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John Charles Search

John Charles Search is a specialist recruitment consultancy focused on simplifying hiring for industrial and automation markets while supporting candidates with a personable, long term approach. Based in the UK with a global outlook, the firm sources, assesses, and places talent across Sales, Operations, Information Technology, and Senior Management disciplines for companies involved in storage systems, materials handling, and automation. Its domain coverage spans mezzanine floors, pallet and cantilever racking, and shelving through to forklifts and plant equipment such as reach, pallet and counterbalance trucks, as well as warehouse automation including robotics, belt and roller conveyors, lifts, sortation systems, and automated guided vehicles. The team also works across factory automation and controls, encompassing robotics, machine vision, sensors, motors and drives, motion control, industrial connectivity, and IoT. Clients range from established manufacturers to fast growing integrators and solution providers, and typical mandates include Business Development Managers, Project Managers, technical and commercial leaders, and senior managers tasked with delivering complex projects up to multi million pound values. John Charles Search emphasizes honest feedback, cultural alignment, and meticulous shortlisting, building long term relationships over short term wins. For candidates, the consultancy listens closely to aspirations and presents well matched opportunities, providing support through every stage of the process. For employers, it brings deep industry understanding and a rigorous search methodology to secure best in class talent quickly and efficiently. With proven success delivering assignments across the UK and internationally, John Charles Search combines sector expertise with responsive service to help organizations thrive in competitive markets and to guide professionals toward career defining roles.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseWarehousingDistributionPublic Transit

HQTamworth, United Kingdom

Optima Plus

Optima Plus Recruitment is a UKAS ISO9001 accredited recruitment firm established in 2011 and trusted by clients across the UK and worldwide. Originally founded by an experienced and qualified nurse with strong roots in healthcare, the company has evolved into a multi sector partner delivering time critical and cost effective talent solutions. Optima Plus provides permanent recruitment, temporary staffing, and discreet headhunting for executive and hard to fill roles, supported by rigorous screening, cross referencing, and verification processes that prioritize quality, compliance, and speed. Its specialist offerings include Rec2Rec services for like minded agencies and subcontracting support that helps providers fulfill white collar and blue collar temp and perm contracts during peak demand or resource constraints. The firm operates through divisional managers with decades of experience across Health and Social Care, Military and Private Security, Tech, and Engineering, underpinned by continuous professional development led by an in house training manager to keep the team aligned with industry standards and emerging trends. Optima Plus recruits across a broad portfolio of sectors, including security, health and social care, facilities management, education, media and entertainment, sports and leisure, technology, oil and gas, aviation, global engineering, hospitality, warehouse and industrial, office, automotive, transportation and logistics, sales, legal, financial services, renewable energy, and retail. Clients benefit from a transparent, values led approach built on commitment, integrity, and passion, with open communication and no hidden agendas at every stage from brief to onboarding. Candidates gain access to a global network of opportunities via a modern job search platform and a dedicated team that matches roles to skills and aspirations. Headquartered in Stoke on Trent, Optima Plus serves SMEs, enterprise organizations, and public sector bodies, building long term partnerships by consistently delivering reliable, compliant, and tailored recruitment solutions.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtHospital & Health Care (Nursing)PhysiciansPharmaceuticalsCloud ComputingTelecomAutomotive

HQStoke-on-trent, United Kingdom

Maintech Recruitment

Maintech Recruitment is a UK based talent partner focused on connecting employers with skilled technical, engineering, and technology professionals. Although its public website currently displays a simple index page with limited published information, the firm positions itself around practical delivery, attention to detail, and a consultative approach to hiring across both shop floor and office based environments. The team supports clients with permanent recruitment to secure long term hires, contract staffing for project peaks and specialist expertise, and executive search and interim management when leadership or highly niche capability is required. Typical assignments span maintenance and service technicians, mechanical and electrical engineers, PLC and automation specialists, field service engineers, production and manufacturing engineers, quality and HSE professionals, technical sales, and related white collar roles that keep industrial operations running safely and efficiently. On the technology side, the firm focuses on IT infrastructure, support, networking, and adjacent technical roles for manufacturers and technology led businesses. Maintech Recruitment emphasizes rigorous qualification, including competency based interviews, skills and certification verification, and transparent feedback loops that reduce time to hire without sacrificing quality. For contract resources, it prioritizes compliance, onboarding readiness, and clear assignment scopes, helping clients ramp up quickly while managing cost and risk. Clients range from SMEs to larger multi site organizations seeking dependable delivery from a partner that understands the realities of production schedules, service level agreements, and safety critical environments. Candidates value the straightforward guidance on market trends, rates and salaries, and career pathways across maintenance, engineering, and technical disciplines. With an emphasis on responsiveness, clear communication, and long term relationships, Maintech Recruitment works to balance speed with fit so that placements endure beyond the first project or probation period. Employers and jobseekers alike can expect a focused, technically literate recruitment process designed to surface the right person, first time.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseCybersecurityData ScienceIT Infrastructure

