Sydney's Specialist in Trades & Industrial Labour Hire
Director

Kevin
Mankin

"I started Forgepoint Recruitment to provide the kind of bespoke recruitment service I always knew was possible but rarely saw delivered."

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The Story

Why Forgepoint exists and what it means for the people we work with.

Forgepoint started with a simple frustration. After more than a decade in trades and industrial recruitment, Kevin Mankin had seen exactly what the big agencies get wrong - work treated as a transaction, orders filled on volume, clients handled like job numbers and candidates placed without ever being heard.

He'd learned the alternative on the ground. A high-volume industrial desk at Kelly Services in Wetherill Park, keeping 120+ workers a week on site. Four years at Randstad delivering boilermakers, fitters and machine operators onto Sydney's biggest industrial projects. Then building and running the NSW trades business at RPR Trades, supplying crews across thirty-plus sites on jobs like WestConnex, Sydney Metro, Garden Island and Western Sydney Airport. The lesson was the same everywhere: do the ground work - site visits, honest briefings, knowing the person as well as the role - and the workers turn up, perform and stay. Skip it and the whole thing falls over.

"Recruitment isn't rocket science. Most agencies just stopped doing the basics."

- Kevin Mankin, Director

Forgepoint is built to do the basics properly, every time. Every client gets a recruiter who knows their site and their standards. Every candidate gets a straight conversation before being put forward. One point of contact, accountable from first brief to final placement. A specialist in trades and industrial across Sydney, backed by independent payroll, insurance and compliance so the service scales without cutting corners. No volume games, no overpromising - just workers placed properly, clients who don't have to chase, and placements that last. Real workers. Real results.

Kevin Mankin
Director · Forgepoint Recruitment
What We Specialise In

Where we work.
What we place.

Twelve years of trades and industrial recruitment across Greater Sydney. Here's the work we actually do.

Industries Served
  • Manufacturing
  • Engineering
  • Defence
  • Construction
  • Infrastructure
  • Civil
Roles We Place
  • Boilermakers
  • Welders
  • Maintenance Fitters
  • Electricians
  • CNC Operators
  • Machine Operators
  • Forklift Drivers
  • Warehouse Operators
  • Trades Assistants
  • Production Workers
  • Supervisors
  • Service Techs
Projects We've Worked On

Major projects. Real placements.

Infrastructure

WestConnex

Rail Infrastructure

Sydney Metro

Defence

Garden Island

Rail Manufacturing

NRT Project

Mining & Resources

FIFO WA

Industrial

Manufacturing

Aviation Infrastructure

Western Sydney Airport

Telecommunications

Sydney Connect

Track Record

Reviewed by the people
we've placed and hired for.

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4.98 out of 5.
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How We Work

What we do
differently.

Anyone can send a CV. Every Forgepoint worker is interviewed face-to-face and reference-checked against work like yours before they're put forward. Here's what else we do that most agencies don't.

Safety
Ticketed, competent, ready for the floor.

On a factory floor or a fabrication shop, the wrong worker on the wrong machine is a real risk - to your people and your production. So every Forgepoint worker has their tickets and licences verified before they start - white card, forklift, EWP, plant, whatever the job needs - and we only put forward people genuinely competent for that task and those conditions. Compliance isn't a box we tick after the fact. It means you're never carrying someone else's risk.

Accountability
Clients who keep calling the same number.

The best evidence of good recruitment is a client who comes back. Forgepoint builds long-term relationships with employers across Sydney and NSW because when something goes wrong - and sometimes it does - we pick up the phone and fix it. No excuses, no runaround. One point of contact who knows your site, every time.

Referrals
Candidates who refer their mates.

Word of mouth in the trades is everything. When a worker is placed in a role that suits them - honest pay, decent conditions, a workplace they respect - they tell people. A large share of Forgepoint's candidates come through referrals from workers placed before - which means access to people you won't find on a job board.

Honesty
Straight answers, not sales pitches.

If Forgepoint can't fill a role, you'll hear it straight away rather than waste your time. If a candidate isn't the right fit, they won't be sent through just to hit a KPI. The only way to build trust in this industry is to be honest when it's uncomfortable - and that's the commitment behind every placement.

Let's get the job done.

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