Roles that live on a plant floor
Plant general managers
People who have closed a shift, not just sat in a meeting about one.
Start a search →Supply chain and planning
Directors who can read a constraint, not a slide about agility.
Start a search →Warehouse and distribution
Site leaders for 200k-square-foot buildings, with safety records you can check.
Start a search →COO and VP operations
Retained work when the board wants a number, a plant, and a name in ninety days.
Start a search →Maintenance and reliability
Managers who can talk to a millwright without a translator.
Start a search →Walk the floor. Then write the spec.
Priya Shah and Ellis Ward take retained searches only. We sit in the plant, talk to the outgoing leader if there is one, and send a short list of three — not a stack of résumés from a job board.
- Half-day on site. We watch a shift change.
- A two-page spec you can hand to the board.
- A short list in six to eight weeks. Offers by day 92, median.
Warehouse and distribution searches
Ellis was a plant controller. He still asks for the last OSHA log before he asks about culture. The photograph is the kind of building we staff: high racks, dock doors, a supervisor who knows the names on the board.
Numbers we will stand next to
retained searches closed
day median to accepted offer
years in Raleigh
What operators say after the hire
They sent three people who had actually run a line. We hired the second. Still there.
Priya sat in the warehouse for an hour before she asked what the role was. That is the search I paid for.
Tell us the plant and the seat
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