What makes P.I.E.R Specialists in Mechanical & Electrical Recruitment?
P.I.E.R are experts in mechanical and electrical (M & E) recruitment. For almost two decades we’ve been supplying South Wales and the West with talented, reliable, and experienced mechanical and electrical professionals.
Our workforce covers a range of sectors including domestic, commercial, industrial and engineering, and we pride ourselves on matching the right workers with the right projects. We are specialists in mechanical and electrical recruitment, and we should be your go-to agency for highly skilled M & E workers.
The Importance of Recruitment in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
Recruiting mechanical and electrical engineering professionals isn’t an easy task. At P.I.E.R, we’ve developed strong relationships with all of our workers, and we know how important it is for our workers to understand their value. After all, our workers are at the heart of the recruitment sector. Without them, there would be no P.I.E.R. With that in mind, we never take our workers for granted and do our best to treat every single person on our books as an individual and never a number.
Challenges in Mechanical and Electrical Recruitment
The challenges within mechanical and electrical recruitment are undeniable and can include:
- The struggle to find qualified workers with the right level of experience
- Searching for expert tradespeople within specific environments
- The importance placed on mechanical and electrical workers within a project setting
It can often be a struggle to find qualified workers in the construction industry as a whole, but many projects within the mechanical and electrical sector need workers who are not just qualified, but also have the right amount of experience. The high skill level required for mechanical and electrical work takes time to learn and hone.
Mechanical and electrical workers are essential to almost every construction project in some shape or form, and that means they are required in a huge range of different environments. When you’re recruiting for M & E workers, the environment they specialise in can never be overlooked. A pipefitter with experience on industrial sites may not excel in a domestic setting, and vice versa. A blue CSCS card can be exactly the same from one worker to the next, but their individual experience could be completely different.
The roles carried out by mechanical and electrical workers are often a central element of a construction project. When so much importance is placed on the work completed by one or two individual workers, it’s imperative that the right worker is in place.
Understanding the Unique Needs of the M & E Sector
With the challenges of the M & E sector in mind, it’s clear that not all construction recruitment companies have the understanding needed to recruit specific mechanical and electrical workers. The unique needs of the M & E sector can’t be ignored, and at P.I.E.R, we’ve chosen to embrace these intricacies.
It’s entirely down to a recruiter who they place to work on your project, and for that reason, we pride ourselves on making sure that the workers we provide to our clients will excel in their task. Not all electricians are experienced in commercial construction work, so why would we send a commercial client an electrician whose skills lie in domestic work. You wouldn’t want an optician giving you a root canal, or a dentist supplying your glasses: the same principle applies to mechanical and electrical workers.
Tailored Recruitment Strategies
When we recruit our mechanical and electrical workers, we make sure we understand everything they’ve got to offer. Our onboarding process enables us to gather a worker’s qualifications, skills, experience, and training so that we can provide tailored recruitment strategies to each and every client.
Specialised Services Offered by Agencies
By offering a specialised M & E recruitment service to our clients, we are in a much better position to give you peace of mind. Our involvement in placing the right worker on the right project (rather than just the worker who happens to be available), means we can have complete confidence in our ability to provide specialist mechanical and electrical recruitment services.
What P.I.E.R does differently
At P.I.E.R, we’re very keen not to be placed in the ‘recruitment agency’ box. While we are a recruitment agency, our methods of recruitment and retention are worlds apart from many of our competitors.
Personalised Candidate Support
When a candidate engages with P.I.E.R, we take the time to understand what they’d like to get from their professional experience with us. We offer additional training if required, assistance with any and all essential paperwork, and take a full profile to understand where their skills and experience lies.
All of our workers know that we want the best for their career, and our clients can be reassured that we’ll never send workers to your site unless they will add exceptional value to your project.
Ensure each worker is suitably qualified
It’s not enough to know that a worker has the minimum qualifications needed to do their job, we also need to understand what environment(s) within the mechanical and electrical sector they are comfortable working within. Suitability to site is as important as training and qualifications. We never want our workers to struggle because we’ve made a mistake in their placement. For example, if you’re looking for a welder on an industrial site, that’s the worker we’ll find. A welder who specialises in domestic projects won’t be the right fit.