HQRugeley, United Kingdom

Movement8

Movement8 is a specialist technology recruitment agency known for an ethical, resourceful, and highly consultative approach to hiring. The firm partners with startups, scaleups, and established enterprises to design bespoke hiring solutions that achieve clear outcomes in a cost effective, accurate, and time efficient manner. With deep roots in the London, Birmingham, and Atlanta tech communities and a delivery footprint that spans the UK, Europe, and the USA, Movement8 helps organizations build high performing teams across software engineering, DevOps, data, product management, business transformation, and technology leadership. Its services cover permanent recruitment, contract staffing, and executive search for senior and executive level technology leaders, ensuring clients can scale quickly while preserving quality and culture. Consultants combine market insight with rigorous search methods, leveraging targeted sourcing, structured screening, and transparent process management to reduce time to hire and elevate candidate experience. Movement8 actively contributes to the tech ecosystem through events, podcasts, and original resources, including market reports such as its insights on encouraging women into tech roles and practical guidance like interview questions for cloud engineers. This community focus underpins a commitment to diversity and inclusion, helping clients broaden talent pipelines and improve long term outcomes. From Kent headquarters and a Birmingham location, the team supports hiring programs nationwide and internationally, coordinating closely with stakeholders on role design, salary benchmarking, interview structure, and offer negotiation. Whether the need is for a specialist engineer, a cross functional product and transformation leader, or an executive technology hire, Movement8 delivers a responsive, data informed, and relationship driven service designed to build durable capability. Clients and candidates value the firm for clear communication, accountability, and market knowledge that keeps searches on track and aligned to strategic goals.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceCloud ComputingTelecomTechnology & Digital

HQKings Hill, United Kingdom

One Vision Recruitment

One Vision Ltd is a UK based marketing partner that provides senior level marketing support to businesses that want measurable commercial growth. Founded in 1993 by Matt and Steph Brown, the firm brings decades of experience across direct mail, print, digital, social, and emerging AI tools while staying focused on fundamentals that drive results: understand the audience, craft the message, deliver consistently, and measure what matters. Operating flexibly as a fractional senior marketing partner or as extra horsepower alongside in house teams, One Vision delivers clarity on who the business is for, what it offers, why it matters, and how it wins, then backs that strategy with practical, hands on execution. Core services include growth strategy and positioning with sharp messaging and a 60 to 90 day roadmap; lead generation and conversion built around being found when customers are searching, PPC management and optimization, and high converting landing experiences; and campaigns and marketing delivery spanning direct, digital, and social channels with senior oversight, plus sales collateral, decks, brand assets, and content. The company demonstrates measurable impact across sectors: a three stage campaign and seminar funnel for a B2B technology client achieved full event attendance and led to 600k in closed business; search and site optimization for an engineering and industrial client produced a 400 percent uplift in website traffic; targeted direct marketing for a national consumer brand delivered response rates above 9 percent and a 20 to 1 return; and PPC and conversion improvements for an SME services business cut cost per acquisition by about half. One Vision has supported hi tech and bio tech startups such as Nujira and Haemostatix, as well as larger organizations including Toshiba and The Sunday Times. Clients highlight the team’s ability to listen as well as advise, deliver creative concepts right first time, challenge thinking in a practical way, and move fast under tight constraints, all while prioritizing commercial metrics over vanity metrics.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingSOW/ProjectsSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceChemical ManufacturingElectrical EngineeringIndustrial Automation

