RecruitNZ provides blue collar recruitment across New Zealand, specialising in permanent roles and long-term contracts. We recruit locally and source skilled migrant workers when additional support is needed.
Our proven recruitment processes are focused on finding employees who are a good cultural fit for your team and organisation, as well as being suitably skilled and qualified.
What are blue collar jobs?
Blue collar roles involve hands-on, practical work, from trades and transport to manufacturing and logistics. These roles keep operations moving and often require physical skill, trade experience, or technical expertise.
RecruitNZ recruits blue collar workers at all levels, from entry-level team members to highly skilled tradespeople and supervisors.
What roles are covered by blue collar recruitment?
Here are some of the blue collar jobs we recruit – note that we specialise in permanent recruitment or long-term contracts:
- Agriculture: including farm hands, farm managers, and apiarists/beekeepers.
- Automotive and mechanics: including panel beaters, auto painters, and tyre technicians.
- Civil construction and roading: including concreters, drainlayers, drillers, riggers, and steel fixers.
- Construction and trades: including builders, electricians, cabinetmakers, carpenters, concreters, earthmovers, engineers, floorers, GIB stoppers, HVAC technicians, installers, joiners, landscapers, painters, spray painters, marine painters, auto painters, tilers, steel fixers, glaziers, masons, sheet metal fabricators, detailers, fibreglass technicians, roofers, and more.
- Healthcare: including hospital staffing, general healthcare roles, aged care, nurses, orderlies, and support workers.
- Machine operators: including CNC machinists and sewing machinists.
- Manufacturing: including joiners, welders, aluminium fabricators and installers, cabinet makers and joiners, upholsterers, and sewing machinists.
- Transport and logistics: including bus drivers, truck drivers, forklift drivers, warehouse and distribution roles.
If you have a role you’d like us to recruit for you, take the next step and register a vacancy – it’s free and obligation-free.
What’s the blue collar recruitment process?
Our blue collar recruitment process follows the same proven structure we use across all roles. It’s rigorous, transparent, and built around understanding your business so we can bring you the right candidate the first time.
The main difference is the type of skills testing. For blue collar roles, we often carry out practical trade tests or machine-based assessments to confirm skill level before you make a hiring decision.
Regardless of the role we’re recruiting for, we’ll spend a good amount of time getting to know you, your team, your organisational culture, and your strategic goals. That way we can ensure that we recruit an employee who is a good fit for your business.
Here are more details of our recruitment process.
Can you also assist with white collar recruitment?
Yes, RecruitNZ also recruits white collar roles at all levels, from office-based roles to mobile or field-based positions.
Read more about white collar recruitment.
“We have used RecruitNZ to recruit a number of key positions in our company.
We have always found the team at RecruitNZ professional and easy to work with.
They take the hassle out of recruiting staff and the follow up is awesome, asking how team members are going that have been with us for a number of years. This shows they don’t just fill a position and forget about it. They are there as a support through any challenges we faced during the process. I would have no hesitation in recommending Tanya and the team. Great company, great people.”
Reuben Beatson | Business Development Leader, ASTRO
Do you have questions about blue collar recruitment?
Please contact us for advice and information, we’ll be glad to help you.