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Oryx Executive Search

Industrial Executive Search

Industrial executive search for industrial products, services, distribution and MRO businesses. Clients include Linde Material Handling and SPIE.

Industrial Executive Search Recruiters

Oryx provides industrial executive search for industrial products groups, industrial services and MRO providers, distribution and materials handling businesses, plant and equipment hire, and technical inspection and certification. Our clients here include Linde Material Handling, SPIE, Bureau Veritas, Amari Metals and Calder. Industrial leadership roles are rarely confined to a single site or product line. They involve running branch and depot networks, service organisations and field engineering teams, where performance depends on utilisation, response times, aftermarket revenue and contract renewal rather than on production output alone. We build each search around those measures and target the general management, operations, service, sales and supply chain leaders who own them. The businesses we serve include capital equipment manufacturers with large installed bases, industrial distribution and wholesale groups, testing and certification providers, facilities and technical services contractors, and the rental and aftermarket operations attached to them.

Retained by distributors, service providers and aftermarket businesses who cannot afford a miss

  • REA JET

    REA JET designs and manufactures industrial coding, marking, and labeling systems, including high-resolution inkjet printers, laser markers, and code verification tools. Their technology is used globally to print text, logos, and barcodes directly onto products and packaging. Oryx handled the assignment to recruit a new MD for the UK subsidiary.

  • BODYCOTE

    Bodycote is the world's largest provider of heat treatment and specialist metallurgical services, focusing on heat treatment, hot isostatic pressing (HIP), and surface technology. They alter and improve the properties of metals and alloys to make manufactured components stronger and last longer. Oryx has handled a range of senior group commercial roles.

  • KELPI

    Kelpi is a sustainable materials innovation company that creates high-performance, seaweed-based coatings to replace fossil fuel plastics in packaging. Oryx handled the project to hire a new COO.

We fill a variety of roles across the industrial search sector

  • Managing Director
  • Service Director
  • Aftermarket Director
  • Sales Director
  • Engineering Director
  • Operations Director
  • Manufacturing Director
  • Supply Chain Director
  • Human Resources Director
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Commercial Director
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Your bespoke industrial recruitment team

As an industrial headhunter, Oryx works retained and research-led. Our full-time in-house research team maps the relevant competitor set, distributor networks and adjacent service markets, verifies what candidates have actually delivered, and approaches them confidentially before any shortlist is presented. The firm has operated this way since 1988 and is employee-owned, with most of our consultants and researchers having been with us for over ten years. Clients receive weekly auditable progress reporting, a pre-qualified shortlist within eight weeks and support through offer and onboarding, with psychometric assessment available where board or team dynamics are a concern. Our industrial recruiters work with UK and international businesses, including groups appointing leadership for a newly acquired division or a market they have not previously operated in. Many of these appointments are about converting a product business into a service and aftermarket business, so we assess candidates on their record of building recurring revenue rather than on the scale of the last operation they ran.

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