Executive search in Cardiff and South Wales for semiconductor, metals, manufacturing, energy and infrastructure businesses. Retained since 1988.
Oryx provides executive search in Cardiff and across South Wales, a region carrying two industrial stories at once. The corridor between Cardiff and Newport holds the compound semiconductor cluster, with wafer fabrication, radio frequency and power devices, photonics and the equipment and materials businesses that supply them, and it draws on a specialist population small enough that a given role may have only tens of qualified candidates worldwide. To the west sits heavy industry in transition: primary steelmaking and rolling, the metals and materials supply chain around it, and the decarbonisation and reinvestment programmes that will determine what those sites make next. Around both are precision manufacturing and automotive suppliers, the ports and terminal operations along the Bristol Channel, floating offshore wind development in the Celtic Sea and the harbour infrastructure being built for it, the South Wales rail and metro programme, and a large financial services and insurance employer base in the capital.
As one of the UK’s leading construction companies, and a constituent of the FTSE 250, Balfour Beatty is committed to attracting the best possible talent from right across the construction sector. Oryx has successfully handled numerous projects across various parts of the Group, from a Project Director to deliver a pioneering waste-to-energy plant in a complex JV relationship, through to commercial and operational leadership roles for the Highways business.
Tilbury Douglas is a FTSE 250 listed organisation; for whom we have delivered projects since 2006. Since that time we have successfully recruited a number of key individuals into their Citizen Services Division and International Project Services Division in the Middle East. Our projects have included a number of pivotal Director appointments on behalf of the Justice and Healthcare Business Units. We have also helped to strengthen their Middle East operation, recruiting numerous strategic positions across the region.
Norbord is the European division of West Fraser , a global leader in the processing and manufacture of wood-based products for the construction industry. Norbord is a multi-site heavy industrial manufacturing business, and strong demand for their products has resulted in considerable growth and expansion over recent years. In line with this, we have delivered a series of targeted search assignments throughout the UK resulting in the placement of two Plant GM’s, Finance Director, HR Director, Head of Engineering, and several senior production managers.