Client work
A selection of search, recruitment and assessment projects delivered within the environmental and resource-management sector.
7 projects, every one of them a brief someone else had already struggled with.
Specialist Fleet Services
SFS, a member of the Rothschild Banking Group, needed a Technical Procurement Manager who would fit a team-first culture. We profiled the culture before we profiled candidates, and the decision turned as much on aptitude and motivation as on experience.
Read the case studyCoventry City Council
Coventry City Council set out to design and build its own materials recovery facility. The brief was deliberately awkward: someone who knows MRFs, who would spend three years building one instead of running one, and be interviewed inside six weeks.
Ependys
A European plastics trading company expanding into the UK needed a Country Manager — a first hire, made remotely from Germany, where a wrong appointment would have been the whole venture rather than one role.
Tom White Waste
Tom White Waste was acquired by Coventry City Council in March 2020 and the family owners were moving on. The incoming MD had to carry the business through that transition — and the second lockdown meant nobody could meet in person.
SugaRecycle
SugaRecycle, the total waste management arm of the SugaRich Group, needed account managers with the aptitude and behaviour to succeed — not the usual numbers game. We identified the traits of their high performers first, then assessed against them.
The Hills Group
In 2012 The Hills Group were building the first MBT plant in Wiltshire and needed someone to take it through commissioning and beyond. The plant was a major investment, so the appointment was critical.
Mitie Waste & Environmental
Mitie’s waste and environmental division was growing fast and wanted recruitment aligned to its wider business goals. We spent two days on site profiling the roles, then designed a bespoke assessment for each one.
Client names are published with permission. Where a search was confidential, the work is described without naming the business — ask us about it directly.
A brief of your own
Every project here started as a search someone had already found difficult. If that sounds like the one on your desk, it is worth a conversation before you advertise it again.