Campus Recruiting Coordinator

About Us

Clayco is a full-service, turnkey real estate development, master planning, architecture, engineering, and construction firm that safely delivers clients across North America the highest quality solutions on time, on budget, and above and beyond expectations. With $8.1 billion in revenue for 2025, Clayco specializes in the “art and science of building,” providing fast-track, efficient solutions for mission critical, industrial, life sciences, power & energy, aviation, commercial, institutional, residential, and sports & entertainment-related building projects.

The Role We Want You For

As a Campus Recruiting Coordinator, you will help build Clayco’s pipeline of talented college students and emerging professionals across our architecture, engineering, design, and construction disciplines. You will support campus recruiting efforts at more than 30 construction-focused universities and an additional 15–20 architecture, engineering, and design schools across the country.

You will partner with recruiters, business leaders, university faculty, career services teams, and student organizations to coordinate campus events and manage students through the recruiting, internship, evaluation, and hiring process.

This role is instrumental in advancing Clayco’s early talent program by creating meaningful student experiences and supporting the progression from internship to full-time employment. It is an excellent opportunity for an energetic, relationship-driven self-starter who wants to build connections across Clayco and our university partners.

This is a highly visible, on-site role that requires travel to universities, career fairs, offices, and project locations.

The Specifics of the Role

• Coordinate campus recruiting activities across Clayco’s architecture, engineering, design, and construction businesses.
• Build and maintain relationships with university career services teams, faculty, student organizations, and other campus partners.
• Coordinate career fairs, information sessions, student interviews, office visits, project tours, and related event logistics.
• Partner with recruiters and business leaders to understand internship and entry-level hiring needs.
• Manage student applications, screenings, interviews, evaluations, selections, offers, and candidate communication.
• Maintain accurate information within the applicant tracking system and campus recruiting databases.
• Track recruiting events, candidate activity, offers, acceptances, university relationships, and program results.
• Coordinate intern placements, onboarding, orientation, learning plans, networking events, and professional development activities.
• Partner with business units and project teams to ensure interns receive meaningful and well-managed work experiences.
• Coordinate intern evaluations, feedback, return-offer recommendations, and conversion to full-time employment.
• Maintain relationships with high-potential students and develop talent pipelines for future opportunities.
• Evaluate campus recruiting activities and recommend improvements to student engagement, university partnerships, and the internship program.

Requirements

• 1–4 years of recruiting, campus recruiting, university relations, human resources, event coordination, or related experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Human Resource Management, Business, Communications, Marketing, or a related field.
• Experience working with college students, university programs, internships, or early-career recruiting is a plus.
• Strong organizational, event-planning, and project-management skills.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and relationship-building abilities.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple universities, events, candidates, and deadlines simultaneously.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and applicant tracking systems.
• Ability to work independently, take initiative, and thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Willingness to travel frequently during peak campus recruiting seasons.
• Availability to attend occasional evening or weekend recruiting events as needed.

Some Things You Should Know

• No other builder can offer the collaborative design-build approach that Clayco does.
• We work on creative, complex, award-winning, high-profile jobs.
• The pace is fast!

Why Clayco?

• 2025 Best Places to Work – St. Louis Business Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal, and Phoenix Business Journal.
• 2025 ENR Midwest – Midwest Contractor (#1).
• 2025 ENR Top 100 Design-Build Firms – Design-Build Contractor (Top 5).
• 2025 ENR Top 100 Green Contractors – Green Contractor (Top 3).
• 2025 ENR Top 25 Data Center Builders – Data Center Contractor (Top 3).
  

Benefits

• Discretionary Annual Bonus: Subject to company and individual performance.
• Comprehensive Benefits Package Including: Medical, dental and vision plans, 401k, generous PTO and paid company holidays, employee assistance program, flexible spending accounts, life insurance, disability coverage, learning & development programs, and more!

Compensation

• The salary range for this position considers a wide range of factors in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to education, qualifications, skills, training, experience, certifications, internal equity, and location. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.