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Visuna

Visuna is a global workforce solutions and recruitment partner recognized for building high performing teams across the energy, engineering, and technology markets. The company focuses on connecting organizations with scarce and business critical talent through a blend of permanent recruitment, contract staffing, and scalable outsourcing solutions that help clients deliver complex programs safely, on time, and within budget. Visuna supports the full project lifecycle, from early design and engineering through construction, commissioning, operations, and digital transformation, supplying professionals whose expertise spans project management, engineering disciplines, maintenance and reliability, HSE, supply chain, data and software, and business leadership. With a consultative approach, its teams prioritize understanding each client’s technical environment, commercial goals, and culture to shape hiring strategies that improve quality of hire, time to fill, and retention. The firm leverages curated talent communities, targeted search methods, and rigorous assessment to ensure skills, certifications, and compliance standards are met, and it provides contractor care, payroll administration, and onboarding support that reduce risk and administrative overhead. Visuna’s recruiters combine domain knowledge with data driven insight to map talent pools, benchmark compensation, and anticipate market shifts in areas such as renewables, low carbon projects, industrial automation, and enterprise technology. Whether helping a startup scale a product team, enabling an EPC to ramp up for a major capital project, or supporting a utility through a multiyear modernization initiative, Visuna is committed to transparent communication, ethical practices, and measurable outcomes. Its approach emphasizes safety, diversity, and inclusion while maintaining strict global compliance and local labor law alignment, giving clients confidence when engaging permanent hires or mobilizing contractors across borders. Through close partnership with both employers and professionals, Visuna delivers resilient talent solutions that power progress and long term business performance.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingRPOOil & GasRenewable EnergyMiningIndustrial AutomationSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurity

HQWashington, United Kingdom

Croft Associates

Croft Associates is a boutique executive search and talent advisory firm based in the UK, known for a highly personalised, confidential and thorough approach to search and selection, talent mapping and outplacement. Founded in 2006 by Richard Croft following senior roles at Norman Broadbent and Warren Partners, the firm brings more than 25 years of headhunting expertise to help clients find exceptional leaders and build effective senior teams. Croft Associates partners closely with boards and leadership teams to understand culture, values and role requirements, then delivers discreet, headhunter led research that identifies both active and passive candidates. The firm has completed executive and non executive mandates across utilities and energy, building materials and construction, manufacturing, financial services, media, retail and education, with representative appointments including CEO, COO, CFO, Chief Commercial Officer, Group Finance Director, Commercial Director, Managing Director, Group HR Director, Head of Engineering, Head of Technology, Chief Technologist, and Non Executive Director and Remuneration Committee Chair. Beyond retained search, Croft Associates provides talent mapping to give clients market intelligence and medium to long term pipelines, evidenced by projects such as senior engineering market mapping and management team RPO for building materials manufacturing and distribution businesses. Its one to one outplacement and executive career coaching services support senior leaders through transition with practical planning, assessment and ongoing onboarding support through the first year in role. The firm follows a rigorous process from consultation and solution design to research, candidate contact, assessment, longlisting and shortlisting, offer management and onboarding, underpinned by values of honesty, professionalism and confidentiality. Clients have included leading international and UK organizations such as Unilever, Trinity Mirror, AstraZeneca, Saint Gobain and United Utilities, as well as fast growing SMEs and sector specialists in builders merchants, digital cinema, property management and multi utility connections.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtRPOPermanent RecruitmentAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseEnvironmental ServicesWater ManagementUtilities

HQFrodsham, United Kingdom

Cloud 9 Recruitment

Cloud 9 Recruitment is a specialist search and selection firm founded in 2007 that connects mid to senior level talent with leading employers across the UK and Europe. Rooted in deep expertise in Packaging and Print, the business is widely networked across corrugated, cartons, labels, flexibles, consumables, tapes, packaging machinery, P.O.S, timber and pallets, food services, luxury packaging, plastics, and glass. Building on more than 25 years of hands on sector experience, Cloud 9 has expanded into high growth, skills scarce markets including Renewables, Life Sciences, and Automation and Robotics, covering domains such as wind, solar, hydrogen, EV infrastructure, pharmaceuticals, biotech, CROs, mechatronics, robotics integration, and smart manufacturing. The firm delivers permanent appointments through retained and contingency search models, focusing on commercial, technical, and operational leadership roles such as sales and business development, account management, operations management, and heads of function. Cloud 9 augments every mandate with value added services including psychometric and skills assessments, market mapping, talent pipelining, salary benchmarking, shortlist development, interview coordination, and offer management, ensuring each hire aligns to culture, capability, and long term retention goals. Its candidate experience is deliberately confidential and advisory, providing CV guidance, interview preparation, and proactive introductions, and only advancing profiles with the candidates explicit permission after a full briefing. For clients, the consultancy applies a structured, project managed search process that is transparent and ethical, supported by rigorous screening and referencing. Trusted by SMEs and global groups alike, Cloud 9 leverages its niche market knowledge, long standing relationships, and focused delivery model to reduce hiring risk and time to hire while elevating quality of shortlist. Whether scaling a packaging division, launching renewable energy projects, strengthening a life sciences team, or accelerating an automation program, Cloud 9 acts as a committed partner to secure hard to find talent.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtSOW/ProjectsAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseHealthcare AdministrationMental Health CareVeterinary

