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Owen Daniels Consultancy

Founded in 2011, Owen Daniels Consultancy is a specialist recruitment partner focused on powering the global STEM economy, supporting high growth startups through to established industrial leaders. With hubs across the UK and in the United States (Chicago), the company delivers adaptable workforce solutions that align to complex technical environments and regulated markets. Its portfolio spans Contingent Worker Solutions that centralize agency supply, standardize rates and compliance checks, and provide real time workforce visibility and analytics; embedded RPO programs that build in house capability, elevate employer brand and drive scalable, cost effective permanent and contract hiring; and fast paced contract recruitment for urgent project teams and interim experts. Complementing these services, Owen Daniels provides global payroll and compliance support that manages onboarding, right to work and vetting, IR35 determinations, and accurate payrolling across single contractors and multi country contractor populations. The firm recruits across engineering, technology, science and adjacent business functions, including design, manufacturing and operations, quality, supply chain and logistics, HR, sales, leadership, shop floor and field service roles. Deep sector immersion includes aerospace and defense, space and satellite communications, robotics and automation, industrial machinery, medical technology, and broader advanced manufacturing, with client testimonials citing long term exclusive partnerships, embedded on site support, and rigorous attention to compliance. Through CWS programs, Owen Daniels delivers cost containment, supplier performance management and consistent service levels across multi site operations, while RPO engagements reengineer processes, introduce structured assessment, and reduce dependency on ad hoc suppliers. Consultants combine local market knowledge with global reach, drawing on networks in mechanical, electrical and electronic engineering, software and systems, test and validation, quality assurance, procurement and logistics, and program management. Whether the brief is a first of its kind technical pioneer, a scalable manufacturing workforce, or a senior leader to steer growth, the team partners closely with hiring managers to clarify scope, calibrate the market and deliver shortlists that convert, producing measurable improvements in time to hire, quality and compliance across the UK, Europe and North America.

MSPRPOContract StaffingAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseCloud ComputingTelecomHospital & Health Care (Nursing)

HQCheltenham, United Kingdom

OnTarget Recruitment

On Target Recruitment is a UK specialist recruiter established in 1994 that connects skilled professionals with employers across the Construction, Engineering, Medical and Commercial markets. Operating nationwide from its base in Chessington, Surrey, the firm partners with SMEs and blue chip organizations to deliver targeted hiring solutions for sales, technical and commercial functions from trainee through to director level. Its consultants bring deep technical knowledge of the niches they cover, enabling precise shortlists and credible candidate engagement in areas such as industrial automation, building products and plumbing and heating fittings, medical devices and diagnostics, and wider capital equipment and engineered solutions. For employers, On Target Recruitment offers permanent recruitment alongside retained search for critical, confidential and senior mandates, supported by a preferred partner model that provides consistent service, priority access to talent and streamlined vacancy intake. For candidates, the business provides a clear process that starts with understanding goals and skill sets, then actively searching and discussing suitable roles, coaching through interviews and facilitating offers, with ongoing support and resources including CV and interview guides and tailored job alerts. Typical recent assignments include key account and business development roles in automation and building products, sales specialist positions in point of care diagnostics, and healthcare sales management roles in decontamination and sterilisation equipment. The team emphasizes transparent communication, permission based CV submission, confidentiality and timely feedback, reflected in extensive candidate testimonials about responsiveness and thorough preparation. Whether scaling a sales team, making a pivotal leadership hire or accelerating an individual career move, On Target Recruitment focuses on speed, fit and long term outcomes, combining sector insight with disciplined search execution to help clients and candidates achieve results across the UK and Ireland.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseMedical DevicesHealthcare AdministrationMental Health Care

