Aerospace & Defense
Engineering, operations, and leadership talent for aerospace and defense
Alpha Search recruits for aerospace and defense: leadership through the C-level, plus operations, technical, and engineering talent. David Barton leads the practice from Dallas–Fort Worth.
What we recruit for
Every seat in aerospace and defense
The sector
Aerospace and defense. That is the whole practice, and the focus is the point: the companies, the programs, and the people are ones we already know.
If it's an aerospace or defense search, we recruit for it.
The roles
Executives through the C-level. Operations leaders. Engineering and technical specialists. The leadership accountable for a program, the people who run the operation, and the individual contributors it depends on.
Those are categories, not a menu. If the seat decides whether a program delivers on spec and on time, it is the kind of search we run.
Why Alpha Search
The same specialist approach, applied to aerospace and defense
Specialists, not generalists
This practice recruits for aerospace and defense, full stop. You are not explaining what the role does or why the seat is hard to fill. David Barton has spent more than fifteen years recruiting in aerospace and defense and knows the roles, the companies, and the people before the search starts.
Tailored to the hire
We are not a resume firehose. We scope the specific seat with you, the technical requirements and the operation it sits in, then deliver a short list of pre-vetted people worth an interview, not a pile to sort.
Partners, not a transaction
We are in it past the placement. We stay through the transition, follow up after the start date, and aim to be the firm you call for the next hire, and the one after that.
Who runs the practice
David Barton
Senior Executive Search Consultant
David is based in Dallas–Fort Worth and has spent more than fifteen years recruiting in aerospace and defense. He leads the practice, recruiting executive, operations, technical, and engineering talent across the sector.
When you call the practice, you are talking to him.
Start a conversation
It starts with a conversation about the role: what the seat requires, what the market looks like for it, and how we would run the search.