Technical Recruiter, Plant Operations and Manufacturing

About the role

General Matter is enriching uranium in America. Our goal is to design, build, and operate the world's lowest-cost enrichment services in the United States. Our mission is to restore America's ability to produce nuclear fuel-fuel that will power AI, advanced manufacturing, critical industries, and the next generation of nuclear reactors. Ultimately, our work will help power national ambitions and enable a high-energy society. We were incubated by Founders Fund, like Anduril and Palantir before us, and are backed by top-tier investors. Our lean, world-class team of engineers and operators is applying a first-principles approach to solving the problem of nuclear fuel production. We are a mission-driven company with a culture of urgency, accountability, and transparency. Help us build a high-energy society by making the cleanest, safest form of baseload energy the most affordable. General Matter is hiring a tenacious recruiter to help build the workforce behind the world's most modern enrichment facility in Paducah, Kentucky. This role will own full-cycle recruiting across technical, skilled trades, operations, manufacturing, construction, and facility buildout roles while also helping develop the long-term talent pipelines needed to support one of the most ambitious industrial projects in the country. This is a unique opportunity to join a lean, high-impact recruiting team at a critical stage of growth. You will partner closely with hiring managers, operations leaders, and community stakeholders to identify, attract, assess, and close exceptional talent. You will also help build the external relationships that makes growth possible, including partnerships with trade schools, technical colleges, universities, workforce development organizations, and local community groups. This role requires both strategic judgment and operational intensity. We are hiring at high volume, and we need someone who can scale recruiting without making candidates feel like a number: tracking pipeline health, maintaining clean systems, identifying bottlenecks, driving processes forward with urgency and precision, and ensuring every candidate receives clear communication, thoughtful engagement, and a positive impression of General Matter throughout the process. The team is highly collaborative, operates with integrity, and is deeply committed to bringing nuclear fuel enrichment back to US soil. If you enjoy Skunkworks-style projects, value autonomy and ownership, and are passionate about building world-class teams, we'd love to hear from you. We are open to multiple experience levels for the role. We care about capability, drive, and impact more than years of experience. Scope and responsibility will commensurate with experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the full-cycle recruitment process for technical and operational roles, from intake to closing.
• Act as a key business partner to leaders and hiring managers by providing market insights, rapidly calibrating on top talent, and refining interview processes to drive successful hiring outcomes.
• Conduct thorough initial interviews that assess ability, excellence, and cultural alignment while delivering a positive candidate experience and strong interview-to-offer outcomes.
• Build and maintain high-volume recruiting pipelines, tracking hiring progress as an operation and using metrics to identify bottlenecks, improve conversion, and drive consistent execution.
• Develop workforce development partnerships with trade schools, technical colleges, community colleges, universities, workforce boards, training programs, and other educational institutions in Paducah and the surrounding region.
• Plan, coordinate, and attend community events, school visits, technical talks, and other outreach efforts to build General Matter's presence in the local talent market.
• Design and execute sourcing strategies that extend beyond traditional recruiting channels, including referrals, cold outreach, local networking, community partnerships, events, and targeted campaigns.
• Deliver exceptional candidate experiences across the interview process that reflects General Matter's mission, culture, and high-performance culture.
• Wear many hats across the recruiting function, from managing process improvement initiatives, coordinating onsite interviews to process improvement projects as we scale.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of recruiting experience (academic, internships, and extracurriculars at university level qualify) or associate degree and 4+ years of experience; or 5+ years of professional experience as a recruiter in lieu of a degree.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trust with candidates, hiring teams, educational partners, and community organizations.
• Proven ability to manage and execute multiple competing priorities with autonomy.
• Holds a high bar for personal accountability and performance,

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