A Michigan-anchored staffing desk that places direct-hire skilled trades, manufacturing and operations staff across the Midwest manufacturing belt.
VP Total Solutions is a direct-hire staffing partner based in Flint, Michigan. We place skilled trades, manufacturing operators, automotive technicians, logistics leads and industrial maintenance staff into the plants, shops and warehouses across Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.
We are not a national clearing-house. We are a Midwest desk run by recruiters who know what a Tier 1 supplier audit looks like, who know the wage delta between a journeyman electrician in Wayne County and one in Lake County, and who know that the best machinists in this region are not on a job board.
The recruiter who picks up your call is the recruiter who runs the search end to end. They learn your shift patterns, your wage bands, your union status, your drug-test policy, the names of the supervisors on each line. No researcher hand-offs. No CRM black-hole.
Every candidate is right-to-work verified, references checked, background checked and drug-screened to your spec before a CV reaches you. The shortlist is a shortlist, not a triage queue.
Our specialty is permanent placement. The roles plant managers care most about: skilled trades that have to stay, line supervisors who hold a shift together, maintenance techs who keep the equipment up. We focus there because that is where we deliver consistently.
Send candidates we have not vetted. Inflate wage expectations to win the req. Pretend a hire is two weeks out when we can see it is six. Pull a candidate from one of your competitors without their explicit, written consent. Treat a placement like a ticket to be closed.
Most of our work happens inside a 200-mile radius of Flint, Michigan. We run reqs across Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Western Pennsylvania and Northern Kentucky. If a brief sits outside that footprint, we will say so on the first call.
Every direct-hire placement comes with a 90-day replacement guarantee. If a hire does not stay, we re-run the search at no additional fee. The terms are written into the engagement letter, not buried in T&Cs.