The UK specialist recruitment partner for anodisers, electroplaters, powder coaters, heat treaters, thermal spray businesses and advanced coating operations. We recruit the people who build, run, improve and grow them.
Surface engineering is a technical trade. Generalist recruiters don't speak it. Shortlists arrive that look right on paper and fail on the shop floor. Hires walk. Roles stay open. Lines suffer.
A recruitment partner with genuine command of the processes, standards and commercial realities of the sector. We're a sister business to EMC Surface Technologies, a UK operating group that owns and runs surface finishing plants, which means we recruit with an operator's instinct, not a generalist's checklist.
Functional recruitment specialism across the operational and commercial disciplines that build, run, improve and grow the business.
Engineers who own the line: cycle times, bath control, fixturing, yield, throughput.
NADCAP, AS9100, ISO 9001. Technical quality leads, auditors, inspection managers.
Environmental, health, safety and regulatory leads. COSHH, IPPC, ISO 14001, ISO 45001.
LEAN practitioners, Six Sigma, OEE-driven plant uplift and transformation specialists.
Mechanical, electrical, PLC, SCADA and automation engineers who keep plant running.
Commercial hires who can read a drawing, hold a technical conversation and close the order.
Each has its own chemistry, kit, standards and talent pool. We know them because we operate in them.
Zinc, nickel, chrome, copper, silver, gold and alloy plating.
Sulphuric, chromic, hard and architectural anodising. Chromating, phosphating, passivation.
Architectural, industrial, contract and high-performance coating systems.
Case hardening, carburising, nitriding, vacuum and atmosphere processes.
HVOF, plasma, arc and flame spray. Wear, corrosion and dimensional restoration.
Thin-film deposition, DLC, tool coatings and next-generation surface engineering.
Half a day on-site where it helps. We see the line, meet the team, understand the real role.
We map the market and approach the shortlist directly. Discreet. Retained where appropriate.
Candidates we'd stand behind. Not twenty half-fits.
We stay close through offer, onboarding and first 90 days.
Retained or contingent. Permanent, contract or interim. Technical and senior.
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