Recruiting and Onboarding Manager

Location: Geismar, Louisiana, United States; on-site

Company

Optimal supports the workforce behind critical industrial projects through recruiting, onboarding, and staffing operations.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop the recruiting and onboarding team.
• Set hiring priorities and recruiting goals while partnering with operations and project leaders to forecast workforce needs.
• Manage full-cycle recruiting, including sourcing, screening, interviews, offers, placement, and candidate pipeline development.
• Support staffing for projects, maintenance, turnarounds, shutdowns, outages, and recurring high-demand positions.
• Oversee onboarding through job-site readiness, coordinating documentation, testing, checks, orientations, and credential verification.
• Track recruiting metrics, report staffing updates, resolve hiring challenges, and improve recruiting and onboarding processes.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Five or more years of recruiting, staffing, onboarding, or workforce-coordination experience.
• At least two years of direct people-management or team-leadership experience required.
• Experience with high-volume or skilled-craft recruiting and applicant-tracking or workforce-management systems.
• Knowledge of employment practices and hiring compliance, including OSHA, NCCER, TWIC, licensing, certifications, background checks, drug testing, and MVR reviews.
• Strong communication, organization, judgment, problem-solving, and relationship-building skills in a fast-paced environment.

Nice to have

• Associate’s or bachelor’s degree in human resources, business, construction management, or a related field.
• Experience in construction, industrial, petrochemical, or field-workforce environments.
• Turnaround, shutdown, or outage staffing experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on leadership role with direct influence on project readiness and employee experience.
• Collaboration with safety, payroll, human resources, operations, and project leadership.
• Opportunity to improve workforce recruiting and onboarding processes while supporting company growth.