The automation recruiter who has actually run the plant

Industrial automation is the one field where a polished CV tells you almost nothing. A generalist, multi-industry HR consultancy can match keywords — "PLC", "SCADA", "5 years" — but it has never read a P&ID, tuned a loop, or sat through a SAT. So it can't tell whether a candidate actually commissioned the system or just listed it.

That gap is expensive. A wrong technical hire on a live plant costs 30%+ of first-year salary at minimum — far more once slipped timelines and re-hiring are counted. Specialist screening isn't a nice-to-have; it's the whole point of using an agency.

Talent Vertex Partners is founder-led by Rupin Joshi, who spent over a decade on the plant floor and in the control room — including as an Energy Automation specialist at Schneider Electric — before recruiting for it. That's why TVP screens differently: we've read the P&IDs, tuned the loops and sat through the SATs, so we can tell a capable control-systems engineer from a risky one — something a keyword search never will.

Use the same desk for the market read, too: our India Automation Skills Demand Index tracks what's in demand weekly, and our salary guide benchmarks what these roles pay.