Skilled trades and maintenance staffing
Welders, millwrights, pipe fitters, maintenance electricians and mechanics, including travel crews for shutdowns, turnarounds and capital projects.
- Response within 24 hours
- Nationwide, travel and lodging handled
- Screened, qualified workers or we replace them at no cost
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Skilled Trades & Maintenance staffing from Echelon
Skilled trades are the hardest people to find and the most expensive to get wrong. Echelon recruits tradespeople nationally and sends them where the work is, with travel, lodging and per diem handled by us, so you are not limited to the local labor market.
Our crews support planned maintenance outages, emergency repairs, equipment installations and long-running projects, with Echelon project managers coordinating on site.
Roles we fill
Welding and metal trades
- MIG, TIG, arc and stick welders
- Pipe fitters
- Boilermakers
- Riggers
- Ironworkers
Maintenance
- Millwrights
- Maintenance mechanics
- Maintenance electricians
- Electronic control technicians
- Boiler operators
- Maintenance planners
Construction trades
- Carpenters
- Industrial and commercial painters
- Bricklayers
- Concrete finishers
- Linemen
Heavy equipment
- Crane operators (mobile, overhead, hot metal)
- Heavy equipment operators
- Mobile mechanics
- Pipeline personnel
Don’t see the role? Tell us what you need.
Ways to work with us
- Temporary and seasonalShort-term help for peaks, projects and absences.
- ContractSkilled people for a defined project or period, managed by Echelon.
- Contract-to-hireWork together first, then convert to your payroll.
- Direct hireWe recruit for your permanent openings.
- Urgent and rapid responseCrews mobilized in as little as 3 days, travel included.
How it works
Tell us the need
Call or send the form. We confirm roles, skills, shifts, site rules and timeline within 24 hours.
We recruit and screen
We match people from our national database, check experience and credentials, and run drug and background screening as required.
Your team starts
Workers arrive ready to work, with travel and lodging handled when needed and an Echelon coordinator as your single point of contact.
- Years in business
- 30+
- Clients served
- 150+
- Positions filled
- 5,000+
- Years of combined leadership experience
- 100+
- Workers in our largest single contingency plan
- 2,800
- To put a crew on site, sometimes faster
- 3 days
Skilled Trades & Maintenance staffing questions
Do your tradespeople travel?
Yes. Many of our skilled workers travel nationwide. Echelon arranges and pays for travel and lodging and provides per diem for every day of the assignment.
How long can a trades assignment last?
From a two-week shutdown to a year or longer. We plan crew size and rotations around your schedule.
Who supervises the crew?
Echelon project managers and coordinators manage our workers on site and stay in contact with your team.
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Need Skilled Trades & Maintenance staff?
Tell us what you need and we’ll respond within 24 hours. Crews can be on site in as little as 3 days.