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Contract Recruiter

Role overview

Summary

This role supports Form Energy's Manufacturing, Test, and Operations Engineering organization by filling hardware engineering roles. You will collaborate with the TA team and hiring managers to build a strong candidate pipeline, ensuring a positive experience throughout the hiring process.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, including 2+ years recruiting for Mechanical, Electrical, or Manufacturing Engineering roles.
  • Experience recruiting for hardware or equipment roles in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
  • Strong communication and organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple searches at once.
  • A collaborative, flexible approach, comfortable working in a lean team.
  • Preferred: Proficiency with LinkedIn Recruiter; Ashby experience

Responsibilities

  • Manage a set of searches for engineering roles from intake to close with guidance from the TA team.
  • Meet regularly with hiring managers to understand role requirements and team needs.
  • Proactively source candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter and outreach to build a strong pipeline.
  • Maintain accurate records in Ashby and ensure candidates have a positive experience.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Organizational Skills
  • Communication
  • Collaboration

About the company

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Form Energy

  • Sustainability & ESG Consulting
  • Scaleup
  • 201–500
Form Energy is developing a new class of cost-effective, multi-day energy storage systems that will enable a reliable, resilient, and fully renewable electric grid year-round. Our pioneering battery technology will entirely reshape the global electric system and give it new form. Learn more about Form Energy at www.formenergy.com. We believe that to achieve climate justice, we need everyone at the table. We strive to build a company with a workforce reflective of the communities we aim to serve with our technology – a company where every employee feels a sense of belonging. We commit significant resources towards equity, inclusion, and diversity and hold ourselves accountable to continuous improvement. We are always looking for talented, hardworking individuals to join our team! If you’re interested, please visit www.formenergy.com/careers.

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Job description

Are you ready to build America’s energy future? Form Energy is an American manufacturing and energy technology company. We’re revolutionizing energy storage with cost-effective, multi-day technology designed to keep the electric grid secure and reliable, even during extended periods of stress. By strengthening the electric system and reimagining what’s possible, we’re giving clean energy a whole new form! 

In recent years, Form Energy has earned a number of accolades, including being named by TIME as a “Best Invention”, MIT Technology Review as a “Top Climate Tech Company To Watch”, and Fast Company as “One of the Next Big Things In Tech”. We are making rapid progress on our mission of delivering energy storage for a better world, and our team is growing just as rapidly to meet demand. We have signed contracts with leading electric utilities across the United States and production of our iron-air batteries is underway at our first high-volume manufacturing facility in West Virginia.

Working for Form Energy is more than just a job, it’s a chance to be part of something extraordinary. And now - right as we significantly scale up battery manufacturing -  might be the most exciting moment in the company’s history to join. We are assembling a team of highly talented and driven individuals across the country. Driven by our core values of humanity, excellence, and creativity, our team is determined to deliver on our mission and transform the energy landscape for the better.

Feeling energized to make a meaningful impact on the world? Then keep reading - you’ve come to the right place.

Form Energy is hiring a Contract Technical Recruiter to support our Manufacturing, Test, and Operations Engineering organization as we scale our pioneering multi-day energy storage systems. You’ll work alongside our TA team to fill hardware engineering roles across mechanical, electrical, equipment, and test, helping us build the team that will transform America’s electric grid.

This is a remote flexible role.

What you’ll do:

  • Full-Cycle Recruiting: Manage a set of searches for engineering roles, from intake and sourcing through interviews, offer, and close, with guidance from the TA team.

  • Hiring Manager Partnership: Meet regularly with hiring managers to understand role requirements and team needs, and keep them updated on pipeline progress.

  • Sourcing & Pipeline Building: Proactively source active and passive candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter, outreach, and engineering communities to build a strong pipeline.

  • Process & Candidate Experience: Keep the hiring process organized and moving, maintain accurate records in Ashby, and ensure candidates have a positive experience.

  • Market Insights: Share what you’re seeing in the hardware talent market and pipeline data with the TA team and hiring managers.

What you’ll bring:

  • 5+ years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, including 2+ years recruiting for Mechanical, Electrical, or Manufacturing Engineering roles

  • Experience recruiting for hardware or equipment roles in a fast-paced, high-growth environment

  • Proficiency with LinkedIn Recruiter; Ashby experience is a plus

  • Strong communication and organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple searches at once

  • A collaborative, flexible approach, comfortable working in a lean team

 

Humanity is a cornerstone of Form Energy’s culture, and we make sure our compensation and benefits reflect that. Form Energy offers competitive salaries, stock options, and a holistic benefits package to ensure all employees have what they need to thrive while working here. 

When it comes to you and your family’s health, we cover 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees - and 80% of healthcare premiums for dependents. This starts from day one. We also offer at least 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents (up to 20 weeks for birthing parents), and generous vacation policies to give employees time to recharge when needed. 

To build America’s energy future, we need everyone at the table. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply to our open jobs.

If you may require reasonable accommodations to participate in our interview process, please contact accommodations@formenergy.com. Requests for accommodations will be treated with discretion.

Form Energy is committed to maintaining the privacy of our applicants. Please be aware that we will never solicit sensitive personal information such as Social Security numbers or bank account details during the recruiting or hiring process.

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