Nextdev Engineer

Nextdev, which operates as Nextdev Engineer Search, is a company specialising in the search for high level engineers for players in industry. It recruits and also answers assistance technique needs, and its clients are bureaux d'etudes and the industrial departments of start ups, PME and grands groupes. Because it concentrates exclusively on the industrial sector, Nextdev states it has heightened knowledge of the trades, the issues and the expectations of its clients. It offers three routes into that market. Recrutement is run by approche directe, going out to candidates even when they are already in post. Assistance technique gives clients the benefit of a pool of qualified experts available on demand. Cooptation uses an intelligent matching algorithm to identify candidates within the networks of a client's own employees.

Nextdev's expertise covers the whole range of engineering trades. Design and ingenierie mecanique takes in dessinateur and projecteur roles, conception mecanique, ingenierie produit, technical leaders and chefs de projet. Software development covers Java, JEE, C, C++ and QT, web work in HTML, JavaScript and Angular, and integration, validation, verification and qualification. Hardware development covers analogue and digital electronic design, automatisme, embedded systems, mecatronique, VHDL development and optics and optronics. Ingenierie de production covers methode, industrialisation and production engineering. Supply chain covers ordonnancement, supply chain work and supplier management. Support functions cover achat and commerce.

The company positions its value around simplification for industrial clients: a specialisation in industry and expertise in the client's own trades means a single contact who understands the brief, produces an exhaustive account of the client's issues and the benefits to be put forward, and brings a targeted network and a specialised candidate pool. Its offer is flexible and answers both short and long term needs, letting clients work around problems of budget, organisation and timing and concentrate on their core business of technical competence. Its team is drawn mostly from scientific training, which Nextdev says allows it to speak the client's language, and it frames the whole proposition around the idea that the innovations a business lives on come from the people who make up its teams.