Executive & specialist search · UK & USA

Tomorrow's leaders in the built environment

Structural steel and fabrication, heavy civil engineering, facades and cladding — and the building materials businesses behind them. We place the people who carry those projects.

  • Structural steel & fabrication
  • Heavy civil engineering
  • Facades & cladding
Appointments since 2020
1,200+Appointments since 2020
Still in post at twelve months
92%Still in post at twelve months
Average shortlist to offer
21 daysAverage shortlist to offer
Live mandates
340Live mandates
Countries, one delivery team
2Countries, one delivery team
Specialist practices
4Specialist practices

Executive search

Senior appointments, handled properly

Retained and exclusive search for the roles that decide how a business performs. We map the market properly, approach people who are not looking, and give you a shortlist short enough to actually read.

Shortlist to offer
21 days
Still in post at a year
92%
Candidates per shortlist
3–5
Countries covered
2

Live roles

Selected mandates

No live roles to show right now.

Testimonials

What people say afterwards

They sent three people. We hired two of them and the third is now running a competitor’s fabrication shop. That is a good problem to have.
Operations DirectorStructural steel fabricator, West Midlands
The brief took an hour and they pushed back on half of it. The shortlist was better for it.
Managing DirectorCivil engineering contractor, Manchester
First agency that understood the difference between a detailer and a design engineer without being told twice.
Technical ManagerFacade contractor, Houston
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