Engineering
We know what a good engineer looks like.
Eight disciplines, screened against the standards you work to and the tools they will live in. One specialist for a funded programme, a permanent hire the team depends on, or a whole discipline for a ramp up.
- 8 disciplines
- from design and simulation through controls, quality and commissioning
- 48 to 72 hours
- to first qualified profiles on most engineering briefs
- Onshore or offshore
- design and analysis can run from India, commissioning cannot, and we say which
Engineering
Eight disciplines, three shapes, two locations.
We recruit across eight engineering disciplines, from drafters and technicians through to principal engineers and engineering managers. Manufacturers, plants, utilities and product companies, on permanent, contract and contract-to-hire terms.
Demand reaches us in three shapes. One specialist for a funded programme. A pod of two to five around a single workstream. Or a whole discipline stood up for a ramp up. On contract work the engineer stays our employee, so payroll, compliance and the end date sit with us.
Design, drafting, analysis and simulation can run onshore in the United States or from our India teams. Commissioning, field service and anything that has to be in the room stays local. We tell you which side of that line your scope falls on before you commit to anything.
Disciplines
What we actually recruit for.
Pick one and you get what they actually produce, the seniority we fill, and the tools and standards a screen has to cover.
Housings, assemblies, fixtures and tooling, from concept sketches through detailed drawings and tolerance stacks.
- Seniority we fill
- Drafter through to principal designer
- Tools
- SolidWorksCreoCATIANXInventorAutoCAD
- Standards
- ASME Y14.5GD&TISO 2768
Housings, assemblies, fixtures and tooling, from concept sketches through detailed drawings and tolerance stacks.
- Seniority we fill
- Drafter through to principal designer
- Tools
- SolidWorksCreoCATIANXInventorAutoCAD
- Standards
- ASME Y14.5GD&TISO 2768
The vocabulary
What we recruit against.
The vocabulary an engineering screen has to be conducted in. If your stack is not here, it is worth a conversation rather than an assumption.
CAD and PLM
- SolidWorks
- Creo
- CATIA
- NX
- Inventor
- AutoCAD
- Revit
- Teamcenter
- Windchill
Simulation
- ANSYS
- Abaqus
- COMSOL
- Fluent
- MATLAB
- Simulink
- Moldflow
Controls and automation
- Allen-Bradley
- Siemens
- Studio 5000
- TIA Portal
- Ignition
- Wonderware
- EPLAN
Standards
- ASME Y14.5
- IEC 61131
- NFPA 79
- UL 508A
- ISO 9001
- AS9100
- IATF 16949
- ISA-5.1
Credentials we verify
- PE
- EIT and FE
- PMP
- Six Sigma Green Belt
- Six Sigma Black Belt
- CSWP
- OSHA 30
An engineer relearning your standards and your CAD at the same time is slower for months. A job title never tells you that.
Screening
How a recruiter screens an engineer.
Our recruiters are not engineers, and pretending otherwise would be the fastest way to waste your time. What they have instead is a structured technical screen built with hiring managers, and the discipline to use it every time.
- 01
The brief, in engineering terms
Which standards you work to, which CAD and PLM the person lives in, and whether the role owns drawings, reviews them, or both. Ten minutes here saves a fortnight later.
- 02
Work reviewed, not just read
Drawings, a model tree, a controls narrative, a validation report. Whatever the discipline actually produces, we ask to see it before you do.
- 03
Standards questioned, not assumed
A GD&T call-out, a safety circuit, a tolerance stack, a PPAP element. A short set of discipline questions separates the people who have done it from the people who have been near it.
- 04
Tool fluency checked honestly
Familiar with SolidWorks and has shipped production drawings from it are not the same claim, and a resume treats them identically.
- 05
A reference from a technical lead
The person who reviewed their work, not an HR contact who confirms dates. It is the single most useful call in the process.
Straight answer
Where the market is actually tight.
What our recruiters see when they run these searches. It is experience rather than a guarantee, and we would rather set the expectation here than on day thirty of a search.
| Role | What the market looks like | Realistic shortlist |
|---|---|---|
| Mechanical designers | Deep pool in most manufacturing regions, especially on SolidWorks and Creo. | Days |
| Manufacturing and industrial | Available, though genuine lean and line balancing depth thins out quickly. | About a week |
| Quality and reliability | Steady supply. IATF 16949 and AS9100 depth is scarcer than the resumes suggest. | One to two weeks |
| Process engineers with plant time | Plenty on paper. Few who have actually run a plant through a bad week. | Two to three weeks |
| Commissioning and field service | Small pool, and the travel percentage decides it more often than the pay does. | Two to four weeks |
| Controls and automation | The hardest engineering hire we run, in almost every market. Rockwell and Siemens depth is the constraint. | Three to four weeks |
If a search is going to take a month, we say so at the first conversation rather than sending a weak shortlist in week one.
Shapes
Three shapes this usually takes.
Engineering demand rarely arrives as one neat vacancy. These are the three shapes we see, and the arrangement behind each one.
One specialist
A single discipline for a defined piece of work.
- When it fits
- A funded programme, a backfill, or a skill you need for one phase and not forever.
- The arrangement
- Contract or contract-to-hire, typically three to twenty four months.
A pod
Two to five engineers who work as a unit.
- When it fits
- A workstream with its own outcome: a product line, a validation push, a controls upgrade.
- The arrangement
- Contract, with a lead of ours if you would rather not run it day to day.
A discipline ramp
A whole engineering function stood up from very little.
- When it fits
- A new plant or line, a migration, or a step change in volume with a date attached.
- The arrangement
- Project and team staffing. Onshore, offshore or blended, on one contract.
Before you call
What to have ready before you call.
None of this needs to be written up. Knowing the answers is enough, and it turns a first conversation into a shortlist rather than a discovery call.
- The standards you work to, and which of them are actually negotiable
- Which CAD, PLM and simulation tools the person will live in every day
- Whether the role owns drawings, reviews them, or signs them off
- Site, hybrid or remote, and the real travel percentage rather than the hopeful one
- The rate or salary band you can approve without a second meeting
- Who the engineer reports to, and whether that person can interview this week
Open roles
A sample of engineering roles we fill.
Questions
Before you call.
By not pretending to be one. Our recruiters run a structured technical screen built with hiring managers in that discipline, ask to see the work, and take a reference from the technical lead who reviewed it. Where a role is genuinely specialist we will ask your engineering manager for two questions to add to the screen, and they take five minutes to answer.
Hiring engineers?
Tell us the discipline, the standards you work to and the tools they will live in. You will get a straight answer on timing at the first conversation, including when it is going to take a month.