Get To Know Our Recruiters

We’ve never made it a secret that we believe strong recruitment relationships are built properly, face to face, through honest conversations.

Meeting your recruiter in person, inviting them into your business and having a genuine conversation still goes a long way. It gives you a real sense of who you’re dealing with, how they work, and whether there’s proper understanding there, rather than just requirements being passed back and forth.

These early conversations are where trust is built. We’re not fans of transactional recruitment, not just because of the reputation it’s earned, but because it simply doesn’t work. Real partnerships start with honest discussions about expectations, how a business operates, and what success actually looks like on both sides.

This is why we like this time of year, because it’s made for these types of meetings. No more being booked up before Christmas, no more needing to settle in for the year, instead we’re out here playing coffee shop bingo.

We call this stage of the process Getting to Know Your Recruiter.

And because we genuinely believe it matters, it felt like the right time to stop talking about it and start introducing the people behind that mindset.

We’ll start with our Directors...

Lee Griffiths 

Position: MEP Director

Favourite TV Show: The Inbetweeners

Last Movie You Watched: The Firm

The Song You’re Loving Right Now: More Than a Feeling – Declan J Donovan

Favourite Takeaway: Loves all takeaways, but Chinese is the favourite

Go-To Cocktail: Negroni

Pet Peeve: Arsenal fans

What’s a day in the life of you like?
Every day can be different when you’re running a business, which makes it exciting and stressful at the same time. My days usually involve a mix of meetings around figures, targets, board discussions, banking, marketing and reviews. There’s also constant work on P&L, projections and budgets. On top of that, there’s still the phone work, which I genuinely love, speaking with clients who I’m lucky enough to now call good friends. There’s always more going on than you can list.

Matt Pask

Position: Logistics Director

Favourite TV Show: Landman

Last Movie You Watched: Die Hard

The Song You’re Loving Right Now: Starship – Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now

Favourite Takeaway: Turkish, closely followed by Thai

Go-To Cocktail: Piña Colada

Pet Peeve: Wiping down the area where tea and coffee are made!

What’s a day in the life of you like?
My day starts with a 05:30 alarm, gym for 06:00, then into the office by 08:00 at the latest. Coffee first, then admin while the team arrives and sets up the day. After that it’s recruit, recruit, recruit until it’s time to head home for dinner. Evenings are then spent doing the dad taxi duties, before finally getting some sleep.

Tom Evans

Position: Associate MEP Director

Latest Role: Contract Revit MEP Coordinator

Favourite TV Show: Stranger Things

Last Movie You Watched: Home Alone 2

The Song You’re Loving Right Now: Tommy Farrow – Let’s Just

Favourite Takeaway: Thai

Go-To Cocktail: Whiskey Sour

Pet Peeve: Drivers who don’t acknowledge or thank you when you give way.

What’s a day in the life of you like?
Ideally it starts with a few hours of sleep, baby dependent. Either quietly creeping out the door to avoid waking anyone or navigating school and nursery drop-offs. Then it’s full steam ahead at work, getting stuck into recruitment with the team. Evenings are for spending time with the kids, bath and bedtime routines, house prep for the next day, then rinse and repeat. Mondays are the exception, that’s squash night.

Dan Abbott

Position: Associate Director

Latest Role: Various HGV roles (Container, Tanker)

Favourite TV Show: The Inbetweeners and Gavin & Stacey

Last Movie You Watched: Home Alone 2

The Song You’re Loving Right Now: Dermot – Fred again.. / Dermot Kennedy

Favourite Takeaway: Turkish

Go-To Cocktail: Amaretto Sour

Pet Peeve: Not doing what you say you’re going to do.

What’s a day in the life of you like?
My days usually start with coming into work and seeing what chaos needs sorting. From there it’s about making sure our clients and candidates are happy and everything is running smoothly. At the weekends I spend time with my son, usually football or gaming.

Phil Amey

Position: Head of MEP CAD & BIM Recruitment

Latest Role: MEP BIM Manager

Favourite TV Show: Band of Brothers

Last Movie You Watched: The Running Man

The Song You’re Loving Right Now: Young MC - Know How

Favourite Takeaway: Thai

Go-To Cocktail: Amaretto Sour

Pet Peeve: Walking behind someone who is smoking

What’s a day in the life of you like?
Running my twin boys’ under-11s football team and planning training drills, knowing full well none of them will listen and they’ll just want to smash balls into the goal for an hour.

