Our Team
Management & Leadership
A founder-led team of specialist recruiters who understand your industry because they work in it every day. No account managers who’ve never filled a role — just people who deliver.
Founder & Managing Director
Sebastian Harrison-Barratt
Sebastian founded HBG in 2018 after years inside large recruitment agencies where he saw the same problems repeated: slow response times, account managers who had never placed a candidate themselves, and a disconnect between the people selling the service and the people delivering it.
HBG was built to solve those problems from day one. The person who takes the job order is the same person who sources, screens, and presents the candidates. There is no hand-off, no lost context, and no excuses.
Today, Sebastian still recruits daily — personally managing key client relationships while overseeing national operations across five offices in Australia and New Zealand. He leads the technology and automation strategy that gives HBG its edge, and remains the driving force behind the company’s culture of speed, accountability, and quality.
Operations
The Engine Room
Behind every placement is an ops team making sure payroll, compliance, onboarding, and administration run without a hitch.
Will
Operations
Keeps the engine running behind the scenes. Manages operational workflows, compliance documentation, and ensures every placement is processed accurately and on time.
Taryn
Operations
Supports payroll coordination, candidate onboarding, and induction processing. Ensures every worker is set up correctly before they step on site.
Mary
Operations
Handles candidate administration, database management, and compliance tracking. Keeps HBG’s systems organised and up to date across all offices.
Recruitment
Specialist Recruiters, Not Generalists
Every consultant at HBG operates within a defined sector — building deep market knowledge and stronger relationships with hiring managers.
Ashleigh
Senior Recruitment Consultant
Specialises in permanent recruitment across construction and building services. Known for deep market knowledge and consistently strong placement rates across tier 1 and tier 2 contractors.
Brad
Senior Recruitment Consultant
Covers commercial construction and civil infrastructure recruitment. Trusted by clients for fast turnarounds and high-calibre shortlists on complex project-critical roles.
Jack
Recruitment Consultant
Focused on construction labour hire and trades recruitment. Works closely with site managers and project teams to ensure the right people are on site, every day.
Murray
Recruitment Consultant
Specialises in manufacturing, logistics, and warehousing recruitment. Brings strong candidate relationships and a deep understanding of supply chain workforce needs.
Scott
Recruitment Consultant
Covers residential construction and development recruitment. Focused on placing project managers, site supervisors, and trades across high-rise and boutique residential projects.
Aine
Recruitment Consultant
Works across permanent recruitment in construction and real estate development. Brings an international perspective and strong relationship-building skills to every search.
Charlie
Recruitment Consultant
Focused on traffic management and civil infrastructure labour hire. Manages high-volume workforce deployments across metro and regional sites.
Business Development
Growing the Pipeline
Our BDMs open doors and build the client relationships that keep the recruitment team busy.
Jerry
Business Development Manager
Drives new client acquisition and builds long-term partnerships across construction and trades. Focused on understanding client needs and matching them with HBG’s service offering.
Jo
Business Development Manager
Develops client relationships across manufacturing, logistics, and emerging sectors. Works closely with the recruitment team to ensure seamless handover from pipeline to placement.
Admin Support
Keeping It All Together
The admin team handles the detail work that makes everything else possible — from onboarding paperwork to compliance filing.
Mlla
Admin Support
Provides day-to-day administrative support across the business. Handles scheduling, document preparation, and internal coordination to keep the team running smoothly.
Jenne
Admin Support
Supports candidate onboarding paperwork, compliance filing, and general office administration. Ensures nothing falls through the cracks across all offices.
Our Culture
Built by Recruiters, for Recruiters
HBG doesn’t operate like a traditional recruitment agency. There are no layers of middle management, no KPI spreadsheets that value activity over outcomes, and no account managers who have never filled a role.
Every person on the team is a specialist in their sector. They run their own desk, build their own relationships, and are rewarded directly for the results they deliver — with uncapped commission up to 50% and genuine autonomy over how they work.
The Managing Director still recruits every day. That sets the tone for the entire business: leadership is earned by doing the work, not by delegating it. When you call HBG, you speak to someone who understands your industry because they recruit in it — not someone reading from a script.