​Matt is one of our Lead consultants in  the highways, transport & infrastructure team. He is responsible for working with our specialist clients in the highways contractor and local authority market, focusing on finding his candidates freelance and temporary work. With nearly a decade of experience behind him, Matt is already well known in the industry and having worked with so many highway’s professionals, has managed to build a reputation for being knowledgeable about the market and provides a consistent and reliable service to clients and candidates.

Matt has been passionate about introducing people to their new careers for a long time having worked as a recruitment consultant for a global agency prior to joining us, where he recruited into the broader, civil engineering market. Since he has started at Carrington West in 2014, Matt’s genuine interest and niche expertise of the highways industry has helped him to make some brilliant connections, introducing many people within the industry and helped forge some excellent relationships between our clients and the job-seekers we represent. He is also an MREC CertRP.

Prior to becoming a recruiter, Matt used to be an on-site carpenter in the home building and commercial sector, where he found his interest in construction and engineering. His dealings with recruiters at this time is what made him decide working for a staffing agency was something he wanted to do. Outside of work Matt likes to DJ, he is a dog lover, proud dad, and a self-confessed car geek.