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Permanent Recruitment

We understand the permanent recruitment challenges our clients face – from finding candidates with the right cultural fit, to identifying new skills to help the organisation grow and diversify their service offering.

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Finding the best talent to help your organisation thrive

We’ve recruited thousands of candidates into career-changing roles– identifying the strategic hires businesses need to progress their business plans. To do this we take a partnership-approach, first getting to know everything there is to know about your business – your values, your work culture, and the characteristics you look for in the right candidate.

Once we’ve really understood what makes your organisation successful, we undertake extensive talent searches, identifying permanent recruitment candidates with the right approach and ambition to succeed. Our aim is to connect candidates and companies that share the same values and that fit your company culture, whilst encouraging organisations to think differently.

As a certified Inclusive+ Recruiter, awarded by the Association of Professional Staffing Companies, an Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme Silver Award recipient and a Social Mobility Pledge holder, we aim to attract as wide a candidate pool as possible of our client vacancies. This means working with our clients to identify opportunities to recruit from complementary engineering sectors, and repositioning roles to welcome new applicants into their industry. Ensuring the recruitment process is as inclusive as possible and remaining open to attracting a diverse talent pool.

Never one to shy away from a challenge, we’re also experts in managing hard to fill roles. Over the years we’ve worked with some of the largest global engineering companies and specialist SMEs, to provide long-term permanent recruitment solutions to address skill shortages, make strategic hires and transform their businesses.

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​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

​NRL have been our preferred supplier for labour and white collar professionals for over 15 years. Over this period, the team have gone out of the way to gain a detailed knowledge of our business and our staff. Their approach is always flexible, professional and competitive. Our projects often require the delivery of large numbers of qualified trades’ people within the usual constraints of time and budget. NRL fulfil our requirements while continually monitoring the quality of both labour and service.
Operations Manager

Engenda Group

NRL have provided an excellent service to Doosan Babcock for many years. They understand our business really well and more importantly provide a faultless service to their contractors. They add value at every opportunity. Their record with us is exceptional - NRL understand our company culture and passing this on to prospective candidates is one of the most important things that they do.
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

Proud to be working in partnership with leading engineering organisations

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Our sector expertise:

Nuclear
Nuclear

​With Nuclear experience spanning over three decades, we support our global and local engineering companies across the entire Nuclear lifecycle.

Renewables
Renewables

​We're proud to support Renewable Energy projects across the UK and internationally, to help play an important part in the drive for net-zero.

Conventional Power
Conventional Power
Advanced Facilities
Advanced Facilities
Built Environment
Built Environment
Defence
Defence
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
Oil, Gas and Petrochemical
Oil, Gas and Petrochemical
Transmission and Distribution
Transmission and Distribution

Driving diversity and inclusion

We understand the many benefits when organisations strive for a diverse workforce.

Local insight and expertise

Our recruitment branches have decades of experience in their regions and key industrial sectors.

Global recruitment support

Our International team support engineering companies to find the right people across the globe.