HQChessington, United Kingdom

Newsom Consulting

Newsom Consulting is a specialist executive search firm focused on delivering leadership talent to the transportation, infrastructure, and built environment sectors. Founded in 2010 and headquartered near Euston in central London, the company delivers regional, national, and global search projects across rail, aviation and maritime, highways, energy, utilities, and buildings. The team has successfully placed more than 400 experienced industry executives spanning executive leadership, senior management, and leading technical experts, partnering closely with clients to build world class teams that can deliver complex programs and business growth. Newsom Consulting provides a suite of services centered on executive search, supplemented by talent mapping to give clients proactive visibility of the market, leadership assessment to objectively evaluate competencies and potential, and salary benchmarking informed by real time conversations with senior leaders. A strong commitment to diversity and inclusion underpins every assignment, with the firm consistently aiming to provide balanced longlists and shortlists and reporting that on average 33 percent of recent executive searches have been successfully fulfilled with a female candidate, a performance that outpaces the wider transport and infrastructure market. Clients value the firm’s deep domain knowledge, straightforward advice, and long term partnerships that extend beyond a successful hire to support ongoing team development and succession planning. Typical mandates include board and C suite appointments, P and L leadership, operations and delivery directors, commercial and project leadership, and specialist functional heads across engineering, asset management, and program controls for contractors, consultancies, operators, and asset owners. By combining rigorous research, discreet engagement, and thorough assessment with clear communication and integrity, Newsom Consulting helps organizations hire better and faster, ensuring the right leaders are in place to shape safer, smarter, and more sustainable infrastructure.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsSupply Chain ManagementFreight ForwardingAirlines & AviationEnvironmental ServicesWater ManagementUtilities

HQLondon, United Kingdom

Optima Recruitment

Optima Metal Services is a family run multi metal stockholder and processor established in 1992 that has grown from a garage based startup into a leading one stop shop for metal in the East of England. Operating from a 60,000 sq ft warehouse on an approximate 3 acre site, the business supports customers through locations in Kings Lynn, Corby, and Great Yarmouth, and has invested in new vehicles, expanded stock, and advanced processing equipment to ensure fast, dependable service. The company supplies stainless steel, mild steel, and aluminium in an extensive range of forms including angle, box and square section, channel, flat bar, round bar, sheets, mesh, tube and pipe, pattern sheets, and valves, along with a comprehensive selection of BSP, metric, dairy, and NB fittings. Its in house processing capabilities include a brand new tube laser, four Bystronic fiber flat bed laser machines, four brake press machines for precision forming, saw cutting, deburring, polishing, and a full 24 hour cut to size service designed to turn orders around promptly and consistently. Customers can browse products, select departments such as stock, laser, cut to size, and laser tube, and build custom quotes online to streamline purchasing. Backed by knowledgeable staff and a reputation for price, service, and reliability, Optima Metal Services balances deep stockholding with flexible processing so fabricators, manufacturers, and contractors can source standard sections and bespoke parts from a single partner. The business operates as Optima Stainless Ltd trading as Optima Metal Services and provides easy access to key compliance information, including public liability and risk assessment documents. With strategic locations, a responsive sales team, and a delivery capability aligned to customer schedules, the company focuses on minimizing lead times, maintaining quality, and offering practical solutions from one off cuts to batch processed components and complete kits, helping clients control cost, quality, and speed to site.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingTemporary StaffingAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseSupply Chain ManagementFreight ForwardingAirlines & Aviation

HQKing's Lynn, United Kingdom

Paragon Global Engineering

Paragon Global Engineering is a specialist talent partner focused on connecting engineering driven organizations with high caliber professionals across the full project and product lifecycle. Serving manufacturers, industrial innovators, and complex capital projects worldwide, the firm delivers permanent recruitment, contract staffing, and executive search solutions tailored to hard to fill technical and leadership roles. Its consultants understand the nuances of disciplines such as mechanical, electrical, civil and structural engineering, process and chemical engineering, automation and controls, reliability and maintenance, quality, HSE, R&D, and program and project management. Clients engage Paragon Global Engineering to build core teams for new product introductions, expand capacity in greenfield and brownfield facilities, and secure proven leaders who can drive operational excellence, digital transformation, and safety culture. The company blends market intelligence with a rigorous, competency based assessment methodology, mapping talent pools globally, proactively pipelining scarce skills, and presenting shortlists that balance technical depth with soft skills and cultural fit. For contract and interim needs, it provides agile deployment, compliance, and contractor care, ensuring continuity and productivity on time critical initiatives. Executive mandates are managed with discretion, robust research, and structured referencing to de risk C suite and senior appointments. Candidates benefit from transparent communication, interview preparation, and career coaching that emphasize long term growth. Its sector coverage spans automotive, aerospace, industrial machinery, advanced materials, consumer goods manufacturing, energy transition equipment, and specialty chemicals, as well as OEMs, tier suppliers, EPCs, and systems integrators. The delivery model combines dedicated account ownership with project based recruiting squads, standardized SLAs, and transparent analytics that provide hiring managers with pipeline status, diversity metrics, and competitive compensation benchmarks. Paragon Global Engineering prioritizes ethical recruitment, safety and regulatory compliance, and the highest standards of candidate experience, backed by robust vetting, right to work checks, and onboarding coordination that reduces risk at the point of hire. Beyond individual placements, the team advises on workforce planning, organizational design, and location strategy, offering insight reports and salary surveys that help clients make evidence led decisions in evolving markets.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseElectrical EngineeringIndustrial AutomationEngineering

