Aerospace, Defense & Manufacturing
Engineering, operations, and leadership talent for manufacturers
Alpha Search recruits for the manufacturing sector, with aerospace and defense at the front: leadership through the C-level, plus operations, technical, and engineering talent. David Barton leads the practice from Dallas–Fort Worth.
What we recruit for
Aerospace and defense first, and the manufacturing sector broadly
The sectors
- Aerospace and defense
- Industrial automation
- Electrical equipment
- Precision machining
- Renewable energy
Those are the niches we work most, not the limit of the practice.
If it's a manufacturing search, we recruit for it.
The roles
Executives through the C-level. Operations leaders. Engineering and technical specialists. The leadership accountable for all of it, the people who run the plant, and the individual contributors a program depends on.
Those are categories, not a menu. If the seat decides whether product ships on spec and on time, it is the kind of search we run.
Why Alpha Search
The same specialist approach, applied to manufacturing
Specialists, not generalists
This practice recruits for the manufacturing sector, full stop. You are not explaining what the role does or why the seat is hard to fill. David Barton has recruited for this sector for more than fifteen years 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 for the manufacturing sector. He recruits executive, operations, technical, and engineering talent for aerospace and defense, industrial automation, electrical equipment, precision machining, and renewable energy companies, and works the sector broadly beyond those niches.
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.