Senior Recruiter

Koch; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Koch Engineered Solutions (OPD) in Katy, Texas is seeking a Senior Recruiter to shape hiring strategies, define talent needs, and attract candidates aligned with Our Values. You will apply Principle Based Hiring, use data and business insight to influence decisions, and create a brand-worthy candidate and stakeholder experience.

As a senior recruiting partner, you will lead complex searches, build pipelines, and collaborate with hiring leaders, Business HR, and interview teams to ensure

Qualifications

• Recruiting experience in corporate or agency environment and managing full-cycle and complex searches.
• Experience recruiting engineering, construction, skilled trades, project execution, or EPC technical talent.
• Translating business needs into recruiting strategies using market insight, data, and informed challenge.
• Sourcing passive talent through multiple channels and developing clear candidate assessments.
• Building trusted partnerships with hiring leaders, Business HR, and interview teams amid changing priorities.
• Proficiency with ATS/CRM systems, sourcing platforms, and recruiting analytics tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop end-to-end recruiting strategies aligned with OPD’s business, workforce needs, talent market, and critical capabilities.
• Partner with hiring supervisors, Business HR, leaders, and interview teams to align on talent needs, define success, and support Principle Based Hiring practices.
• Assess candidates using human judgment and develop clear points of view on Our Values, motivation, capabilities, and role alignment.
• Independently lead complex or high-priority searches, balancing business priorities, market constraints, risk, and candidate experience.
• Create and execute sourcing strategies using market insight, data, technology, knowledge resources, and professional networks to engage internal and external talent.
• Build talent pipelines through community outreach, employer branding, and grassroots relationship-building, partnering with the right capabilities to advance recruiting strategies.
• Use business context, talent-market insights, and recruiting data to surface trade-offs and influence long-term hiring decisions.
• Create a brand-worthy, inclusive, and transparent candidate experience while maintaining accurate recruiting data and visibility.
• Apply sound judgment to recruiting risk, legal requirements, compliance, and HR policies while adapting priorities as business needs and technology evolve.

Skills

End-to-end recruiting

Technical recruiting

Stakeholder management

Sourcing passive talent

ATS/CRM proficiency

Data-driven decisions

Tools

ATS/CRM systems

Job description

Your Job

We are seeking a Senior Recruiter to support Optimized Process Designs (OPD), a Koch Engineered Solutions company, in Katy, Texas. In this role, you will do more than fill requisitions. You will help the business define talent needs, shape hiring strategies, and attract and select people who can contribute to OPD’s long-term success. You will apply Principle Based Hiring and judgment to assess candidates’ alignment with Our Values, contribution motivation, capabilities, and potential. As a senior recruiting partner, you will use business knowledge, market insight, data, and informed challenge to influence better hiring outcomes while creating a brand-worthy candidate and stakeholder experience.

Our Team

Koch Recruiting partners with business leaders, hiring supervisors, Business HR, and interview teams to attract, select, and hire talent that advances business objectives. We seek to understand the businesses we support, apply Principle Based Management® in our work, and continuously improve how we create value through recruiting. Our team shares knowledge, uses technology thoughtfully, and builds recruiting and interviewing capability across the organization.

What You Will Do

• Develop and drive end-to-end recruiting strategies aligned with OPD’s business, workforce needs, talent market, and critical capabilities.
• Partner with hiring supervisors, Business HR, leaders, and interview teams to align on talent needs, define success, and support consistent Principle Based Hiring practices.
• Assess candidates using human judgment and develop clear points of view on Our Values, contribution motivation, capabilities, and role alignment.
• Independently lead complex or high-priority searches, balancing business priorities, market constraints, risk, and candidate experience.
• Create and execute sourcing strategies using market insight, data, technology, knowledge resources, and professional networks to engage internal and external talent.
• Build talent pipelines through community outreach, employer branding, and grassroots relationship-building, partnering with the right capabilities to advance recruiting strategies.
• Use business context, talent-market insights, and recruiting data to surface trade-offs and influence effective long-term hiring decisions.
• Create a brand-worthy, inclusive, and transparent candidate experience while maintaining accurate recruiting data and visibility.
• Apply sound judgment to recruiting risk, legal requirements, compliance, and HR policies while adapting priorities as business needs and technology evolve.

The Experience You Will Bring

Requirements (Basic Qualifications):

• Recruiting experience in a corporate or agency environment, including independently managing full-cycle and complex searches.
• Experience recruiting engineering, construction, skilled trades, project execution, or other technical talent relevant to an EPC environment.
• Experience translating business needs into recruiting strategies and influencing hiring decisions through market insight, data, and informed challenge.
• Experience sourcing passive talent through multiple channels and developing clear candidate assessments based on capabilities, motivation, values alignment, and role fit.
• Experience building trusted partnerships with hiring leaders, Business HR, and interview teams while navigating competing priorities and changing needs with limited direction.
• Proficiency with ATS or CRM systems, sourcing platforms, and recruiting analytics or market-insight tools.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience recruiting in engineering, procurement, construction, energy, industrial services, or oil and gas, with established Houston-area talent networks.
• Experience influencing workforce planning, talent strategy, succession, or pipeline discussions beyond individual requisitions.
• Demonstrated success coaching hiring teams or peers and improving interviewing, assessment, sourcing, or recruiting practices.
• Experience using data and technology to lead recruiting improvements that strengthened decisions, efficiency, or stakeholder visibility.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

Koch creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs about 120,000 employees across the globe. At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).