Surface Talent was founded to fix a real problem: the surface engineering sector is underserved by generalist recruitment. Good people slip through. Good businesses hire the wrong fit. Productivity and retention suffer.
We're a sister company of the EMC Surface Technologies group, a UK operating group that owns and runs surface finishing plants across anodising, electroplating, hard chrome and related processes. That gives us technical fluency, operator instinct and a network most recruiters don't have access to.
We recruit permanent, contract and interim placements across the UK. We're not a volume agency and we don't try to be.
Senior hiring runs through everything we do. Where boards, owners and shareholders need a confidential, retained process, we handle it end to end.
Full P&L leadership of a single site or business unit.
Multi-site operations, production and LEAN transformation.
Process, chemistry, quality standards and NPD leadership.
Strategy, pipeline, pricing, key accounts and team build.
NADCAP, AS9100, ISO, audit and technical assurance leadership.
General management of a site, division or specialist business.
Our approach: thorough brief, discreet market mapping, direct approaches, a shortlist of three to five credible operators, close involvement through offer, onboarding and first 90 days. Retained and measured on the hire that stays.