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Rail Executive Search & Recruitment Specialists

The UK is the birthplace of the global rail industry, and since the privatization of British Rail in 1997, the sector has made enormous advances – regaining its place at the forefront of technical and engineering innovation.

Today, the UK rail industry employs over 200,000 people and facilitates more than 1.5 billion customer journeys each year - journeys that are safer, smoother and more reliable than ever before. Yet despite healthy investment and two decades of sustained growth, rail firms now face a complex web of challenges.

The industry’s senior executives must be able to balance growth and profitability, to efficiently manage large-scale infrastructure projects, and to maintain service levels in a climate of rising demand and growing costs. And recruiting leaders with the expertise and experience to tackle these issues requires the services of a specialist Rail executive recruitment company.

Stone Executive has been a leading player in executive-level Rail recruitment for many years. Our Rail executive recruitment practice boasts a network that spans rail operations, infrastructure, civil engineering, rolling stock manufacture and maintenance, and signalling & communications. And our specialist Rail executive headhunters have an outstanding track-record of helping clients to identify and attract the sector’s most talented and sought-after leaders. Our Rail executive search practice is supported by our wider transportation headhunting practice for functional and board level appointments. 

To learn more about our capabilities in Rail executive search, call our specialist team on 0800 130 3026.

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