EXPERIENCE
Agro × Industry × Energy
EDF × Safran × INRAE
DEGREES
Industry × Agro
Mines × AgroParisTech
SUCCESS
120 missions analysed
2023‑2025 · documented scope
ONBOARDING
Structured onboarding
First 90 days
Success
120 missions analysed
Google rating
108 reviews
Onboarding
Day 7 to day 90
Waste-to-energy plants, biomass power stations, refuse-derived-fuel cogeneration, anaerobic digestion and district heating networks share the same constraint: a handful of qualified people in the whole country, most of them already employed and never on a job board. We know them, we have placed many of them, and we know which sites they would move for.
Plant directors, operations managers, process and maintenance leads for waste-to-energy plants — grate furnaces, boilers, turbines, flue-gas treatment.
Biomass boiler houses, CHP plants and SRF cogeneration units: from shift leaders to site directors, including the first-of-a-kind projects.
Continuous-process sites in rural areas, 5-shift rotas, on-call duty: profiles that a generalist search cannot reach.
Decarbonisation directors, energy managers, ISO 50001 leads and process engineers who make an industrial site cheaper to run and cleaner to operate.
Plant directors, production, maintenance, quality and HSE managers across aerospace, defence, nuclear, chemicals and heavy industry.
Florian Beurtey trained at Mines Saint-Étienne and AgroParisTech and worked ten years at EDF, Safran and INRAE before moving into executive search. Technical interviews are real interviews.
Most of the people we place were not looking. We map the sites, the ecosystems and the competitors, then approach the right people one by one.
First qualified candidates within two to three weeks, full process in six to ten. You see the market as it is, in writing, before deciding.
A search is finished when the person is performing, not when the contract is signed. We stay involved through the first ninety days.
Full staffing of a biomass energy plant supplying an industrial site, from shift leaders to management, within the construction schedule.
A first-of-a-kind plant, a new site, a profile that did not exist locally. Direct approach across the national pool and relocation handled from day one.
Two leadership positions on a plant where previous searches had run dry. Mapping of every EfW ecosystem in the country and a written market read for the client.
One working session with the hiring executive. We leave with a scorecard and a written view of the market: who exists, where, at what salary.
Target sites and companies are mapped; profiles are approached directly, across LinkedIn, e-mail and phone. No job board, no waiting.
Two to three weeks later you receive a shortlist with technical assessments, motivation and salary expectations, black on white.
We handle negotiation and notice period, then follow the first ninety days with the candidate and the manager.
A growing share of our clients are subsidiaries of international groups running plants in France, or French groups expanding abroad. We work in French and English, brief the group HR and the local site with the same document, and adapt the process to your governance. If you need a site director for a plant in France and your decision-makers sit in Madrid, Milan or London, this is exactly the situation we handle.
A 30-minute call is enough to tell you, honestly, whether the market can deliver what you need, in what time and at what salary.
