Relationships.
Not resumes.
Production, skilled trades, quality, engineering and technical talent for manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, food and logistics operations. Temporary, temp to hire, direct placement and contract. Headquartered in Michigan, active in multiple markets nationwide, doing business in all 50 states.
Three ways to start. Pick the fastest one for you.
No forms to fill out first. No sales sequence. A real conversation with the people who will actually fill your order. We are an AI native staffing firm: we harness the power of AI to clear the paperwork so our recruiters spend their day on the phone with candidates and customers. Every hiring decision is made by a person.
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Pick a time on our calendar for a 20 minute sales call. Bring your roles, shifts and headcount. Leave with a plan and a quote timeline.
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Skip the calendar. Call our sales team, tell them the role and the timeline, and get a quote started on the same call.
(734) 552-5731Sales teamSend us an email
Send the job description, the shift and the start date. We respond within one business day with questions or a quote.
info@c3workforce.com
Need people on the floor this week?
Tell us the role, the volume and the timeline. We screen to one standard: anyone we send should be qualified enough to work in our own office.
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Apply once. Get matched to production, warehouse, skilled trades and technical openings across our client network. Real recruiters who know your name.
Apply now →Four ways to staff. One standard of quality.
From a five person surge crew tomorrow to a quality engineer you keep for ten years. Same recruiters, same screening, same accountability.
Temporary Staffing
Flex headcount up or down without long term commitment. Absorb production surges, seasonal peaks and sort projects with vetted associates.
Temp to Hire
Evaluate on the job, then hire. We look for people with a track record longer than the 90 day trial, because people rarely change on day 91.
Direct Placement
We source, screen and deliver permanent hires across every industry we serve, from a welder or a production lead to an aerospace inspector, a controls engineer or a machine learning engineer. One time fee, billed when they start.
Contract Staffing
Specialized talent for a defined program or project term, with full benefits, at a fixed rate. Convert to direct hire any time.
Built for the floor. Fluent in the front office.
We staff the operations that build, feed and move America. These are the industries where we know the roles, the certifications and the pay rates by heart.
Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers, assembly, stamping, battery
Production associates through controls engineers for the supplier base that feeds Ford, GM, Stellantis, BMW, Toyota and Hyundai plants.
Direct placement for a growing industry
Structures assemblers, A&P mechanics, NDT inspectors, CNC machinists and quality engineers for airframe, engine and defense programs.
The people building AI, and the people keeping it running
Machine learning and data engineers through data center technicians, electricians and the robotics techs on an automated floor.
Production, sanitation, QA and maintenance
People who understand GMP, HACCP and the pace of a packaging line, placed into plants that run around the clock.
Distribution, fulfillment and 3PL
Hi lo operators, pickers and packers, shipping and receiving, inventory and shift leads for peak season and year round.
Welders, machinists, maintenance techs
Skilled trades demand is growing three times faster than professional roles nationwide, sourced by recruiters who know the difference between MIG and TIG.
Inspectors, sorters and containment crews
Detail oriented people who read a print, hold a tolerance and keep a rejected shipment from becoming a lost customer.
Contract and direct hire engineering
Manufacturing, quality, controls, automation and robotics engineers, plus the technicians who keep the automation running.
Know where the workforce is going before you hire.
Sourced from BLS, the Federal Reserve, state agencies and company filings. Every number carries its date and its source. Updated on release day.
Unemployment 4.2 percent. The market is short of people, not short of jobs: 7.5 million openings, about 0.95 unemployed people per opening, and layoffs at their lowest since March 2025.
Source: BLS Employment Situation, Oct 2, 2026; BLS JOLTS, Nov 3, 2026 Staffing Industry Pulse Sept 2026Temp help is flat to soft, down 10,900 on the month, but industrial staffing hours are up 17 percent year over year. The recovery is industrial and shows up in hours first.
Source: BLS CES series CES6056132001, Oct 2, 2026; SIA Bullhorn Staffing Indicator, Oct 20, 2026 Industrial Layoff Tracker Oct 2026Lowest October in three years. Year to date cuts are down 44 percent, but food manufacturing led all industries at 9,677 and is up 43 percent for the year.
Source: Challenger, Gray and Christmas, Nov 5, 2026 State Hiring Tracker Sept 2026Jobs added over the year: Texas +154,300, South Carolina +55,200 (the fastest growth in the nation), Florida +59,800, Michigan +2,000, Georgia down 200. Where hiring is moving, state by state.
Source: BLS State Employment and Unemployment, Oct 20, 2026Aerospace employment is up 4.9 percent. Boeing has a record $745 billion backlog and will miss its 737 delivery target.
596,500 workers in August (BLS), a record backlog (Boeing, Oct 27, 2026), and why the constraint is people and parts, not orders.
Plants are stretching crews, not hiring: auto production workers now average 46.2 hours a week.
Motor vehicle employment is flat at 962,500 while hours climb (BLS, Oct 2, 2026). What that means for temp to hire in supplier plants.
Food plants shed about 35,600 jobs in a year, and food now leads all industries in announced layoffs.
1,764,600 jobs in September (BLS), 9,677 October cuts (Challenger, Nov 5, 2026), and why maintenance technicians are still the hardest seat to fill.
Every market, one standard.
We do business in all 50 states and are active in multiple markets across the country. Every market we publish gets its own labor market research, updated as the data comes out.
HeadquartersMichigan
Livonia, in the middle of the I 96 and I 275 supplier corridor. Metro Detroit, Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties.
- Office
- 32233 Schoolcraft Rd, Suite 100, Livonia, MI 48150
- Phone
- (734) 552-5731
UpstateSouth Carolina
Greenville and Spartanburg, the I 85 corridor from BMW's Greer plant to Inland Port Greer, Anderson and Gaffney.
- Region
- Upstate South Carolina
- Phone
- (864) 875-2009
Nationwide
Active in multiple markets across the country. If you have a plant, a distribution center or a program that needs people anywhere in the United States, we can staff it.
- Footprint
- All 50 states
- Models
- Temporary, temp to hire, direct placement, contract
We do what we say we’ll do.
“Any candidate we send to work for you should be qualified enough to work in our own office.”The C3 Workforce standard
We know the person, not the paper
Some people will not work in the cold. Some prefer to work alone. A resume does not tell you that. Our recruiters do, because they know the candidates.
Beyond the 90 day trial
Everyone evaluates for 90 days. Candidates know it. We look for track records longer than 90 days, so the person you hire on day 91 is the one you met on day one.
Clients and candidates get the same treatment
Honesty and respect on both sides of the placement. It is why associates come back to us and why clients stop shopping.
Tell us the role. We’ll send the plan.
Most quotes go out within one business day. No pitch, no pressure. Just a number and a start date.