HQNelson, United Kingdom

Douglas Stuart

Douglas Stuart is a specialist recruitment and talent advisory firm focused on energy, infrastructure, and supply chain markets. From its base in the United Kingdom the company delivers global executive search, permanent hiring, and contracting solutions that place leadership and hard to find technical talent into complex, safety critical, and capital intensive environments. Its sector practices span the full energy value chain, including upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas, renewables, nuclear, and utilities; infrastructure across construction, power generation and distribution, and public services; and supply chain domains such as shipping, ports and terminals, warehousing, airfreight, rail, and road transport. Consultants combine deep market knowledge with a structured search methodology, rigorous competency and behavioral assessment, and clear, evidence based reporting that keeps stakeholders aligned. Beyond hiring, Douglas Stuart provides talent management and HR consulting services, including role definition, workforce planning, salary benchmarking, diversity and inclusion reviews, and graduate program design, helping clients reduce time to hire and improve cost per hire while raising quality. The firm has delivered assignments across the UK, Europe, and Asia, supporting searches from senior managers to director and VP level, and coordinating complex international relocations and onboarding. Clients value weekly progress updates, transparent shortlists, and honest candidate feedback, alongside tools such as headroom assessments that reveal future potential. Whether building project teams, appointing a project director for an FPSO, strengthening HSE leadership, or scaling regional commercial and operations functions, Douglas Stuart partners closely with employers to understand culture, strategy, and growth plans and to secure talent that will perform and stay. The result is a practical, high integrity service that recruits effectively, helps retain people, and supports long term organizational performance.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingOil & GasRenewable EnergyMiningFreight ForwardingAirlines & AviationMaritime

HQMacclesfield, United Kingdom

First Manufacturing

First Manufacturing is the high technology manufacturing recruitment practice within First Recruitment Group, a global agency that supports employers and candidates across the full hiring lifecycle. Drawing on deep sector knowledge spanning advanced manufacturing, aerospace and defence, chemicals, and adjacent infrastructure and energy markets, the team delivers permanent, contract and temporary talent at all levels, from shopfloor technicians and production engineers to specialist design, quality, HSE, project and leadership roles. Clients benefit from a comprehensive service model that combines targeted recruitment with screening, compliance, mobilisation and robust payrolling delivered through the Group’s MyPay+ capability, as well as scalable MSP solutions and practical IR35 guidance. Operating from its UK headquarters in Warrington and international offices in Australia, Thailand, Ghana, Kenya, Albania and Singapore, First Manufacturing connects skilled professionals with manufacturers and engineering-led enterprises across the UK, Europe, South East Asia and Africa. For candidates, the division provides a streamlined experience including CV dropoff, tailored job alerts, relocation guidance and a practical information hub covering CV writing, interviews and career development, ensuring contractors and permanent jobseekers can access opportunities quickly and confidently. For clients, the focus is on partnership: consultants listen, advise and collaborate to define requirements, accelerate time to hire and improve quality of shortlist while maintaining rigorous safety, technical and regulatory standards common to manufacturing environments. The practice’s track record is reinforced by long term relationships with global engineering consultancies, nuclear suppliers and industrial operators who value responsive delivery and transparent communication. By uniting sector-specific insight, global reach and a balanced portfolio of permanent and contingent solutions, First Manufacturing helps organizations build resilient teams across production, engineering, projects and operations, and enables professionals to progress their careers in some of the most demanding and innovative manufacturing settings.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingMSPAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseWater ManagementUtilitiesSoftware Development

