Engineering and technical recruitment in Liverpool

YP Recruitment is a specialist engineering and technical recruitment agency placing engineers and technical professionals across Liverpool and Merseyside. We cover engineering, manufacturing, construction, property services, technical sales, and executive leadership roles across the city region. Liverpool's process, chemical, and construction sectors drive consistent demand for skilled technical professionals.

The Liverpool engineering and technical market

Liverpool and Merseyside have one of the UK's strongest concentrations of process, chemical, and manufacturing engineering talent. The Mersey Estuary industrial zone and Halton corridor host chemical manufacturing and process engineering operations. The Port of Liverpool and Seaforth Dock expansion continue to generate demand for mechanical, structural, and civil engineers.

The Knowledge Quarter around the Royal Liverpool Hospital is building a life sciences and med-tech cluster. The city is also a growing construction market, with waterfront regeneration, Liverpool Waters, and housing infrastructure projects sustaining demand for civil engineers and project management professionals.

Speke and Knowsley maintain pharmaceutical and food manufacturing clusters that employ production managers, quality engineers, and maintenance engineers. The Wirral peninsula adds further manufacturing depth across automotive components and general engineering.

Roles we place in Liverpool

We recruit process engineers, chemical engineers, mechanical engineers, site managers, project managers, production managers, maintenance engineers, and technical sales engineers across Liverpool. Process and chemical engineers earn £40,000 to £55,000 at mid-level. Senior civil and structural engineers achieve £53,000 to £68,000. Site managers earn £47,000 to £63,000. For a detailed breakdown, use our salary checker.

Key employers

Major technical employers in the Liverpool city region include Unilever, Ineos, Essar Oil UK, Peel Ports, and a wide supply chain of chemical processing and manufacturing businesses in the Mersey Estuary. Several national construction contractors maintain regional offices in Liverpool serving the North West and North Wales markets.

Sectors we cover in Liverpool

Our engineering recruitment team in Liverpool covers process, chemical, mechanical, and civil engineering roles. Our construction recruitment specialists work with contractors and consultancies across Merseyside. We also cover manufacturing, property services, technical sales, and executive and leadership appointments.

Browse Liverpool roles

View current engineering and technical jobs in Liverpool, or register your CV to hear about roles before they are advertised. Employers looking to hire in Liverpool can learn how we work or get in touch directly.

Liverpool sits within our North West region, where we cover all major cities from Manchester to Preston and across to Warrington.