Underperforming heavy industry recruitment agencies help no one.

Heavy industry whether shipbuilding, steel production, aerospace, or mining needs distinct skills and therefore a specific heavy industry recruitment agency. Like many sectors, heavy industry faces rising production costs, supply chain issues and a skills shortage.

Ensuring that once key personnel have been identified they not only have the right skills but also a good attitude is not something all heavy industry recruitment agencies can do. Sigma knows only too well that no-shows or candidates accepting counteroffers serve no one and that is why we developed a vigorous screening process.

As heavy industry recruiters with a 18-year history of delivering for our manufacturing clients, we understand your issues. The good news is that we can resolve many of your recruitment challenges faster than you will have experienced in the past.

Ready to have a conversation? Before we speak, here are a few more ways Sigma can help you as an experienced heavy industry recruitment agency: –

Sigma Recruitment can help; we are a heavy-industry recruiter that delivers

Featured Heavy Industrial – Steel, Power Generation & Energy Candidates

Case Study

The Client

We worked with a large manufacturing business whose production sites stretch across Europe. They’re one of the largest companies in their sector, and their team supplies products for key projects across the UK.

The Vacancies

Some of the required roles included:

  • Maintenance technician
  • Maintenance engineers
  • Mechanical specialists
  • Electrical specialists
  • Instrumentation professionals

The Challenges

The client has an ongoing requirement for a large number of maintenance technicians and maintenance engineers, but suffers from a very poor reputation within the local employment market.

  • The client’s reputation led to a lack of ability to attract the right candidates, and this placed more pressure on the existing team. The added tension and increased demands led to higher staff turnover.
  • Salaries had fallen below the market average, and the market had become very candidate-driven.
  • Senior executives were removed from the situation and were unaware of the existing issues.

The Solution

Sigma worked with the client’s HR business partners to provide salary benchmarking for similar maintenance engineering roles with other companies in the local area, in order to address the pay-based challenges with their hiring. We also worked on surveying and researching their reputation-based problems.

  • Sigma Recruitment conducted an extensive feedback survey by speaking to candidates with relevant skills. This feedback was presented to the client on a weekly basis, including the comments made by candidates about the client’s business.
  • The issues raised by candidates were categorised and evaluated. Sigma then worked with the client to create a microsite to address the critical concerns that candidates had raised.
  • When speaking to candidates who declined the job based on known issues, Sigma reached out again with a link to the microsite, explaining why they should reconsider. It now receives an average of 300 page views per month.

The Results

The microsite convinced several candidates to change their minds, and some have since been hired by the client. This has helped to relieve some of the pressure on existing staff, and retention has improved.

The client has started to invest in addressing some of the issues repeatedly raised by candidates, and taken active measures to improve the working environment and their reputation. They’ve also increased salaries as a result of the salary bench marking feedback, which has boosted their appeal in the market.

In addition to supporting on these vacancies, the Sigma Recruitment team has also supported this client with roles including engineering manager, instrumentation engineer, process engineer, graduate electrical and mechanical engineer, health and safety manager, buyer and operations manager.

About Sigma Recruitment

Since Sigma Recruitment opened for business back in 2005, we’ve developed an enviable reputation as one of the leading independent manufacturing and engineering recruitment agencies. We’ve recruited for a wide variety of companies, from Fortune 500 firms with sales in the hundreds of billions to niche high-tech start-ups and everything in between, across the United Kingdom including locations such as CardiffSwanseaNewportBristolBirminghamCambridgeGloucesterLeedsManchesterOxfordReading and Swindon.

If you’re looking to recruit candidates with engineering or technical skills in the steel, power generation or energy sectors then, Sigma Recruitment is ideally placed to help you find the elusive high calibre talent you’re business needs. If you’re looking for a heavy industrial recruiter, then please book a call with our founding director today! And we will show you why we are one of the leading manufacturing and engineering recruitment agencies in the UK.

Our Google Rankings Ensure your Job Vacancies Will Be Seen

Power and Energy Sector SEO Stats

Talk to our director and learn how we can help you hire the right people

Book A Call

The Sigma approach takes you from a vacant position to a happy hire

Our Approach

Typical Jobs We Fill

Partner with Sigma Recruitment

Clients

Recruitment Agencies Cardiff - Client Services Client Services

Clients

Recruitment Agencies Cardiff - Submit your manufacturing or engineering jobs Submit Vacancy

Candidates

Recruitment Agencies Cardiff - Search manufacturing & engineering jobs Search For A Job

Candidates

Recruitment Agencies Cardiff - Submit a CV Submit Your CV
© Sigma Recruitment Ltd. 2020 Company Number 5659374 | VAT No: 869514188 | Terms of Service | Cookie Policy | Privacy Policy