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Executive search for the metalcasting industry

We know foundries.

We have recruited across all disciplines in the metalcasting and related heavy industries for the past four decades. We are experts in our business and we understand your business processes, products, markets, competitors and opportunities. We work tirelessly to support the people we serve.

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Four DecadesExecutive/Management Search
OneMetals Manufacturing Only.
AllMetals and Processes
WorldwideNorth America and international

We aren’t a fit for those companies who seek talent that doesn’t have foundry or metals process, product and market experience. You can find those people on your own. What we do is work tirelessly to find unicorns, those exceptionally qualified candidates who live within commuting distance or who are willing to relocate for a good career opportunity.

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For employers

A short list that already understands your floor.

We know the materials, the processes, the day-to-day problems and the workplace cultures across every metalcasting specialization — from high-alloy aerospace investment casting to green sand jobbing gray iron, and everything between. We know your markets, your customers and your competitors, because we have worked this one industry and no other.

  • Searches for executives, plant managers, engineers and technical leaders
  • Straight answers on who is available and what the job should pay
  • We handle the approach, the negotiation and every step to the hire
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For candidates

We don’t send you jobs. We advise your career.

We have walked thousands of metalcasting professionals through the interview and hiring process. We know the key players, the news, the forecasts and the real health of the job market — so the conversation starts with where you want to end up, not with whatever opening happens to be sitting on our desk.

  • Completely free to you — the employer pays the fee
  • Roles worth leaving a good job for, not just roles that are open
  • Send a resume and salary requirements to join the talent pool
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The firm

Our founder poured metal before he placed people.

Before he was a recruiter, founder Greg Borchert worked a jobbing foundry as both a laborer and a supervisor. That is where the understanding came from — not from a database.

Borchert Associates is a management and executive search firm built for the metalcasting industry, nationally and internationally. Good foundry executives, managers, engineers and technical leaders get harder to find every year. Our decades in this industry, and a search process we have refined over all of them, are how we still find them.

A strategic partnership — not a resume service.

Coverage

Every foundry. Every metal. Every process.

A shop that pours one-off castings and a shop that pours ten thousand a day are two different businesses. We recruit for both — and for everything between.

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Investment casting, high-alloy and aerospace

Precision castings held to tight tolerance and full certification.

02

Green sand jobbing, gray iron

Short runs and constant changeover, where pattern knowledge decides the job.

03

High-volume automotive and unionized plants

Line speed, uptime, and leaders who can work a union floor.

04

Jobbing cope-and-drag operations

One-off and small-lot molding — a different discipline entirely.

05

Every metal, every molding process

Ferrous and non-ferrous, sand through permanent mold.

06

North America and internationally

Searches run at home and abroad, in the plants and at the top.

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Contact

Let’s talk about the search.

Filling a seat, or thinking about your next move — both conversations start the same way. Call a direct line, or send a note and we will come back to you.

Greg direct
214.783.7599
Colin direct
630.770.5723