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Mariana Minerals is a software-first, vertically integrated minerals company focused on supplying critical minerals for modern energy, AI, and defense technologies. The company reimagines the minerals supply chain by combining deep industry expertise with advanced software, automation, and data-driven decision-making.
As Senior R&D Engineering Recruiter, you will partner closely with recruiters, hiring managers, and technical leaders to identify, engage, and attract exceptional engineering talent—particularly chemical, mechanical, and process engineers. You'll develop creative sourcing strategies to uncover hard-to-find talent in industrial and materials-focused disciplines, and build long-term relationships with candidates before they're actively looking.
Key responsibilities include:
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies for chemical, mechanical, process, and other engineering roles
- Build targeted searches identifying exceptional talent across industrial, manufacturing, materials science, and process research communities
- Research, identify, and engage passive candidates through highly personalized, discipline-specific outreach
- Partner with recruiters and hiring managers to understand technical requirements, hiring priorities, and market dynamics
- Translate complex engineering requirements into effective sourcing strategies
- Build and maintain long-term relationships with high-potential engineering candidates
- Conduct talent mapping, competitive intelligence, and market research across engineering fields
- Continuously improve sourcing methodologies, tooling, and recruiting processes
- Track sourcing metrics and provide market insights to recruiting and hiring leadership
- Represent Mariana Minerals through thoughtful, engaging candidate experience
- Help shape employer brand and engineering talent narrative
- Stay current on sourcing technology, AI-assisted tools, and emerging channels for specialized engineering talent
- Build diverse, high-quality candidate pipelines for hard-to-fill, highly specialized roles
This is an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys research, thrives on solving difficult hiring challenges, and wants to help build a company from the ground up.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5–8+ years of experience sourcing technical talent with demonstrated success recruiting chemical engineers, mechanical engineers, process engineers, or similar disciplines
- Experience recruiting for industrial, manufacturing, materials, chemicals, or process-heavy environments (startup or established company)
- Expert in ATS tools (preference for Ashby)
- Strong expertise with LinkedIn Recruiter, sourcing tools, Boolean search, Indeed, research platforms, professional/technical societies, and other creative sourcing techniques
- Demonstrated ability to identify and engage passive candidates for difficult-to-fill engineering roles
- Experience partnering directly with engineering leaders and hiring managers
- Excellent research skills with ability to understand engineering domains and evaluate technical talent
- Strong written communication skills with experience crafting personalized candidate outreach
- Ability to manage multiple searches simultaneously while maintaining high quality bar
- Data-driven approach to sourcing strategy and pipeline management
- Strong closing and negotiating skills
- High ownership mindset with ability to thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
- Passion for building exceptional teams and creating outstanding candidate experiences
NICE TO HAVE:
- Prior experience recruiting for critical minerals, mining, chemicals, industrial automation, robotics, or deep tech companies
- Experience sourcing for niche or emerging technical disciplines (materials science, controls engineering, applied AI/ML, software engineering)
- Familiarity with early-stage or seed-to-Series B recruiting environments
- Experience building a sourcing function or playbook from scratch
