01 / Personnel
Direct search
Targeted search for skilled trades and production leadership. We work the plant-floor market through relationships, not job boards. Quality of placement over volume of submissions.
Boutique manufacturing search · Canada · USA · International
We find the people who keep the line running.
Nexus Personnel is a boutique search and advisory firm for manufacturers. We place the skilled-trades and production hires that gate your output, then bring the consulting and software to fix why the role keeps reopening. Recruitment, management consulting, and digitalization from one team.
700K
Skilled trades retiring in Canada by 2028
4 continents
Advisory & engineering footprint on the bench
3-in-1
Recruitment · Consulting · Digital
The calibre behind the search
Plant-floor knowledge, boardroom pedigree.
Nexus is a boutique by design. The people behind your search, and the associates we bring in when a mandate calls for it, have worked where the standards are highest: directing programs through the 2008 crisis in New York, advising Fortune 500 clients at a global consultancy, engineering at a Silicon Valley enterprise-tech leader, and consulting across four continents. The same firm that fills a machinist seat can sit across from your board.
- 01Wall Street & financial-sector
- 02Silicon Valley & enterprise tech
- 03Fortune 500 consulting
- 04International advisory
- 05Cambridge & Edinburgh
- 06People analytics
The Nexus model
Three disciplines, one mandate: keep your floor staffed and moving.
Most agencies hand you a résumé and disappear. We treat a vacancy as a symptom. The same firm that fills the role can diagnose the workforce problem behind it and modernize the systems around it, because that's the bench we built.
02 / Consulting
Management consulting
Workforce strategy, organizational design, and operational improvement. We turn chronic turnover and thin recruiting capacity into a plan your team can actually run.
03 / Digital
Digitalization & AI
Modernization, AI strategy, and custom software. From legacy systems to AI-driven hiring and operations, built and shipped to production.
Services
What we deliver to the floor and the front office.
Engage one service or all three. Each is scoped to how your operation actually runs, so the work fits your plant instead of a template.
ARECRUIT
Manufacturing Search
Permanent and contract search for the roles that gate production. We map the local skilled-trades market, approach passive candidates directly, screen for the floor as well as the résumé, and present a short, qualified slate you can act on the same week.
- Skilled trades search
- Production leadership
- Contract & temp-to-perm
- Confidential replacements
- Volume ramp hiring
BADVISE
Management Consulting
For the problem under the vacancy. We assess turnover drivers, compensation positioning, shift structure, and org design, then build a workforce plan your team can run. Backed by people-analytics training, so the calls follow your own data.
- Workforce strategy
- Turnover & retention analysis
- Org & shift design
- Compensation benchmarking
- People analytics
CMODERNIZE
Digitalization, AI & Software Development
Led by a senior enterprise engineer, our digital practice finds where automation earns the highest return, modernizes legacy systems toward cloud-native architecture, and builds custom AI, from hiring workflows to operations tooling, then ships it to production.
- AI readiness assessment
- AI hiring & ops automation
- Custom software development
- Legacy modernization
- LLM integration
Profiles we place
The roles we're built to fill.
Read it like a spec sheet. Tier 1 covers the skilled trades where a missed hire stops the line. Tier 2 covers the high-volume production roles that keep a plant at capacity.
T1-01
Machinists
T1-02
CNC operators & programmers
T1-03
Welders & fabricators
T1-04
Millwrights & maintenance
T1-05
Industrial electricians
T1-06
QA / QC inspectors
T1-07
Production supervisors
T1-08
Shift supervisors
T2-01
Machine operators
T2-02
Assembly & line workers
T2-03
Materials handlers
T2-04
Shipping & receiving
T2-05
Sanitation (food plants)
T2-06
Warehouse associates
T2-07
Forklift operators
T2-08
General labour
Note: Don't see the role? If it lives on a plant floor, we recruit for it. Ask.
Sub-sectors we serve
SEC / 01
Food & beverage processing
SEC / 02
Metal fabrication & machine shops
SEC / 03
Plastics, packaging & rubber
SEC / 04
Industrial machinery & equipment
SEC / 05
Automotive & transportation components
SEC / 06
Electronics & electrical assembly
SEC / 07
Aerospace & precision components
SEC / 08
Wood products, millwork & furniture
How we work
A focused process that moves at plant-floor pace.
No drawn-out discovery theatre. We learn the role, work the market, and deliver, then stay close enough to fix the system that created the vacancy.
Map the role
We sit with the people who own the outcome (plant manager, operations, HR) and define what "qualified" means on your floor, not on paper.
Work the market
We approach the local skilled-trades network directly, including the people who never touch a job board, and present a short, screened slate built for fit and retention.
Place & modernize
We close the hire, and where it helps, bring consulting and digitalization to attack the root cause, so the same req stops reopening every quarter.
Leadership
Two principals. A bench with enterprise pedigree.
Tamara Milosevic, MSc
Personnel & Management Consulting
For nearly two decades Tamara has built and led recruitment desks across Canada and the United States, from HR consultant to managing partner. Based in Vancouver, she knows the plant-floor market by name and number, and pairs that with an MSc in People Analytics, so the firm's workforce calls follow the evidence, not instinct. Tamara leads search and the consulting practice.
MSc, People Analytics18+ yrs recruitmentManaging partnerVancouver, BC
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Igor Pandurski, MBA
Consulting & Digitalization
Twenty-plus years building enterprise software across four continents. Igor directed multi-million-dollar integration programs in New York through the 2008 financial crisis, delivered for Fortune 500 clients at a global consultancy, and held senior engineering roles at a Silicon Valley enterprise-tech leader, where he architected a cloud-native product presented on its global stage. He holds an MBA from Edinburgh Business School and leads the firm's digitalization and software practice.
MBA, EdinburghBig TechGlobal consultingAI & software
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Have a role you can't afford to leave open?
Tell us the role, the plant, and the timeline. We'll say straight whether we're the right firm for it, and if we are, we move fast. The same conversation can cover the workforce or software problem behind it.
PracticeRecruitment · Consulting · Digitalization
CoverageCanada & the United States · international on request
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