The Recruiting Manager is responsible for leading and executing a high-impact recruiting strategy focused on building and sustaining a best-in-class craft and professional workforce across Texas, Louisiana, and surrounding markets. This role requires a strong, field-oriented recruiting leader with deep industry connections, credibility with craft professionals, and a proven ability to support large-scale industrial and power generation projects.
This position partners closely with operations, project leadership, and HR to ensure timely, compliant, and high-quality hiring outcomes while leading the recruiting team and driving regional workforce planning and pipeline development.
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead, mentor, and develop the PES recruiting team while serving as the primary recruiting partner to project leadership and operations
• Build and maintain strong relationships with craft professionals, trade schools, training programs, unions (where applicable), and regional labor networks
• Develop and execute regional sourcing strategies and maintain active pipelines for skilled trades, foremen, supervisors, and field leadership
• Oversee full-cycle recruiting for craft, field leadership, and staff roles, including screening, interviewing, offers, and onboarding coordination
• Establish and continuously improve standardized recruiting, onboarding, and workforce planning processes
• Drive proactive workforce planning and requisition alignment in partnership with project and operations leadership
• Implement innovative sourcing methods including field outreach, referrals, industry networking, and community engagement
• Lead participation in job fairs, hiring events, and workforce development initiatives while strengthening PES’s employer brand
• Ensure compliance with company policies, labor regulations, and hiring standards Monitor recruiting metrics, pipeline health, and time-to-fill performance using ATS and reporting tools
• Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring managers on recruiting best practices and market conditions
• Support new hire orientation and onboarding in partnership with HR and project teams
Required Qualifications:
• 5+ years of progressive recruiting experience with significant focus on craft and field hiring; 3+ years in a leadership role
• Demonstrated success recruiting skilled trades and field leadership in construction, industrial, power, or EPC environments
• Proven experience supporting large, multi-state project workforces and regional labor markets Established network and strong relationships within Texas, Louisiana, and surrounding craft communities
• Strong understanding of craft labor markets, workforce mobility, compliance, and onboarding requirements
• Experience using ATS platforms, recruitment reporting tools, and workforce planning systems Working knowledge of industrial and power construction operations and project mobilization cycles
• Proven ability to lead, motivate, and develop high-performing recruiting teams with strong field credibility
• Decisive, solutions-oriented leadership style with the ability to balance urgency, quality, and compliance Exceptional communication, negotiation, and relationship management skills
• Ability to manage expectations, resolve workforce challenges, and operate effectively in fast-paced, project-driven environments
• Passion for building sustainable craft pipelines and long-term workforce strategies
BENEFITS:
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Primoris was formed in 2004 as the parent company and is traded on the NYSE under the symbol PRIM. We provide a wide range of construction, maintenance, and engineering services for power generation, oil and gas, chemical, pipeline, utilities and distribution, and civil infrastructure clients. Primoris is ranked in the top 1% of the prestigious Top 600 Specialty Contractors List by Engineering News-Record (ENR), having built projects throughout the U.S. and Canada. For additional information, please visit www.prim.com.
Primoris Energy Services is a major direct-hire contractor in the U.S. delivering self-performed turnkey industrial construction and EPC services. We offer these services to our clients within the refining, gas processing, chemical/petrochemical, hydrogen, power generation, mining, pulp and paper industries from the first groundbreaking activity all the way through commissioning and start-up of the project. Primoris forms a partnership with our customers and major stakeholders from early-stage engineering through construction completion and commercial operation, safely, on-time, and within budget.
AGENCY STATEMENT:
We are not accepting resumes from Third Party Recruiting Firms for this position. If you are an Agency or Search firm representative, contact the Primoris Talent Acquisition Manager directly for consideration. Primoris or its subsidiaries will not be responsible for any fees arising from the use of resumes and online response forms through this source. In addition, Primoris or its subsidiaries will not be responsible for any fees on unsolicited resumes that are submitted to any member of the Staffing or Operations team. Primoris has established an approved vendor program for this service and will only consider accepting submissions from those approved firms. For consideration in becoming an approved vendor, contact HR.
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