Join Fountain Tire as a Human Resources Advisor – Recruitment and go beyond traditional recruitment by building and continuously improving the strategies, tools, and resources that help our managers across Canada build successful, productive teams.
About Fountain Tire:
Founded in 1956 in Wainwright, Alberta, Fountain Tire has built its success on strong partnerships, experienced ownership, and a commitment to quality. Today, we operate over 170 locations with more than 3,000 associates from British Columbia through Ontario. Our success is grounded in our values. We:
- Act with a win-win partnership mindset
- Embrace opportunity thinking and innovation
- Value simplicity and practical solutions
- Work hard while making time to have fun
- Lead with a balance of heart, head, and hands
These principles have helped us remain one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies year after year.
About the Role:
The successful candidate will partner closely with hiring managers, provide full-cycle recruitment coaching, build processes and partnerships that strengthen candidate pipelines, enhance recruitment tools and promote consistent, efficient, and high-quality hiring practices across the organization. Key areas of accountability include:
- Recruitment Coaching: Coach and support hiring managers on recruitment strategies, selection practices, labour-market conditions, wage competitiveness, relocation support, scheduling options, and other hiring considerations.
- Talent Sourcing and Pipelines: Develop creative approaches to attract active and passive candidates, including targeted sourcing campaigns, rural recruitment strategies, and partnerships with secondary and post-secondary schools.
- Recruitment Systems and Process Improvement: Support the ongoing maintenance and enhancement of the Applicant Tracking System and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, consistency, and the candidate and hiring manager experience.
- Full-Cycle Recruitment (10%): Lead recruitment for key and hard-to-fill roles, including job advertising, candidate sourcing, résumé screening, interviewing, reference checking, offer preparation, and candidate follow-up.
- Employment Brand and Recruitment Marketing: Create clear and compelling recruitment content for Fountain Tire’s careers website, social media channels, in-store advertising, and seasonal recruitment campaigns.
- Labour-Market Research: Monitor recruitment, compensation, scheduling, and workforce trends within the automotive and skilled-trades markets and translate findings into practical recommendations.
- Events and Community Outreach: Represent Fountain Tire at career fairs, trade shows, school events, and industry functions to promote employment opportunities and build candidate pipelines.
- Training and HR Support: Develop and deliver recruitment-related education for managers, and provide backup support to the broader Human Resources team.
What We Offer:
At Fountain Tire, we’re committed to supporting our Associates’ well-being and financial future. Our total rewards package includes:
- Comprehensive cost-shared benefits including health, dental, vision, life insurance, and short/long-term disability coverage
- Competitive base compensation with an annual short term incentive bonus structure
- RRSP matching to help you plan for a secure financial future
- Paid training and educational allowances to support your ongoing professional development
- Work-life balance supported by flexible policies and a convenient office location near Calgary Trail and Anthony Henday
- Associate perks including discounts on tires, parts, and services at all Fountain Tire locations
Qualifications:
- A bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field is preferred.
- 5+ years in a direct sourcing or as an HR Generalist with a recruitment focus
- Demonstrated success sourcing, pipelining, selecting, and closing talent, including recruitment for rural locations and non-professional roles.
- Strong knowledge of effective recruitment practices, including behaviour-based interviewing and online attraction methods.
- Demonstrated ability to identify the competencies required for success and assess candidates against those requirements.
- Strong consultative, customer-service, organizational, communication, listening, persuasion, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, collaborate effectively, and maintain a positive, self-motivated approach in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to travel up to 10% to attend events and source candidates.
- Familiarity with skilled-trades regulations and programs across Canada is an asset.
- Experience with Temporary Foreign Worker programs is preferred.
- Experience in the automotive aftermarket industry is an asset.
- Due to the confidential nature of the role, a criminal and credit check will be required.
Ready for the next stage or your career? Apply online today and join a Human Resources team committed to helping people get there—safely, sustainably, and successfully.
