Scottish Enterprise Awards 2025/ 24 Best Construction Recruitment Company 2025 Benefitting from more than 20 years’ worth of experience of building careers and teams in northern Scotland, Brian Paxton and the team at Paxton Personnel have a deep understanding of the local construction and engineering landscape. This expertise, coupled with the commitment to delivering a seamless recruitment service, ensures the right people find the right opportunities, every time. We find out more from Brian as the firm gains recognition in this year’s Scottish Enterprise Awards. Based in Inverness, Paxton Personnel is a construction and engineering recruitment company which specialises in supplying a full range of services, from temporary site trades and labour to director level permanent placements. Established by Brian Paxton, he has been a driving force in the construction supply chain and recruitment sector for more than two decades, building a reputation for reliability, outstanding service, and a genuine passion for helping others succeed. Today, Paxton Personnel operates as a team of four and thrives as a testament to Brian’s dedication to providing exceptional recruitment solutions. The firm has a reputation for excellence within the industry, and has built up trustworthy long-standing relationships with several major companies and has preferred supplier agreements (PSAs) supplying to major national brands, alongside local SMEs, applying the same level of professional service to all clients. Paxton Personnel prides itself on understanding its clients’ needs, along with its candidates’ skillsets, and being able to successfully match the two. This could be for any role - from a brush-hand on a building site to an Ops Director for a multi-million-pound organisation. “Our core values are based around service, service, service!” Brian tells us. “Not only to our clients, but to our candidates also. All too often in this industry you will hear agencies say they spend time on choosing the “right Candidate” when, in reality, we see a volume-based approach, which dilutes genuine service.” Currently, the appetite in Scotland is buoyant and Paxton Personnel is enjoying a busy period, driven by the renewable energy activity in the north of the country. SSE is funding a number of large projects which has a direct influence on the construction industry, and Paxton Personnel has diversified its offering to include driving and industrial supply as a result of this activity. With a close knit and dedicated small team behind the scenes, the overriding culture within Paxton Personnel is definitely one of togetherness and collaboration. Brian adds: “We are a close team with history - Michelle, Kirsty and I have worked together previously to me forming Paxton Personnel. Conner is the son of my oldest friend - in fact, I am Godfather to Conner’s daughter, Willow. We succeed as a team!” It is down to this aligned sense of teamwork, along with its dedication to the industry, that saw Paxton Personnel celebrate a recent win in the Scottish Enterprise Awards 2025 and collect the title of Best Construction Recruitment Company 2025 for its efforts. But what now for the ambitious entrepreneur and his company? “The future is growth!” enthuses Brian. “We have a couple of major projects to recruit for starting now for early 2026. This is exciting for us as some of this development has come from a site visit to Japan, and I am already looking at alternative office space to add more colleagues to the team, potentially in Glasgow or Edinburgh.” Contact: Brian Paxton Company: Paxton Personnel Web Address: www.paxtonpersonnel.co.uk AIS-Oct25343
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