Engineering recruitment agency for manufacturing teams
GoodSpace Hire360 is a manufacturing recruitment agency for industrial machinery, packaging, metals, electronics, textiles and automotive companies that need sales engineers, production managers and business heads. Recruiters run each search and hand-pick the shortlist with AI-assisted assessment against your brief, and the only charge is a success fee, paid when your hire joins.
Our manufacturing and engineering work so far
- 110+ roles briefed by 67+ manufacturers, from industrial machinery and packaging to metals, electronics, textiles and automotive
- 56% of industrial manufacturing roles are budgeted at Rs 5 to 10 L
Hire360 mandates approved since October 2025, as of 27 October 2026.
Engineering recruitment for manufacturing companies
Manufacturers and engineering businesses can brief us for sales engineers, production managers and business heads. These are permanent hires on your payroll, not a supply of contract engineering workers.
- For plant roles, describe the process, material, site and team the hire will run.
- For sales engineers, name the product, buyer and territory as well as technical requirements.
Manufacturing and engineering roles we recruit for
Sales and business development make up the largest share of our manufacturing briefs, followed by production, project and plant roles. Every title below comes from real briefs in these sectors.
Sales and business development
- Sales Engineer
- Sales Manager
- Area Sales Manager
- Sales Executive
- Business Development Manager
- Business Development Executive
We look for people who have sold a comparable product to a comparable buyer, such as machinery to plant teams, and can name the accounts they owned.
Production, projects and purchase
- Production Manager
- Project Manager
- Purchase Manager
- Merchandiser
We look for hands-on experience in the same process or material family, with evidence of the output or vendor base the person answered for.
Business heads and sales leadership
- General Manager
- Sales Head
- Senior Sales Manager
We look for leaders who have run a plant, a product line or a regional sales target, and who will work where the business operates.
Marketing, design and HR
- Marketing Manager
- Creative Director
- HR Recruiter
We look for marketers who reach technical buyers through dealers and trade fairs, design leads who understand apparel production, and recruiters used to hiring for plants.
What makes manufacturing hiring hard
Technical sales needs product and buyer fit
A sales engineer for automation equipment, pumps or packaging lines must talk credibly to a plant's engineering team and still own a sales target. Engineers who have never sold struggle here, and so do consumer sales profiles who have never faced a purchase committee. People with both skills are scarce.
How we handle it: Your brief names the product, the buyer and the type of deal. AI helps assess applications against those points, and recruiters review profiles and check product and buyer overlap before a profile reaches your dashboard.
The plant location decides who says yes
Production, project and plant roles sit where the factory is, often in an industrial estate or a smaller town. Candidates who look right on paper drop out once they weigh the commute, the shifts or a family move, and that usually surfaces at offer stage.
How we handle it: Location, shifts and relocation support go into the brief, and recruiters confirm willingness to commute or relocate before shortlisting. Where the local pool is thin, your client success manager says so early and suggests widening the radius.
Exact-match briefs shrink the pool
Many briefs ask for the same product, process and customer industry. That usually means hiring from a direct competitor, where managers serve long notice periods. Often the right person runs a similar process in an adjacent industry, such as moulding for appliances rather than vehicles.
How we handle it: At briefing we separate what must match, such as process, material and buyer, from what can be learned, such as the specific product. Recruiters use that distinction when reviewing candidates from adjacent industries.
Segments we recruit for in manufacturing and engineering
Metals and steel
Steel, metals and mining companies brief us mostly for sales executives and sales managers who sell to industrial buyers, plus general managers. Pune and Ahmedabad come up most often. We screen sellers for the grades and buyer industries they have handled.
Electronics and appliances
Consumer electronics and appliance brands, plus electronics manufacturers. Briefs here lean more senior than in the rest of manufacturing, across business development, sales leadership, purchase and general management, and Bengaluru comes up most often.
Textiles and apparel
Textile and apparel manufacturers hire merchandisers, sales managers and design leads in Mumbai, Delhi NCR and smaller textile towns. A good merchandiser handles buyers and the production floor equally well.
Automotive and EV
Automotive and EV companies use Hire360 as an automotive recruitment agency for sales engineers, business development managers, sales heads and plant leadership. For EV roles we check whether experience is in vehicles, batteries or charging, since each sells to a different buyer.
Chemicals and packaging
Packaging and container makers, and chemicals, paints and plastics companies. Selling to a brand owner's packaging and purchase teams is its own skill, so we screen for buyer overlap as well as product overlap.
What we ask for in a manufacturing brief
In manufacturing, the details that decide a hire rarely sit in the job description. Alongside the JD and budget, we ask for these inputs so scoring and screening match the role.
- Product, process and materialWhat you make and how, such as machining, fabrication, moulding, assembly or weaving, and which experience counts as close enough.
- Who the role sells toFor sales roles: OEMs, EPC contractors, distributors or brand owners, the territory, and whether the job is new business or key accounts.
- Plant or base location and shiftsThe exact site or base town, the shift pattern, and how much travel the role involves between plants and customers.
- Relocation and joining supportRelocation, temporary accommodation or a notice-period buyout. These often decide whether a strong candidate accepts.
- Reporting lineWho the hire reports to, such as the plant head or managing director, and the team they will lead.
How a Hire360 search runs
Recruiters run the search with AI-assisted assessment. One client success manager owns your role from brief to joining day.
- Step 1 · You and your client success manager
Brief
A call about the role, then a short questionnaire on budget, notice period, location, target companies and urgency.
- Step 2 · GoodSpace
Review and go-live
We review every brief before we accept it, and we say so when a role is not a fit for us.
- Step 3 · Recruiters
Sourcing
Your role opens to candidates on GoodSpace, and our recruiters search for people who match the brief.
- Step 4 · AI and recruiters
Scoring and shortlisting
AI-assisted assessment supports recruiter review. Recruiters evaluate applications against your brief and hand-pick the shortlist.
- Step 5 · You
Interviews
Your client success manager shares each shortlist, collects your feedback and coordinates interview slots.
- Step 6 · Your client success manager
Offer and joining
We help you close the offer and stay in touch with your candidate until their first day.
One fee, paid when your hire joins
- Success fee onlyYou pay when your hire joins. Nothing is payable while the search runs.
- No platform fee, no retainerThere is no upfront fee. The success fee is payable when your hire joins.
- Replacement termsAny replacement terms are set out in your agreement before the search starts.
Where we recruit for manufacturers
Mumbai and Pune hold the most manufacturing briefs, and Bengaluru is the main base for electronics and appliance roles. Some roles sit at plants in smaller industrial towns, and we take those on too.
- Mumbai
- Pune
- Bengaluru
- Ahmedabad
- Delhi NCR
- Hyderabad
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