Match the right worker to the right job
Matching the right M & E workers to the right mechanical and electrical job is a key differentiator between P.I.E.R and our counterparts. Our ability to specialise in the M & E industry is down to the time we take to understand our workers and clients and how we can provide each with a service that best meets their needs. We encourage our clients to engage with us at the very start of their project timeline, and we’ll be with them every step of the way to provide the right workers at the right time. Find out more about what our workers do on our website.
Create lasting connections
We develop strong professional relationships with our clients and our workers, helping us connect with the same M & E experts time and time again. There isn’t a mechanical or electrical worker in South Wales that we don’t know by name. By forming good ties with our workers, we can help our clients build reliable workforces that will stay for the duration of their project.
Compliance is key
Above all else, compliance is a key cornerstone of the P.I.E.R approach to M & E recruitment. We know compliance can become a headache, and our goal is to take the pressure off our clients. We will always be committed to compliance, and we never cut corners to make our own lives easier.
You’ll never be concerned that workers on your site don’t have the right to be there, and our workers will never worry that we haven’t got their back. Compliance is a non-negotiable for P.I.E.R, and we recognise how important it is to every aspect of our business.
Roles in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
The roles within mechanical and electrical engineering are varied and can include tradespeople like electrical testers, electrical mates, plumbers, and pipefitters; M & E supervision personnel such as electrical technicians, mechanical supervisors, and electrical foremen; technical personnel such as M & E project managers, electrical engineers, and commissioning engineers.
For a full list of the mechanical and electrical roles P.I.E.R can source for you, please take a look at our M & E Building Services page.
Why P.I.E.R specialise in Mechanical and Electrical recruitment
Paul Ingram, the Managing Director of P.I.E.R, is in his 30th year of supplying M & E trades across South Wales and the UK. When asked why he thinks why P.I.E.R have been so successful in specialising in M&E recruitment, Paul said:
‘Over time, we’ve built a great rapport with our M & E workers and clients, and our reputation has grown exponentially through genuine interactions with our brand. Finding qualified workers the right work is incredibly rewarding and we’ve done our best to create an environment where workers are treated like people, not just a commodity. It’s the guys and girls that work for us every day that have created our success.’
You can find out more about what our clients say about P.I.E.R by checking out our Client Case Studies. On this page you’ll find case studies from a range of different projects that’ll help you understand why P.I.E.R have been able to so successfully specialise in M & E recruitment.
Insights into the Future of M & E Recruitment
Despite the current challenges facing our sector; demand for housing continues to grow, and we have no doubt that there’s going to be a surge in the need for construction workers over the coming years. The construction sector contributes almost £100 billion to the UK economy each year and it is predicted that this figure will continue to rise.
The M & E sector is already seeing the first signs of growth, with job postings for mechanical engineers increasing across 2023. The demand is ‘driven by advancements in automation, robotics, and sustainable energy solutions’.
Investing in the right workforce is going to be even more important over the next few years, and finding the right professionals will be key.
Future Rates for mechanical and electrical workers
The skills shortage has hit all areas of construction, and there’s huge competition for workers with particular sets of skills. Within M & E recruitment, duct fitters and laggers are just a couple of examples of roles in high demand – but there are many more.
With a depleted pool of experienced and qualified workers and an increase in potential projects, it’s going to be imperative that you’re paying market rates to attract the right workers. At P.I.E.R, we keep an eye on the market to make sure our clients are offering rates that will secure them the talent they need.
Navigating the M & E Recruitment Landscape
Finding the right mechanical and electrical workers can feel like an ongoing battle, but it doesn’t need to be a war. With P.I.E.R, we can help you source qualified and experienced M & E workers who understand every aspect of your project. The best part? You don’t have to chase your tail recruiting and replacing workers as they come and go.
Talk to P.I.E.R today. Engage early so that you can stand a chance of building a fully compliant and reliable M & E workforce.