Beth Viard

Position: Senior Commercial Logistics Recruitment Consultant

Latest Role: Night Shift Warehouse Manager

Favourite TV Show: The Traitors

Last Movie You Watched: Toy Story

The Song You’re Loving Right Now: Don’t Matter (Soul-Blues rework) – Akon cover

Favourite Takeaway: Turkish

Go To Cocktail: Aperol Spritz

Pet Peeve: People who sneeze and don’t hold their nose

What’s a day in the life of you like?
Waking up to the dogs barking at 5am, contemplating the gym, then heading into work to make the first coffee of the day. Straight onto LinkedIn to see what’s happening in logistics, opening emails, reviewing the to-do list and then getting stuck on the phone with clients and candidates.

Kyle Francis

Position: Senior MEP Recruiter

Latest Role: Mechanical Project Manager

Favourite TV Show: Invincible

Last Movie You Watched: American Fiction

The Song You’re Loving Right Now: Letters from the Sky – Civil Twilight

Favourite Takeaway: Sides Burgers, Walthamstow

Go-To Cocktail: Mojito

Pet Peeve: Pilates

What’s a day in the life of you like?
Step maxing, going to the gym and hitting the sauna.

Steve Critchell

Position: Senior Consultant

Latest Role: Warehouse Team Leader / Supervisor

Favourite TV Show: Friends

Last Movie You Watched: Sinners

The Song You’re Loving Right Now: Raye – Where Is My Husband

Favourite Takeaway: Kebab

Go-To Cocktail: Beer

Pet Peeve: Dirty washing up left in the sink

What’s a day in the life of you like?
Every day differs. Mornings are usually spent dealing with any immediate issues, then reviewing current roles and resourcing needs. From there it’s business development, speaking with existing and potential clients, and attending new or ongoing client meetings.

Rory McGreevy

Position: MEP Commercial Recruitment Consultant

Latest Role: MEP Commercial Manager

Favourite TV Show: Kingdom

Last Movie You Watched: Playdate

The Song You’re Loving Right Now: Roads to Moscow – Al Stewart

Favourite Takeaway: Where Is the Jerk At?

Go-To Cocktail: Espresso Martini

Pet Peeve: Lack of basic respect, not saying please or thank you

What’s a day in the life of you like?
Waking up grateful to be alive. Reading Poems & Prayers by Matthew McConaughey on the Lizzy Line commute. Speaking to as many weird and wonderful people in my network as possible and helping them move closer to their career goals. Sneaking off to Petticoat Lane for jerk chicken, briefly considering a desk nap, then heading to Brazilian Jujitsu. Evenings are for food, guitar, or switching off with Red Dead Redemption 2 or FIFA.

Ellis Gardner

Position: Resourcer

Latest Role: Counterbalance Forklift Operator

Favourite TV Show: Scrubs

Last Movie You Watched: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

The Song You’re Loving Right Now: Don Broco – Everybody

Favourite Takeaway: Chinese

Go-To Cocktail: Strawberry Daiquiri

Pet Peeve: Inconsistent communication

What’s a day in the life of you like? 

A mix of finding the best people, keeping compliance in check and putting out the odd fire to keep everything running, along with the occasional attempt to expand the office’s musical horizons.

Gordon Herrington

Position: MEP Design Recruitment Consultant

Latest Role: Principal Electrical Engineer

On Repeat Song Right Now: The Great Curve – Talking Heads

Favourite TV Show: Chernobyl 

Pet Peeve: Slow walkers and people with no spatial awareness. 

Go to Cocktail: Negroni

Last Movie You Watched: Marty Supreme 

Fave Take Away: Thai 

Okay, that’s all of our consultants, hopefully you feel like you know them a little better now. Like we said, getting to know your recruiter comes down to understanding who you’re dealing with, how they work and how they will work for you.

Not every conversation needs to lead to an immediate outcome, but the strongest recruitment relationships tend to start with an honest one. Taking the time to meet, talk openly and build trust early on makes everything that follows work better.

That’s how we will always operate. And if the consultant in your sector seemed likeable enough, then please get in touch, they're all raring to sit down, grab a coffee, and start there.

And here’s wishing you a fantastic year in 2026.