A specialist engineering recruitment agency working across Windsor and Essex County — battery and process engineering for the EV supply chain, automation and controls, and the tool-and-die trade the region is built on. We approach people directly, because the engineers this city needs are not the ones posting résumés.
Windsor’s hiring story right now is really two stories at once. A large EV battery gigafactory is in full production ramp — cell manufacturing live, well over a thousand people on site, heading toward roughly 2,500 — and it is absorbing battery, process and automation engineers as fast as it can find them.
At the same time, the legacy assembly and parts side of the industry is under real pressure from U.S. tariff volatility, with paused lines and feeder-plant layoffs in the same period. A search here has to be honest about which side of that line a role sits on.
Windsor-Essex’s unemployment rate has sat among the highest of any Canadian metro even through a genuine hiring boom at the battery plant — a mismatch between the skills the new economy needs and the ones the old one is shedding. A search that only looks at headcount numbers misses which candidates are actually qualified for where the growth is.
We are headquartered up the road in London, Ontario, and we recruit into Windsor-Essex the way we recruit everywhere: mapping the market for a defined role and approaching people directly. For battery, automation and senior manufacturing roles, a direct approach outperforms a job posting almost every time.
We recruit construction and technology roles in Windsor the same way, whenever the mandate calls for it — this page focuses on engineering because that is where most of our Windsor search work sits.
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Yes. We recruit engineering, construction and technology professionals across Ontario, including Windsor, Essex County, Tecumseh and Leamington. We are an engineering recruitment agency covering Canada and the USA, headquartered in London, Ontario.
Battery and process engineers for EV cell manufacturing, automation and controls engineers, and mechatronics and tool-and-die talent. Experienced quality and validation engineers are consistently short as production ramps.
No. We are headquartered in nearby London, Ontario and recruit nationally. For senior and specialist roles that rarely matters, because the work is direct approach rather than local advertising — and a national view of compensation is usually more useful to an employer than a local address.
Base salaries in Windsor have moved up quickly around the battery and automation roles feeding the EV supply chain, though they still generally sit below Toronto for equivalent seniority. Legacy automotive roles have been more compressed by tariff-driven uncertainty.
Yes. Confidential searches — replacing someone still in post, or building a role you cannot advertise — are handled through retained executive search, where nothing about the mandate is visible in the market.
We are a specialist search firm, and “engineering headhunters” is the older word for the same work. We do not post roles or forward applicants; we map a market and approach people directly, most of whom are not looking. Permanent placement is the only work we do.
A conversation about the Windsor hire ahead of you — local, relocating, or remote, and what each route realistically costs.