TRS Staffing Celebrates it’s Silver Anniversary!

October 30, 2009 | 1 Comment

TRS Staffing Solutions Inc. celebrates its 25th anniversary this week. TRS began in Greenville, S.C., as DanPro in 1984 and was created to address the contract engineering needs of the Daniel International Corp. In the following 25 years, TRS has grown into a global player within the engineering staffing industry, supporting clients worldwide.

“I believe this is just the first of many milestones TRS will achieve, and we are anticipating a bright future as markets grow and opportunities emerge,” said Alan White, TRS president. “I want to thank all of the employees who have helped make TRS the leading technical staffing provider that it is today.”

TRS supplies high-quality talent to projects of every size and complexity, bringing engineers, designers, project managers and other technical, professional and administrative staff to Fluor and other leading industrial specialists around the world. Working across the entire life cycle of projects, TRS supports the five major business units of Fluor.

“Over the last 25 years, TRS has grown from a single office in Greenville to a network of 14 offices that spans the globe and has developed the ability to supply any project Fluor is engaged in,” White said.

TRS currently serves clients in North America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. In addition, a number of associate partnerships extend its global reach across the Far East, Australia and South America. An established presence in the Middle East gives TRS direct access to emerging talent markets in India, Philippines and the Pacific Rim.

For more information, visit the TRS website at http://www.trsstaffing.com/ or contact us!

Author: Martin Foulser, TRS

Australian Mining Hits the Pits, but Gas is Ready to Explode…

October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment

With the minerals and mining markets grinding to a halt in Australia and the coal seam gas market about to explode, what will be the key factors influencing contact rates over the next few years?

The Queensland engineering market is split into two areas. The Minerals and Mining market is static and expected to remain so in the near future. Indeed a drop in hourly rates is expected due to market pressures.

The most important market at the moment is the Coal Seam Gas market. New technologies have made Coal Seam gas far more attractive and there are currently 11 new LNG extraction and liquefaction projects on the table. It is doubtful whether all will appear in the short term, but I believe we can expect a consolidation of trains between major operators and would therefore see go-ahead for 4 to 6 plants.

Current contract rates are unpredictable and pulled in many directions. The key drivers are:

1. The General Market is pushing rates down.
2. Operators are driving a rate cap.
3. Greater usage of non-expat overseas workers (Asia etc).
4. Overseas rates from Asia are increasing due to greater dependence in the Middle East
5. The gas market has not been hit as hard as the oil market.
6. The recession has created a greater mobility of the work force, so Australia (once a fairly local and remote market) is now comparable to the global hourly rate.

So do rates go up or down? In summary, in the near future we do not expect any rate changes. From Q2 2010 people are talking about an increase of anywhere between 8% and 15% over a 4 quarter period.

Fortunately TRS has recently won a 1st tier PSL agreement with a major gas international with heavy investment in the Queensland area. You can see some of the exciting engineering opportunities or alternatively please comment and leave your thoughts below…

Author: John Rowlands, TRS

Happy Birthday, ¡Feliz Cumpleaños!

October 20, 2009 | 2 Comments

October the 20th is the 5th anniversary of TRS Staffing Spain. From humble beginnings (a borrowed office with one employee), TRS Spain now has over 200 employees working on projects as diverse as Spain’s largest project for 50 years in Cartagena involving 3.2bn € of spend, to plant construction in Angola.

TRS Spain would like to thank all its employees, suppliers and clients for their continuing support.

Author: John Rowlands, TRS

Time to Rebuild Construction Staffing?

October 2, 2009 | 1 Comment

Although staffing firms continue to be challenged by high levels of non-permanent employee cuts and low levels of temporary staffing, are we seeing the first signs of a ‘bottoming-out’ and the return to higher levels of employment?

A recent U.S. Department of Labor release in June noted temporary jobs were down 26.9% year-over-year in May; however, that figure was up slightly from the 27.7% year-over-year dip recorded in April.

Most construction industry analysts agree that staffing will remain low throughout 2009, but increase in 2010 in step with a slow construction market turnaround.

Despite extremely high levels of unemployment across the construction industry, there continues to be pockets of skills shortages in some construction and maintenance job categories such as experienced project managers.

ENR’s Skilled Labor Index has maintained upward movement throughout the first six months of the year, as has its Common Labor Index, although both at a slower rate than last year.

TRS have maintained strong links with employers and continue to offer a number of worldwide opportunities in the construction sector – Browse our current engineering vacancies.

Author: Hillary Dayton, Fluor