5 Star Global Recruitment Partners

5 Star Global Recruitment Partners is a boutique executive search firm that places automotive and manufacturing professionals in direct-hire roles. Its work concentrates on exempt professionals, corporate leadership and plant management positions for Fortune 500 manufacturers, with placements spanning North America through Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers. The firm also recruits technical engineers and plant managers working on Connected Cars, Automated Drive, Shared Mobility and Electrification programmes.

The firm operates as a small team with more than 50 years of combined recruiting experience; each recruiter has over ten years in recruiting, human resources and automotive manufacturing. Its client base includes global OEMs among them Mercedes Benz, BMW, Volkswagen, Ford, General Motors, Fiat Chrysler, Hyundai, Honda, Kia, Toyota and Nissan, with work carried out across client offices and plants worldwide.

Beyond core search, 5 Star Global Recruitment Partners supports clients' diversity, equity and inclusion hiring initiatives, including women in manufacturing programmes. The company is a WBENC-certified Women's Business Enterprise and a minority woman-owned small business, and states that it identifies and recruits candidates irrespective of gender, race, religious beliefs, age, ethnicity or sexual orientation.