HQBeachamwell, United Kingdom

Nelson Permanent Placements

Nelson Permanent Placements is a UK recruitment agency focused on delivering high quality permanent and temporary hiring solutions across engineering, construction, M&E, trades and labour, and a range of commercial functions. Operating nationwide from hubs in Birmingham, Tamworth, the East Midlands, and London, the company brings a team of industry specialist consultants with over 20 years of experience to every assignment. Built on values of quality, compliance, consistency, honesty, and diversity, Nelson Permanent Placements partners closely with employers to understand role requirements, design effective job descriptions, source and assess candidates, and provide clear communication and post placement support. The business has a strong track record placing talent across complete business structures, from field engineers and skilled trades to office based commercial roles and senior managers, with testimonials referencing successful delivery in control and automation and software engineering as well as broader operational positions. For job seekers, the agency offers practical guidance through CV writing tips, interview preparation, and constructive feedback, while keeping candidates informed about suitable vacancies and supporting them through each step of the process. Clients value the firm for its integrity, responsiveness, and ability to save time by rapidly presenting well matched shortlists that align with technical needs and cultural fit. As part of Nelson Group Holdings, Nelson Permanent Placements benefits from the strength of a larger recruitment group while maintaining a niche focus on permanent and temporary staffing for technical and commercial teams. Whether an employer is scaling project delivery in construction and M&E, adding precision skills to a manufacturing or engineering environment, or securing hard to find white collar and leadership talent, the agency provides a reliable, nationwide service designed to achieve lasting matches that help organizations and people thrive.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseInterior DesignSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurity

HQBirmingham, United Kingdom

Pharez Solutions

Pharez Solutions is the independent software practice of a London based developer with more than a decade of hands on experience delivering web, application, game, and marketing technology solutions. The portfolio demonstrates depth across modern stacks, including C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, React, Node.js, Unity, MongoDB, and SQL with MySQL and Postgres, backed by academic exposure to client software, parallel computation, machine learning, and embedded systems. Pharez Solutions builds secure and performant products end to end, from serverless API wrappers and full stack web apps to desktop utilities and Unity tooling, with a consistent focus on data privacy and GDPR compliant handling of PII. Notable work includes ResponseStar, a full stack survey analytics platform built with MeteorJs, React, and MongoDB that ingests surveys from LimeSurvey and SurveyMonkey, supports tagging of free text answers, and produces clear analysis across questions and tags. In healthcare data usability, the ct wrap project provides a React and Node.js interface to the clinicaltrials.gov API, improving readability and enabling downloads of trial data in multiple formats. For game developers, the Audiomata tool for Unity introduces a tag based audio management approach and command driven control of audio components, such as smoothly introducing effects like reverb. Productivity utilities include a WPF .NET application that consumed a staff roster API to generate formatted spreadsheets with local saving and multithreading, and the Tanda To Excel converter for exporting rotas prior to native support. Experience as a MarTech developer within a leading digital marketing agency adds practical knowledge of large scale marketing operations and cross industry client needs. Pharez Solutions is open to collaboration on full time or contract engagements, on site in London or remote, and brings curiosity, clarity, and craftsmanship to teams that need a pragmatic builder who can quickly turn ideas into dependable software.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingSOW/ProjectsSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData SciencePublishingOnline MediaHospital & Health Care (Nursing)

