With a strong focus on the Northwest, DATS Recruitment & CAD Services has almost 60 years' experience of partnering with UK engineering companies.

Within DATS Recruitment, our consultants are experts in their own specialist technical market, fulfilling our clients' contract and permanent roles at all levels, from Graduate to Director.

Our expertise lies in recruiting across the following disciplines:

- CAD/Revit/BIM Professionals;
- Process Engineering Professionals;
- Mechanical Design Engineers;
- EC&I Design Engineers;
- Civil & Structural Designers & Engineers;
- Engineering project support staff (Technical Authors, Document Controllers etc.).

It’s not easy to attract and retain the best engineering talent; when the time comes to add to your team, DATS is a specialist technical consultancy that genuinely knows its candidates, markets and clients. The fact we specialise in the Northwest means we have strong, longstanding relationships with the best candidates in the industry.


DATS CAD Services covers the length and breadth of the UK and our friendly, helpful team is always happy to visit our clients to review and understand their requirements. With no project too big or too small, we're flexible enough to help in difficult circumstances, such as tight deadlines or the project being on the wrong software package.

We've extensive knowledge and experience of the building services, R&D, scientific, production and process industries, meaning we're well placed to offer you innovative CAD solutions.

With a strong reputation for delivering projects accurately and on time for clients, we're particularly proud to continue to work with some of our original clients, from 50+ years ago, which have since become major international organisations.

DATS is ISO 9001:2015 compliant.