Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition

Description

Fermi America is developing Project Matador, a ~17 GW private power generation and data center campus Texas, built to meet the surging energy demands of AI compute infrastructure and one of the largest most ambitious energy projects in the world.. The campus integrates natural gas, nuclear, and solar generation at a scale and speed rarely attempted in U.S. power development.

Fermi is assembling the engineering, construction, and commercial teams needed to take this project from FEED through commercial operation, alongside the broader corporate functions required to run a company of this ambition.

This is a build phase: headcount is scaling quickly across highly technical and highly specialized roles, and the company needs a talent acquisition leader who can build the hiring function while the org is still being formed.

Role Overview

The Sr. Manager, Talent Acquisition will own full-cycle hiring across all of Fermi’s workforce, spanning construction , financial , commercial , and other core business teams. This person will build and run the recruiting engine for a fast-scaling energy infrastructure company — setting process, managing requisitions, partnering directly with hiring managers on specialized and often hard-to-fill roles, and building the pipeline infrastructure (ATS, sourcing channels, agency/vendor relationships) needed to hire at pace.

This role is a strong fit for someone who has led talent acquisition inside a construction, energy, manufacturing, industrial, or infrastructure company and is comfortable operating without a fully built-out TA function yet — someone who wants to build the playbook, not just execute one.

Key Responsibilities

Talent Acquisition Strategy & Leadership

• •Own the end-to-end talent acquisition strategy across construction, financial, commercial, and other business functions
• •Build scalable recruiting processes, workflows, and standards appropriate for a rapidly growing organization
• •Partner with executive leadership to forecast hiring needs against Project Matador's construction and operating timeline
• •Define and track TA metrics (time-to-fill, pipeline health, offer acceptance, cost-per-hire) and report on hiring progress

Full-Cycle Recruiting

• •Manage full-cycle recruiting for open roles across assigned functions, from intake through offer and close
• •Partner directly with hiring managers to scope roles, define requirements, and build sourcing strategy — particularly for specialized construction, engineering, and financial/commercial roles
• •Source and screen candidates directly for priority and hard-to-fill roles
• •Build and maintain a strong pipeline of passive and active candidates across target functions

Vendor & Agency Management

• •Manage relationships with external recruiting agencies, staffing partners, and contingent labor providers as needed to supplement direct sourcing
• •Evaluate and select ATS and recruiting tools appropriate to the company's stage

Process & Compliance

• •Ensure hiring practices comply with relevant federal, state, and local employment law
• •Build consistent interview processes, scorecards, and candidate evaluation frameworks across functions
• •Manage offer construction and negotiation in partnership with HR/People leadership

Requirements

Required

• •7+ years of talent acquisition experience, including experience recruiting for construction, technical, or industrial roles
• •Demonstrated experience building or scaling a talent acquisition function, ideally within a high-growth or project-based organization (construction, energy, industrial, or infrastructure preferred)
• •Track record recruiting across a range of functions simultaneously (e.g., field/construction roles alongside corporate finance, commercial, or business roles)
• •Strong stakeholder management skills — comfortable partnering directly with senior leaders and technical hiring managers
• •Experience managing ATS platforms, sourcing tools, and recruiting vendors/agencies
• •Willingness to work across and travel between Dallas and Amarillo, TX

Preferred

• •Experience recruiting for power generation, energy infrastructure, or large-scale construction/EPC projects
• •Familiarity with skilled trades and construction labor markets in Texas
• •Experience hiring at a company scaling rapidly from an early-stage or pre-operational phase