Recruitment & Talent Acquisition · Vancouver BC
Recruitment & Talent Acquisition for Industrial Operations
Finding the right people for manufacturing, engineering, and industrial roles is hard. The talent pool is competitive, the technical requirements are specific, and a bad hire in a production environment costs far more than the replacement fee. Novaworks brings deep industrial recruiting expertise—with a 95%+ offer acceptance rate and 200+ placements—to help you hire people who stay and perform.
Recruitment Services for Industrial & Engineering Teams
Novaworks works as a true recruiting partner—not a CV-forwarding service. We invest time to understand your business challenges, your team dynamics, your production environment, and what success looks like in a given role. That investment translates into candidates who are genuinely suited to your operation, not just qualified on paper.
Embedded Recruiters
When you're scaling quickly or managing a complex hiring surge, an embedded recruiting model puts experienced Novaworks expertise inside your operation. We integrate with your hiring managers, understand your culture and workflows, and move with the urgency your business demands. Embedded recruiting gives you the consistency and quality of an internal hire function without the overhead of building one.
Skilled Trades & Technical Hiring
Hiring millwrights, electricians, machinists, welders, instrumentation technicians, and other skilled trades requires understanding what the work actually involves. Novaworks has sourced and placed technical talent across manufacturing, processing, utilities, and construction environments. We know where to find qualified candidates, how to evaluate technical credentials, and how to make your opportunity compelling to a trades workforce that has options.
Engineering & Operations Leadership Recruitment
Plant managers, operations directors, project engineers, production supervisors, and supply chain leaders require a different recruiting approach than frontline positions. Novaworks leads senior-level searches with structured executive recruiting methodology: market mapping, confidential outreach, thorough assessment, and careful reference validation. We have placed leaders across BC and nationally in manufacturing, processing, and industrial services.
Interviewing & Selection Training
Your hiring managers are often excellent operators with limited interviewing skills—and that's a costly gap. Novaworks trains hiring teams in structured behavioural interviewing, competency-based assessment, and legally sound selection practices. Better hiring decisions upstream mean fewer mis-hires downstream, and internal capability that compounds over time. We customize training to your specific roles, culture, and interview formats.
Onboarding Design & Implementation
Onboarding is where retention starts. Industrial operations with poor onboarding see new hires disengage or leave within 90 days, wasting the investment in the hire. Novaworks designs structured onboarding pathways—covering safety orientation, role clarity, team integration, and 30/60/90-day checkpoints—that protect productivity and accelerate time-to-performance. We also train supervisors on their role in making new hires successful.
Candidate Experience & Employer Brand
In a tight labour market, how you treat candidates matters. A poor hiring experience drives off good candidates and damages your reputation in tight-knit industrial talent communities. Novaworks helps you build a candidate experience that reflects your values, communicates your culture clearly, and creates a positive impression even with candidates you don't hire. Strong employer brand reduces time-to-fill and improves offer acceptance.
What Sets Novaworks Recruitment Apart
Most recruiters optimize for placements. Novaworks optimizes for fit—because fit is what drives retention, performance, and the long-term return on your hiring investment.
- 95%+ offer acceptance rate across 200+ placements in industrial and engineering roles
- Genuine understanding of manufacturing environments, shift structures, and technical role requirements
- Behavioural and competency-based assessment methodology—not just resume screening
- Direct, accountable partnership with Olenka Stepanova personally engaged in every search
- Integrated approach linking recruiting to onboarding and retention—not a transactional handoff
Roles Novaworks Recruits For
We place across the full spectrum of industrial and engineering talent, including but not limited to:
- Plant managers, operations directors, and site general managers
- Production supervisors and shift leads
- Project engineers, process engineers, and manufacturing engineers
- Maintenance managers and reliability engineers
- Millwrights, electricians, instrumentation technicians, welders, and machining trades
- Supply chain, procurement, and logistics professionals
- EHS managers and safety coordinators
- HR business partners and HR generalists
Building your team? Let's talk.
Whether you have one critical role or a multi-site hiring surge, Novaworks can help you hire people who stay and perform. Start with a conversation.