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Engineering
recruitment
Drive innovation and operational excellence with the right engineering talent. From pioneering design specialists to leaders in advanced manufacturing, we connect you with permanent and contingent professionals who can meet your challenges head on.
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Engineering
recruitment
Drive innovation and operational excellence with the right engineering talent. From pioneering design specialists to leaders in advanced manufacturing, we connect you with permanent and contingent professionals who can meet your challenges head on.
Looking to hire?We bring the people, the technology and the partnerships you need to achieve your goals and meet your ever-changing customer demands in engineering. Our dedicated team of engineering consultants bring you candidates that will help you scale, bring insight and shape your future workforce management strategy. We have the knowledge, experience and insight to secure the best people to deliver your business outcomes.
The engineering sector has grown exponentially over the past few years. In fact, it’s now six times larger than it was in 2019. We currently have 75 specialist consultants in the engineering field nationwide, with a commitment to continually grow this number. To meet the ever-growing demand, we have nine Centres of Excellence around the UK, which means we can reach the right talent, no matter where they’re based for your business.
Our team of specialists have plenty of hands-on experience in placing passionate engineers in plenty of organisations and even those looking for just one-off projects. These sectors include aerospace, aviation, energy and renewables, FMCG, MOD and defence, oil and gas, petrochemical and rail.
We can match your business needs with a variety of skills - whether it’s someone to help with your use of digital twins, leverage your AI, robotics or sustainable design.
We can help you hire for a range of roles, from graduate engineers to programme managers and operations directors across civil engineering, mechanical engineering, process engineering, design engineering and project controls. Our experience placing engineering professionals in the right role is simply unparalleled.
We use a customer-first and insight-led approach to meet your business needs. This is how we make it easy for you to deliver against the complex talent and recruitment landscape you need to navigate.
Get in touch with one of our specialist consultants today to discuss our engineering talent solutions.
Our dedicated engineering team can support your business with the end-to-end recruitment services for a number of separate fields. These include:
We are a leadership partner to over 700 engineering employers, and with over 50 years of recruiting experience, we’ve already placed over 450 candidates in roles over the last year and recruited for a number of temp or perm experts within a wide range of engineering roles.
These include Greencore, British Steel, Triton Power, Graphic Packaging and Reckitt Benckiser.
Join our extensive list of engineering clients who have benefited from our years of experience and landed themselves some of the best talent in the industry.
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