HQKingston Upon Thames, United Kingdom

Original Talent Recruitment

Original Talent Recruitment is a UK based technical engineering recruitment specialist focused on delivering straightforward, open and transparent hiring support across automotive, motorsport, manufacturing and production, and technology and energy domains. The firm partners with OEMs, consultancies, and Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers, supporting programs for some of the most recognizable global brands. Consultants cover the full talent spectrum from graduate engineers and technicians through to senior management and executive leadership, aligning skills, culture and delivery timelines with client objectives. In automotive and motorsport, coverage spans concept and studio design, CAE, NVH and simulation, systems, software and safety, hybrid, electric and battery vehicle engineering, controls, electronics and calibration, electrical hardware and EDS, homologation and legislation, design engineering, development and test technicians, quality, manufacturing and production, purchasing and supply chain, project and programme management, operations and logistics, health, safety, facilities and environmental, and commercial and sales roles. In broader manufacturing and production, they recruit for mechanical design, FEA, CFD and analysis, systems engineering, field service, production and maintenance, continuous improvement, lean and six sigma, R and D and prototype engineering, materials science, customer support, and leadership roles including operations, manufacturing, procurement, quality and engineering management. Within technology and energy, the team supports connected car, autonomous engineering, AI, battery test and development, BMS, VR, connectivity and infotainment, renewable and sustainable energy, and electrical engineering. Known by clients and candidates as knowledgeable, approachable, genuine and dependable, Original Talent emphasizes informed, friendly and humble service while building long term partnerships. Their model combines executive search rigor with agile delivery for permanent and contract appointments, providing a trusted route to hard to find technical talent across the UK and selected international projects.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseTelecommunicationsCloud ComputingTelecom

HQPortsmouth, United Kingdom

Palmeria Search

Palmeira Search is a specialist leadership recruitment consultancy serving the built environment across the UK. Founded in 2016, the firm focuses on delivering exceptional leadership to organizations in real estate and construction, partnering with consultants, main contractors, developers, and end user organizations to secure senior talent that drives project, asset, and business performance. Its specialisms span agency, architecture, building consultancy, cost and project management, engineering, planning and development, and property and asset management, enabling coverage of the full lifecycle of the built environment from early stage planning and design through delivery, operations, and portfolio management. Operating as a trusted partner to SMEs and multinationals alike, Palmeira Search applies a rigorous search methodology designed to access the widest relevant talent pool and produce a strong final shortlist before any candidate is introduced. The process is clear and consistent: Stage 1: job briefing and specification; Stage 2: market research and long listing; Stage 3: engagement, interviews, and short listing; Stage 4: client interviews; Stage 5: offer negotiation and completion. This structured approach is underpinned by careful attention to requirement definition, proactive research, and close communication with stakeholders on both client and candidate sides. Testimonials highlight an honest, straightforward, and proactive style, with recommendations that reflect deep understanding of client needs and delivery of senior hires up to equity partner level. Headquartered in England with a registered office in Eastbourne, the firm supports leadership appointments across the UK market, combining sector expertise with discretion and thoroughness to ensure long term fit. Whether advising on a pivotal executive search or building out senior teams across multiple disciplines, Palmeira Search is committed to consistent process, quality outcomes, and relationships built on trust.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingResidential DevelopmentCommercial Real EstateConstructionInterior DesignSenior ExecutivesEngineering

