Industrial & Manufacturing Executive Search
Operators for the industrial businesses that quietly power the country.
The best industrial businesses in Australia are the ones you have not heard of. Family owned, regionally headquartered, exporting quietly, and led by operators who understand that the P&L is built one shift at a time.
Who we work with
The businesses that ring us
Owners, chairs and CEOs of manufacturers, industrial services businesses and hardware companies. $20M to $500M turnover. Multi-site, often multi-country, and ready for a leader who can grow the business without breaking what already works.
Searches we run
The roles we are trusted with in industrial & manufacturing
For founder succession or PE-driven acceleration in industrial businesses.
Full P&L leader for a plant, division or region.
Multi-plant operations, safety, quality, continuous improvement and capital projects.
Multi-disciplinary engineering leadership across electrical, mechanical, test and manufacturing.
Capex-heavy CFOs who understand plant economics, inventory, and long lead-time investment.
How we work in this sector
Industrial leadership is a discipline. It rewards operators who show up, listen to the shop floor, and improve the business one week at a time.
We know the operators who have done that in Australia, in India and across the US, because we spend our time in the same conversations. When you need a leader who can hold five teams across three countries accountable to the same standard, we know who to call.
Frequently asked
Questions founders ask us about industrial & manufacturing search
Lex Gordon Executive runs CEO, GM, COO and engineering leadership searches for privately held and PE-backed manufacturers and industrial businesses. We work across multi-site operators nationally and, where needed, across Australia, India and the US.
We map global engineering leadership from the roles up, not the resumes down. We start with the technical and cultural pattern the business actually needs, then find the operators who have run that pattern before at comparable scale.
Yes. COO search is one of our most common industrial searches. We understand the difference between an operator who has scaled an existing plant and one who has commissioned a new one, and we know which pattern you need.
Companies we have placed leadership into