HQCoventry, United Kingdom

Rebel Recruiters

Rebel Recruiters is a UK based specialist tech recruitment agency headquartered in Nottingham, focused on delivering results without the usual hassle for both employers and candidates. Since 2015 the team has built a trusted reputation in the technology market by combining deep domain expertise with an ethical, candidate centric approach. Their core offering spans permanent hiring, contract staffing, and senior appointments, helping companies secure culturally aligned and hard to find talent while reducing time to hire and improving hiring outcomes. For permanent recruitment, Rebel prioritizes thorough screening beyond keywords to present shortlists that are aligned to role requirements and team culture, supported by generous rebate periods that share risk with clients. Their contractors proposition provides rapid access to a vetted network of referenced tech contractors with fixed, transparent margins, IR35 compliant guidance and documentation, and independent contractor audits that benchmark rates, availability, and skills in the open market. For leadership and niche mandates, the senior appointments practice runs targeted search for roles such as CTO, Head of Engineering, Principal Engineer, and other critical technical and go to market positions. Complementary solutions include embedded and retained project models (Rebel X), candidate screening, and recruitment consultancy that provide flexibility and scalability for growth, transformation, or peak hiring periods. The firm recruits across software engineering, data and analytics, cloud, DevOps, infrastructure, product, UX and UI, project delivery, IT support, as well as commercial roles in tech led businesses including sales and finance. Clients range from startups and scaleups to established enterprises across the UK, with hybrid and remote arrangements common. Candidates benefit from honest feedback, market insight, and hands on support throughout the hiring process, while clients receive consultative advice, skills and rate intelligence, and a partnership focused on quality over volume. Rebel Recruiters prides itself on being ethical, diverse, and fun to work with while consistently getting results.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceCloud ComputingTelecomTechnology & Digital

HQNottingham, United Kingdom

Rubicon Consulting

Rubicon Consulting is a UK based talent management and recruitment consultancy that helps organizations optimize business performance and competitive advantage by choosing the right people first time. The business has grown into a leading recruitment company operating in niche vertical markets, with a strong reputation for supplying specialist talent across construction, power and utilities, technology, and telecoms. The firm partners with clients on permanent appointments and contract or temporary resourcing needs, and it emphasizes speed and precision, commonly filling urgent roles within 24 to 48 hours without compromising on quality. Its consultants cultivate deep networks of engineers, project professionals, site and field specialists, and technical managers, enabling rapid shortlisting and delivery on complex projects and mobilizations. Clients use the Upload Your Vacancy channel to brief roles and gain quick access to matched candidates, while professionals are encouraged to Upload Your CV to stay informed about ongoing contracts and live opportunities. Rubicon Consulting supports both large infrastructure operators and tier one contractors as well as technology and telecom providers, balancing compliance, safety, and delivery requirements with candidate care. The companys approach is relationship led and outcomes focused, reflected in client feedback that credits Rubicon with resolving previously challenging requirements and sustaining positive long term partnerships; endorsements from Siemens Plc and Vinci Construction underline its capacity to source scarce skills at pace. Whether assembling multi discipline project teams, backfilling critical positions, or securing hard to find specialists, Rubicon Consulting aligns market insight with transparent process management, prompt communication, and rigorous screening. The result is a reliable recruitment service that helps businesses reduce time to hire, minimize risk, and achieve project and operational targets across the built environment, energy networks, and digital infrastructure.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingTemporary StaffingResidential DevelopmentCommercial Real EstateConstructionSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData Science

HQHockley Heath, United Kingdom

Staff for Employment

Staff for Employment is a UK based recruitment and talent acquisition consultancy focused on technical markets across engineering, manufacturing, and environmental disciplines. Positioned as the recruitment arm of Deans Group Ltd, established in 2010, the company delivers permanent and temporary hiring solutions nationwide, operating both remotely and on site to fit client needs. Its specialist permanent team partners with employers to understand long term objectives, leveraging a pre qualified talent network and targeted headhunting to secure hard to find skills. For time sensitive and variable demand, the firm provides compliant temporary staffing, handling full candidate vetting, reference checks, right to work verification, on site pre and post employment assessments, and the administration around applications, payroll, and required licenses. Consultants apply a consultative process that includes market mapping, competitor analysis, and salary insights, then back delivery with transparent and simple pricing and regular service reviews against agreed KPIs such as attendance and retention. Core coverage spans energy, recycling, waste management, water, technology enabled engineering, and broader industrial settings, from design and project engineering to maintenance, production, quality, and HSE functions. A media led and AI assisted attraction strategy supports bespoke campaigns that boost engagement in niche communities while confidential search reaches passive talent in scarce markets. Candidates benefit from a 100 percent confidential service, structured screening and interview preparation, and clear guidance on opportunities aligned to their skills and aspirations, with the option to submit a CV for proactive representation. By combining sector knowledge, disciplined process, and responsive communication, Staff for Employment provides a reliable, people first recruitment partnership that strengthens clients workforces and supports sustainable growth across the UK.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseWater ManagementUtilitiesSoftware Development

HQBirmingham, United Kingdom

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