SCHERER Ingenieure

What SCHERER Ingenieure does

SCHERER Ingenieure is a Nürnberg-headquartered, privately held staffing and recruitment agency founded in 2002 that places engineering, IT, scientific, technical, and economics professionals with client companies in the DACH region. Its core product is a multi-channel placement service delivered through three employment models: permanent placement (Festanstellung), temporary labor under Arbeitnehmerüberlassung, and freelance project contracting. The firm operates a job search portal with multi-application (Multibewerbung) functionality and database-driven keyword matching to align candidate profiles with client requirements, and provides structured candidate support including interview preparation and feedback loops.

The business model is professional services revenue derived from client companies seeking specialized engineering and IT talent. Pricing is quote-based rather than publicly disclosed. Customers span four horizontal segments — Engineering/Manufacturing (primary, including Siemens AG and an automotive joint venture), Healthcare/Medical Technology (Siemens Healthcare GmbH), Building Technology, and IT — addressing pain points around specialist talent scarcity and project-based workforce flexibility. The firm is a member of Bundesarbeitgeberverband, enabling tariff-based employment contracts for its temporary labor business.

The firm has 51–100 internal employees and operates across all 16 German federal states plus Austria and Switzerland. Its go-to-market is sales-led: direct placement to enterprise clients supplemented by framework-contract-based freelancer engagement. Marketing is concentrated on the company website and unsolicited applications (Initiativbewerbung), with no disclosed social, paid, or partner channel activity. No funding rounds, M&A, or leadership changes are disclosed; the firm remains privately held under independent ownership.

Name

SCHERER Ingenieure

Legal name

SCHERER Ingenieure

Website

https://scherer-ingenieure.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

SCHERER Ingenieure is a Nürnberg-based, privately held staffing agency founded in 2002 that places engineering, IT, and technical professionals with enterprise clients in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland via permanent, temporary, and freelance arrangements.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Engineering & IT Staffing Services

NAICS

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (54)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Professional & Technical Direct Hire (IT, Engineering, Finance, Healthcare) (BPACAFAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Agent of Record (AOR) for Staffing & Payrolling (BPACAHAF), Agent of Record (AOR) / Contractor Engagement Services (BPACAGAB), Remote & Global/Multilingual Direct Hire (BPACAFAO)

Keywords

• Engineering staffing services
• IT recruitment agency
• Technical talent placement
• Temporary workforce solutions
• Permanent placement services

Headquarters

HQ city

Nürnberg

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Staffing and Recruitment Services: The company generates revenue through placement fees for matching qualified engineering and IT professionals with client companies. They offer permanent placement (Festanstellung), temporary labor (Arbeitnehmerüberlassung), and freelance project arrangements (freies Projekt). Revenue is derived from client companies seeking engineering and IT talent.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

SCHERER Ingenieure is a specialized staffing and recruitment agency that places engineers, IT specialists, scientists, technicians, economists, and project assistants with client companies across the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). The firm offers three employment arrangements — permanent placement (Festanstellung), temporary labor leasing (Arbeitnehmerüberlassung), and freelance project work — and matches candidates to openings through a database-driven keyword search portal with multi-application functionality.

Product overview

SCHERER Ingenieure is a specialized staffing and recruitment agency for engineering, IT, and technical professionals. They operate a job search platform with multi-application functionality and matching technology to connect qualified candidates with client companies across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Their services include direct placement, temporary staffing (Arbeitnehmerüberlassung), and freelance project placement.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Permanent Placement (Festanstellung) Direct-hire recruitment service that places qualified engineers, IT specialists, scientists, technicians, and economists into permanent positions at client companies across the DACH region. Contract-to-permanent conversions following temporary or freelance engagements are a common outcome.
• Temporary Staffing (Arbeitnehmerüberlassung) Workforce leasing service under German temporary employment law (Arbeitnehmerüberlassung), placing engineers and IT professionals at client companies on temporary assignments under Bundestarif-based contracts via Bundesarbeitgeberverband membership.
• Freelance Project Placement (Freies Projekt) Project-based placement of freelance engineers and IT specialists via framework contracts with individual project agreements. Work can be performed at SCHERER offices, the freelancer's location, or the client site.
• Engineering & IT Job Search Portal Public-facing web portal (schererstaff.ing / scherer-ingenieure.de) hosting open engineering and IT job listings with filters for work model (full-time, part-time, freelance), work form (onsite, remote, hybrid), industry, German state, qualification, and postal code. Includes multi-application capability allowing a single candidate submission to apply to multiple matching positions.
• Initiativbewerbung (Speculative Application Service) Service channel for candidates to submit unsolicited applications, which SCHERER Ingenieure then matches against its network of open positions and client requirements rather than against a single advertised role.

Quantifiable outcome

• High client satisfaction with multiple testimonial quotes praising employee performance, quick onboarding, and recruitment quality

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• GULP (Randstad Subsidiary): GULP is Germany's leading freelance and project-placement platform for IT and engineering professionals, an incumbent owned by Randstad that competes head-on with SCHERER's freie Projekt / contractor placement line across the DACH market.
• Brunel: Brunel is a global engineering staffing and project-services specialist with a deep presence in Germany and the DACH region, focused on placing engineers and technical specialists into energy, rail, and industrial clients — a near-identical service offering to SCHERER Ingenieure.
• Persona Service Holding SE: Persona Service is one of Germany's largest staffing groups, offering direct hire, temporary staffing (Arbeitnehmerüberlassung), and on-site workforce management — a directly comparable staffing-model competitor in the same German regulatory environment.
• DIS AG (part of Adecco Group): DIS AG is one of Germany's leading technical-staffing firms, specializing in engineering, IT, and science placements across permanent, temporary, and freelance models — directly comparable service mix, geography, and target talent pool to SCHERER.
• PageGroup (Michael Page / Page Personnel): PageGroup operates dedicated DACH divisions (Michael Page for engineering/IT permanent and contract placement; Page Personnel for support roles), targeting the same mid-to-senior engineering and technical professionals that SCHERER recruits.
• Technicum (RGF Staffing): Technicum is a Germany-based engineering and technical staffing specialist under RGF Staffing, focusing on mechanical, electrical, and industrial engineering — directly overlapping SCHERER's engineering temp and direct-hire offerings.
• Hays: Hays is one of the largest global specialists in recruitment of engineering, IT, and life-sciences professionals and operates a dedicated DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) business that directly overlaps SCHERER's core service lines and customer segments.

Broad incumbents

• Robert Half: Robert Half is a global professional-staffing incumbent that, while historically finance-and-accounting focused, has expanded in DACH into IT and engineering — a broader incumbent that overlaps with SCHERER's IT and engineering placement services.
• Randstad Germany: Randstad is a global staffing incumbent with full DACH operations covering engineering, IT, and technical placement — a broad incumbent whose engineering and IT business lines are comparable to SCHERER's core segments, though at materially larger scale.

Emerging players

• Honeypot (Honeypot GmbH): Honeypot is a Berlin-based tech-talent marketplace focused on engineers, developers, and data professionals in the DACH market — a tech-enabled emerging player whose candidate-pool and IT scope partially overlaps with SCHERER's IT candidate segment.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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