Finding the perfect fit: building services recruitment for Carmel UK
Carmel UK, part of the Carmel Group, was established 40 years ago and is a leading company in the building services market. As one of the UK’s top 50 mechanical and electrical businesses, Carmel UK delivers excellence to customers across the retail, industrial, commercial, health, public healthcare and residential sectors. Having worked with brands including Ikea, John Lewis, Argos, Tesco and Sainsbury’s, the company has a motivated, multi-discipline team that delivers a seamless service across design, installation, commissioning, handover and ongoing support.
For Carmel UK, meeting project deadlines is critical. One of the challenges to this is building services recruitment – having the right staff in the right place for all HVAC and MEP jobs.
Enter the team at Vincent Gurney.
An MEP recruitment challenge
To overcome these issues and ensure project deadlines can be seamlessly met, the company works with specialist MEP and HVAC recruitment agency Vincent Gurney.
Carmel UK and Vincent Gurney began working together thanks to a referral from one of the recruiters existing customers, also in the ventilation space, for whom Vincent Gurney had supplied a number of HVAC engineers. In the middle of a project for Amazon in Norwich, the construction of a delivery station and warehouse, Carmel needed to supplement its HVAC team with additional duct workers for the ventilation system.
An additional challenge was location: recruiting skilled MEP and HVAC engineers in Norwich is problematic due to the skill shortage in the area. Vincent Gurney, led by MD Tom Gurney, used its extensive knowledge of the area and its broad reach to find the best possible candidates for the MEP jobs in the most efficient way possible.
Streamlined building services recruitment
Working closely with the operations director, the Vincent Gurney team took the building services jobs requirements and sourced two suitable candidates in just one day. The smoothness and speed of the recruitment process was testament to Vincent Gurney’s expertise in HVAC and MEP recruitment, as well as its focus on customer service.
Quote from Vincent Gurney:
“We have been working in the building services recruitment business for many years and have gained significant experience in recruiting the best candidates for the roles. Sometimes, as in this case, there are challenges such as acknowledged shortages of skilled workers in a certain location, but that is where our experience really helps. In this case, we were recommended to Carmel UK by one of our existing customers who had experienced many of the same MEP recruitment challenges – challenges the team at Vincent Gurney continues to help them overcome.”
– Tom Vincent, MD, Vincent Gurney