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High-end Equipment / Heavy Machinery Executive Search

We deliver mission-critical C-suite & engineering leaders for global precision high-end equipment R&D, heavy machinery intelligent manufacturing, and large industrial equipment turnkey project delivery businesses.
High-end Equipment / Heavy Machinery

High-end intelligent equipment and heavy machinery underpin global advanced manufacturing, covering precision components, construction machinery, automated production lines and equipment after-sales services. Industrial localization upgrades and stricter machinery safety standards drive acute shortages of senior technical and management talent in hydraulic R&D, equipment commissioning, project tendering and cross-border asset operation. Traditional recruitment fails to engage passive top mechanical engineering specialists, hindering product iteration and domestic industrial equipment substitution.

FORESTOWN provides global senior talent consulting for High-end Equipment & Heavy Machinery, serving precision equipment groups, construction machinery OEMs, automation enterprises and cross-border engineering contractors. Our global network of pre-vetted mechanical engineering experts tracks heavy equipment R&D benchmarks and manufacturing talent mobility. We deliver full-cycle services: vertical talent mapping, technical competency appraisal, safety compliance audit and end-to-end onboarding, accelerating core team deployment and improving scenario-based talent matching.

As a trusted cross-border strategic talent partner for advanced manufacturing, we leverage in-depth industrial insights and global machinery supply chain resources to help clients build elite R&D, operational and global sales teams, resolving industry-wide high-end mechanical talent gaps. Our tailored executive talent solutions align with clients’ global factory layouts and intelligent upgrading roadmaps, driving high-precision, cross-border and scalable growth of the global high-end equipment and heavy machinery ecosystem.

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Industry Landscape

Intelligent digital transformation and global layout of High-end Equipment and Heavy Machinery industrial chain

Rapid iteration in intelligent construction machinery, precision semiconductor equipment, automated production lines and new energy special machinery

Intense competition for core component R&D, factory production management, large equipment project engineering and global channel operation executives

Growing demand for leaders with cross-border equipment base governance, machinery asset layout and industrial safety policy alignment

Our Expertise

Subsectors We Cover

1. Engineering Heavy Machinery: Excavation, Lifting, Road Construction & Mining Machinery
2. High-end Precision Intelligent Equipment, Industrial Automation & Customized Production Lines
3. Semiconductor Core Equipment, Vacuum & Ultra-precision Industrial Processing Equipment
4. New Energy Special Machinery, Environmental Protection Equipment & Industrial Robot Hardware
5. Large Equipment EPC, Machinery Leasing, On-site Commissioning & Full-cycle Aftermarket Services
6. Industrial Core Components, Hydraulic Parts, Transmission System & Equipment Safety Compliance

Key Roles We Place

1. CEO, COO, CTO, Chief Machinery Engineering Officer, Chief Global Project Officer
2. VP of Core Equipment R&D, Mechanical Structure Design & Prototype Iteration Management
3. VP of Machinery Factory Operation, Production Quality Control & Equipment Safety Supervision
4. VP of Global Equipment BD, Overseas Machinery Project & Cross-border Engineering Cooperation
5. Senior Director of Equipment Compliance, Cost Audit & Large-scale Project Delivery Management
6. Overseas Machinery Manufacturing Bases & Global Cross-border Heavy Equipment Project Leadership

Our advantage

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74 Countries

FORESTOWN is a professional company of global high-end talent search and enterprise consulting services. It has its own strong knowledge base and global talent knowledge network, and its business covers 74 countries such as America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

5000 + Cooperative Customers

The FORESTOWN serves 5000 customers in 74 countries, and more than 1000 customers have established long-term and stable human resources strategic partnerships to help domestic enterprises introduce overseas talents, and at the same time recommend domestic talents to develop overseas.

10 Working Languages

FORESTOWN consultant team comes from different industries and high cultural backgrounds from all over the world. 45% of professional consultants can work bilingually. The language types involve: Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish 10 languages.

Exclusive Talent Pool

The FORESTOWN exclusively develops and owns the advanced Pipeline management system in China's headhunting industry. So far, it has gathered nearly 10 million people engaged in management, marketing, investment, technology, finance, human resources and other occupations, which are widely distributed in the industry's high-end elites at the level of manager-level director and general manager.

Senior Advisory Team

The FORESTOWN has a number of professional consultants who have delivered more than one million and top experts who have delivered more than ten million. Thousands of hunting cases are successfully completed every year. The consultant team comes from different industries and high cultural backgrounds from all over the world, with bachelor to doctoral degrees.

24 Hour Service

The consultant teams of the three branches of the FORESTOWN can cross time zones, and the three time zones can continuously serve customers 24 hours a day, and fully guarantee the speed and quality of service results.

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Our Executive Search Process

Brief & Industry Analysis

Target Mapping & Talent Intelligence

Assessment & Technical Validation

Shortlist & Stakeholder Alignment

Onboarding & Retention Support

Success Stories

VP of Mechanical Engineering Hire for a Global Heavy Construction Machinery Enterprise

VP of Mechanical Engineering Hire for a Global Heavy Construction Machinery Enterprise

Client Industry High-end Equipment / Heavy Machinery Challenge Client faced critical gaps in hiring an executive engineering leader with deep large-scale heavy machinery structural design and equipment iteration expertise, with scarce senior cross-disciplinary equipment R&D talents in the market. Solution We executed a retained, cross-border executive search, leveraging our heavy machinery industrial C-level network to target and recruit qualified passive industry senior leaders. Result Successfully placed the ideal candidate in 9.4 weeks, aligning with the client’s high-end equipment localization upgrading roadmap, with a retention rate of 100% post-onboarding.

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