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Strategic Resources

Strategic Resources European Recruitment Consultants Ltd is an Aberdeen based recruitment and workforce solutions company established in 1987, trusted by energy and engineering businesses across the UK and offshore markets. The firm delivers permanent and contract recruitment alongside targeted head hunting and executive search, combining deep sector knowledge with an honest, professional and personable approach. Its capability spans engineering and technical disciplines central to complex, safety critical operations, supplying talent such as process safety engineers, instrument and electrical technicians, mechanical and piping specialists, HSE advisors, structural and civil engineers, subsea and marine experts, welding and materials inspectors, and project controls professionals. Strategic Resources also covers exploration and petroleum functions including chemistry, drilling, completions, geosciences, production and reservoir, and recruits for core business roles across accountancy and finance, contracts and legal, costs and planning, procurement and materials, sales and marketing, technical support and IT, and secretarial, administration and HR. The company complements hiring with strong contractor care, paying on time every time and staying in regular contact to support performance and wellbeing. Its contractor management and outsourced payroll service reduces administrative burden and improves cashflow for clients by handling contract preparation, right to work and qualification checks, next of kin records, timesheet and expense verification, invoicing or self billing and payments, and weekly or monthly payroll for PAYE personnel and limited company contractors. Compliance is baked in, covering AWR, pension auto enrolment, holiday and sickness pay, RTI submissions and ITEPA intermediary reporting to HMRC. Strategic Resources is ISO 9001:2015 accredited, a member of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, and Achilles registered, reflecting mature processes, confidentiality and reliability. With longevity in the energy supply chain, active networks and a focus on individual relationships, the team stands by a simple promise: professionals recruiting professionals and delivering results on time, every time.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtOil & GasRenewable EnergyMiningConsumer Goods ManufacturingIndustrial MachineryChemical Manufacturing

HQAberdeen, United Kingdom

ScientiQ

ScientiQ Staffing is a Netherlands based recruitment and staffing partner focused on delivering qualified lab and engineering talent. Headquartered in Breda, the company specializes in recruitment and selection for permanent roles, detachering for contract assignments, and uitzenden for temporary needs, serving employers that require medium and highly educated laboratory technicians and engineers. ScientiQ combines a personal, consultative approach with an extensive cross border network, engaging candidates from the Netherlands and other EU countries to give clients access to a broad pool of motivated, field specific professionals. Each client benefits from a single dedicated advisor who manages the entire process, from vacancy intake and candidate search to placement and post placement support. During secondments, ScientiQ actively monitors both the professional and the work environment to identify training needs, respond to evolving requirements, and steer performance so that assignments run smoothly and objectives are achieved. The firm advises on the most suitable contract form per situation, aligning with client goals and candidate preferences, whether that involves permanent hiring, temporary deployment, staged pathways such as internships or learning work trajectories, or tailored coaching and upskilling for individual employees. Through its ScientiQ Academy initiatives, including practical learning experiences, the company supports continuous development so professionals can keep advancing their skills. For candidates, ScientiQ offers personal guidance, career advice, and a range of vacancies across lab and engineering disciplines, ensuring the chosen contract type provides the right balance of flexibility or certainty. For employers, the model is designed to address both immediate resourcing needs and longer term workforce plans while maintaining short, clear lines of communication and a high standard of quality throughout every engagement.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingTemporary StaffingHospital & Health Care (Nursing)PhysiciansPharmaceuticalsDefenseConsumer Goods ManufacturingIndustrial Machinery

HQBreda, Netherlands

First Achieve Ltd

First Achieve Ltd is a recruitment partner focused on delivering consistent hiring outcomes across permanent roles, contract assignments, and senior leadership appointments. The firm supports organizations that need to secure hard to find talent quickly without compromising quality, applying a structured methodology that blends market mapping, targeted headhunting, rigorous assessment, and transparent communication. Its consultants operate across the spectrum of white collar, blue collar, and executive mandates, aligning search strategy to business objectives such as capacity expansion, operational excellence, digital transformation, and leadership succession. Typical engagements span engineering and manufacturing environments as well as technology enabled functions, covering disciplines such as design and development, production and maintenance, quality and HSE, supply chain and projects, plus software, data, infrastructure, and technology leadership. A disciplined delivery framework underpins each assignment, from discovery and role calibration to competency scorecards, behavioral and technical interviewing, and thorough referencing. Clients benefit from clear timelines, SLA backed shortlists, and data driven reporting on pipeline health, diversity, and market availability, all designed to reduce time to hire while improving predictability and stakeholder confidence. The firm emphasizes candidate experience and employer brand, ensuring every touchpoint reflects the clients values and value proposition. Engagement models are flexible and outcomes oriented, including contingent search for speed and breadth, retained executive search for critical leadership hires, and project based solutions for multi hire campaigns or new site launches. Compliance is embedded through robust right to work and background checks where applicable, with attention to safety critical roles and local regulatory requirements. Beyond placements, First Achieve Ltd provides market intelligence, salary benchmarking, interview support, and onboarding coordination to help clients convert offers and retain new hires. By combining sector insight, disciplined process, and proactive sourcing, the company aims to become a long term talent partner that delivers repeatable hiring success and measurable business impact.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseCybersecurityData ScienceIT Infrastructure

