Bridging the MEP jobs skills gap for Balfour Beatty
Supporting Balfour Beatty with specialist MEP recruitment, including hard-to-fill roles across complex engineering and infrastructure projects.
supporting Balfour Beatty with specialist MEP recruitment
Finding highly skilled people for specialist MEP roles
Balfour Beatty plc is an international infrastructure group, founded in London in 1909 and operating across the UK, US and Hong Kong.
The company employs 25,000 people and finances, develops, builds, maintains and operates critical infrastructure that supports communities and national economies.
The specialist nature of projects across areas such as defence, power generation and critical infrastructure means having highly skilled, vetted staff is critical.
Balfour Beatty’s internal recruitment teams work across a wide range of roles, particularly within MEP, where the right people need to be matched across specialist white-collar and blue-collar positions.
A specialist approach to MEP recruitment
Vincent Gurney is a specialist recruitment agency for construction and engineering companies, focused on finding and placing the right candidates in the right roles.
Specialist knowledge
We understand the construction and engineering industry, the intricacies of recruiting MEP staff and the challenges faced by internal recruiters.
First vacancy
The first role we took on for Balfour Beatty was an Electrical Project Engineer vacancy the internal team was having difficulty filling.
Right candidate
Our team, led by Tom Vincent, identified and recruited the right candidate for the Electrical Project Engineer role.
Strong foundation
That first successful placement helped establish the foundation for the ongoing relationship with Balfour Beatty.
Supporting hard-to-fill MEP vacancies
Vincent Gurney is now on Balfour Beatty’s preferred supplier list and continues to work closely with the internal recruitment team in looking for candidates for MEP jobs.
This is particularly important in areas where there is an acknowledged skills shortage.
We use our wide reach and approach to source candidates and ensure they are the right fit, undertaking a comprehensive vetting process as part of our due diligence.
This is especially important when recruiting for roles on high-security sites where SC Clearance is needed.
supporting specialist MEP recruitment
A trusted recruitment relationship for specialist MEP roles
The successful Electrical Project Engineer placement helped build a relationship of trust with Balfour Beatty’s internal recruitment team and established Vincent Gurney as a preferred supplier.
We are not just a specialist recruitment agency that understands the demands of the engineering and construction sectors, and the challenges that internal recruiters face. We are a dynamic team that focuses on building relationships based on transparency, efficiency and results – all of which make the lives of our clients easier and our candidates more fruitful.
That was our approach with Balfour Beatty – straight off the bat helping to recruit a candidate for a role they were having difficulty filling. This has helped us forge a relationship of trust with their internal recruitment team to support them with hard-to-fill MEP vacancies in the most efficient way possible.