We are a specialist warehouse and logistics recruitment agency supplying vetted temporary and permanent staff to small, medium and large businesses across the Midlands and South Yorkshire.
We can support your operations with flexible solutions tailored to your needs, whether that’s temporary cover, ongoing staffing, or temp-to-perm placements. Our temp-to-perm option is a popular choice with clients, giving you the opportunity to assess new hires in your environment over a probationary period—ensuring the right fit before making a long-term commitment. This approach reduces hiring risk, supports better retention, and gives you complete confidence when offering a permanent contract.
We place a vast majority of candidates into engineering roles. We have been recruiting in this sector for 20 years, working in partnership with a variety of companies from SME’s to large distribution centres, supporting for one off vacancies, dual supply with other agencies and sole supply agreements.
- Project Engineer
- Test Engineer
- Mechanical Engineer
- Electrical Engineer
- Systems Engineer
- Application Engineer
- Field Service Engineer
- Multi-Skilled Engineer
- Software Engineer
- Installation Engineer
- Technical Engineer
- Maintenance Engineer
- Cad Engineer
- Service Engineer
- Quality Engineer
Recruitment Solutions for Engineering
We take the time to truly understand your requirements. Our vetting process goes beyond the surface, with face-to-face interviews, in-depth exploration of work history and reference checks. We get to know the individual, ensuring not just the right skills, but the right cultural fit for your business. For more specialist roles, we can also carry out targeted CV searches to identify high-quality, skilled candidates who match your exact requirements.
Our temp-to-perm option gives you added confidence when making a permanent hire. It allows you to assess a candidate in the role over a probationary period to assess how they perform, integrate with your team and fit within your working environment. There’s no pressure to rush the decision; you can choose the right moment to offer a permanent contract when you’re confident they’re the right long-term fit.
If you need to scale your team for a short-term project, we offer the flexibility to bring in skilled support exactly when you need it. Whether it’s covering increased demand or delivering on a specific project, you can access experienced professionals without adding to your long-term fixed workforce costs – giving you the extra resource without the long-term commitment.
We can step in quickly to cover a single, unexpected vacancy, ensuring your operation continues to run smoothly without disruption, maintaining productivity and service levels while you plan a longer-term solution.
Our dual supply approach complements your existing agency, giving you additional flexibility and capacity during peak periods or fluctuating demand. This collaborative support helps reduce pressure on your core team.
By managing your entire staffing requirement, we act as your single, reliable point of contact for recruitment and workforce management. Sole supply improves consistency and ensures your operation benefits from an aligned partnership.
Why businesses choose Essential
“As the manufacturing manager of a dynamic and fast paced factory in the engineering sector, I have found the resource from Essential recruitment to be reliable, tenacious and extremely flexible.
The people they provide are eager to learn, have great work ethic and the attitude to fit straight into the team. In fact, the first temporary worker I met through Essential recruitment worked with us for 12 weeks. I have now employed him on a permanent contract!
This is a testament to the way they interview and select the candidates prior to placing them in the labour pool.“
Marcus D, Production Manager
“Barnsley have been brilliant at supporting our dynamic workforce and finding us temporary and skilled workers. The candidates they send to us have been assessed to ensure they are a good fit for the business and can quickly find a replacement if it doesn’t work out.
Thank you so much for all of your work and amazing service you provide and sticking with us through some quieter periods.“
Megan S, HR Representative
Locations
Our offices are located across South Yorkshire and the Midlands, giving us the ability to support operations across these regions and beyond. Our main areas of operation include:
FAQ Section
What checks does your compliance team cover?
Our team’s checks include right to work, visa expiry, modern slavery audits, forklift licence verification, young worker checks, 48 working hour checks and more. View the full compliance schedule here
What is involved in a candidate induction?
Each induction is tailored to you, which can include job details, accident reporting, fire procedure, health & safety, manual handling, company rules, PPE and more.
How do Temp to Perm contracts work?
Assess your new starter over a probation period of up to 26 weeks. During this time you can monitor the candidate’s work ethic and commitment to the role, see if they fit into the team and working environment and give you to flexibility to decide when the time is right for you to offer a permanent contract. If you decide you’d like to offer permanent employment the candidate will be transferred over to your company and we will be onsite to present them with a certificate of permanent employment.
How is candidate payroll processed?
All agency workers are paid weekly on a Friday via PAYE by our inhouse payroll team.
Which KPI's do you track?
We work to KPI parameters personalised to you and your areas of continuous improvement, this can include but not limited to:
- Shift fulfilment
- Staff turnover
- Quality of workforce
- No. of Timesheets
- Non conformances
Who do I speak to if I want to hire permanently not temporary?
For mid-high skilled roles, contact our Essential Professional team on 0333 99 66 988
