Alicia Gonzalez
Tremonton,USA
Summary
Talent Acquisition professional with 5+ years of progressive experience across recruiting, new-hire onboarding, employee retention, and HR operations, including 2+ years managing full-cycle recruiting in high-volume, multi-site environments. Experienced in candidate sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer management, onboarding, hiring-manager partnership, ATS administration, and early-tenure retention. Proven ability to manage multiple hiring priorities simultaneously, build proactive candidate pipelines, identify process gaps, and partner cross-functionally to improve the candidate and new-hire experience from initial contact through successful workforce integration.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Talent Acquisition Hiring Coordinator
Fortrex Solutions
08.2024 - Current
- Manage full-cycle recruiting across 5 manufacturing facilities, supporting approximately 6 active requisitions simultaneously and averaging 8–10 hires per month.
- Own the candidate lifecycle from sourcing and screening through interviewing, selection, offers, pre-employment requirements, onboarding coordination, internal approvals, and start-date readiness.
- Partner directly with Operations and HR leadership to assess staffing levels, establish hiring priorities, identify workforce gaps, and adjust recruiting strategies based on changing business needs.
- Build and maintain proactive candidate pipelines through job postings, candidate outreach, applicant follow-up, referrals, local recruiting initiatives, and continued engagement to support both immediate and anticipated staffing needs.
- Implement recruiting strategies that have helped reduce open vacancies and move understaffed facilities back to full staffing levels while maintaining pipelines to support ongoing workforce stability.
- Provide recruiting support to locations outside of assigned facilities during periods of increased hiring demand and changing organizational priorities.
- Identify and resolve recruiting and onboarding bottlenecks by coordinating across candidates, Operations, HR, Compliance, and internal systems to minimize preventable hiring delays.
- Maintain accurate candidate and requisition activity within the ATS and provide stakeholders with visibility into pipeline activity, staffing progress, outstanding requirements, and hiring barriers.
- Support long-term workforce stability by evaluating candidate qualifications and job alignment with consideration for retention and successful placement, rather than focusing solely on immediate vacancy fulfillment.
Food Safety Specialist
PSSI
05.2021 - 07.2024
- Supported food safety and sanitation operations within a highly regulated manufacturing environment while maintaining compliance with company procedures, safety requirements, sanitation standards, and customer expectations.
- Facilitated employee training, documentation, and operational compliance while partnering with frontline employees and leadership to identify and resolve process, safety, and performance concerns.
- Developed extensive knowledge of frontline operations and workforce challenges, providing operational insight that later strengthened recruiting, candidate assessment, onboarding, and workforce-planning decisions.
- Concurrent roles
Employee Retention Supervisor
PSSI
01.2021 - 01.2024
- Coordinated new-hire onboarding and early-tenure retention support for cohorts of up to 6 new hires at a time, supporting orientation, training completion, attendance, employee integration, and workforce stability.
- Trained and supported approximately 6–7 ERP Trainers responsible for guiding new employees through orientation, training, and successful transition into their roles and workplace environment.
- Monitored attendance, turnover, and retention trends and partnered with Site Managers and leadership to identify workforce concerns and implement strategies focused on employee experience and early-tenure retention.
- Delivered consistent onboarding experiences by ensuring new employees completed required orientation and training accurately and within established timelines.
- Identified breakdowns within onboarding and retention processes, resolved issues within scope, and escalated operational barriers to appropriate leadership when necessary.
- Partnered cross-functionally with site leadership and frontline teams to identify and address barriers affecting employee engagement, attendance, onboarding success, and long-term retention.
- Concurrent roles
Office Coordinator
PSSI
06.2020 - 05.2021
- Supported daily HR and administrative operations, including employee documentation, scheduling, reporting, record maintenance, and workforce communication.
- Managed confidential employee information and multiple administrative priorities while supporting communication between employees and site leadership in a fast-paced environment.
Education
High School Diploma -
Dale Young Community High School
Brigham City, Utah01-2013
Skills
- Avature ATS
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Teams
- E-Verify
- Recruiting & Applicant Tracking Systems
- Reporting & Workforce Tracking Tools
Timeline
Talent Acquisition Hiring Coordinator
Fortrex Solutions
08.2024 - Current
Food Safety Specialist
PSSI
05.2021 - 07.2024
Employee Retention Supervisor
PSSI
01.2021 - 01.2024
Office Coordinator
PSSI
06.2020 - 05.2021
High School Diploma -
Dale Young Community High School
CORE COMPETENCIES
- Full-Cycle Recruiting
- Candidate Sourcing & Pipeline Development
- Candidate Screening & Interviewing
- Hiring Manager Partnership
- Candidate Experience
- New-Hire Onboarding
- Employee Retention
- ATS & Recruiting Operations
- Offer & Pre-Employment Coordination
- Recruiting & Retention Metrics
- Workforce Planning
- Process Improvement
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Employee Training & Orientation
- I-9 & E-Verify Compliance
- Microsoft Excel & Reporting