Position: Sr. Recruiter – Onsite / Data Center-Focused

Location: Vernon, TX

The Sr. Recruiter will be onsite and responsible for managing sourcing, recruitment, pre-screening, and full-cycle onboarding for one major data center construction project. This role partners daily with project leadership to identify immediate and long-term workforce needs, manage hiring pipelines, and ensure new hires are effectively mobilized and onboarded to the project. The Sr. Recruiter serves as the primary staffing resource for the jobsite, ensuring consistent staffing levels, compliance, and a positive candidate and employee onboarding experience.

Primary Duties:

Recruitment & Talent Acquisition

• Provide strategic recruitment advice to onsite hiring managers, project executives, and internal stakeholders to maximize the number and quality of candidates for each vacancy.
• Partner closely with operations teams to understand manpower schedules, jobsite demands, and upcoming staffing needs.
• Ensure all aspects of the recruitment process comply with relevant employment legislation and company hiring standards.
• Ensure all recruitment practices are free from favoritism, nepotism, and discrimination and carried out in accordance with best practices.
• Conduct onsite and virtual interviews, validate skills, coordinate pre-employment screenings, and arrange mobilization requirements.
• Manage end-to-end recruitment activities, including sourcing, screening, reference checking, job offers, and other administrative tasks.
• Maintain applicant tracking and project-specific staffing records.

Onboarding & Mobilization

• Coordinate and conduct new-hire onboarding for all project employees, including:
  • Pre-hire documentation and background requirements
  • Safety orientation scheduling and verification
  • PPE distribution and jobsite access requirements
  • First-day reporting instructions and project integration
• Partner with safety, HR, and field supervision to ensure every new hire is fully compliant with OSHA, site-specific, and company onboarding requirements prior to starting work.
• Track onboarding progress and maintain accurate onboarding documentation.

Reporting & Coordination

• Establish reporting metrics to track success, timeliness, and efficiency of hiring and onboarding activities.
• Lead and participate in regular coordination meetings with project leadership, HR partners, and recruiting teams to ensure staffing needs are met.
• Provide weekly (or appropriate) metrics onsite leadership and corporate recruitment, as applicable.
• Assist HR team members with jobsite-related staffing and employee mobilization needs as required.

Physical Demands/Essential Job Functions:

This job description reflects an assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned. Physical requirements for this role may include but not limited to walking, standing, operating tools/equipment, and lifting items (up to 25lbs). Tasks may also be carried out in varying weather conditions and environments as appliable to the position.

About Yates Construction

Ranked among the top commercial and industrial construction companies in the country by Engineering News-Record, Yates Construction is family-owned and provides a wide range of construction and building services. Incorporated in 1964 by William G. Yates Jr., we have steadily grown to become one of the top commercial and industrial construction companies in the nation. We are financially sound with a significant bonding capacity as well as vast personnel and equipment resources.

Our portfolio includes commercial and industrial projects from various sectors including arts and culture, civil, commercial, education, entertainment and gaming, federal, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, municipal, retail, and technology. We work hard to understand our client’s business needs and continually look for opportunities to provide additional value to our clients and their projects.

Our client relationships are the foundation of our success, and our primary goal is to help each of our clients achieve their vision. We do this by carefully managing the details and complexities of each project and communicating constantly with all team members.

Yates Construction provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal and state law requirements.

Yates complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.