United States · fully remote · commission-based · independent contractor agreement

Larouche Raymond is an executive search firm specialising in engineering, construction and industrial manufacturing. We place engineers, production directors and technical executives across the United States and Canada, from offices in New York, Montreal and Mississauga. We are opening one partnership agreement for the United States. The Northeast is where the work is thickest right now — the Nashua–Manchester corridor, greater New England, and the defense and aerospace base anchored there — but where you are based inside the country is up to you, and the territory follows the person.

Why now

Tariffs are pushing manufacturing capacity back onto domestic soil, and it lands hardest where the industrial base already exists. Companies expanding US production are hiring process, manufacturing and quality engineers faster than they can find them, in markets where the talent pool was already tight before any of this started. That is a search problem, not a posting problem. It is also the reason a firm that works both sides of the border has something a domestic competitor does not.

What you do

You open doors. You know the plant managers, the VPs of engineering and the owners in your market — which ones are hiring, which ones are losing people, which ones are about to restructure because their cost base just moved. You qualify the need, you bring us the mandate, and you stay in the relationship while we run the search.

What you do not do: recruit

No evenings on LinkedIn. No résumé screening. No interviews. Sourcing, assessment, candidate presentation and follow-through to hire are handled in-house by our team and our platform. You open the door; we deliver behind you. This is the manufacturers’ rep model applied to technical talent: your territory, your network, your method, our production.

Two ways to work, and you choose

Collaborator — 10%

You keep your current work and bring us business when it crosses your path. You earn 10% of all fees we bill to the clients you introduce, for twelve months from that client’s first mandate. No quota, no minimum, no obligation to bring a second one.

Partner — 25%

You commit your territory to us exclusively and make this your line of business. You earn 25% of all fees we bill to the clients you bring, for twelve months from each client’s first mandate. The higher rate is what an exclusive commitment is worth to us, and it is the same rate whether you close two clients or twenty. You can start as a Collaborator and move to Partner. Nobody has ever gone the other way and been thought less of for it.

How you are paid

Our fees are invoiced to the client on the candidate’s start date, and you are paid as soon as the client pays us. Not sixty days later. Not next quarter. In an industry where commission routinely lands a quarter after the work, this is the part people check first — so check it. You also receive a copy of every invoice we send to a client you brought. You are never calculating your commission from someone else’s summary of what was billed. There is no cap and there is no base.

What you get

A name that opens the room, and a border competitors cannot cross We are a specialist engineering and industrial firm working both the US and Canadian markets. When a client’s search stalls domestically, you are not out of options — and that is a conversation your competitors cannot have.
A portal with everything in it You see your referred clients, the live status of every mandate, every candidate stage, and every commission owed and paid — in real time, without asking anyone. Full transparency here is not a promise, it is a screen you log into. You will never have to wonder what happened to a client you introduced.
Market intelligence you cannot buy alone We run LinkedIn Talent Insights and produce mapping on the markets we work. You get the reports for your territory: who is growing, who is bleeding people, what compensation actually looks like right now. That is what turns a cold call into a conversation an owner wants to have.
Marketing that works while you sleep Our content and presence in this sector run continuously. You get the assets, the material, and our support building your own presence on the back of it — so the market knows your name before you dial it.
A demonstration pack that closes Process, assessment methodology, ranking report, candidate dossier — a full set showing a client exactly what they will receive, in the first meeting. You do not have to describe our work. You show it.
A six-month replacement guarantee behind every placement, so you have something solid to stand on when a client asks what happens if it goes wrong.

Who this is for

A semi-retired plant director who knows everyone in his corridor. A manufacturers’ rep already carrying industrial lines who wants to add one that requires no inventory and no receivables. A sales engineer with fifteen years of relationships in a single sector. An industrial consultant whose clients keep asking whether he knows someone good.

Who this is not for

Anyone looking for a salary, a schedule, or a territory to build from nothing. This partnership pays for a network that already exists, not for the patience to create one.

The arrangement

This is a commercial agreement between independent businesses. You work on your own schedule and by your own method, you carry your own costs, and you invoice your commissions on a 1099 basis. We set no hours, no quota and no weekly report. The Partner tier asks for exclusivity in your territory — not for your calendar.

To start the conversation

Write to elarouche@laroucheraymond.com with a note on your territory and the kind of companies you know. Tell us which of the two arrangements interests you, or ask. We answer everyone.