What Melben does
Melben is a direct-hire and contract recruitment agency for the industrial skilled trades. We place six of them, CNC machinists and programmers, industrial maintenance technicians, millwrights, welders and fabricators, industrial HVAC technicians, and industrial electricians, for manufacturers and industrial facilities across all 50 states.
Industrial hiring is badly served. Plants post a critical maintenance role and get landscaper resumes. Generalist staffing firms send whoever is in the database. Meanwhile the machines do not care: an open skilled-trades seat costs output every single shift.
Six trades, one buyer, direct hire and contract. The same plant hires all six, and a recruiter who lives in these trades can tell a real five-axis machinist from a button pusher, and a verified EPA 608 card from a resume claim.
The standard we hold ourselves to
Verification before submission
Certifications and licenses checked against documented proof. If we cannot verify it, we do not submit it.
Pay only on results
Employers pay one fee, only when they hire. Candidates never pay anything.
90-day replacement guarantee
If a placement leaves within 90 days, we refill the role at no additional fee.
Four-hour response
Every employer inquiry answered within four business hours.