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Our recruitment experience in defence
Working for your tomorrow. Recruiting experts in defence.
Soaring skills shortages, investment commitments to UK defence programmes and widespread global security threats are all driving activity in the defence sector, creating the need – more than ever – for a talent partner that ensures your ability to meet your customers’ requirements is future-proof.
Whether your challenge is to design and develop a complex sub-system, support a critical MOD project, or fulfil a multi-million in-service support contract, we have the knowledge and insight to secure the experienced defence professionals you need to support the entire engineering lifecycle.
- An expansive and unique talent network – coupled with first-hand regional knowledge – allows us to access talent from all across the UK.
- Our expert defence recruiters have the insight and deep understanding of defence engineering to help shape and deliver your hiring strategy.
- Using a customer-first and data-driven approach to meet your business needs in defence, we make it easy for you to deliver against the complex talent and recruitment landscape you need to navigate.
Defence partners we work with
We work with organisations of all types and sizes as they work to build a safer world, including manufacturers at the cutting edge of innovation, designers creating advanced new concepts and engineers committed to maintenance, modification and enhancement.
Offering permanent, temporary and executive recruitment services for defence industry clients, we recruit for roles across the Engineering / CADMID lifecycle including project managers, RF design engineers, ILS engineers, systems design engineers, project planners and technical authors.
Some of the clients we’ve worked with include: BAE Systems, Leonardo and Thales, our teams have supported a number of large-scale programmes: Challenger 3, Wildcat and Merlin helicopter programmes, Boxer MIV, Astute, Dreadnought and Vanguard class submarine programmes, Team Tempest and Type 26 and Type 31 Frigate programmes.
Defence recruitment services
It’s not just people we provide – whatever your workforce challenge, we’re constantly innovating and evolving our services so we can build the best solution for your organisation.
Whether you need someone to fill a permanent position, a temporary professional to make an instant impact, an inspirational leader to transform your business, or want to outsource your hiring completely, we’ve got you covered.
Recruiting across the CADMID lifecycle for major defence programmes like Challenger 3, Team Tempest, and Type 26 Frigates.
Demonstrating an understanding of the defence industry, its requirements and security needs, Hays has taken the time to get to know our business and how it differs within the industry, and supported us in filling a substantial number of our engineering needs within the company.
-HR Manager, Defence Contractor
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