Life Sciences Recruiter CQV

100% Remote | Recruiting for US & Canada requisitions | English C1/C2 required | Core hours overlap with US Eastern Time

Please read before applying: This is not an IT, software, or general corporate recruiting role. We are hiring a recruiter who can hold a technical conversation about commissioning, qualification and validation (CQV) in a GMP manufacturing environment. If your recruiting background is in software engineering, IT, sales, or shared services, this role will not be a fit and your application will not advance — regardless of years of experience.

If you have recruited validation engineers, C&Q specialists, automation engineers, or QA professionals for pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical device organizations, please apply. About MMR Consulting MMR Consulting is an engineering and consulting firm specializing in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and highly regulated industries. Our services include Engineering, Project Management, and Validation. We have offices across North America and Asia. Our consultants work on client sites designing, commissioning, qualifying, and starting up pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical facilities.

About the role
You will own full-cycle recruitment for engineering and technical consulting roles: CQV / validation engineers, process and automation engineers, utilities and HVAC engineers, project managers. The core of the job is technical screening. You will be the first and, in many cases, the only filter before a candidate reaches an MMR engineer or a client. We expect candidates you advance to be substantially pre-vetted — meaning the technical interviewer is confirming depth, not discovering that the candidate has never executed an IQ/OQ/PQ protocol. You will not be doing this unsupported. You will have structured screening guides, scorecards, and regular calibration sessions with our engineering SMEs.

What you'll do

• Sourcing and pipeline
  - Partner with hiring managers and project leads to translate technical staffing needs into search strategies.
  - Source and engage engineering and technical candidates across the pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device sectors In Mexico, US and Canada.
  - Write and publish job advertisements on LinkedIn, Indeed, career pages, and niche life-sciences channels.
  - Build and maintain talent pipelines for recurring project-based needs, including bench-ready CQV talent.
  - Review and validate
  
  job description
  s for alignment with local employment regulations, company policy, and industry standards.
• Technical screening and evaluation
  - Screen resumes against role requirements and client expectations, distinguishing genuine hands-on execution from resume keyword coverage.
  - Conduct screening interviews that probe actual project
  
  experience:
  protocol authoring versus execution, equipment and system types, regulatory environment, phase of project involvement, and scope of ownership.
  - Produce candidate summaries covering qualifications, relevant project experience, strengths, gaps, and risks — with a clear recommendation.
  - Present shortlists to hiring managers and defend your reasoning.
• Interview coordination
  - Schedule and coordinate screening and technical interviews.
  - Provide interview summaries and feedback after each screening.
  - Manage logistics and keep communication clear with candidates throughout.
  - Track candidate progress and protect the candidate experience.
• Administration
  - Maintain accurate records in the ATS.
  - Ensure compliance with employment laws, privacy regulations, and MMR recruitment policy.
  - Generate recruitment reports and hiring metrics.
  - Support additional talent acquisition initiatives and special projects. What success looks like Within six months, candidates you advance to technical interview should be arriving substantially pre-qualified, with technical rejections at that stage becoming the exception rather than the norm. You should be able to explain, in your own words, why a given candidate's validation experience is or is not relevant to a specific client project.

Required qualifications
- 5+ years of recruiting experience, the majority of it within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, or engineering consulting environments. Domain depth matters more to us than total years.
- Demonstrable experience recruiting technical roles such as CQV / validation engineers, process engineers, automation engineers, or engineering project managers.
- Working command of the vocabulary: C&Q, IQ / OQ / PQ, FAT / SAT, cGMP, clean utilities (PW, WFI, clean steam), cleanrooms, process equipment, tech transfer, ASTM E2500.
- English at C1 level or above, written and spoken — you will screen native English speakers and present to North American hiring manager