Perfect Connections in Recruitment

About CDS

Based in the North East of England CDS is a single-site recruitment provider sourcing temporary, contract and permanent staff for Corporates and SME’s throughout the UK.

Our team of specialist consultants work to fully understand your requirements and immerse themselves into the culture of your business – ensuring they make the perfect connections between hirers and candidates.

If you are a business needing to fill positions or a candidate looking for their next career move we will be able to deliver a recruitment process that focuses on what is right for you.

Our Approach

Understanding of clients needs

Meetings with clients to fully understand company culture, business objectives, processes

Sourcing of candidates

Using Local, national and international advertising,
Recruitment technology and Talent attraction methods

Candidate Screening

Detailed candidate filtering and face to face competency based interviews. Telephone and video calls, verification of qualifications, employment status and legal right to work

Placements

Full referencing, post commencement evaluation, client and candidate guidance and counter offer management

Our People

Chris Sultman

Head of Scientific

Stephen Hall

Business Manager

Adam Jones

Head of Technical

Clare Sangster

Head of Operations

Carla Braund

Head of Engineering

Ashley Bruce

Office Manager

Our Sectors

Oil & Gas

CDS recognise the specialist skills needed within the Oil & Gas and Subsea sectors and strive to identify and attract the best engineering talent to undertake permanent and contract assignments on a global basis.

Chemical & Pharmaceuticals

The Chemical and Pharmaceutical industries require Research & Development, Engineering and Technical personnel with highly specialist skills and experience of working to exacting regulatory standards.

Energy & Utilites

CDS provides permanent and contract recruitment solutions to companies across the Energy Sector including Nuclear, Power Generation, Transmission & Distribution and Renewables.

Automotive

The Automotive industry has set World-Class Manufacturing standards for decades leading the way in developing innovative processes and quality analysis & improvement techniques that have completely revolutionised Manufacturing and been adopted by businesses on a global scale.

Aerospace

The Aerospace sector is safety-critical and technically challenging and as such requires the best engineers available to ensure its continued growth & success.

Electronics

Electronics Engineering is seeing remarkable advances in the Research and Development of leading-edge innovative products and materials with industrial, engineering and consumer applications but faces a battle for talent where everyone is seeking to identify, attract and retain innovative and talented engineers who are constantly seeking new and exciting opportunities that will put them at the forefront of advances in technology development.

FMCG

A fast-paced environment such as FMCG needs to be confident that it’s recruitment partners can provide candidates who can cope with the demands of an ever changing and flexible manufacturing environment.

Food & Drink

Quality and Delivery are key indicators vital to successful Food Manufacturing and it is our focus on these qualities that makes CDS the ideal recruitment partner for the Food industry.

Sub-Contract Manufacturing

Precision is an area that Sub-Contract Engineering pride themselves on as do we at CDS Recruitment Ltd. As a recruitment provider we work hard to understand all aspects of your business and skills so that we can effectively meet your recruitment needs.