Human Resources Specialist (Recruitment and Placement)

Department of Energy - Agency Wide • Full-time • Lakewood, Colorado • $83.27k - $129.74k / year • 1d ago

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Open: May 14, 2026 — Closes: May 22, 2026

Summary

This position is part of the Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer - Power Marketing Administration HR Shared Service Center. As a Human Resources Specialist (Recruitment and Placement), you will represent the PMA HR SSC as an advisor and service provider.

Major Duties

As a Human Resources Specialist (Recruitment and Placement) at the full performance level, you will: Represent PMA HR SSC rendering expert and authoritative recruitment and placement advisory and technical services. Perform broad reaching, innovative, cross-functional analyses to develop human resources (HR) recommendations responding proactively to specific HR challenges. Manage and/or accomplish the most complex recruitment and placement work assignments, complete extremely difficult and/or complicated projects, regularly requiring identification and resolution of precedent-setting and/or highly controversial operational problems. Complete pre-announcement duties. Conduct recruitment conversations with hiring managers. Work with hiring managers on refining and/or developing recruitment/placement criteria to recruit for hard-to-fill highly technical, professional and/or specialized positions in areas where a shortage of qualified personnel exists. Consult with and expertly advise managers about internal Merit Promotion and external Delegated Examining (DE) vacancy announcements. Establish priorities for filling positions, considering the importance of vacancies to missions, and the availability of qualified internal and/or external candidates to fill positions. Expertly advise customers about recruitment and placement regulatory guidance and its applicability to hiring efforts (e.g., Veterans Preference, USERRA, SME utilization, DHA, etc.). Lead or participate in identification, design, development, and implementation of more efficient ways to deliver recruitment and staffing products and services to assigned organization managers and staff through automated information systems.