About Us

We are a trusted and proven team of specialist Recruitment Consultants working in partnership with the world's leading Consulting Engineers and Contractors.

Alexander Associates is a leading independent Technical Recruitment agency spanning over 20 years in the industry. We specialise in supplying contract and permanent staff.

We are a preferred supplier to many of Clients throughout the UK, and have operated as the Sole Preferred Agency on various vacancies

Our Divisional Directors have over 50 years experience in recruitment. 

We are based on the Kent/Surrey border, easily accessible from the M25. Our team of professionals are able to form strong relationships with both candidates and clients with their commitment to an ethical and transparent  high standard of working practice and specialist sector knowledge. 
 
We are able to supply staff in the following disciplines and sectors;
 

Civil and Structural 

Airports
Buildings Structures (Residential & Commercial)
Bridges
Coastal
Marine & Maritime
Railways and Metro
Tunnels
Water Treatment and Sewage Treatment

M & E, Process 

Building Services
Petrochemical 
Railways
Oil & Gas
Subsea
Water Industry

Highways, Highway Structures Transportation Permanent Way

Geotechnical
Infrastructure
Pavement
Drainage 
Transport Planning 
Transport Modeling
Lighting
 

Fair Fees - No costly Shareholders to please!
We are proud of our fee structure which both our clients and candidates have told us is fair. We are an independent agency that is self-financed. We have no shareholders to please, no sleeping partners to worry about and no factoring companies to pay fees to. We are therefore able to charge modest fees and use our profits to grow and develop the business.  We discuss our fees openly with our contractors and clients; this transparency encourages trust and confidence.
 
Referencing our work-seekers to make sure we supply the best
References help us to differentiate between the less than satisfactory, the satisfactory, the good and the excellent candidate. Because written references often provide bland information, we have developed a unique verbal referencing procedure, which helps us to identify and supply the best. 
 
The breadth of our client base
Work-seekers are attracted to those agencies who supply the broadest choice of clients. Supplying consistently good candidates has been the key to our success with all our clients, whether large or small. 
 
Candidate Database
Our extensive candidate database has been supported by advertising and our website which is updated daily. However, most of our success has come purely from recommendation. Recommendation provides pleasing tangible evidence to our recruitment consultants that they are delivering a first class professional service. It also helps to maintain important personal relationships. Whereas the internet is a useful tool, we have found that dependence on it does not provide the optimum in personal service. 
 
Retaining the best Recruitment Consultants
Experienced consultants deliver a higher level of service and professionalism. Our consultants specialise and thus have an intimate knowledge of their engineering sector, this ensures that both the client and the candidate have a regular point of contact. 
 
‘Long term relationships generate confidence. We believe that a thorough understanding of both career needs of the work seeker and the requirements of the client ,  through good communication and long term commitment, is the cornerstone of professional recruitment. Our relationships are based on trust and specialist sector knowledge'.

Commitment to a high standard of working practice
We are long standing members of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and we take its code of practice seriously. The REC also instructs us on all new legislation and directives that affects the recruitment industry. We also work in line with the quality directives of the ISO 9001 standards, achieving ISO 9001:2000 in November 2004.

Alexander Associates has signed up to the REC Diversity Pledge.
 
As an equal opportunities employer, Alexander Associates is fully committed to establishing and maintaining a working environment in which recruitment and promotion is based upon merit. We will ensure that no employee or job applicant is treated less favorably on the ground of Sex, Marital status, Race, Nationality, Ethnic Origin, Age, Class, Sexual Orientation, Colour or Disability or any other grounds which cannot be justified.