Advanced Manufacturing

Make it once. Then make it ten thousand times.

Advanced manufacturing turns engineering into repeatable production.

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Akkar connects businesses with specialists across industrialisation and the supply chain behind the move from prototype to series.

Building a prototype is one problem.
Producing it repeatedly is another.

Moving from a working design to reliable production introduces new demands around process, quality, tooling, automation and supply chain. That is where the hiring requirement changes.

Production investment needs people behind it

New manufacturing capacity creates demand across process, industrialisation and operations.

The challenge is having the capability to bring that capacity online and make it perform.

Automation changes the engineering mix

Robotics, controls and digital systems increasingly sit alongside traditional manufacturing engineering.

Teams need capability that connects production processes with the technology running them.

NPI connects engineering to production

New product introduction brings design, tooling, validation and production readiness together.

The right experience helps turn a working product into a repeatable manufacturing process.

Expertise across the route to production.

We recruit across the disciplines that turn engineering into repeatable output, for aerospace, defence, automotive, robotics, and energy manufacturers.

Process & Manufacturing Engineering
Manufacturing Engineering
Process Engineering
Tooling
Fixturing
Lean Manufacturing
Continuous Improvement
Time & Motion
Capacity Planning
Materials & Specialist Processes
Composites
Additive Manufacturing
Precision Machining
Welding & Joining
Surface Treatment
Heat Treatment
Materials Engineering
Metallurgy
Automation & Digital
Automation Engineering
Robotics Integration
Controls & PLC
SCADA
Digital Twin
Industrial IoT
MES
Data & Analytics
Quality, Compliance & Assurance
Quality Engineering
Supplier Quality
AS9100 / IATF 16949
Metrology
Inspection
Root Cause Analysis
Product Assurance
Regulatory Compliance
NPI, Supply Chain & Operations
New Product Introduction
Industrialisation
Design for Manufacture
Supply Chain
Supplier Development
Production Planning
Operations Leadership
Roles & Capabilities We Recruit for

The people who make production possible.

From operations leadership to specialists commissioning production lines, these are the roles we recruit most often.

Executive & operations leadership
Operations Director
Manufacturing Director
Head of Industrialisation
Head of Quality
Head of Supply Chain
Plant Manager
COO
Programme Director
Manufacturing & process
Manufacturing Engineer
Process Engineer
Industrialisation Engineer
Tooling Engineer
Production Engineer
Lean Engineer
Continuous Improvement Engineer
Materials & specialist processes
Composites Engineer
Additive Manufacturing Engineer
Materials Engineer
Welding Engineer
Machining Specialist
Metallurgist
Surface Engineering Specialist
Automation & digital
Automation Engineer
Robotics Integration Engineer
Controls Engineer
PLC Engineer
MES Engineer
Digital Manufacturing Engineer
Industrial Data Engineer
Quality & assurance
Quality Engineer
Supplier Quality Engineer
Metrology Engineer
Inspection Lead
Product Assurance Engineer
Compliance Manager
NPI & supply chain
NPI Engineer
Design for Manufacture Engineer
Supply Chain Manager
Supplier Development Engineer
Production Planner
Programme Manager
Case Study

The Hire Behind Apollo's Compliance Function

Mass production, no in-house compliance function

Apollo was heading into mass production without in-house compliance capability. Apptronik needed one engineer to own RF, EMI and EMC strategy and build a test lab from scratch.

Problem
RF/EMI/EMC function
Founding Hire
Candidate Status
Passive, Off-market
Brief to candidate engaged
9 Days
Brief to accepted offer
4–5 Weeks

Searched beyond robotics

We went where the expertise already existed: consumer electronics.

Akkar engaged a passive senior specialist from audio manufacturing, and Apptronik shaped the role around his experience. We also coordinated his family's relocation to Austin.

Solution

"After 10 minutes on the phone Kris connected me with Apptronik, who were looking for, for lack of a better explanation, me. Every single aspect of their needs matched my skillset perfectly. This shows how well Kris was able to match skills, not just abilities, but the actual needs and wants of both parties. Akkar really matches skilled people with the right opportunities they will excel in."

Kenneth, Staff Electrical Test Engineer, RF/EMI/EMC, Apptronik

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Production doesn't stop at a border.

Akkar works with manufacturers across established and emerging industrial centres alike, wherever in the world the business is based.

West Coast, USA
Toronto, Canada
East Coast, USA
Munich, Germany
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Stockholm, Sweden
London, UK
Tokyo, Japan
Sydney, Australia

What stands between your product and repeatable production?

Tell us what needs to be built, at what scale and where the challenge sits. We'll help define the capability, find where it exists and build the connection.