Engineering Recruiting for Growth Focused Companies
Engineering Leaders and Technical Professionals Who Turn Ideas Into Results
Ashton North helps manufacturers, private equity backed businesses, startups, and growth focused companies recruit engineering leaders and technical professionals who solve complex problems, develop products, improve processes, and build the technical capabilities needed for growth.
From engineering leadership to highly specialized technical professionals, we focus on people whose experience aligns with the products, technologies, manufacturing environments, and challenges of the organization.
Engineering Leadership & Technical Roles We Recruit
Chief Engineers
Vice Presidents and Directors of Engineering
Engineering Managers
Mechanical Engineers
Electrical Engineers
Quality Engineers
Controls and Automation Engineers
Research & Development (R&D) Leaders and Engineers
Design and Product Development Engineers
Manufacturing and Process Engineers
New Product Introduction (NPI) Leaders and Engineers
Engineering Project and Program Managers
From engineering strategy and technical leadership to hands-on design and execution, we recruit professionals responsible for turning technical requirements and business objectives into successful products, processes, and solutions.
What Are You Hiring This Engineering Professional to Accomplish?
Engineering hires are often made because a company needs to solve a technical challenge, develop something new, improve an existing product or process, or build capabilities for the future.
Product Development & Innovation
Develop new products and solutions that address customer requirements, market opportunities, and the future direction of the business.
Design & Engineering Execution
Translate requirements and concepts into designs that can be engineered, tested, validated, manufactured, and supported successfully.
New Product Introduction
Move products from development into production with greater discipline around manufacturability, quality, cost, timing, and execution.
Controls & Automation
Develop and implement controls, automation, and integrated systems that improve capability, consistency, productivity, and performance.
Manufacturing & Process Engineering
Improve how products are built through better processes, equipment, tooling, workflows, and manufacturing methods.
Cost, Quality & Design Improvement
Improve existing products and processes through value engineering, design optimization, root cause analysis, quality improvement, and cost reduction.
Engineering Growth & Transformation
Build engineering teams, processes, systems, and technical capabilities that support new products, increased complexity, acquisitions, or continued growth.
Engineering Experience Has to Match the Technical Environment
Engineering experience is not interchangeable.
Designing a highly customized piece of capital equipment requires different experience from developing a high volume manufactured product. Engineering within a regulated environment creates different requirements from designing industrial automation or controls systems.
The technical environment matters.
Product complexity, engineering discipline, manufacturing processes, level of customization, regulatory requirements, automation, customer specifications, development cycles, and production volumes can all influence the experience required for success.
Ashton North recruits engineering professionals across technical environments including:
Capital Equipment & Engineered Products
Custom & Configure to Order Systems
Industrial Equipment & Machinery
Automation, Controls & Integrated Systems
High Volume Manufactured Products
Complex & Precision Products
Regulated Engineering Environments
New Product Development & NPI
The objective isn't simply to find someone with the right engineering title.
It is to identify a professional whose technical experience translates to your products, processes, engineering environment, and the problems you need them to solve.
Engineering Connects Innovation to Execution
Strong engineering organizations do more than design products.
They connect customer requirements, product development, manufacturing, quality, cost, technology, and commercialization.
Engineering leaders establish technical direction and build capability. Engineering teams turn that direction into designs, systems, processes, and products that can perform successfully in the real world.
The impact can be seen across:
Product Development
Innovation
Design
Manufacturability
Quality
Cost
Automation
Reliability
Speed to Market
Technical Capability
Ashton North recruits engineering professionals who understand those connections and can contribute from concept and design through production and continuous improvement.
Recent Engineering Searches & Placements
Chief Engineer - Austin, TX
Director of Engineering - Virginia
Senior PLC Controls Engineer - Illinois
Senior Mechanical Engineer - Austin, TX
Senior Design Engineer - Milwaukee, WI
Senior Controls Engineer - New Jersey
Principal Engineer - Texas
Industrial Engineer - Ohio
Build the Engineering Talent Behind What's Next
Whether you are developing a new product, strengthening engineering leadership, expanding technical capabilities, investing in automation, improving existing designs, or scaling an engineering organization, the right technical talent matters.
Ashton North helps companies recruit engineering leaders and technical professionals with the industry experience, technical knowledge, and proven capabilities needed to solve problems, execute effectively, and move the business forward.