Engineering
Engineers who turn design into hardware that lasts. Including civil engineering.
Our Engineering team has an extensive network of clients and candidates across civil, mechanical, electrical, process and structural disciplines. We place the engineers who turn design into hardware that has to move, run and last.
Civil engineering sits at the centre of this practice. We place the people who design, build and maintain roads, bridges, tunnels, buildings, waterways, ports, rail and the underground utility networks the rest of the economy runs on.
Beyond civil, the practice covers the disciplines that turn physical systems into product: mechanical and process engineers in chemicals, food and high tech; electrical and instrumentation engineers in energy and utilities; structural engineers in defense, aerospace and heavy industry.
Because our consultants work in these markets daily, they know the candidates, the salaries and the realistic timelines before a search starts. Every search starts with a clear sense of what the role has to deliver in the first six months, and a shortlist calibrated to that.
Talk to the consultant who runs the relevant sub-discipline and you will get an honest read on what is hireable in your timeframe and budget. If the right person is not available, we say so before you spend another quarter searching.
Market insight
Technical occupations are where the Dutch shortage sits: employers name a technical role as their hardest vacancy more often than any other, and construction stays tighter than any other sector. The cooling reported for the wider market has largely passed these roles by, because the work cannot be postponed or automated. Engineers are wanted by several sectors at once, so the pool is smaller than each employer assumes. Lateral entry from adjacent disciplines is a main route, not a fallback, and a direct approach works better than an advertisement.