Recruitment agency in Glasgow
First Achieve's head office is in Glasgow. From here we recruit for employers across Scotland, with engineering at the heart of what we do, and we help candidates find permanent roles with businesses that want the same things they do.
What we recruit for from Glasgow
Engineering is our founding desk, and Scotland is where most of its work happens. We recruit CNC machinists, turners, millers and horizontal borers, welders and fabricators, quality inspectors, maintenance and electrical technicians, valve technicians and technical sales people for precision engineering and manufacturing businesses.
Scottish employers also come to us for technology, finance and executive hires: software, infrastructure and cyber security roles, qualified and part-qualified finance roles, and director-level appointments run as a retained search.
Where we cover
Our vacancies run right across the central belt and beyond: Glasgow and Hillington, Motherwell and the rest of Lanarkshire, Stirling, Fife, East and West Lothian, and north to Aberdeen, Westhill and Aberdeenshire.
That spread matters when you are hiring skilled people. A good machinist in Fife will not always travel to Glasgow, and a shift pattern that works in Lanarkshire may not work in Aberdeenshire. We talk about commute, shifts and overtime at the start, so the people you meet are people who can realistically take the job.
How we work with employers
Tell us about the role and the consultant who covers that market will come back to you to talk it through: the skills that really matter, the working pattern, the pay that will attract people, and when you need someone to start.
Most engineering and finance hires are contingent, so you pay only when someone starts. Leadership appointments, scarce skills and confidential searches are better run as a retained search, with a mapped market, a referenced shortlist and a fixed date for first interviews.
For candidates
If you are looking for your next role in Scotland, look through the live vacancies below or send us your CV. We talk each role through with you first: what the work is, who the employer is, the pay and the hours. Your details only go to an employer once you have agreed.
Our Glasgow office
First Achieve Ltd4 Spiersbridge WaySpiersbridge Business ParkGlasgow G46 8NG
0141 816 0116glasgow@firstachieve.comLive roles around Glasgow and central Scotland
All 15 rolesSenior Quality Inspector
Forging Inspector
Senior Geotechnical Engineer
Manual Turner
Sales and Business Development Assistant
CNC Turner
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No portal, no fifteen-field form. One consultant reads it, and you get a call within two working days, including if there is nothing for you right now.
Upload your CVTell us the brief. We will tell you if it is hireable.
Contingent, retained or embedded. We will say before you commit whether the role can be filled at that number, in that location, on that timescale.
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