Senior Recruiter
Apply now »Date: Nov 7, 2025
Location(s): Houston, TX, US, 77002
Company: NextEra Energy
At Gexa Energy, a NextEra Energy Resources company, we provide reliable low-cost energy solutions. Focused on customer satisfaction, we offer innovative electricity plans tailored to the diverse needs of Texas homes and businesses. If you're passionate about making a difference in the energy industry and delivering exceptional customer experiences, join our team today.
Position Specific Description
We're seeking a Senior Recruiter with knowledge of the Houston energy market to join our team. You'll lead full-cycle recruiting for specialized and hard-to-fill roles across our energy business, leveraging your local market expertise and established network to identify top talent.
What You'll Do:
- Partner with hiring managers and business leaders to develop talent strategies for critical roles
- Source, screen, and close candidates for technical, commercial, and leadership positions in the energy sector
- Build and maintain a pipeline of qualified candidates through market knowledge and networking
- Provide consultative guidance on competitive market intelligence, compensation trends, and hiring strategies
- Mentor junior team members and share best practices
What You Bring:
- Recruiting experience, preferably in the energy industry
- Strong knowledge of the Houston energy market, talent landscape, and key competitors
- Proven track record filling complex, senior-level, or niche positions
- Excellent relationship-building skills with candidates and stakeholders
- Confidence navigating ambiguity and adapting quickly to changing business needs
Job Overview
Employees in this job lead hiring for complex or high-impact roles, proactively influencing talent strategy through deep market knowledge, data, and proactive engagement. This role mentors peers, optimizes processes, and enhances the candidate and stakeholder experience.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Drives full-cycle recruitment for high-complexity or hard-to-fill roles
- Provides strategic advice to hiring managers on talent acquisition approaches
- Creatively sources passive candidates and builds long-term pipelines
- Conducts competency-based and final-round interviews, advising on selection decisions
- Leads process improvements and mentors junior recruiters
- Analyzes and acts on recruiting data to improve strategies and outcomes
- Manages complex offer negotiations and addresses counteroffers
- Sources talent broadly and supports hiring practices that ensure a diverse and productive workforce
- Enhances employer branding by representing the company at events and through content
- Performs other job-related duties as assigned
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree
- Experience: 4+ years
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience: 5+ years
- Experience in recruiting
NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members. Click here to learn more.
Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Human Resources
Organization: NextEra Energy Resources, LLC
Relocation Provided: No
NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.
NextEra Energy provides reasonable accommodation in its application and selection process for qualified individuals, including accommodations related to compliance with conditional job offer requirements, consistent with federal, state, and local laws. Supporting medical or religious documentation will be required where applicable and permitted by applicable law. To request a reasonable accommodation, please send an e-mail to recruiting-coordinator.sharedmailbox@nexteraenergy.com, providing your name, telephone number and the best time for us to reach you. Alternatively, you may call 1-844-694-4748. Please do not use this line to inquire about your application status.
NextEra Energy will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
NextEra Energy does not accept any unsolicited resumes or referrals from any third-party recruiting firms or agencies. Please see our policy for more information.
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Nearest Major Market: Houston