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Senior Recruiter at Phoenix Tailings

Senior Recruiter

Phoenix Tailings · NY, US

2 weeks ago

Senior Recruiter

Phoenix Tailings · NY, US

19 days ago
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About the Role

Phoenix Tailings is seeking an experienced recruiter for a future Senior Recruiter opportunity at our Rochester Freedom Facility. This role will establish and execute a repeatable hiring plan for the workforce needed to construct, commission, and operate the facility, personally delivering early leadership, technical, and operational hires while building local talent pipelines. This is an opportunity to help build a new site's workforce, connecting hiring decisions and candidate relationships to the facility's deployment schedule.

Responsibilities

  • Build and execute a repeatable Rochester hiring plan, sequencing leadership, technical, skilled-trade, and operating hires against construction and startup needs.
  • Own recruiting from role definition through accepted offer, personally sourcing, screening, and closing early leadership, technical, and operational candidates.
  • Develop local talent pipelines through colleges, workforce programs, community relationships, referrals, and direct sourcing for current and future hiring needs.
  • Partner with hiring managers on job requirements, structured interviews, and timely decisions so candidates are evaluated consistently against the work required.
  • Maintain accurate candidate records and pipeline reporting, identify stalled searches, and provide a clear candidate experience as hiring priorities evolve.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated full-cycle recruiting experience, including sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer management, and candidate closing.
  • Experience recruiting engineering, technical, skilled-trade, operational, or leadership talent for manufacturing, chemicals, metals, industrial technology, or related businesses.
  • Ability to build talent pipelines through direct sourcing and local education, workforce, referral, and community relationships.
  • Ability to translate hiring plans into organized searches, maintain accurate recruiting records, and help managers make consistent decisions against deployment milestones.

Location

  • Rochester, New York

Work Type

  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • Experienced

Salary/Compensations

  • $116,000-$174,000 per year

Benefits

  • 100% Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employee
  • Stock Options
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Learning and development opportunities

About the Company

  • Phoenix Tailings is a rapidly growing clean mining and metals production startup focused on building a domestic supply of critical materials.
  • Our Freedom Facility in Rochester, New York will be a commercial-scale rare earth separation facility designed to expand U.S. capacity to process and separate rare earth materials.
  • Rare earths are essential inputs for many of the technologies that power modern life.
  • Building more of this capability in the United States is important for strengthening domestic supply chains, reducing reliance on foreign processing, and supporting the advanced manufacturing, energy, technology, and national-security industries that depend on these materials.
  • The Freedom Facility will be designed to produce thousands of tons of separated rare earth oxides annually, making Rochester an important part of Phoenix Tailings' expansion of domestic rare earth processing capacity.
  • At Phoenix, we believe that nothing great is ever accomplished alone or without the passion of people who push and motivate one another.
  • Our Values: Say what you think even when it’s uncomfortable, Lead with Compassion, Be Resourceful, Listen, Hustle.
  • We encourage interested candidates to apply, learn more about what we are building, and stay connected as we develop our facility.
  • At Phoenix Tailings, we have an open culture that values learning, and we are looking to grow the team with enthusiastic individuals who share our vision of sustainable mining.

Equal Opportunity

  • Phoenix Tailings, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we value diversity at all levels. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information, or any other applicable protected characteristics, and these characteristics will not be a factor for consideration of any work-related decisions (including but not limited to hiring, firing, compensation, and discipline).