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Australia’s civil and industrial infrastructure sector has a fleet uptime of the single biggest driver of project delivery. When a vacuum truck goes down on a live sewer job, or a hydro excavation unit is parked waiting for a hydraulic diagnosis, the cost compounds their their crews standing around, and yet, the trade most critical…

If you hold an auto electrical qualification in Australia, the market is working strongly in your favour. Dealerships with workshops and fleet operators including specialist service centres are all looking for qualified auto electricians, and there are no way near enough of them to go around. I recruit for automotive roles in Melbourne and Sydney…

If you run a service department or workshop and you have tried to hire a qualified auto electrician recently, you know how difficult it can be. Roles are sitting open for weeks and applications come through often but don’t match the role. In the meantime, your existing team is absorbing this gap. Dealerships and workshops…

If you are trying to hire a skilled tradesperson or qualified manufacturing operator in Melbourne right now, you already know how tight it is. Roles that might have filled in two weeks a few years ago are now sitting open for six, eight, sometimes ten weeks. Applications are coming in, but the right ones are…

One of the questions I get asked a lot is which sectors are actually hiring right now. People want to know where the work is, where the demand is real, and where they should be paying attention if they’re either running a business in the space or looking for their next move as a tradesperson….

Sovereign capacity has become one of those phrases that gets thrown around in policy papers, ministerial speeches, and industry conferences. Everyone agrees Australia needs more of it. Fewer people are willing to sit down and answer the harder question, which is what sovereign capacity actually looks like when you walk into a workshop on a…

If you’ve driven down the Hume on a weekday, you’ve seen Australia’s diesel supply chain in action. Tankers, prime movers, fuel haulage rigs, and the trucks that depend on the diesel those tankers are delivering. The whole thing is constantly moving, and most people never give it a second thought. They probably should. The eastern…

  Most recruiters stumble into their recruitment career. They land in it by accident and stay because it gets its hooks into them, and then they spend the next decade or two trying to explain to people at dinner parties why they find it so genuinely interesting. That is roughly the story Tavis Shearer and…

Over the past week I’ve written about Australia’s fuel security position from a few different angles. The trades workforce question. The sector hiring outlook. The eastern seaboard diesel supply chain. Sovereign capacity and what it looks like on a workshop floor. This piece pulls all of that together into one place, because the more I…

  Great news for Melbourne as the property market has turned a corner. After a period of quiet, the city’s BTR build-to-rent and commercial sectors are generating momentum in 2026, and the businesses best positioned to benefit are those that have their teams locked in before the pressure builds up. TRS Resourcing works with property…

TRS Resourcing has a permanent, full-time position available for an experienced trailer mechanic based near Perth Airport. The role is with a long-standing transport group that specialises in trailer servicing, repairs, and maintenance across the logistics sector, and it is open due to continued business growth rather than turnover. If you have a background in…

If you are a trade-qualified diesel mechanic with experience on heavy vehicles and you are based in Brisbane, TRS Resourcing has a permanent, full-time position that is worth your attention. The role is based at Murarrie and focuses on maintaining and repairing a fleet of modern prime movers for a growing transport business. This is…