HQWarrington, United Kingdom

CM Sourcing

CMSourcing is a specialist offshore recruitment agency built by offshore professionals for offshore professionals. Founded in 2012 by Marine Geophysicist Dave Cullen and Survey Engineer Mike McLean, the company combines real world offshore experience with a stringent code of ethics to deliver quality, integrity, and transparency throughout every engagement. Headquartered in Taunton, UK, with a US office in Boston, CMSourcing supports clients and contractors worldwide across the full project lifecycle, operating a full transparency policy on rates and a fair, fixed daily commission. The firm provides contract recruitment and permanent recruitment solutions, complemented by training and remote data processing support that help teams keep pace with fast evolving offshore technologies. CMSourcing covers core offshore sectors including Survey, Inspection, ROV, Environmental, Seismic, and Marine, placing roles such as hydrographic surveyors, online surveyors, hydrographic data processors, geophysicists and geologists, geotechnical engineers and operators, GIS specialists, party chiefs, inspection engineers and coordinators, ACFM inspectors, ROV pilots and technicians, ROV supervisors and superintendents, plough and trenching supervisors, client representatives, marine mammal observers, environmental scientists, deck crew, DP officers, officers, engineers, medics, and masters. Clients benefit from 24 hour front line support, assistance scoping role requirements during project planning, full logistics for every contractor supplied, and a continuous supply guarantee for ongoing programs. Contractors receive comprehensive insurance, guaranteed payment terms, flexible currency solutions, impartial guidance on accounts, and access to software training on tools such as QPS Qinsy and Qimera, EIVA, RadexPro, Oasis Montaj, SonarWiz, and DUG Insight. The CMSourcing mobile app streamlines availability updates and secure document uploads for invoices, expenses, and timesheets, with a small data footprint suited to offshore connections. With deep capability in wind farm inspection, cable route survey, UXO and geophysical survey, MBES, USBL, R2 Sonic, and Qinsy workflows, CMSourcing is trusted by leading operators to supply proven people who deliver safely and reliably at sea.

Contract StaffingPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsOil & GasRenewable EnergyMiningMaritimeRailroadTrucking

HQTaunton, United Kingdom

Cooper Golding Recruitment

Cooper Golding Recruitment is a UK based talent partner connecting employers with skilled people across technical, operational, and office based functions. The agency works across manufacturing and engineering, renewable energy, and technology support, while also covering core business roles in customer service, quality, project management, and warehousing. Recent vacancies illustrate the breadth of its work, including mechanical design engineer, renewable energy engineer and PV installer, service desk analyst, warehouse operative, project manager, quality improvement manager, and customer service administrator. By combining market insight with disciplined sourcing and screening, Cooper Golding Recruitment focuses on matching capability, cultural fit, and career goals to help clients secure productive hires and help candidates take confident next steps. For engineering and manufacturing appointments the team understands the importance of CAD proficiency, design for manufacturability, continuous improvement, and compliance with quality standards. In renewable energy and field installation they emphasize practical qualifications, site safety, commissioning experience, and customer facing professionalism. In IT support they prioritize service desk metrics, incident resolution, and stakeholder communication, while for warehouse and logistics roles they consider accuracy, throughput, and shift flexibility. The agency supports permanent, contract, and temporary hiring, coordinating shortlists, interviews, feedback, and offers to streamline processes and reduce time to hire. Its consultants maintain active talent networks and clear communication, ensuring clients see only well matched shortlists and candidates receive transparent briefings on role expectations and progression. Whether the requirement is a single specialist, a small project team, or ongoing operational support, Cooper Golding Recruitment brings pragmatic search methods and consistent service to deliver dependable outcomes for both employers and job seekers across the UK.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingTemporary StaffingAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseWater ManagementUtilitiesSoftware Development

