Birch Hill maintains a confidential network of Digital Thread professionals across the United States and Canada. Most are employed, performing well, and open to the right conversation and nothing less. Tell us what you need to hire and we will tell you honestly whether we can reach it.
We do not publish a browsable list of people. Specialists in this market will not allow their background to be posted publicly, and a recruiter who treats confidentiality casually stops being trusted with the good ones very quickly.
Instead, we hold the relationships. When you describe a role, we work from a current picture of who is doing that job well, who is reachable, and who has signalled they would listen. Where a professional has explicitly consented to being represented anonymously for a specific type of role, we present that profile directly to a matched employer.
We publish an anonymised profile here only when a professional has confirmed their qualifications with us, confirmed they are genuinely open, and given explicit consent to be listed. Anything short of all three stays off this page.
Four checks. A profile that fails any one of them is not published, regardless of how well it would fit an open search.
A direct conversation about what they actually built, configured or sold, not what a resume claims. Platform depth established specifically.
Confirmed currently and genuinely open, with a realistic timeframe. Re-confirmed before any introduction.
Explicit permission to be represented anonymously, for a defined type of role. Withdrawable at any time.
No name, employer or identifying detail published. Nothing shared with any employer without the candidate's agreement first.
The fastest route is a conversation. Describe the position, the platform, the environment and the constraints that are not in the job description, and we will tell you within a day whether this is a search we can run well. If it is outside what we genuinely cover, we will say so rather than take the assignment and learn on your time.
The platform and version, whether the work is configuration or customisation, the travel expectation, the compensation range you can actually approve, and what happened to the last person in the seat.
An honest read on whether the role is scoped to succeed, current market context from people we are speaking to now, and a shortlist screened against your criteria rather than a stack of resumes.
If you work in PLM, CAD, CAM, CAE, ALM or MES, we would like to know you before you need us. There is no fee to candidates, ever, and nothing you tell us reaches an employer without your explicit agreement first.
We want to understand what you have built and what you would move for. That is a call, not a form.
Most people in our network are never listed on this page. Listing is optional, anonymous, role-specific, and you can withdraw it at any time.
Including when the honest answer is that your target compensation is above what the market is currently paying for your profile, or that the role you are chasing is scoped badly.
We review a high volume of resumes in this niche. Whether or not we ever place you, we will tell you what is weakening yours.
Every search is run directly by Tim Lohse. No hand-offs, no junior sourcers, no resume dumps.
Replacing someone, or exploring a role you have not announced. Handled discreetly from first call.
Start a Confidential SearchAn open role you need filled with someone who contributes from day one.
Hire Digital Thread TalentA search that has stalled, or one other firms have returned nothing usable on.
Discuss a Hard-to-Fill RoleMarket intelligence, compensation reality and scoping. No obligation.
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