HQEastbourne, United Kingdom

Oxford Global Resources

Oxford Global Resources is a specialist talent solutions partner focused on connecting organizations with highly skilled consultants and hard to find professionals across technology, healthcare and life sciences, and engineering disciplines. Leveraging a deep, curated network of experts, the firm delivers flexible engagement models that include contract staffing for urgent skills needs, outcome based statement of work project teams, and targeted permanent recruitment for critical roles. Clients turn to Oxford to accelerate digital transformation initiatives in areas such as software development, data and analytics, cloud and DevOps, ERP and enterprise applications, IT infrastructure, and cybersecurity, as well as to strengthen regulated functions in life sciences including clinical operations, biometrics, pharmacovigilance, regulatory affairs, quality and validation, laboratory and manufacturing support, and medical devices. The company also supports industrial and product engineering programs spanning controls and automation, electrical and mechanical engineering, process and quality engineering, and manufacturing engineering. Oxford emphasizes speed without compromising quality through rigorous vetting, technical screening, and reference validation, and it aligns each search or project with dedicated delivery teams who understand the nuances of the client environment. Engagements are structured for on site, hybrid, or remote delivery, enabling cross border mobilization of talent where needed while maintaining strong compliance around worker classification, privacy, data protection, and right to work requirements. Its consultative process covers scoping, market mapping, shortlisting, interview orchestration, onboarding, and project governance with clear milestones and deliverables for SOW programs. Whether supporting a startup building a first product team, a mid market company modernizing core systems, or a global enterprise scaling regulated operations, Oxford focuses on measurable outcomes, reduced time to productivity, and dependable results. The firm is committed to candidate care, transparent communication, and diversity and inclusion, building long term relationships that help clients and professionals thrive through changing market conditions.

Contract StaffingSOW/ProjectsPermanent RecruitmentSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceMental Health CareVeterinaryAutomotive

HQOrpington, United Kingdom

Solutions2Recruitment

Solutions 2 Recruitment is a generalist recruitment agency based in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, serving employers and job seekers across East and West Sussex, including Haywards Heath, Burgess Hill, Crawley, Worthing, Brighton, Lewes, and East Grinstead. The agency recruits across temporary, contract, and permanent requirements and focuses on matching the right people to the right roles through an attentive, needs led approach. Typical disciplines covered include office support roles such as administrators, secretaries, PAs, and customer service professionals; technical and engineering positions spanning electro mechanical, assembly and calibration, and product support; as well as marketing, PR and sales, and accountancy and credit control roles. Their Vacancies and Applicants resources are designed to help candidates align their skills with current opportunities, while clients benefit from close collaboration to understand hiring needs and reduce time to hire through careful screening and shortlisting. Testimonials highlight the thoroughness of CV review and the emphasis on cultural fit, experience, and qualifications to ensure only suitable candidates progress. As part of TEAM, one of the largest independent networked groups of recruitment providers, Solutions 2 Recruitment can leverage broader reach and collaboration while maintaining local market focus. Whether a manufacturer seeking engineering technicians and assemblers, a growing business needing account managers and credit controllers, or a regional office looking for reliable administrative staff, the consultancy supports a wide variety of sectors across Sussex and neighboring areas. Their commitment to professional, courteous service and practical market insight helps clients build effective teams and enables candidates to secure roles that align with their capabilities and career goals.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingContract StaffingAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Human Resources

HQHaywards Heath, United Kingdom

Technical Placements

Technical Placements is a recruitment consultancy dedicated to connecting employers with high caliber technical talent across technology, engineering, and industrial domains. The firm focuses on roles that require deep problem solving, hands on expertise, and the ability to deliver complex projects, partnering with organizations that build products, platforms, and infrastructure. Its core service mix spans permanent recruitment, contract staffing, and executive search and interim management, giving clients flexible options to scale teams, secure niche skills for defined engagements, or hire leaders who can set direction and drive change. Typical mandates include software and data professionals, IT infrastructure and cybersecurity specialists, electronics and embedded systems engineers, mechanical and electrical engineers, automation and controls engineers, quality and test specialists, project and program managers, and operational leaders. Technical Placements applies a structured, human centered process that begins with upfront discovery to clarify success criteria and must have capabilities, followed by talent mapping, targeted outreach, and rigorous screening that blends competency based interviews with role appropriate technical assessments. Shortlists emphasize evidence of impact, cultural alignment, and transferability of skills. For contract needs, the firm prioritizes speed, compliance, and clear scopes of work to ensure rapid onboarding and delivery against milestones. For leadership searches, it deploys discreet research and robust referencing to validate track records and fit. Clients benefit from market intelligence on talent availability, location strategy, and compensation benchmarks, while candidates gain transparent feedback, interview preparation, and support through offer negotiation and onboarding. The consultancy promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion by widening sourcing channels and assessing candidates against objective criteria. By aligning hiring plans with business outcomes and continually refining the process with data and stakeholder feedback, Technical Placements aims to reduce time to hire and cost of vacancy while improving retention and quality of hire.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceDefenseConsumer Goods ManufacturingIndustrial Machinery

HQHythe, United Kingdom

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