Posted 
Jun 2

Technical Engineer and Recruitment Specialist

People & HR
REMOTE

Role Description

About ElectraSteel

ElectraSteel is mission-focused on developing transformational innovations to decarbonize the foundations of our industrialized economy through novel electrochemistry and hydrometallurgy to create a positive environmental, societal, and economic impact. Company's first product to market transforms a trillion-dollar steel industry that today consumes 7% of the world's energy using fossil fuels and emits about three gigatons or 10% of carbon dioxide emissions per year. The novel electrochemical-hydrometallurgical process converts iron ore or contaminated steel scrap to green iron and steel with no carbon emissions while reducing overall cost. It is a paradigm shift of how steel has been made for centuries: from using fossil fuels to intermittent renewables as an energy source, from thermochemical reduction to electrochemical reduction, from using specialized ores to unconventional ores, scrap steel, and waste streams as a feedstock, from integrated to a distributed manufacturing, and from creating global to local jobs. While electrifying steelmaking is an exciting start and the Company's current focus, its electrochemical-hydrometallurgy innovation platform also enables carbon dioxide sequestration at gigaton-scale and decarbonization of industrial sectors beyond steel, which the Company will disclose in due course.

The potential impact of the ElectraSteel solution is monumental, which is why eight marquee investors, each with more than a billion dollars in capital and strategic resources under management, have partnered with the Company to date.

About ElectraSteel Team & Culture

Our team has collectively lived in over 25 countries and 33 US states, and can communicate in 15 languages. Despite working on a large-scale industrial challenge many of our team members have decidedly non-industrial backgrounds. Members of Team Electra have background experience in education, fashion, law, consulting, cosmetology, finance, history, hobby drone design, professional sports, machining, photography, chocolatiering, and online arbitrage in addition to science, technology, engineering, and electrochemistry.

We believe that while our team is our greatest asset, our unique culture, built on trust, respect, and integrity, sets us apart from the competition. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion because the management understands that transformational innovation requires many perspectives. Our culture fosters collaboration, patience, and a disciplined approach to innovating around obstacles while challenging the status quo. Yes, there is method-to-itsmadness (or boldness)! We pursue an evidence-based development approach grounded in the theory of constraints and techno-economic analysis. It focuses on finding optimal technical paths guided by first principles in every aspect of its development. That is why in less than two years from its founding, we have demonstrated a transformational approach which others in the industry long believed couldn't be done!

Make no mistake, ElectraSteel is a fast-paced and intense environment driven by progress and results. The path ahead is both uncertain and challenging, so if that sounds scary, this may not be the place for you. Instead, ElectraSteel seeks those excited by the challenge who have the required skills and the ability to think critically to help create transformational innovations that will decarbonize our planet.

Job Description

ElectraSteel is looking for a self-driven individual with an engineering/technology background interested in making a career transition to recruitment marketing. While you started your career as an engineer or technologist, you have recognized that working with and helping people has been your favorite part of the job. As a result, you have made or thought of making a career transition to an external-facing role, like recruitment, marketing, and sales. If that is you, we want to hear from you and explore a potential fit to help build a high-performance team at ElectraSteel. Today, we are ~35+ employees and expect to add ~5-10 employees per quarter for the foreseeable future. In this role, you will use your passion for working with people to develop a strong network of talented engineers and technologists with core values aligned with our vision. Given your engineering and technical background, we believe you will be able to relate to prospective candidates better than a career recruiter, help them uncover their career goals, and match them with opportunities at ElectraSteel. It is an opportunity to help build an extraordinary company ground up and work closely with the senior executive team. As the Company grows, you will also have an opportunity to grow from talent and recruitment marketing to technical marketing and sales in the future.

Core Responsibilities:

  • Develop strategic and tactical plans and uses both traditional and non-traditional resources and techniques to successfully source a diverse pipeline of both active and passive candidates
  • Screen qualified applicants, present top candidates, and facilitate candidate interview debriefs and selection process with interview teams
  • Build strong hiring manager relationships and communicate consistently and proactively throughout the recruitment process to ensure all participants in the hiring process are updated and well informed
  • Solicit feedback regarding the recruiting process to continually improve the experience for all parties
  • Create a positive candidate experience (for both the selected and non-selected candidates) throughout the entire recruiting process and enthusiastically advocate for the Company
  • Align the candidate recruitment experience to be consistent with our employer brand
  • Support the development of marketing collateral to support our employee value proposition and effectively communicate it to potential candidates
  • Effectively leverage social media platforms and our website (which is in the process of being revamped) for recruitment and employer branding
  • Maintain an understanding of the market and leverage networks to build candidate pipelines
  • Schedule candidate travel as needed
  • Other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications:

  • 2 years of engineering, or technical recruiting, marketing, or sales experience
  • BS or MS in engineering (mechanical, chemical, electrical) or science (Applied Physics, electrochemistry, chemistry)
  • Proficient with Microsoft Office applications including Teams, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint
  • Exceptional networking, relationship building and customer service skills
  • Ability to demonstrate a high level of professionalism
  • Excellent time management skills with strong attention to details
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
  • Critical thinker that is aligned with our values and culture

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in hardware and deep-technology industries such as battery, electrolyzers, renewables, and industrial/chemical processes
  • Full cycle recruiting experience, primarily in various engineering disciplines (mechanical, electrical, systems, chemical, electrochemical)
  • Experience with social media recruitment strategies

ElectraSteel currently requires all employees to be immunized against Covid-19; however, an exemption from this requirement may be requested.

Benefits Include:

  • 100% employer paid employee healthcare benefits with three different medical care options
  • Unlimited PTO
  • 401k matching
  • Eligibility for company equity
  • 12 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Unlimited fun!

ElectraSteel is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

ElectraSteel
 at a glance

ElectraSteel uses intermittent renewable energy for the electrification and decarbonization of iron and steelmaking.