Headhunting
for Manufacturing & Industrial

The more a manufacturing company automates, the more it realises how hard it is to replace certain human skills. Robots can manage production lines — but you still need someone who can recognise a problem before the line stops. Automated systems can detect data anomalies — but you still need the trained eye that spots defects sensors can’t see.

This paradox is at the core of our work in Manufacturing headhunting, where we recruit profiles such as Operations Managers, Plant Managers, Production Managers, Quality Managers and Maintenance Managers — people who combine strategic vision with operational understanding.

Find qualified staff

Some of the companies
that have hired through us

Recruiting for the industrial sector: finding skills that are disappearing

There’s a problem that many industrial companies face, even if few talk about it openly: operational know-how is disappearing. The Quality Manager who spots process drift before it turns into waste. The Plant Manager who knows how to optimise a line because they’ve seen it run under a hundred different conditions. These people are retiring — and taking with them decades of practical knowledge that cannot be replaced by documentation or software. Automation convinced companies that digitalisation, robotics and data collection were enough. Then reality kicked in: data needs to be interpreted, robots need to be managed, anomalies need to be recognised. Our headhunting for Manufacturing focuses exactly on this challenge: finding professionals who still possess that operational intelligence — the ability to “read” production because they’ve lived it on the shop floor.

With the Engage&Hire method — and especially through Collaborative Recruiting® — our headhunters rely on a specialised Scout from the same functional area as the candidate. The Scout evaluates technical and operational expertise, while the headhunter focuses on mindset, cultural fit, attitude towards safety, and continuous improvement. In Manufacturing recruiting, technical skills can be taught — but cultural alignment is what makes the difference between a placement that succeeds and one that fails.

Measurable results, concrete partnerships

Case studies

Successful partners share their experience with the Reverse Group.

ICT / Digital

Reverse & Total Specific Solutions

Building a finance team in 12 months: how Reverse supported the expansion of an international software group.

Retail

Reverse & Champion Europe by Orbico SportStyle

Trust, Speed, and Cultural Understanding: How to build a strategic partnership with a leading company in the sportswear sector.

Manufacturing & Industrial

Reverse & Mapei

Searching for complex technical profiles for a leading company in the chemical sector for construction: the role of technology and industry knowledge.

Engineering & Telco

Reverse & Visori Prévention

Reactivity and deep understanding of the sector as success factors in the collaboration with a French technical control company.

Energy / Oil & Gas

Reverse & Chimec

Cultural mediation and calibrating offerings: the lever that allowed an oil & gas company to conduct international research without losing internal alignment.