Mane Engineering Issue 11 - December 2018 | Page 5

DECEMBER 2018 | MANE ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING | 5 DECEMBER 2018

DAN OF

THE HOUR...

I have been working with Mane for just over a year now and have enjoyed a fair amount of successes in my short time here. As someone who joined through Mane’s highly-regarded and successful Academy, I have learnt and built on the skills taught to me in order to progress my career, and make me a better-rounded recruiter.

Don’t let my short tenure with Mane suggest that I am not experienced or well-suited with my job as some of my seniors. In the last year, I have won award internally for bringing on the most new clients across Mane’s many divisions of any recruiter and also won Recruiter of the Year in my first full year with the company.

Working within the engineering and manufacturing team I have successfully been able to help my clients find the talent they need to be able to fulfil their orders, recruiting candidates from PCB Assemblers all the way up to Project Managers and more.

I enjoy speaking to clients and learning about what they make. It has been great to be able to visit companies and see the manufacturing process from start to finish. When I first started at Mane, I was not as knowledgeable about the industry – however, I have learnt so much in a such a short period of time that I have been able to have complex conversations with candidates to assess their skill set and make sure they are suitable for the position in not just their capabilities, but their personalities too.

I specialise in recruiting for roles such as, Mechanical Fitters, Control Panel Wirers, Auto-Electricians, Electro-mechanical assemblers, Craft Technicians, Fabricator Welders and Build Technicians. Although typically I recruit on the side of those working on the ground, our team also specialises in the higher up roles too, with us all easily able to work across both areas.

As an agency that has been around for 25 years, starting in the engineering and manufacturing industry, we have an extensive database of reliable, highly-skilled candidates. We have worked on huge projects around the globe across multiple sectors. I have personally worked closely with one of our biggest clients, trade testing candidates to build special purpose plasma machines, allowing me to put my personal touch on my work.

I have also helped a client that has recently been taken over by a large international control panel manufacturer. They needed an additional 8 panel wirers on the shop floor to help with their impending expansion. Visiting the site and learning about what they do, knowing the projects they are working and seeing how they operate really allowed me to find the right candidates for them. I’m proud to say that not only was I able to fill all 8 roles, but the candidates placed there are all still working at the company 6 months later, with 3 of them having been offered permanent contracts.

If you are struggling to find the right skilled people for your shop floor and are running out of ideas please feel free to get in touch. Finding the right people for companies in the engineering and manufacturing sector has become a real passion of mine in a very short space of time, and it would be a great pleasure to have a conversation to discuss how I may be of benefit to your organisation.

Dan Richards

Phone: +44 (0) 1923 470 732

Email: [email protected]

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