Aerospace & Defense Practice

Aerospace / Aviation / Defense / Space & Cyber Technology

The Aerospace & Defense sector is experiencing significant growth, driven by advancements in technology and increased government investments. This expansion has heightened the demand for specialized talent, particularly in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, and space technologies.


TriSearch’s Aerospace & Defense sourcing and recruiting teams are experts in the market, delivering hard to find, passive candidates to our client partners. 

Talent Research, Recruiting & Assessment Expertise

Highly Customizable Solutions

Dedicated Sourcing & Recruiting team, and strategic Program Manager 

Proven, Transparent Results

Dedicated TriSearch Team provides weekly reporting analytics and metric tracking updates for full transparency

Volume-Based Pricing

We have skin in the game (our fees are performance-based) and we stick with you until the search is complete

We Stand Behind Our Work

Long candidate guarantees. If the candidate quits or you release them from services, we will backfill the position without an additional fee


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Peter Cleary

Head of Aerospace & Defense Practice

As TriSearch’s Aerospace & Defense Practice Leader, Peter Cleary has developed an innate ability to match the right leadership talent to current and future business needs by sourcing top industry leaders who align with the business philosophy, organizational direction, and company culture.

Throughout Peter’s 20-year recruiting career, he’s assembled some of the best leadership teams in the world, built out entire companies, and defined talent strategies that prepared organizations for ongoing success. As a strategic partner to senior leadership, Peter provides valuable insights into AI in recruitment, virtual assessments, and succession planning, and advise on executive compensation, employment contracts, organizational development, employer branding, and corporate hiring strategies.


A master networker, name generator, and connector of people, Peter understands the nuances of placing the right candidates in difficult to fill leadership roles. Peter easily navigates the talent challenges in today’s post-pandemic multigenerational workplace, which are further complicated by geopolitical and economic uncertainty. He coordinates the many moving pieces and balances competing priorities to enable organizations to attract and retain top talent.

As a strategic partner to senior leadership, he provides valuable insights into AI in recruitment, virtual assessments, and succession planning, and advises on executive compensation, employment contracts, organizational development, employer branding, and corporate hiring strategies.

Leading as a player/coach, Peter builds agile recruiting teams that outperform ambitious hiring goals while managing a heavy search load. He's directed top performing teams in 200+ global sites, and enjoyed mentoring people throughout their careers, improving recruitment KPIs across the board, from diversity and quality of hires, to time to fill and cost per hire.

Three accomplishments of which Peter's especially proud:

► Placing extremely talented leaders into roles that have launched and re-engineered organizations, adding millions of dollars in revenue to the top line.

► Saving millions of dollars in search fees by reducing dependence on external search firms. Bringing recruiting in-house also reduced employee turnover.

► Developing the next generation of talent acquisition professionals.

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