Manufacturing Recruiters, Houston

The Houston market, straight

Houston has one of the deepest benches of small and mid-size manufacturers in the country. Machining, fab, valves and wellhead, coatings, aerospace work out toward Clear Lake. It also has the majors and their tier-ones paying wages a 30-person shop can't match. Winning good people here means selling what a small shop actually offers: variety, autonomy, no corporate runaround. And it means screening hard for fit, because a refinery QA specialist is usually the wrong hire for a job shop.

Roles we fill across the metro

CNC Machinist · CNC Programmer · Machine Operator · Manual Machinist · Welder / Fabricator · QC Inspector · CMM Programmer · Quality Technician · Quality Engineer · Quality Manager · Shop Supervisor · Production Manager

We work the whole metro: the Ship Channel corridor, Pasadena, Deer Park, Baytown, Katy, Sugar Land, Stafford, The Woodlands, Conroe.

Why shops pick us over the big agencies

• We know shop work. We build ISO 9001 systems in shops like yours, so our screening questions come from the floor, not a script.
• O&G supplier fluency. API Q1 exposure, supplier audits, approved vendor lists. Candidates get checked against what your customers will actually demand.
• Small enough to care. You deal with the same person from role scoping to offer. No hand-offs to a junior recruiter you've never met.
• No fee until you hire, replacement guarantee in writing. Same terms as everything else we do.

Houston hiring questions

What do these roles pay in Houston right now?

Rough bands we see: machinists $25-38/hr, QC inspectors $22-32/hr, quality engineers $85-115K, quality managers $95-135K. O&G-adjacent and AS9100 shops sit at the top of each band. We'll benchmark your exact spec before you post anything.

Can you cover a gap while we search?

For quality leadership, yes. A fractional quality manager keeps audits and CAPAs moving while the search runs.