Hawktillery

23/04/2026

Ever wondered what your technical skills are worth in the defence industry? 🤷

We built a free scan to help you find out in less than 5 minutes.

Fill it in and get a personal profile showing which roles in the Dutch defence sector match your background, and an honest indication of what you could earn. 💶

It's free. No job application. No obligations. Just useful insight about where you stand.

👉 Take the Defence Industry Scan here: https://www.hawktillery.com/candidates/dutch-defence-industry-scan/

23/04/2026

We're not a job board. We're not a recruitment agency either.
Hawktillery sits in between.

We actively recruit and screen technical professionals — machinists, welders, assembly workers, service technicians — and match them with employers in the Dutch defence industry based on skills, personality, and ambition.

For candidates: we help you discover where your skills fit, even if you've never considered the defence sector before.

For employers: we deliver pre-screened profiles, not a pile of CVs.

Learn more at hawktillery.com

23/04/2026

The defence industry is growing fast. The workforce isn't keeping up. 📈

In the Netherlands 🇳🇱 alone, over 180,000 people work in defence-related manufacturing. Budgets are rising. Orders are increasing.

But the engineers, welders, CNC operators and technicians needed to deliver? Increasingly hard to find. 🔍

At Hawktillery, we're building a smarter way to match technical talent with the companies that need them most before the gap gets wider.

Follow along as we share insights on the defence labour market, what it takes to attract technical talent, and what's changing in 2026.

23/04/2026

https://www.hawktillery.com/security-compliance/why-companies-invest-time-in-screening-and-vetting/3024/

In the aerospace and UAV sector, screening is not a formality. It is a risk-control measure. Companies screen people because the impact of the wrong…

23/04/2026

A CNC operator in the Dutch defence industry earns, on average, €300 to €800 more per month than a comparable operator in general metalworking or automotive manufacturing. At the senior level, with shift allowances included, that gap can exceed €1,000 per month. Over a working career, that difference compounds into something significant. Keep on reading, click the link to the blog

https://www.hawktillery.com/defence-recruitment/why-cnc-operators-in-defence-earn-more-than-you-think/3619/