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Oryx Executive Search

Construction Executive Search

Construction executive search for contractors, developers and consultancies. Clients include Balfour Beatty, Tilbury Douglas and Currie & Brown.

Construction Executive Search Recruiters

Oryx provides construction executive search for main contractors, developers, consultancies and specialist subcontractors, covering civils, building, fit-out, residential and commercial development, building services, offsite manufacture, cost consultancy and project management. Senior appointments in construction are judged on a narrow set of proof points: framework and bid record, delivery on live projects, leadership capability, P&L responsibility, commercial control of margin, and a safety and sustainability record that will withstand client scrutiny. We build each search around those criteria before approaching anyone, working with clients including Balfour Beatty, Tilbury Douglas, Currie & Brown, Devonshire Homes and Igloo Regeneration to appoint managing directors, commercial leadership and operational board members. Sub-sector coverage runs from highways, rail and water civils through healthcare, education and industrial building to high-rise and modular residential, and includes the mechanical and electrical, facade and groundworks specialists that sit beneath the main contract.

We fill a variety of roles across the construction search sector

  • Managing Director
  • Regional Managing Director
  • Construction Director
  • Pre-Construction Director
  • Project Director
  • Commercial Director
  • Technical Director
  • Operations Director
  • Finance Director
  • Business Development Director
  • HSEQ Director

Selected assignments

MOELVEN

Moelven is a major Scandinavian industrial group that processes timber and manufactures sustainable wood-based building products, glulam structures, and modular rooms. Operating across Norway and Sweden, the company produces about 2 million cubic meters of sawn pine and spruce annually. Oryx were retained to recuit the UK Managing Director

Urbanest

urbanest is London’s leading student accommodation provider with eight student properties located in the heart of central London Zone 1. As a result of growth in scale and responsibility urbanest asked Oryx to search for a new Estates Director to take responsibility for developing and delivering the Estates Strategy. A comprehensive piece of research across a range of property management and outsourced facilities services environments resulted in a successful hire who joins in September 2023.

Strawberry Star Group

Strawberry Star Group is a specialist provider of property investment and property management services to local and international investors in the London market, including Capital, Acquisitions, Development, Homes, Sales, Lettings and Management. Over recent years the group has become a significant player in the London Real Estate market with over 2,000 properties in the pipeline and £1.4bn of AUM. Working with the Chairman Santhosh Gowda, Oryx recruited the Group CEO.