The Role
Leads full-cycle executive, leadership, specialized, confidential, and business-critical searches. Partners with senior leaders on candidate profiles, sourcing strategies, market intelligence, and hiring expectations. Engages passive talent through LinkedIn Recruiter, direct search, talent mapping, referrals, and target-company research. Manages candidate assessment, relationships, negotiation, and closing. Serves as a player-coach by modeling recruiting best practices, coaching the Talent Acquisition team, and building scalable recruiting capabilities.
Summary Generated by Built In
Butcher Power Products is a Panelmatic company. This role will work directly with Panelmatic in the Houston, TX location.
About Panelmatic
Panelmatic, Inc. was founded in 1957 in Youngstown, Ohio, to serve manufacturing industries through the design and build of custom electrical, instrument, and pneumatic control panels. Today, Panelmatic supports customers across a wide range of industries and delivers equipment used domestically and worldwide.
Panelmatic is known for high-quality, custom-built control packages, comprehensive service, and deep technological and manufacturing expertise. Our capabilities span sales, design, fabrication, testing, and delivery, allowing us to support diverse customer needs from start to finish.
Position Summary
Panelmatic is seeking a Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant to lead executive, leadership, specialized, and other complex searches while helping strengthen recruiting capability across the organization.
As Panelmatic continues to scale, this role will bring a more advanced search capability to the Talent Acquisition team. The Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant will partner directly with senior leaders, develop strategies for difficult-to-fill searches, engage passive leadership talent, and provide meaningful market intelligence throughout the hiring process.
This is also intended to be a player-coach role. The right person will be an exceptional individual recruiter who can model strong sourcing, candidate management, hiring-manager consultation, and search discipline for others. We want someone who can take on a difficult search while helping elevate how the broader team recruits.
Key Responsibilities
· Lead full-cycle recruiting for executive, leadership, highly specialized, confidential, and other business-critical positions.
· Partner with senior leaders to translate business needs into clear candidate profiles, search strategies, and realistic market expectations.
· Develop sophisticated sourcing strategies using LinkedIn Recruiter, direct search, talent mapping, target-company research, referrals, and professional networks.
· Build relationships with passive executive, leadership, and specialized talent rather than relying primarily on active applicants.
· Provide leaders with candid market intelligence regarding talent availability, compensation expectations, competitive dynamics, candidate quality, and search strategy.
· Manage complex candidate relationships throughout the process, including assessment, engagement, closing, and competitive situations.
· Act as a player-coach for the Talent Acquisition team, modeling and sharing stronger approaches to sourcing, candidate management, search calibration, and hiring-manager consultation.
· Help develop scalable recruiting practices, talent pipelines, and team capabilities that support Panelmatic’s continued growth.
Required Qualifications
· Seven or more years of progressive Talent Acquisition, corporate recruiting, agency recruiting, or executive-search experience.
· Demonstrated success leading executive, leadership, highly specialized, or other complex searches.
· Advanced passive sourcing and research capability, including LinkedIn Recruiter, talent mapping, direct outreach, and target-company strategies.
· Strong candidate assessment, relationship management, negotiation, and closing skills.
· Strong executive presence and demonstrated ability to operate as a credible talent advisor to senior leaders.
· Exceptional learning agility and the ability to quickly understand unfamiliar businesses, functions, technologies, and talent markets.
· Experience recruiting in a high-growth or scaling environment where priorities and organizational needs evolve quickly.
· Ability to influence and elevate recruiting practices through coaching, partnership, and example rather than relying on formal authority.
Preferred Qualifications
· Executive or professional recruiting experience within manufacturing, industrial, engineering, electrical, automation, energy, or another technically complex environment.
· Experience recruiting leadership talent across Engineering, Operations, Finance, Human Resources, Sales, Project Management, Information Technology, or related functions.
· Experience within a private-equity-backed, acquisitive, multi-site, or rapidly scaling organization.
· Combination of corporate Talent Acquisition and agency or executive-search experience.
Skills Required
- Seven or more years of progressive talent acquisition, corporate recruiting, agency recruiting, or executive-search experience.
- Demonstrated success leading executive, leadership, highly specialized, or other complex searches.
- Advanced passive sourcing and research capability, including LinkedIn Recruiter, talent mapping, direct outreach, and target-company strategies.
- Strong candidate assessment, relationship management, negotiation, and closing skills.
- Strong executive presence and ability to operate as a credible talent advisor to senior leaders.
- Exceptional learning agility and ability to understand unfamiliar businesses, functions, technologies, and talent markets.
- Experience recruiting in a high-growth or scaling environment with evolving priorities and organizational needs.
- Ability to influence and elevate recruiting practices through coaching, partnership, and example without formal authority.
- Executive or professional recruiting experience in manufacturing, industrial, engineering, electrical, automation, energy, or another technically complex environment.
- Experience recruiting leadership talent across Engineering, Operations, Finance, Human Resources, Sales, Project Management, Information Technology, or related functions.
- Experience in a private-equity-backed, acquisitive, multi-site, or rapidly scaling organization.
- Combination of corporate talent acquisition and agency or executive-search experience.
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The Company
What We Do
Butcher Power Products (BPP) designs and manufactures mission-critical low-voltage electrical distribution equipment — UL891 switchboards, UL67 panelboards, integrated power centers and solar-ready switchboards. Based in the Sacramento/Rancho Cordova area, BPP focuses on fast lead times, custom engineering and in-house manufacturing to supply data centers, hospitals and industrial customers with reliable power distribution solutions.
