About us

The Hawkshead Team has over 30 years of Opencast Mining and Recruitment experience gained in Africa with a strong emphasis on South Africa, Sub Saharan Africa, North Africa, West Africa and the Middle East.

Our differentiator is that we have a carefully selected data base, developed through stringent criteria by seasoned mining executives, in terms of the skills required by individuals to perform their job function optimally.

We understand our clients company culture ensuring compatibility with their values, ethos, governance and ethics by potential candidates. 

Hawkshead is renowned for their research capabilities and through understanding of the opencast market in terms of clients and potential candidates in the African markets.

Our networking ability of our Southern Africa and African team of Associates is well known due to the individual’s holding senior management or consulting positions in mining in these markets.