Our specialist Engineering & Defence Team is highly-experienced and successful at recruiting engineering professionals from engineering graduates to senior management, across a range of disciplines including:
Curating Specialist Engineering Talent
The Engineering staffing sector is an extremely competitive market with increasing skills gaps. We have long been a provider to large and small companies operating within engineering industry and high technology manufacturing sectors. As a leading outsource agency, we help you to recruit permanent, temporary, contract, consultancy and interim staff at all levels for engineering, technology, industrial, manufacturing and scientific jobs across the UK, in both commercial engineering and defence sectors.
We have become an engineering recruitment specialist by taking an ‘inch-wide mile-deep’ approach. This means that that our consultants immerse themselves in their niche engineering skillsets, giving our clients the quickest access to the best and scarcest talent around.
We source highly-qualified and motivated individuals for roles in all market sectors
- Mechanical
- Electrical
- C&I/Control Systems
- Detail Design/CAD
- Marine/Naval engineering
- Structural Engineering/Naval Architecture
- Product Safety
- Project and Programme Management and In-service Support
- Electronics
- Systems
- Software
- Information Assurance/Security
Contingent contract and permanent professionals
We'll support you throughout the recruitment process to help you find the niche skills that you need to complete your projects, whether contract or a strategic permanent hire.
To fulfill your staffing needs now and in the future, we will also work with you to build your own engineering specialist talent pool that will fulfill your staffing needs now and in the future.
“Most of the agencies fall massively short of providing the professional level of service we receive from Outsource.”
Hiring Manager, Engineering client
Mission-critical compliance
Our compliance and onboarding teams are on hand to guide and advise both clients and candidates. We arrange drug, alcohol and medical tests and ensure that all contractor payment methods/companies comply with UK legislation (including taxation).
In addition, all contractors sign legally-binding agreements which ensure that commercially sensitive information and IP rights are protected.
Our customers
Defence Engineering
We have a long-standing supplier relationship with a major global Defence and Engineering company and deliver volume recruitment on a contingent PSL for them. We have a dedicated client services team who manage the inventory and contractor relationships and we fill on average 400 roles per year.
As well as working with the large defence primes, our engineering recruitment teams also work with a range of niche specialist engineering services and technology companies across air, land, maritime and nuclear areas. We can support business from <50 sized niche consultancies up to 50,000+ staffing organisations which operate across a broader disciplinary and geographical spectrum. Talk to us to find out more.
Our customers
Precision Engineering
We are one of the top performing specialist engineering recruitment agencies supporting a Precision Engineering business in the south of the UK in filling Engineering and any other ad hoc vacancies across their UK sites. Anything from Design Engineers, Quality Managers, Manufacturing Engineers to Programme Managers and HR Advisors, the Outsource UK team is there to provide bespoke outsourced engineering services for all of our clients.
We have developed long-lasting relationships with the team that have seen us recruit for them for the best part of a decade, and established ourselves as a leading specialist contract engineering agency.