The Talent Coordinator plays a critical role in ensuring efficient, compliant, and high-quality hiring and onboarding across the organization. By driving accuracy, consistency, and responsiveness across talent processes, this role enables timely project staffing, reduces compliance risk, and improves both candidate and new hire experience.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
1. Recruiting & Candidate Coordination
- Coordinate end-to-end recruiting logistics including job postings, interview scheduling, candidate communications, background checks, reference checks, and pre-employment requirements.
- Maintain applicant tracking system (ATS) accuracy and ensure workflow integrity.
- Partner with managers to ensure efficient, consistent, and high-quality hiring processes.
- Support a seamless candidate experience and proactively identify opportunities for improvement.
2. Onboarding & Compliance
- Own and coordinate end-to-end onboarding to ensure new hires are fully prepared for day one.
- Manage onboarding workflows including HRIS transactions, documentation, systems access, equipment, benefits enrollment, and orientation scheduling.
- Coordinate employment eligibility compliance including I-9 and E-Verify, ensuring audit-ready documentation and readiness for federal contractor requirements.
- Support employment-based processes (H-1B, STEM-OPT, PERM) in partnership with internal stakeholders and external counsel.
- Coordinate role- and project-specific requirements such as background checks, drug testing, health screenings, PPE, and site access credentials for regulated and federal project environments.
3. New Hire Experience & Early Engagement
- Conduct structured 30/60/90-day new hire check-ins to support engagement and successful integration.
- Surface early engagement insights and trends to support retention and experience improvements.
4. Talent Programs & Process Improvement
- Support internship, scholarship, and university recruiting programs to strengthen early talent pipelines.
- Coordinate recruiting events, campus engagement, and networking activities, including logistics and follow-up.
- Develop and maintain reporting and dashboards to provide visibility into recruiting and onboarding effectiveness.
- Identify process inefficiencies and implement improvements to enhance speed, quality, and compliance across talent operations.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 1+ years of experience in recruiting coordination, HR operations, or related experience.
- Strong understanding of recruiting workflows, onboarding processes, and HR compliance requirements.
- Exceptional organizational skills with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Experience with HRIS and applicant tracking systems (Paylocity or similar preferred).
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify and improve process gaps.
- High level of discretion and ability to handle confidential information.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to partner across all levels of the organization.
- Proactive, service-oriented mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.
Physical Requirements / Work Environment
- All candidates are subject to completing a background check, and reference check.
- Normal office environment with moderate noise levels, occasional lifting of up to 25 lbs., prolonged sitting, and regular walking, bending, standing, and reaching.
- Ability to perform consistent work on a PC with prolonged view of a monitor/screen.
- Willingness and ability to travel occasionally as needed.
Our best estimate of the salary range for this position, located in Seattle or Redmond, WA is $28.85 – $41.83 an hour. Compensation offered will be based on a variety of individual factors, including education and experience, as well as internal equity. GeoEngineers’ salary ranges are reviewed and updated each year and employees are eligible for pay increases based on individual performance. As part of our competitive total rewards package, employees in this role may also be eligible for our annual year-end bonus offering, subject to program eligibility requirements.
At GeoEngineers, investing in our people is a top priority. In addition to competitive and equitable pay, we are proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including healthcare (with travel benefit for care not locally available), 401(k) with company match, short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, paid vacation and sick time and paid holidays, among others. View our full listing of benefits here.
Our Commitment to Belonging at GeoEngineers
When people feel they can bring their whole selves to work, that they have a voice and are supported and respected, it creates trust and a feeling of belonging— employees then flourish, grow their careers, and do the best work of their lives. A culture of belonging allows our employees to thrive and our company to prosper. This is a journey, and we are committed to doing the work, learning and evolving as we go.
GeoEngineers is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.
GeoEngineers is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need special assistance or accommodation while seeking employment, please contact Human Resources at hr@geoengineers.com or by phone at (425) 861-6000. We will then make a determination regarding your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.
We welcome and encourage individuals from all backgrounds and experiences to apply for openings on our team. We would love for you to join us!
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