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Meet the Team

Matt Donnelly

Matt Donnelly

Managing Director

Matt is a highly energetic and motivated recruitment professional with over 15 years of experience in New Zealand UK & Germany. He spent 11 years at a Global Real Estate recruitment firm in consultant and leadership positions, and has successfully led and grown teams recruiting across Construction, Property, Engineering, and Legal s...

Rachel McNickle

Rachel McNickle

Managing Director

Rachel is the Joint Managing Director of Assemble and leads the Construction recruitment team across New Zealand. With over fifteen years of experience, she is a strategic force in the industry, specialising in all levels of appointments across Commercial and Client-side Construction. Her recruitment expertise ...

Amy Walker

Amy Walker

Head of South Island

Amy has dedicated the past decade-plus to managing and leading recruitment teams specialising in Property, Construction and Infrastructure across New Zealand, Australia, and Asia. Her journey began with a Property Development stint in Melbourne after graduating from Auckland University of Technology, before transitioning into Recruitmen...

Matt Webster

Matt Webster

Manager - Commercial Real Estate

​Matt Webster is the Manager of Assemble's Commercial Real Estate business. With 17 years of professional sales experience, including 8 years specifically in property recruitment within the New Zealand market, Matt combines a highly tuned relationship-building skillset, excellent technical understanding, and deep networks across the commercia...

Sam Calvert

Sam Calvert

Principal Consultant

Sam is your go-to recruiter for all things construction. Since joining Assemble in 2017, she’s been on a mission to connect talented candidates with passionate clients in project management, quantity surveying, building surveying, and planning. Sam thrives on creating career-defining connections that truly make a difference. ...

Olivia Langford-Lee

Olivia Langford-Lee

Senior Consultant

Olivia brings a dynamic background to construction recruitment, with experience spanning journalism, broadcast television, and large-scale development projects. During her four years in Fiji, Olivia worked on a $500M private island and marina development for a New Zealand company, featuring 60 sites, 20 luxury homes valued at $4M+, the award-...

Hugh Miller

Hugh Miller

Senior Consultant

Hugh joined the Assemble team after working in land acquisition for one of New Zealand’s largest residential property developers. Prior to that, he was based in Melbourne where he recruited software engineers. Hugh has successfully relaunched Assemble’s Engineering sector with a strong focus on Land Development. He has a genuine passio...

Olivia Davis

Olivia Davis

Senior Consultant

Olivia brings over seven years of experience in recruitment to the team, with a diverse background spanning both New Zealand and London. Before stepping into recruitment, she began her career in teaching and working within schools, focusing on work choice and early careers. This foundation has equipped her with strong communication and ...

Johnny O’Rourke

Johnny O’Rourke

Senior Consultant

​Johnny is a Senior Recruitment Consultant specialising in civil construction recruitment. With over seven years in the industry and valuable experience in both in-house and agency roles, he works across commercial and client-side civil construction placements.His background in internal recruitment gives him practical ins...

Courtney Townsend

Courtney Townsend

Consultant

​Courtney is dedicated to helping individuals and organisations achieve success by effectively matching top talent with leading companies. She excels in building collaborative partnerships and takes a strategic approach to understanding the unique motivations of both clients and candidates.<...

Max Peterson

Max Peterson

Consultant

​Max joins Assemble after 2 years within Commercial Property recruitment, having also spent some time as a Licensed Real Estate Agent, showing a keen passion for excellence within the real estate sales environment. With a conjoint degree in Property and Commerce from the University of Auckland, M...

Guy Davidson

Guy Davidson

Director

​Guy has been working in recruitment since 2007 when he joined Cobalt Recruitment in London. In 2009 he set Cobalt up in New Zealand where he ran it for the UK based group business until July 2020 at which point he bought the NZ business interests from the group. He is now Director/Co-Owner of three high performing specialist recruitment busi...

Kimberly Champion

Kimberly Champion

Group Operations Manager

Kimberly has over a decade of operations management experience working with a range of different NZ businesses. Since entering into the recruitment industry back in 2016, she is now providing Group Operations Management for Assemble and two other specialised recruitment brands. She is absol...