Staff Recruiter, Early Careers & Intern Programs

Redwood Materials Inc.; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Redwood Materials is seeking a Staff Recruiter for Early Career and Interns to own the internship program end to end, scaling it across the company’s Nevada and South Carolina sites while tightening conversion and expanding into co-op and new-grad hiring.

You will partner with Engineering, Operations, R&D, and People teams to define strategy, manage budgets, and build strong relationships with universities, career services, and faculty, driving effective recruiting and conversion for the next

Qualifications

• Experience owning an internship or early-careers program end to end.
• Track record of growing or rebuilding a program rather than maintaining one.
• Comfortable owning a budget and defending it with data.
• Ability to influence engineering leaders and site general managers without formal authority.
• Hands-on operator who will recruit, close, and troubleshoot directly when needed.
• Deep familiarity with the university ecosystem, including career services, faculty relationships, and student organizations.
• Fluency in applicant tracking systems (Greenhouse preferred) and the ability to build reporting from the system.
• Experience with co-op, apprenticeship, rotational, or new-grad programs, or with community college workforce partnerships, is a plus.
• Experience with international student hiring and work authorization is a plus.
• A Passion for sustainability and making the world a better place!

Responsibilities

• Set the annual intern headcount plan with Finance, HRBP, and org leaders across Engineering, Operations, R&D, Supply Chain, and corporate functions, and own the program budget and operating calendar.
• Run the full intern lifecycle from sourcing and offers through onboarding, relocation, mid-point reviews, final presentations, and conversion decisions.
• Build and own the target school strategy and relationships with UNR, TMCC, Clemson University, and the national engineering programs that feed our sites, including campus and virtual recruiting events.
• Train intern managers on scoping projects, giving feedback, and making conversion calls, and run calibration so intern performance and offer decisions are consistent across sites.
• Design and deliver the summer program, including onboarding, site tours, executive speaker series, cohort projects, and the final showcase, and act on intern and manager feedback.
• Own program metrics including offer acceptance, conversion rate, school yield, cost per hire, and retention of converted interns, and report on program health to Talent Acquisition and People leadership.
• Partner with Legal on work authorization guidelines for interns, with HR Ops on Greenhouse and Workday workflows, and with Communications on student-facing employer brand content, and extend the program into co-op and new-grad tracks

Skills

Internship program management

Budget management

Stakeholder influence

Recruiting experience

University relations

ATS experience

Tools

Greenhouse ATS

Job description

Redwood Materials is seeking a Staff Recruiter for Early Career and Interns to own the internship program end to end, scaling it across the company’s Nevada and South Carolina sites while tightening conversion and expanding into co-op and new-grad hiring.

You will partner with Engineering, Operations, R&D, and People teams to define strategy, manage budgets, and build strong relationships with universities, career services, and faculty, driving effective recruiting and conversion for the next