HQGlasgow, United Kingdom

Activus Recruitment

Activus Recruitment is an award winning recruitment and marketing agency based in Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire, supporting employers and job seekers across Scotland and the wider UK. The team brings a fresh, people first approach grounded in openness, honesty, and conscientious delivery, and has grown quickly as a small agency known for exceptional customer service. Activus provides practical staffing solutions across temporary, permanent, and temporary to permanent hiring, working closely with each client to understand goals, culture, and role requirements before tailoring a precise search and selection plan. The agency serves all sectors while carrying strong capability in construction, engineering, manufacturing, hospitality, and professional services, placing blue collar trades and site operatives alongside white collar professionals such as site engineers, quantity surveyors, architects, bookkeepers, managers, chefs, and operations staff. Consultants manage their sectors end to end, enabling fast, informed decisions and a highly responsive experience at competitive cost, and the firm maintains a large, carefully curated candidate database to accelerate shortlisting without compromising on quality or compliance. Activus emphasizes face to face engagement wherever possible, building lasting relationships through clear communication, consistent updates, and diligent aftercare so that both client and candidate achieve the right long term fit. A strong compliance ethos underpins every process to deliver what the team describes as the most compliant recruitment service in the industry, with thorough vetting, documentation control, and risk awareness embedded in day to day operations. Alongside recruitment, Activus offers practical marketing support that helps organizations strengthen employer brands, from strategy and content through to consistent campaign delivery designed to attract the right talent and drive measurable growth. Whether scaling a workforce for a time sensitive project or making a critical permanent hire, Activus focuses on results, accountability, and service that puts people at the center of every decision.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingContract StaffingResidential DevelopmentCommercial Real EstateConstructionChemical ManufacturingElectrical EngineeringIndustrial Automation

HQOldmeldrum, United Kingdom

ESS Recruit

ESS Recruit is a specialist recruitment consultancy focused on sourcing engineering, scientific, and technical talent for organizations across the UK and Europe. The firm supports startups, scale ups, and established manufacturers as well as technology and life sciences businesses that need hard to find skills to drive product development, operational excellence, quality, and growth. ESS Recruit delivers permanent, contract, and executive solutions and is known for a consultative, data informed approach that blends targeted headhunting, curated talent networks, and rigorous assessment. Their teams understand the full product and manufacturing lifecycle, placing professionals in R&D, design, and test through to process, production, quality, regulatory, supply chain, and operations. Typical roles include mechanical, electrical, electronics, embedded software, and systems engineers; project and program managers; manufacturing, process, and automation engineers; validation and quality specialists; regulatory and compliance professionals; laboratory scientists and technicians; as well as commercial hires such as sales engineers, applications specialists, and product managers. Clients value their market mapping, salary benchmarking, and employer branding advice, alongside swift shortlists that balance technical proficiency, cultural fit, and long term potential. For contract and interim needs, ESS Recruit manages compliant engagements and onboarding, navigating right to work checks and IR35 considerations while maintaining clear communication among clients, contractors, and payroll partners. The firm promotes transparent processes, structured interviews, and inclusive hiring practices to widen talent pools without compromising on standards. Candidates receive practical guidance on CVs, portfolios, and interviews, and benefit from clear feedback and ongoing career support. Whether building a new engineering team, adding niche scientific expertise, or hiring a senior leader to accelerate transformation, ESS Recruit provides a reliable, quality driven service that reduces time to hire, improves retention, and enables clients to meet demanding technical and commercial milestones.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseCloud ComputingTelecomHospital & Health Care (Nursing)

