Total Labor Support Services

What is Total Labor Support ^sm ?
As a Construction Labor Support company, we go well beyond delivering high-caliber skilled craftsmen when you need them. While variable labor is our core business, our main goal is to form genuine partnerships with our clients so we can effectively assist each in improving their overall labor productivity.

We do so by providing Total Labor Support ^sm services that, in conjunction with our variable skilled labor, have proven to assist contractors nationwide in reducing their annual labor expenditures an average 22%.

Our Total Labor Support services include:

• Labor Productivity Consulting Services
• Staffing Services including:
  • Localized Craftsmen for All Trades
  • PSG: Industrial Traveling Workforce
  •  Marine-Dedicated Workforce
• NCCER Skill Assessment Testing
• Construction Craft Academy Skill Training
• OSHA Compliant Safety Training

What Benefits will Total Labor Support Afford You?

• Substantially reduced overall labor costs (fixed plus variable)
• Greatly improved worker productivity per dollar of labor costs
• Increased profits per job
• Reduced unemployment and W/C costs and liability
• Minimized overtime expenses
• Reduced costs and time spent on payroll and payroll administration, recruitment, advertising, etc.
• Immediate, hassle-free access to reliable, high-caliber craftsmen when you need them, anywhere in the country
• Ability to bid on more jobs and jobs of all sizes
• A single source contact for comprehensive labor expertise
• Safer working conditions; reduced OSHA citation exposure
  

Executive Summaries for Primary Service Areas:

Working closely with clients to improve their workforce productivity is our primary objective.

All our District Managers and Field Representatives partake in on-going “Construction Labor Management” (CLM) training administered at the company’s Tradesmen Education Center in Macedonia, Ohio. The training uses a proprietary labor-oriented curriculum that combines in-depth classroom instruction with role playing and real world problem solving. The program prepares Tradesmen personnel to understand all aspects of labor management, labor issues confronting construction management and specific methods whereby Tradesmen International can solve your varied labor needs or quandaries. Each employee must successfully complete four levels of intense training to achieve certification as a Labor Productivity Consultant.

Educating our people to understand your business, to help you logically determine the optimal level of fixed labor costs balanced with a variable labor cost, is what entirely differentiates Tradesmen International from pure staffing or temporary agencies. The consistent result is improved labor productivity, reduced labor costs and increased profit margins per job for small to exceptionally large construction and industrial concerns.

More information on our Labor Productivity Consulting services is available through our District Managers at all our local offices.

We support your construction labor needs through our Local Staffing Service, Traveling Industrial Workforce and our Marine-Dedicated Workforce.

While timely delivery of reliable, skilled craftsmen – in all trades at all skill levels – is our core business, we are clearly not a temp agency. Unlike other staffing, day labor or employment services, we have an advanced Hiring and Labor Management Process that includes:

• Construction Recruitment Specialists comprised of professionals with a minimum 8 years construction experience
• Stricter Hiring Process including structured interviews, hands-on skill testing, NCCER skill
  assessment testing, background checks and a minimum of three reference checks, etc.
• 10-Hour OSHA Compliant Safety Training as a “condition of hire”
• Construction Craft Academy Skill Training available at substantial discounts for all
  our employees nationwide
• Jobsite Visits by Our Field Representatives to ensure our employees are as
  productive as possible
• Jobsite Visits by Our Safety Specialists to help ensure safer working environments
• Monthly Evaluations of Our Craftsmen based upon work performance, skill growth
  and client interviews

In addition, we foster long-term relationships with our personnel by investing in each with:

• An Exceptional Benefits Package Including Healthcare, Dental, Vacation Pay, 401(k), etc.
• Competitive Wages Corresponding to Skill Level
• Jobsite Specific Safety Training
• Corporate Incentives, Employee Appreciation Events, and more.

What this means to you is, we have a solid force of experienced and reliable craftsmen in all trades who show up at your jobsite prepared to complete your project on time, with pride and with safety on their minds.

Quality skilled craftsmen can be obtained at all our local offices. For craftsmen needed
outside our local office areas—anywhere in America—call our Project Support Group at 800.573.0850.

Tradesmen is a partnering sponsor of the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER). We currently offer skill assessments and task evaluations for many trades from electrical and carpentry to boilermaker and painting at many Tradesmen offices.

Our NCCER skill assessments provide craftsmen and employers a legitimate measurement of individual proficiency based on a standardized, nationally accredited competency-based curriculum. For the benefit of all who employ or work in the construction or industrial sectors, the NCCER Assessment is an effective tool to identify and evaluate individual skills and proficiencies for pre- and post-employment objectives.

More information on our NCCER Skill Assessment services is available through our local office
District Managers.

Enabling our craftsmen employees and those of our clients to continuously develop their craft skills and to ultimately achieve optimal career satisfaction is one of Tradesmen International’s founding goals. We remain committed to the industry – through Construction Craft Academy – to restoring high levels of craftsmanship throughout the trades; to helping the construction industry achieve higher national standards of quality, safety and productivity.

This is possible through our Construction Training Program which consists of Full Apprenticeship Training, Journeyman Certification Training and Skill-Specific Training. These educational opportunities enable tenured and aspiring construction workers to fully develop their trade skills and to earn U.S. Department of Labor Journeyman Certification in a fraction of the time of other programs – with better overall results. A Continuing Education Program is then encouraged to ensure journey-level craftsmen are always up-to-date on safety upgrades, regulatory code changes, technology improvements and/or craft techniques that will keep them at the top of their trade.
Those contractors who develop employee training programs realize many benefits including:

• Increased Jobsite Safety / Reduced Workers’ Comp Costs
• Maximized Workforce Productivity / Increased Profits
• Enhanced Employee Morale and Improved Employee Retention
• Higher Levels of Quality / Increased Client Satisfaction

Learn how you can implement an effective and affordable training program that makes sense for your business. Call Mitch DaDante, President, Construction Craft Academy, at 800.442.0067, or speak to your local Tradesmen International Field Representative.

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Our Safety Division offers training to our clients and their employees. The training is performed by our National Safety Director and Safety Specialists who are OSHA trained. Specifically, we can service your safety-oriented needs with a “Client Safety Program Audit (CSPA)” and an OSHA compliant “10-Hour Construction Safety Training Course*.”

The CSPA  audit enables our Safety Specialists to examine your existing safety program and ultimately make any recommendations for improvement. Following the audit, recommendations are made to correct any deficiencies in OSHA compliance or to enhance the effectiveness of your Safety Program. Our audits are a proactive method used to enhance worker safety and to prevent future violations and costly fines.

If no program exists, your employees are prime candidates for the 10-Hour Safety program which – via videos and personal instruction – addresses many topics ranging from “Introduction to OSHA Safety” and “Haz-Com” to “Understanding Electricity” and “Safe Lifting Techniques.” At the conclusion of the training, cards from the Department of Labor and certificates of completion are issued to those individuals completing the class.

*The 10-hour Construction Safety Course is made available for Spanish speaking audiences with advance notice and if appropriate translation professionals are obtainable. Ask for comprehensive details.