APG Workforce: A national workforce management leader
APG Workforce is one of Australia’s leading national workforce management companies. We offer labour hire, permanent recruitment, and temporary recruitment services, but we also offer so much more than that.
Much more than just a recruitment agency, APG Workforce provides a comprehensive workforce management service. We partner with some of Australia’s leading companies with sites throughout Australia, as well as with smaller organisations, and we have a presence in every Australian state.
APG Workforce is a people-first organisation and we truly care about people. For employers, we build engaged workforces. For job seekers, we provide rewarding roles, ongoing training, and development opportunities.
Latest News
APG Workforce CEO challenges traditional 9 to 5, five-day working week
APG Workforce CEO Glenn Redman is calling on Australian employers to rethink the need for their people to be sitting in an office five days a week, instead focusing on what individual workers need to achieve without a set time allocated. Noting that APG Workforce has employed many displaced workers, both skilled and unskilled, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Glenn says that Australian employers have a once in a lifetime opportunity to rethink how they manage their workforces moving forward.
“In our experience employees who are task-driven and self-motivated can easily work from anywhere as long as they have an internet connection and the right tools and equipment. Our current situation has proved it,” he added.
You can read this story in full at the Dynamic Business and Human Resource Director websites.
CMR Civil Workforce CEO: Skills shortages to threaten major infrastructure projects
CMR Civil Workforce CEO David Stack has called for contractors responsible for the many large-scale state and federal government infrastructure projects to put the right workforce management planning strategies in place to ensure they avoid a critical skills shortage.
Commenting in both Architecture & Design and The Fifth Estate, David noted that contractors in the civil construction and wider construction sector need to plan ahead to ensure their projects aren’t delayed due to skills or staffing shortages. “We have had a large influx of people looking for work but they need to be trained and gain certification in order to work on these infrastructure projects.
You can read this story in full at the Architecture & Design and The Fifth Estate websites.
What is workforce management?
APG Workforce is much more than just a recruitment agency. We build engaged workforces and offer customised workforce management solutions to many industries across Australia. The comprehensive workforce management service that we provide to all clients includes:
- Culture management – A positive workplace culture attracts and retains talent, drives engagement, and affects happiness, satisfaction, and productivity. We build a highly focused and engaged workforce for our clients, ensuring that they respect, adhere, and contribute to their company culture.
- Accountability and reporting – Labour and staff costs can often be one of the biggest expenses for a business, which is why we work with businesses to set KPIs that are aligned to business needs and values. Our reporting system allows us to monitor costs and productivity and offer recommendations to optimise staffing requirements.
- Labour hire – Labour hire is a simple and cost-effective solution for finding a permanent or temporary workforce that have the knowledge, skills, and expertise a business needs to meet their objectives and increase productivity.
- Safety (WH&S) – We believe that everyone has the right to work in a safe and healthy workplace, which is why we ensure that we provide safety and risk management solutions to meet business needs. Our thorough system of WH&S Induction and Training and WH&S Support includes industry specific consultancy services, crisis management and emergency management services.
- RTO – Training and upskilling – APG Workforce utilises a network of registered training organisations to deliver the training required to upskill individuals and teams. There are many benefits in upskilling your staff. Not only does it add to the skills & qualifications of the individual, it also has a positive effect with staff retention.
- Risk management – We reduce the risk of people for businesses by creating highly focused and engaged workforces, as well as with our thorough WH&S solutions and our extensive procedures and back-up systems. These include our Industrial Relations Management Plan, Operational Risk Management Plan, Risk and Opportunities Plan and Crisis Management Plan.
- Human Resource (HR) and Industrial Relations (IR) consultancy – We can assist our clients in their day-to-day dealings with employees and in their longer-term employee relations strategies. This could include industrial relations advice regarding workplace policy and procedures or negotiation, drafting and lodgement of Enterprise Agreements, or human resource advice surrounding issues such as recruitment, performance management and grievance handling.
- Permanent and temporary recruitment – As part of our comprehensive workforce management service, we can provide permanent and part time unskilled, semi-skilled and highly skilled professionals and tradesman across a range of industries, including warehousing, mining, engineering, and agriculture.
Who we work with
As part of our commitment to our clients, as a dedicated workforce management company APG Workforce provides a 24-hour service where one of our expert consultants can be contacted seven days a week, 365 days of the year.
APG Workforce provides comprehensive workforce management solutions, including labour hire, permanent recruitment services and temporary recruitment services, to the following industries:
Farming and Agriculture
APG Workforce provide specialist recruitment for a range of Australia's largest farming operations, providing permanent and temporary workforce solutions for field, shed and processing fulfilling a range of roles including Agribusiness, farm hands, machinery operators, drivers, and stock handlers.
Transport and Distribution
APG Workforce has been a trusted workforce management company in the Australian distribution and transport industry since 1998, providing temporary and permanent solutions to some of Australia's largest transport and distribution corporations. We have fulfilled a range of roles including forklift drivers, mechanics, truck drivers, supervisors, dockhands, and inventory managers.
Manufacturing
APG Workforce has an impressive track record in recruiting professional, semi-skilled and unskilled roles typically found within the manufacturing and processing sector. Some of the roles we recruit for include machine operators, manufacturing and production managers, production planners, quality assurance coordinators, assembly workers, and process workers.
Mining and Engineering
APG Mining and Engineering Services is a specialist workforce management company for the mining and engineering industries, which has many contracts to supply contract staff to mines to fulfil the major shortfall in workers. APG Mining and Engineering Services recruits mining staff across several areas including tradesman such as electricians, welders, and boilermakers, and specialist roles such as miners, heavy duty fitters, blasting crews, and machine operators.
Warehousing and Logistics
APG Workforce are recognised as a workforce management market leader in the warehousing and logistics industries. Our workforce specialists are experienced in all aspects of the warehousing industry and have worked with our clients to provide staffing solutions to meet their flexible and seasonal needs, including supplying forklift drivers, pickers and packers, assembly line workers, and factory hands.
Rail and Civil
APG Rail and Infrastructure has operated since 2000 and can supply teams and Supervisors as well as specialist workforces on multiple projects and will also supply the materials, plant and equipment where required and requested on any project. Our specialised team have completed projects which include communications and signal route conduit installation, pit installations (concrete and PVC), drainage works, and installation of pedestrian crossings.
Civil, Construction and Trades
As a specialist in the civil, construction and trades sector, APG Workforce has extensive networks and a comprehensive database of tradespeople we can mobilise in line with activities and projects, budgets and deadlines. We can supply qualified tradespeople, trainees and apprentices such as electricians, carpenters, diesel mechanics, automotive specialists, and plant mechanics.
Corporate (Office and Professional services)
From an extensive database of individuals, APG Workforce can provide permanent, contract and temporary workforces of executive, professional or business support staff. We provide staff for administration and business positions including Human Resources, administration and office support, accounting and payroll, data entry staff, and personal and executive assistants.
We are Australia-wide
From our 16 branches throughout Australia’s capital cities and regional areas, we help our clients build engaged workforces through our comprehensive workforce management service. Here’s where you can find us:
- New South Wales: Ingleburn, Eastern Creek, Beresfield, Tamworth, Griffith.
- Queensland: Springwood, Mareeba, Cairns.
- South Australia: Wingfield.
- Victoria: Essendon, Notting Hill, Bayswater, Shepparton.
- Western Australia: Balcatta.
- Northern Territory: Fanny Bay.
- Tasmania: Devonport.