HQEdinburgh, United Kingdom

Wernink Recruitment

Wernink Recruitment is a specialist search and staffing partner focused on the international oil and gas industry, headquartered in Aberdeen and serving operators, contractors, and service companies across the UK Continental Shelf and global markets. The firm combines deep technical and commercial understanding with an extensive international network to deliver executive search, senior staff hiring, and contract placements that align precisely with client objectives and culture. Wernink supports clients across a broad span of industry disciplines, including executive leadership, HR, finance, contracting and procurement, project services, HSEQ, subsurface, subsea, topsides, operations and maintenance, and integrity management. Its approach goes beyond filling role specific requirements, prioritising the long term fit between business strategy and individual capability so that each placement contributes sustainable value. In addition to hiring solutions, Wernink provides professional career management to help candidates navigate pivotal moves and build enduring careers, and offers organisational development support that strengthens structures, teams, and leadership as companies scale or transform. Whether the need is a board level leader, a function head, a critical engineering specialist, or a seasoned contractor to bolster project delivery, the team applies rigorous search methodology, discreet market mapping, and disciplined shortlisting informed by years of industry experience. Clients value Wernink as a strategic partner that anticipates resourcing challenges common in oil and gas, responds quickly to shifting project timelines, and maintains clear communication from briefing through onboarding. Candidates benefit from honest guidance, access to international opportunities, and advocacy that reflects their goals, qualities, and personal attributes. With a track record built on trust, attention to detail, and consistent outcomes, Wernink Recruitment is committed to building relationships that last, connecting high caliber professionals with roles where they can thrive and helping energy businesses secure the talent required to operate safely, efficiently, and competitively in demanding environments.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingOil & GasRenewable EnergyMiningUtilitiesEngineeringSenior Executives

HQAberdeen, United Kingdom

Biopharm Search

Biopharm Search is a specialist executive search consultancy dedicated to the global life sciences and healthcare sectors, partnering with organizations across Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Medical Technology and Contract Services to appoint senior and board level leaders. Operating on a retained basis, the firm delivers local, regional and global mandates for Chief Executive Officers, Senior Vice Presidents, Vice Presidents, Directors and Non Executive Directors, and manages senior leadership searches across the full specialist spectrum including Discovery, Pre Clinical, Early Clinical Development, Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs, Pharmaceutical Development, Manufacturing and Packaging, Project Management and Commercial. A dedicated life science specialist, Biopharm Search blends meticulous research with broad professional networks and disciplined search resources to find, approach and evaluate outstanding candidates, supported by clear, consistent communication throughout each assignment. Its methodical process emphasizes needs assessment, rigorous market mapping to find talent, thoughtful candidate approach and thorough candidate evaluation, and the firm augments this with psychometric assessment where appropriate to inform selection. In addition to executive search, the company offers complementary solutions such as market intelligence and benchmarking, talent mapping and bespoke programs tailored to each clients context, challenges and opportunities, including fast search options when urgency is a priority. By forming close partnerships with a deliberately restricted client base, Biopharm Search minimizes off limits constraints and opens access to the widest possible pool of senior talent, conducting every engagement with honesty, integrity and trust. The team listens, learns, evaluates and innovates to ensure solutions are precisely aligned with culture, needs, constraints and aspirations, aiming to act as a valued ambassador and trusted strategic partner. With experience spanning start ups, mid sized innovators and blue chip multinationals, and coverage across most therapeutic and specialty areas, Biopharm Search brings sector depth and a rigorous, globally capable process to help high growth life sciences organizations secure leadership that can drive discovery, development, manufacturing excellence and commercial success.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsHospital & Health Care (Nursing)PhysiciansPharmaceuticalsMental Health CareVeterinarySenior Executives

