Engineering recruitment solutions in the UK

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Our recruitment experience in engineering

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.  

 

Engineering roles we recruit for

Our dedicated engineering team can support your business with the end-to-end recruitment services for a number of separate fields. These include:  

Design engineering: Our talent pool of candidates can help you identify your complex design problems and create innovative design solutions and tests.  

Project management: Hire a professional to manage your project goals and milestones as well as develop all contingency plans.  

Process engineering: Expand your team with someone who can design, implement, control and optimise your industrial processes and machinery within the manufacturing industry. 

MEP trades: Recruit someone to manage the science of planning, designing and managing the mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems of a building.  

Project controls: From costs and scheduling, you’ll need someone you trust to manage and forecast progress.

 

Engineering successful placements

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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