We're partner-led.
Our clients enjoy direct access to our founding partners and the sum of their knowledge and experience working with mining developers, operators, engineers, financers, and technology providers.
David Rempel
Partner | Linkedin →
A search industry “lifer” whose career began at a Bay St generalist agency in the mid-1990’s, Dave’s since worked with and for many of the world’s most prominent companies in the mining industry, developing a deep understanding of the unique talent issues in today’s volatile market, strong relationships with “A” players in every mining jurisdiction and vertical and a keen desire to evolve the conventional recruitment model. Dave directly oversees leadership and board advisory searches for key clients as well as providing high level strategic guidance to our entire portfolio of work.
Iain Dainter
Partner | Linkedin →
Iain brings some international flavour to our team. After obtaining an engineering degree and spending a few years as a pilot in the RAF, Iain started recruiting London’s late 1990’s tech boom. In the early 2000’s his role shifted to supporting aerospace engineering clients and their global projects. This included finding or relocating candidates for clients based in Europe, the USA, Canada, Brazil, South Africa, India, Australia, China and Japan. Given both his personal and professional experiences he is uniquely positioned to assist candidates and clients looking to pursue opportunities outside their own locale. Over the past several years his focus has shifted more towards the mining & minerals sector, supporting owners, operators and consulting companies in their search for top talent
Joseph Krengel
Partner | Linkedin →
Joe is our resident data, technology, and business intelligence specialist responsible for optimizing our overall delivery capacity. With over 15 years recruitment program development experience for small, specialized practices to large global Fortune 500 companies. Joe ensures we’re best equipped to provide the most effective, proactive, and timely solutions possible and to anticipate and respond to ever-changing client needs and market trends. Plutonic’s not-so-secret weapon.
Ajay Pathak
Partner | Linkedin →
For over 20 years, Ajay has been helping top consulting engineering firms and organizations in both the public and private sectors find solutions to their toughest hiring challenges. As Plutonic’s “Best Coast” connection, his focus is straightforward: i) to make our BC-based mining clients and candidates as happy as possible, and ii) to actively expand our services into the booming, mining-adjacent infrastructure and water sectors. Well-known across western Canada for his passionate, authentic, and genuine approach, Ajay has become a master at solving the “perfect fit” puzzle by understanding how his clients run, what their actual needs are and, in true partnership with hiring leadership, developing a plan for satisfying them.
Shane Parrish
Partner | Linkedin →
For the past 25 years, Shane has been dedicated to helping some of the world’s leading mining, engineering, and power companies overcome their most complex talent challenges. Well-known in our industry for his passion, creativity and unwavering integrity, Shane specializes in aligning “A” players with often life-changing opportunities, especially those where rare skill sets, and high expectations intersect. His passion for strategic thinking, innovation, and sweating the details drives his work for Plutonic, and plays a huge role in enhancing our suite of talent solutions and expanding our footprint.
Shane Parrish
Partner | Linkedin →
For the past 25 years, Shane has been dedicated to helping some of the world’s leading mining, engineering, and power companies overcome their most complex talent challenges. Well-known in our industry for his passion, creativity and unwavering integrity, Shane specializes in aligning “A” players with often life-changing opportunities, especially those where rare skill sets, and high expectations intersect. His passion for strategic thinking, innovation, and sweating the details drives his work for Plutonic, and plays a huge role in enhancing our suite of talent solutions and expanding our footprint.
We have an unwavering conviction that exceptional people have a transformative impact on our clients' bottom line.
Our values.
Our priority is delivering results while reducing pressure on your internal resources and fiercely protecting your brand and interests. We never over commit and if we touch it, we own it.
Some projects will be more challenging than others; some will not be possible. We will always provide honest, open, experience-driven insight even when you don’t want to hear it.
We take the initiative to develop strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels of your business as well as the talent community at large. We ensure that we know everyone worth knowing. We don’t wait for things to happen; we make them happen.
To best help you recruit, manage, develop and – critically – keep the talent you need to compete, all solutions we deliver are to the highest possible standards.