HQCrayford, United Kingdom

MM Search

MM Search is an executive search specialist that partners with businesses to identify, attract, and appoint high impact leaders who deliver long term value. Operating across Scotland, the wider UK, and international markets, the firm serves clients ranging from family owned enterprises and high growth scale ups to established PLCs and charities. MM Search focuses on senior and executive appointments and offers a consultative, collaborative process that blends market insight with rigorous assessment to ensure culture and capability fit. Its Executive Search practice delivers permanent leadership hires, while its Executive Interim offering provides pre qualified interim leaders who can drive transformation, bridge capability gaps, and stabilize critical functions in the short term without losing sight of longer term strategy. The team enhances hiring outcomes with video enabled longlist and shortlist presentations that bring candidate profiles to life, help stakeholders align early, and accelerate decision making. Clients value the combination of professionalism with personality, deep understanding of business needs, and access to a global network of high quality candidates. The firm also supports board capability building through its Non Exec Academy, a series of breakfast events hosted in Glasgow that share practical insights from seasoned chairs and non executive directors and create opportunities for senior leaders to expand their networks. With a track record spanning consumer goods, food and drink, industrials, construction materials, housing, renewables, and non profit organizations, MM Search tailors every mandate to the nuances of the role and sector, engaging diverse talent pools and championing inclusive processes. Whether the brief is a critical executive hire, an urgent interim leadership requirement, or guidance on strengthening board composition, MM Search is positioned as a trusted, results driven partner committed to delivering the best fit candidate and positive outcomes for clients and candidates alike.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseE-commerceLuxury GoodsOil & Gas

HQGlasgow, United Kingdom

Sales Recruit UK

Sales Recruit UK is a national sales recruitment specialist that connects high performing sales professionals with growth focused employers across the United Kingdom. With over forty years of combined experience, the team blends deep knowledge of modern B2B selling with a rigorous, relationship led process that spans discovery, role definition, targeted search, structured assessment, and support through offer and onboarding. Operating from offices in Glasgow, Manchester and Birmingham, the agency provides true nationwide coverage while retaining local market insight. Its consultants focus exclusively on commercial roles, placing territory sales, business development, channel, account management, pre sales, inside sales and senior leadership talent. Sector coverage is broad and includes construction, engineering, manufacturing, information technology and SaaS, oil and gas, and professional services, with further experience across logistics, energy, property, FMCG, food and drink, hygiene, lighting, rail and software. Employers benefit from competitive pricing, a candidate replacement guarantee and access to extensive passive networks, enabling shortlists that go beyond active job seekers. The firm prioritizes quality over volume, using competency based interviewing, evidence led scorecards and robust referencing to assess track record, cultural fit and future potential. Candidates value transparent communication, interview preparation and market intelligence that help them navigate opportunities with confidence. Whether a business needs to build a new sales team, strengthen key accounts, expand channel coverage or secure an experienced head of sales to lead transformation, Sales Recruit UK focuses on fit, performance and long term impact. The company maintains an active jobs platform and publishes insights on hiring trends, retention and sales effectiveness, reflecting its commitment to knowledge sharing. By combining specialist expertise, a broad UK network and a consultative approach, Sales Recruit UK consistently delivers hires that accelerate revenue and create lasting commercial advantage for clients while advancing meaningful careers for sales professionals.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseTelecommunicationsCloud ComputingTelecom

HQBellshill, United Kingdom

BRS Jobs

BRS Jobs is a UK recruitment company based in Staines upon Thames that supports the automotive, engineering, and construction sectors with vetted skilled labour across temporary, contract, and permanent roles. Positioned as small enough to care and large enough to deliver, the team focuses on supplying experienced technicians, engineers, and support staff across core areas including Construction and Steelworks, Mechanical and Electrical, Automotive and Engineering, and FMCG. Clients cite long term partnerships across main dealer franchise networks and London bus operations, with BRS Jobs providing HGV technicians, PSV and bus mechanics, car mechanics and technicians, and qualified contract technicians to keep workshops and depots running smoothly. The company places equal emphasis on quality and pace, pledging to seek, vet, and supply talent that is known to its consultants; testimonials highlight that BRS Jobs knows every candidate it supplies and provides fully vetted engineers. A dedicated account consultant model ensures on site presence to manage expectations, coordinate shift coverage, and streamline communication, which clients note saves valuable management time when handling contingent workforces. For candidates, BRS Jobs offers UK wide opportunities and practical support from friendly, experienced consultants who match people to the right employer and environment. For employers, the firm delivers scalable workforce solutions that span urgent cover, freelance and interim assignments, and permanent hiring for both shop floor and management staff, including service advisors. Underpinned by rigorous compliance and safety standards, right to work checks, and reference verification, BRS Jobs combines sector knowledge with hands on service to reduce downtime, improve continuity, and build reliable teams across automotive fleets, workshops, depots, construction sites, and manufacturing environments. The result is a recruitment partner trusted to move fast without compromising on standards, aligning skilled people with mission critical roles that keep operations moving.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingContract StaffingAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseTruckingWarehousingDistribution

HQStaines upon Thames, United Kingdom

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