Your trusted partner in industrial automation recruitment
We connect the best people in control systems with the companies building, running and modernizing America’s plants.
Every layer of the automation pyramid
CandidTalent is a specialist recruitment firm for industrial automation and control systems. We work with systems integrators, machine builders and OEMs, manufacturers and engineering firms across North America, on retained, contingency, embedded and contract terms.
We recruit Automation Engineers, Control Systems Engineers, PLC Programmers, DCS and MES Engineers, EC&I Engineers, Electrical and Mechanical Designers, Process Designers, Project Managers and Sales Engineers, through to Management and Director level hires. Our network runs across PLC, DCS and MES skill sets.
Industries we serve
- Automotive and EV
- Building automation
- Chemicals
- Consumer goods
- Data centers
- Energy storage
- Food and beverage
- Materials handling
- Metals and mining
- Oil and gas
- Packaging
- Pharma and biotech
- Power and renewables
- Pulp and paper
- Semiconductors
- Water and wastewater
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Quality over volume
Every search starts with a vacancy consultation and is shaped by what engineers are telling us that month about pay, travel and who’s open to a move. You interview fewer people to make the hire.
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Built around your needs
We work closely with you on your needs, challenges and goals, and we’ll challenge the brief when it helps avoid a costly mistake. The right engineer isn’t always the one you pictured.
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In it for the long haul
Long lasting partnerships built on trust, honesty and transparency. We communicate openly and often, and we’ll tell you when a brief or a salary isn’t going to work.
Jon Woolley
Jon has recruited controls and automation engineers since 2014, and for US companies since 2020. He founded CandidTalent in 2024 to work this one niche with a smaller number of better candidates on every role, and closer relationships with the companies hiring them.
He writes The Future of Industrial Automation, our monthly newsletter.
People in front, systems underneath
Research, market mapping and admin run on software, which lets a specialist team cover the ground of a much bigger one. Anything a client or candidate reads or hears comes from a person, and every candidate is screened by phone before a client sees them.
Fewer resumes. Better hires.
Founded
2024, by Jon Woolley
Specialty
Industrial automation and control systems, since 2014
Clients
Systems integrators, machine builders and OEMs, manufacturers, engineering firms and EPCs
Models
Retained, contingency, embedded hiring, contract staffing
Coverage
United States and Canada
Location
Charlotte, North Carolina
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