About Us

We’ve provided recruitment expertise to leading engineering companies since 1985, and in turn helped our candidates and contractors with the right roles to help them progress their careers.

OUR STORY WORK WITH US

Our people deliver our expertise.

We know that our colleagues are the reason that our clients and candidates choose to partner with us. With expert knowledge of their local markets, industry insight and innovative solutions - they ensure our clients have the right strategy to be successful.

Hope Davies

Compliance & Administration Consultant

Egremont
Lee Howard

International Recruitment Team Leader

Woking
Janet Coulton

Purchasing Assistant

Heysham
Tim Millbank

Team Leader

Wigan
Kate Backshall

Recruitment Account Manager

Woking

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We do things differently - it’s in our values, and they’re visible in everything we do

Whether you’ve just discovered NRL or have worked with us for decades - the overarching thing you’ll notice is our culture. As a family-owned business, we understand the importance of doing the right thing. Whether that's when working with our colleagues, our contractors and clients, or when taking responsibility for the environment around by reducing our carbon emissions by one tonne per employee and renewing our Carbon Neutral International Standard certification each year as a continued commitment to tackling climate change.

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carbon emissions as a recipient of the Carbon Neutral International Standard

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global countries supported with recruitment and mobilisation

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trained Inclusive+ Recruiters working with our clients

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in SIA’s Largest Global Engineering Staffing Firms 2023

I have witnessed NRL’s excellent responsiveness to our needs. The pre-selected candidates presented by NRL were all good candidates with all the required experience and qualifications. NRL further provided valuable advice in relation to local HR matters.

Miklós Almásy de Zsadány

Chief Executive Officer, Ras Ghareb Wind Energy SAE

We feel confident approaching NRL, knowing that their team will be able to resource a wide range of suitable candidates helping us scale up our business during seasonal peaks. We would have no hesitation in recommending NRL to others.

Project Manager

Pentland Group

A close and valued relationship built on trust, knowledge and experience. NRL provide candidates that we wouldn’t normally find in our day-to-day advertising, and within our industry it is vitally important that we expand our networks with our partners.

Bill Miller

Bill Miller, Recruitment Programme Manager, Doosan Babcock

It’s refreshing to work with a supplier who really listens to our business needs and responds accordingly, providing valued support to fulfil our recruitment requirements.Throughout our partnership I have found them to be honest, flexible and collaborative, whilst remaining practical and realistic because of their in-depth knowledge of the industry.

Brian Falcus

Operations Director, Building Services, Emtec Group

Recruitment solutions designed around compliance – for our clients and our contractors

Our reputation is important to us, it’s one our clients associate with compliance – trusting us to advise and steer them to ensure recruitment activities remain compliant and our contractors uphold industry standards.

Our story

After four decades in the recruitment industry, we’ve achieved a few milestones – but we also know we have many more to come.

1983

NRL is founded
NRL, a Non-Destructive Testing company, is launched by brothers Andrew and Hugh Redmayne, in an office on the Sellafield site in Cumbria
1985

Recruitment expertise established
The business expanded into Recruitment, as NRL began advertising job vacancies to support engineering contracting projects in Cumbria
1991

Continued growth in Scotland
Recognising an opportunity to support clients in Scotland, we established our first Scotland office in Falkirk
2006

NRL named Hot Recruiter
Our business entered the Recruiter magazine’s Hot 100 listing in position 23 – a prestigious industry accolade which we continue to hold today
2008

NAECI expertise formalised
NRL joined the Engineering Construction Industry Association (ECIA), as the first major provider of NAECI recruitment expertise
2013

Oil & Gas expertise acquired
The acquisition of Petrolic expanded NRL’s expertise in Oil & Gas in the UK, and for the first time establishing International recruitment services
2015

Recruitment Company of the Year
The Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo) named NRL Recruitment Company of the Year (>£50m)
2018

Transmission & Distribution expertise acquired
NRL extended it's expertise into Transmission & Distribution and Strategic Purchasing with the acquisition of Heysham based Intec (UK) Ltd
2018

UK’s largest staffing firms
The Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) recognised NRL as a top 50 largest staffing firm in the UK
2019

Best Contractor Engineering Agency
The Contracting Awards named NRL the Best Contractor Recruitment Agency for Engineering at their inaugural awards ceremony
2020

NRL ranked a top 10 firm
SIA’s industry reporting lists NRL as one of the top 10 largest Engineering staffing firms in the UK.
2020

Business expands to Ireland
Growing demand for local services sees NRL establish a new Recruitment business in the Republic of Ireland
2020

Growth in Teesside
Building on over 30 years of delivering expertise in the North East, NRL sets up a second operational base in Teesside.
2021

Back office team win TALiNT Award
NRL’s compliance and NAECI expertise is recognised by winning the Back Office Team of the Year accolade at the TALiNT International Annual Recruitment Awards
2021

Award winning website
NRL’s Recruitment website wins Best Large Recruitment Agency at the National Online Recruitment Awards.
2021

Carbon Neutral International Standard achieved
The NRL Group achieves carbon neutral status across all businesses with One Carbon World.
2022

Armed Forces Covenant
The NRL Group sign the Armed Forces Covenant and achieve an Employer Recognition Scheme bronze award
2022

CD Group acquisition
The NRL Group acquires Newcastle based CD Group, including Contract Design (Northern) and translation and interpreting experts Eldon (now NRL Language Solutions)
2022

Living Wage Employer
The organisation voluntarily becomes a Living Wage Employer to ensure a fair and real living wage for every colleague
2022

Social Mobility Pledge
The NRL Group sign the Social Mobility Pledge to reinforce their support for young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds
2022

Lighthouse charity
Keen to support financial, emotional and physical wellbeing in construction, the NRL Group become a company supporter of the Lighthouse construction industry charity
2022

NRL becomes an Inclusive Recruiter
Colleagues complete training to secure the company wide Inclusive+ Recruiter certification from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies
2023

40 years in business
The NRL Group marks 40 years of delivering expertise at work
2023

Largest Global Engineering Staffing Firms
Recognised as a top 20 global engineering staffing firm by Staffing Industry Analysts
2023

Mental Health First Aiders
The NRL Group invests in Mental Health First Aider training to extend welfare support for colleagues
2024

NRL Group secure the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme Silver Award
2024

NRL registers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
NRL's International team establish a presence in Ridayh in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, expanding their MENA region capability.
2024

NRL certified™ as Great Place To Work®
97% of employees agree that the NRL Group is a Great Place To Work® through an independently verified and anonymous staff survey, earning us the official certification™.
2024

Disability Confident Committed status achieved
As a business we thrive for equity, so it was important for us to formalise our inclusive recruitment approach, by signing up to become a Disability Confident Committed employer.

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Understanding our part in ensuring diverse workplaces and equal opportunity

We support thousands of people’s careers each year, so it was important to us to earn the Inclusive+ Recruiter certification from the Association of Professional Staffing Companies – thanks to colleagues in our branches undertaking extensive training.