Connecting Manufacturers with Skilled Talent

With many years in manufacturing, PIO Products understands what makes a great hire — from a skilled shop floor technician to engineers and designers shaping the future of manufacturing. Our recruiting process blends technical insight with a deep understanding of the manufacturing landscape, ensuring candidates are not only skilled but a cultural fit for your operations.

Our Advantage:

  • Industry Insight: Years of theory and hands-on manufacturing experience. This gives us the ability to evaluate technical skills in ways many recruiters can’t.

  • Referral Standards: Each candidate is pre-vetted for technical ability, work ethic, and culture fit. We do the screening avoiding “resume spam” and presenting only qualified individuals.

  • Efficiency: We manage the job posting, search, and evaluation. You spend time interviewing the right candidates, not sorting through resumes.

Our Fee Structure:

  • Permanent Placement of first-year base salary:

    • 10–15% Entry Level-Skilled

    • 15-20% Skilled-Senior Level

  • Guarantee: Replacement or prorated refund

Client Hiring:

  • Job promotion (Indeed, LinkedIn, zip): >$150-$450 per month depending on visibility

  • Internal HR labor (resume sorting, screening, scheduling) 10–20 hours per hire

  • Lost production due to slow hiring: Thousands in missed production/output

PIO Hiring:

  • Eliminates wasted ad spending PIO handles promotions

  • Reduces internal HR time by up to 50%

  • Improves hire quality, reducing costly turnover

Cost Breakdown:

  • $60,000 is the average Skilled Trades base salary in Mid-Michigan

  • 18-25% Industry average agency fee = $10.800-$15,000

  • 10-15% PIO’s fee = $6,000-$9,000

Saving Calculation:

  • $4,800-$6,000 Variance from agencies 

  • $2,000 HR Labor (20hrs @ $100 Rate)

  • $4,000 + Regained productivity (minimum 40hrs @ $100 Rate)

Total Potential Savings:

  • $10,800-$12,000 per hire!

Ready to hire better talent at a lower cost?

 
~ PIO Products LLC