Construction

Blue collar recruitment

Blue collar recruitment covers trades, construction, mining and operator roles, where a worker is hired on tickets rather than on a CV. That is the same problem as care: a stack of credentials with separate expiry dates and nobody tracking them. Ready & Cleared does not cover these sectors yet; disability and aged care in Perth is open.

This sector is not open. Construction is planned, not available. The only sector we cover today is disability and aged care in Perth. Everything below is accurate and dated, and none of it means we can fill a trades assistant role this week. The order, and the reasoning behind it.

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Key facts

A high risk work licence lasts 5 years; a white card lapses after 2 years out
Working at heights and confined space are 2 more tickets, each with its own expiry
A single operator can carry 6 or more separate tickets at once
The same tracking product, aimed at 2 to 3 times the paperwork
Not open: 1 sector is live, disability and aged care in Perth

What this costs, against what the market charges

Almost no agency publishes a placement fee. The number below is the published vendor benchmark for Australian permanent placement, and beside it is ours, which is simply the price.

Benchmark figures as published by vendor sources and recorded in our brief; our own figures are the current published price. Checked 2026-10-25.
Way of buying	Typical market	Ready & Cleared
Permanent placement	$7,700 to $11,550 12–18% of a $64,200 salary	$3,900 flat, published
Casual or temp placement	An hourly margin rarely published	$1,900 flat, published
Ongoing access	Not usually offered fees are per placement	$390 a month unlimited introductions
Cost to the worker	$0	$0

On the benchmark figures that is a difference of $3,800 to $7,650 on a single permanent placement. The percentage band is a vendor benchmark rather than a regulated rate, so treat it as indicative. Our own figure is not indicative; it is published and it is the price.

Those are our care-sector prices. We have not set a price for construction, because we do not sell into it yet.

What a trades assistant has to hold

These are the credentials the roles on this page require. We hold the document, record what it says, and track the expiry. Where a public register exists we confirm against it; where one does not, we say so rather than implying a check we did not make.

White Card (construction induction) document held
Pre-employment medical document held

Exactly what each of those words means, including the ones we cannot verify.

Roles this covers

Trades assistants
Heavy diesel fitters
Boilermakers
Haul truck operators
Traffic controllers

Common questions

What counts as blue collar recruitment?

Trades, construction, mining, civil and operator roles, where the hiring decision turns on tickets and availability rather than on a CV and an interview.

Why are these sectors on the list at all?

Because the product is credential tracking, and a boilermaker carries more expiring tickets than a support worker does. It is the same machine pointed at a worker with more to chase.

Wondering what everyone else charges? What recruitment agencies charge in Australia sets out the band, what it costs at each salary, and the one published figure that beats ours.

Hiring something else

Mining and resources recruitment planned
Construction labour hire planned
Trades recruitment planned
Marketing recruitment planned

What is open, and what is next

Figures on this page were checked on 2026-10-25. Where a figure is a vendor benchmark rather than ours, it says so beside the number.