IChemE and Adepto Technical Recruitment announce strategic partnership to build a future-ready workforce
8th December 2025
IChemE is delighted to announce a new strategic partnership with Adepto Technical Recruitment, a specialist technical recruitment consultancy serving global chemicals, life sciences, and highly regulated markets.
This collaboration marks an important step in supporting the chemical engineering profession and equipping it to engineer a sustainable world.
Through this partnership, IChemE and Adepto will work together to deliver impactful initiatives, including:
- professional learning for IChemE members on employability skills, mentoring, and compliance
- career development support, promoting professional registration and pathways for technicians, apprentices, and engineers
- joint engagement at IChemE events and conferences, sharing expertise and success stories across the profession.
By combining IChemE’s global network with Adepto’s recruitment expertise, this partnership will help create a more diverse, resilient, and future-ready workforce for the chemical and process industries.
Dr Rachel Bibby, IChemE Director of Member Experience and Knowledge, said: “This partnership reflects our shared commitment to supporting members and the wider profession with the skills and opportunities they need to thrive in a rapidly changing world.”
Lee Knowles, Director at Adepto Technical Recruitment, added: “We’re thrilled to partner with IChemE to help shape the future of chemical engineering talent. By combining our recruitment expertise with IChemE’s professional networks, we can provide engineers with the tools, knowledge, and opportunities they need to succeed and make a real impact.”
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Chemical, biochemical and process engineering is the application of science, mathematics and economics in the process of turning raw materials into everyday, and more specialist, products. Professional chemical engineers design, construct and manage process operations all over the world. Energy, pharmaceuticals, food and drink, synthetic fibres and clean drinking water are just some of the industry sectors and products where chemical engineering plays a central role.
IChemE
The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) advances chemical engineering's contribution for the benefit of society. We facilitate the development of chemical engineering professionals and provide connections to a powerful network of around 32,000 members in more than 100 countries.
We support our members in applying their expertise and experience to make an influential contribution to solving major global challenges, and are the only organisation permitted to award Chartered Chemical Engineer status and Professional Process Safety Engineer registration.