CandidTalent

CandidTalent is a specialist recruitment firm for industrial automation and control systems, working with systems integrators, machine builders and OEMs, manufacturers, and engineering firms and EPCs across North America. It works on retained, contingency, embedded and contract terms, covers the United States and Canada, and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

It recruits automation engineers, control systems engineers, PLC programmers, DCS and MES engineers, EC&I engineers, electrical and mechanical designers, process designers, project managers and sales engineers, up to management and director level. Platforms it names include DeltaV, Siemens PCS7, Ignition, Rockwell and Allen-Bradley, and AVEVA and Wonderware. Sectors served include automotive and EV, chemicals, food and beverage, oil and gas, pharma and biotech, semiconductors, and water and wastewater.

Jon Woolley founded the company in 2024. He has recruited controls and automation engineers since 2014, and for US companies since 2020. Every candidate is screened by phone before a client sees them.