E3 Recruitment

E3 Recruitment (E3R) is a specialist engineering and manufacturing recruitment partner, working with manufacturers across the UK to build sustainable, high-performing teams. With deep sector knowledge and hands-on experience across complex, site-led environments, E3R supports businesses with permanent, temporary, and contract recruitment, from shop-floor and technical roles through to senior leadership appointments

What sets E3R apart is a consultative, solutions-led approach. Beyond recruitment delivery, the team works closely with manufacturers to address wider workforce challenges, including skills shortages, attraction and retention, salary benchmarking, employer branding, and long-term workforce planning. This enables clients to make better, more informed hiring decisions and build teams that are aligned to both operational needs and future growth.

E3R’s commitment to manufacturing goes beyond recruitment. The business was founded on a belief that the industry’s skills gap must be tackled at its roots. This belief was shaped by the Directors’ own experience in 2013, when exploring career options with their children and discovering a lack of awareness around the breadth, progression, and opportunity available within manufacturing careers.

Through partnerships, education initiatives, and active involvement in events such as the Leeds Manufacturing Festival, E3 Recruitment continues to champion manufacturing as a viable, rewarding, and future-focused career path, while supporting employers to secure the talent they need to thrive.

“Our passion for bridging the skills gap came from seeing first-hand how little awareness there was around manufacturing careers. Since then, our focus has been on connecting people with opportunity, and helping manufacturers build teams that genuinely work for them.”

Matt Booth / Associate Director