Temporary and contract staffing for light industrial and skilled labor: warehouse, production, assembly, forklift, packaging, mechanics and maintenance techs.
Portland, OregonLight Industrial & White-Glove RecruitingAerospace-proven
Hiring Partners You Can Count On
We present only the candidates who truly fit, so your team screens less and hires better. Fewer resumes, lower hiring costs, and a partner who sticks around.
Tell us about the roles you are hiring for and we will walk you through how we work.
The toolkit
Four service lines, one accountable partner
From warehouse floors to plant leadership, we cover the full spectrum of workforce needs.
Staffing
Temporary and contract staffing for light industrial and skilled labor: warehouse, production, assembly, forklift, packaging, mechanics and maintenance techs.
White-Glove Recruiting
Permanent placement for specialized and leadership roles: operations and plant management, engineering, sales, HR, accounting and administration.
Payrolling
We handle employment administration, tax filings, compliance and HR paperwork so your team can focus on the work.
Candidate Management
End-to-end hiring support from sourcing through onboarding, with consistent updates at every stage.
Safety first
Safety training and awareness built into our process, with a commitment to reducing workplace accidents and injuries.
Human-first, always
People at the center of every decision: individual aspirations, genuine connection, and kindness one candidate at a time.
Results
What partners say
“BigFoot Staffing has quickly become a valued hiring partner. They took the time to understand our hiring needs and have proven to be highly selective when presenting candidates, in a very short period of time compared to my previous experiences with recruiters. This has saved our team considerable time, while also reducing the costs of hiring as a result of their unique pricing model.”
The shift
Tired of resume floods and transactional recruiters?
Traditional staffing firms send piles of unqualified resumes and disappear after the placement. We built our whole approach around fixing that.
The old way
- ×Recruiters flood your inbox with unqualified resumes
- ×Hours lost screening candidates who never fit
- ×High costs from repeat hiring cycles and failed placements
- ×Transaction-minded agencies that vanish once the invoice clears
The BigFoot way
- ✓Deep discovery into your culture and hiring needs before we source anyone
- ✓Highly selective presentations, only candidates who align with the role
- ✓A pricing model clients call highly competitive with traditional recruiting
- ✓Enduring partnerships built on transparency and accountability
Step by step
A process built on listening
A simple route from setup to steady output.
We listen deep
As Legendary Listeners, we take the time to understand your culture, your open roles and what a great hire looks like for you.
We present only the right fits
We source, screen and select. You see a short list of qualified, aligned candidates instead of a flood of resumes.
We stay in the partnership
Open communication and consistent updates through onboarding and beyond, so we are your first call when the next need arises.
Answers
Common questions
What does BigFoot Staffing do?+
We are a staffing and recruiting company in Portland, Oregon that builds irreplaceable hiring partnerships through tailor-fit workforce solutions. We serve two main groups: staffing for light industrial roles (warehouse, production, assembly, forklift, packaging, general labor, mechanics and maintenance techs) and white-glove recruiting for operations and plant management, engineering, journeyman mechanics, sales, HR, accounting and administrative positions.
What services do you offer?+
Four core services: Staffing for temporary and contract positions, Recruiting for permanent placements, Payrolling to manage employment administration and reduce HR burden, and Candidate Management to support the entire hiring process from sourcing to onboarding.
What makes you different from other staffing agencies?+
Our proprietary S.Q.U.A.T.C.H. principles, a human-first philosophy, and a highly selective candidate presentation process. Instead of flooding clients with resumes, we deeply understand your hiring needs and present only the most relevant candidates, which saves screening time and reduces hiring costs through our unique pricing model.
What is the S.Q.U.A.T.C.H. framework?+
It is our proprietary operating framework: Safety (safety training and reducing workplace accidents), Quality (high standards and process consistency), Uniqueness (creativity and authenticity), Agility (adaptable, flexible workflows), Transparency (open communication and accountability), Collaboration (enduring partnerships), and Human-First (people and their aspirations at the center of everything we do).
How do you save employers time and money?+
By being highly selective Legendary Listeners when presenting candidates, we cut the volume of unqualified resumes you have to review. Clients also tell us our pricing model is highly competitive with traditional recruiting approaches, and our efficient process contributes to overall cost savings in hiring.
Ready when you are
Your next great hire is out there. We will find them.
Book a call and tell us what you are hiring for. We will show you what a selective, transparent hiring partnership looks like.
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