Head of People and Recruiting

American factories deserve a supply chain that moves as fast as they do. The next generation of American manufacturing is being built right now. Nox Metals is the supply chain behind it.

We use software and automation to supply metal to American factories faster than the industry thought possible.

We are hiring a Head of People and Recruiting to build the team behind the team. You will own recruiting, onboarding, HR operations, and the systems that turn Nox into the best place in American manufacturing to work. We are scaling from one facility in Detroit to a national footprint of automated cutting cells, and every hire compounds.

You will:

• Own the recruiting pipeline end to end, from sourcing to offer, across factory floor, engineering, software, sales, and corporate roles

• Build sourcing channels that reach machinists, saw operators, software engineers, and operators who do not show up on LinkedIn

• Run a fast, high-signal interview process that protects the bar without slowing the company down

• Stand up HR infrastructure: handbook, policies, benefits, payroll, compliance, immigration, performance reviews, comp bands

• Manage onboarding so every new hire is productive in their first week

• Partner with the CEO and function leads on org design, headcount planning, and succession

• Handle employee relations, investigations, and the hard conversations directly

• Build the systems and rituals that make Nox a place people want to spend a decade of their career

• Open new facilities from a people side: workforce planning, local recruiting partnerships, day-one staffing

You should be:

• Experienced running recruiting and HR at a company that scaled from dozens to hundreds of employees

• Comfortable hiring across a blue collar factory floor and a software team in the same week

• Operationally strong, with a track record of building ATS, HRIS, and payroll systems from scratch

• Direct, fair, and unafraid of hard conversations

• Obsessed with speed to hire and quality of hire, and able to prove it with numbers

• Fluent with modern recruiting and HR tooling, and using AI to take work off your own plate

• A builder, not a manager of an existing function

• Willing to be on the floor in Detroit, meeting candidates and walking the shop, not running the function from a laptop in another state

• Mission-driven, with a long horizon and a chip on your shoulder about American manufacturing

This role is full time, in person in Detroit.