175,340 USD\nWhat We Offer:\nHolistic Compensation Package: Enjoy a world-class compensation package that includes a competitive salary, equity plan, and discretionary results-based incentive bonus opportunities, ensuring you're truly valued for your contributions.\nWellness and Time Off: Embrace a healthy lifestyle with paid vacation, sick time, and company holidays, including a year-end shutdown to recharge. We support growing families with paid parental leave, recognizing the importance of bonding time.\nComprehensive Health and Wellness: Prioritize your well-being with our comprehensive health and wellness benefits, offering both HMO and Premium PPO options. Additionally, benefit from company-sponsored life insurance and short and long-term disability coverage for peace of mind.\nInvestment in Growth: We're committed to your professional development. Take advantage of reimbursement opportunities for learning and development initiatives, empowering you to continuously expand your skill set and reach peak performance.\nCollaborative and High-Performing Environment: Join our collaborative, dynamic, and high-performing team within a fast-paced, mission-driven company. Together, we're disrupting the traditional manufacturing industry, fostering innovation, and integrating people and technology to reduce our footprint. \nEqual Employment Opportunity\nDivergent is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected characteristic. Divergent provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with Disabilities and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.\nEEO Poster \nIn order to adjust to changes in our business, it may become necessary to add, remove or modify certain duties and responsibilities, or to reassign you to another job position. 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