HQBarnstaple, United Kingdom

HB People

HB People is a recruitment and HR consultancy based in Burscough, Lancashire, partnering with SMEs and growth businesses across the UK to solve talent and people challenges in a practical, agile way. Specialising in engineering, construction, industrial, and corporate functions, the team focuses primarily on permanent hiring and delivers retained headhunting for niche and leadership roles as well as scalable RPO solutions for high volume hiring of operatives and admin staff. As an award winning specialist, HB People embeds alongside in house teams, combining on site and remote support, modern tools, and market insight to accelerate hiring and strengthen people operations. Beyond recruitment, the firm provides end to end HR support, including HR audits, contracts and policies, staff handbooks, pay and reward benchmarking, HR technology implementation, induction and onboarding, and skills based training. They also develop people managers in HR and recruitment to build internal capability that lasts. With experience spanning renewable energy, retail, and business support in addition to core industrial and technical markets, HB People prioritises speed, shortlist accuracy, and a frictionless candidate experience to help employers attract, select, and retain the right talent. Led by FCIPD qualified director Amanda Hesketh, the business brings a straightforward, collaborative style grounded in clear communication, honest feedback, and measurable results. Values of being open, knowledgeable, curious, and easy to do business with shape every engagement, whether delivering a one off project or operating on a retained basis as an extension of the internal HR and talent function. HB People is also committed to inclusion and neurodiversity advocacy, engaging with local schools and partners to create meaningful work experience opportunities. From defining a hiring plan to executing targeted headhunt campaigns or standing up an HR framework, HB People helps clients create their future one person at a time.

Permanent RecruitmentRPOExec Search & Interim MgmtAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseArchitectureInterior DesignOil & Gas

HQBurscough, United Kingdom

H9 Technical

Founded in 2016, H9 Talent Solutions is a specialist recruitment partner dedicated to powering the global energy transition by connecting forward thinking businesses with the people who make change happen. Headquartered in Manchester and operating across the UK, Europe, and the US, the firm focuses on the clean energy and critical infrastructure ecosystem, with core expertise spanning renewable energy, battery storage, data centers and mission critical, power generation, transmission and distribution, clean tech and emerging technologies, EV infrastructure, clean hydrogen, and advanced recycling and waste management. H9 delivers flexible talent solutions built around client needs, including permanent hiring via contingency search, contract and interim resource to scale projects at pace, and Strategic Project Partnership (SPP) models designed to support complex, phased build outs and program delivery. Its Talent Plus + offering provides an enhanced, partnership led route for organizations looking to accelerate hiring outcomes while maintaining agility. With a leadership team that brings over 40 years of combined recruitment experience, H9 blends sector immersion with rigorous process to source, assess, and secure talent across technical, project delivery, operational, and corporate functions, covering both white collar and site based blue collar disciplines. The company is impact driven and purpose led, embedding environmental sustainability and corporate social responsibility into how it operates and who it serves, reflected in policies that support carbon reduction ambitions and champion inclusive, ethical hiring practices. Clients value H9 for its global reach and local insight, market specialism, and the consistency of delivery across permanent, contract, and project based hiring. Whether building new teams, mobilizing critical projects, or navigating tight labor markets, H9 Talent Solutions partners with organizations and professionals to achieve net zero goals faster, de risk delivery, and create long term value across the clean energy value chain.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingSOW/ProjectsOil & GasRenewable EnergyMiningTelecomAutomotiveAerospace

HQManchester, United Kingdom

Hays Energy, Oil And Gas

Hays Energy, Oil and Gas is a specialist recruitment partner focused on talent across the energy value chain, helping organizations in upstream exploration and production, midstream transportation, downstream refining and petrochemicals, and power and utilities secure the professionals they need to deliver safe, efficient, and compliant operations. The team concentrates on hard to find skills spanning technical engineering, project delivery, operations, commercial, and leadership, and tailors hiring strategies to meet diverse workforce needs from site based roles to corporate headquarters. By combining sector knowledge with structured search methodologies, Hays Energy, Oil and Gas delivers three core services: Permanent Recruitment for long term hires, Contract Staffing to rapidly deploy contingent experts for projects and turnarounds, and Executive Search and Interim Management to secure senior leaders who can drive transformation and performance. Typical mandates include drilling, production, subsea, process, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and controls, HSSE, maintenance and reliability, asset integrity, construction and commissioning, project management, supply chain and logistics, trading and commercial analysis, and finance and support functions aligned to energy operations. The practice engages with operators, EPCs, OEMs, field services providers, asset owners, and emerging low carbon ventures, aligning every search to strict safety, regulatory, and local content requirements. Candidates benefit from transparent guidance on market demand, competency expectations, and career pathways, while clients gain access to curated shortlists built from an active network of industry professionals and rigorous screening. Whether building core teams for new assets, augmenting project crews with specialist contractors, or appointing interim leaders to stabilize programs, Hays Energy, Oil and Gas provides a consistent, consultative approach designed to reduce hiring risk, accelerate time to productivity, and deliver measurable business outcomes for the global energy sector.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtOil & GasRenewable EnergyMiningUtilitiesEngineeringIndustrial & Manufacturing

HQManchester, United Kingdom

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