Building the Future Together: Expert Recruitment for Construction & Engineering

Our executive search team sources the best professionals in construction and engineering to help your business thrive.

Introduction

Meeting the Challenges of Construction & Engineering

We work with top firms across the construction and engineering sectors to help you secure the skilled professionals you need in a competitive global market. 

We work across the entire sector, including several key areas:

  • Building Services
  • Building Envelope
  • Construction Materials & Remediation
  • Fire & Security
  • Ground Engineering
  • Property Development

Every hire is critical, especially when filling highly skilled or senior roles. By focusing on executive searches and headhunting the best candidates, we ensure that you get the leadership required to drive your business forward—whether that’s finding a C-suite executive or another key position.

Bridging the Talent Gap in Construction & Engineering

Securing the right talent for specialised roles in construction and engineering is challenging. We take a proactive, global approach to ensure you find professionals with the expertise to meet your needs.

What You Can Expect:

  • Global Talent Search: We search across borders to find top professionals with the skills and experience you need.
  • Thorough Screening: Every candidate undergoes rigorous pre-screening and background checks, so only the most qualified are interviewed.
  • Tailored to Your Needs: Our recruitment process is driven by the specific demands of your role, ensuring a precise fit for your team.

By addressing the talent shortage head-on, we provide access to professionals with cutting-edge skills, allowing your business to stay competitive and thrive.

Find the ideal candidate

Who We Recruit For

We place senior-level professionals across construction and engineering, whether you're a multinational corporation or a growing SME.

Our recruitment approach is designed to deliver immediate value, ensuring a strong return on investment (ROI) and long-term loyalty from the right candidates. By aligning with your business goals, we help you seamlessly navigate internal changes and external market shifts.

Here’s what that looks like:

  • RPO Solutions: Streamline your hiring process with a Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) service that reduces time and costs, especially for companies with ongoing recruitment needs.
  • Partnership Approach: We work closely with you to set clear goals and performance metrics, providing detailed reports so you always know where you stand.
  • Comprehensive Talent Pool: Our extensive candidate database ensures we find the right fit for your team, leaving no stone unturned.

Specialist Roles

Talent Acquisition for Construction & Engineering

We recruit senior-level talent across key areas such as building services, property development, civil and ground engineering, materials, and fire and security.

Key Roles We Help Fill:

  • Civil Engineer
  • Commercial Manager/Director
  • Contracts Manager
  • Executive Chairman, Vice-President, C-suite
  • President of Multi/Single Family
  • Project Director/Manager
  • Proposal & Sales Engineer
  • Regional President
  • Sales Director
  • Senior Land Buyer & Land Director
  • Senior Quantity Surveyor
  • Senior Structural Engineer
  • Senior Design Engineer
  • Managing/Estimator
  • Land Directors/Buyers

With our tailored approach, we help reduce the time and cost involved in filling highly skilled positions, ensuring you secure the right leaders to drive your business forward.

Our Approach

We take the time to listen to you and understand your business, the key drivers behind the hire and the importance in relation to your objectives

We will devote time to understand your business goals and role requirements and then develop a search solution that meets your specific needs

We will demonstrate unwavering tenacity, speaking pro-actively and confidentially with every individual with the right experience, in order to be certain we have secured the best person open to your opportunity

Choose a service

Our Services

Choose and adapt one of our three package options.

Connect

Exclusively Tailored Talent Solutions for Lower Level, Non-Critical Roles
This package is designed for exclusive but non-critical hires. Offering access to a curated pool of exclusive talent connections in response to a range of roles from broad to specialist and niche. Features include personalised candidate sourcing, initial screening, and candidate introductions.

Ideal for companies seeking unique talent solutions without immediate urgency.

ASSURE

Retained Hiring Strategy for Urgent, High-Impact or Confidential Roles
This package is tailored for organisations requiring a dedicated and comprehensive approach to executive and critical hires. A retained search solution with a focus on quality, efficiency, and confidentiality. Includes in-depth candidate assessments and exclusive access to top-tier talent.

Ideal for companies seeking assurance in securing top talent for mission-critical roles.
PARTNER
Comprehensive Embedded Solution for Rapid Growth and Retention
This is a total talent partnership, an approach aimed at transforming your talent acquisition process. This comprehensive solution encompasses all aspects of recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) to ensure an embedded solution with strategic results.

Ideal for organisations looking to outsource their entire recruitment function for scalability and efficiency.

Construction & Engineering

Further information on our recruiting process

What can I expect from a long-term partnership with your team?

Building lasting partnerships is what we do best. Whether you need ongoing support through our Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) service or help filling executive-level roles as they arise, we’re here to offer a customised solution that fits your needs.

Our approach aligns with your business goals, helping you meet both internal challenges and external market shifts. We work closely with you to ensure you have the right people in place to drive your success.

Why should I choose your services for my recruitment needs?

We’re committed to finding talent that delivers immediate value, drives ROI, and builds long-term loyalty, even in a highly competitive market.

  • Find the Right Talent: We help you navigate a competitive market and secure the best candidates for your team.
  • Fill Specialist Roles: We bring you pre-screened professionals, reducing your training and onboarding needs.
  • Save Time and Costs: Our recruitment process reduces hiring time and overall costs.
  • Minimise Admin: We handle everything from pre-qualification to background checks so that you can focus on the final decision.
  • Competitive Offers: We manage salary negotiations, ensuring your offers are fair and attractive to top talent.

Still have questions?

Get in touch with us.

How we can help

Get Spencer Riley on Your Side

Start your executive-level construction and engineering recruitment journey with Spencer Riley.

From the initial consultation stage, we can liaise with your key stakeholders to understand exactly what you need from your recruitment process.

If the most desirable candidate happens to be employed and/or have multiple offers from other employers, we can lead negotiations to find out what it will take to secure their services for your business alone.

Our global reach identifies top talent, including passive candidates with multiple offers. We excel at negotiations to secure the best candidates for your business. Our goal is to deliver exceptional value, build long-term partnerships, and minimise costs and time-to-hire.

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Our team

Meet our specialists in Construction & Engineering.

Adam Garvey
Divisional Director

Adam does 99.99% in permanent placements, with many years of experience hiring at all levels across the construction, engineering, and nutrition sectors.

Luke Difiori-Hughes
Principal Consultant

Luke works in the fire and security sector on a global scale while expanding his expertise into construction and engineering. He has a strong network across the US, UAE, and Europe.

Jordan Smith
Executive Search Consultant

Jordan focuses on executive recruitment within the property development and audio-visual sectors.

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Bespoke Services

As well as the core sectors to which we recruit Spencer Riley has a proven track record for helping businesses in a wide variety sectors and getting the results required.

Our meticulous and pro-active approach means we are ideally placed to take on assignments in markets that sit outside of our core business areas. We are also well placed to help with a host of Private Equity Services, Outplacement Services as well with Mergers & Acquisitions

For more information and to discuss your unique situation then please get in touch.

Contact us today

Spencer Riley’s team of highly dedicated, specialist consultants’ pride themselves on gaining a full understanding of our client’s business,

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