Blue Tongue - Specialist Recruitment for the Mining Industry

Over the past ten years, Blue Tongue has established itself as Australia's specialist firm in sourcing technical experts for two mining areas: mobile equipment maintenance trades and fixed plant maintenance trades. We are 100% Australian owned and managed, operating from our offices in Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Brisbane. We also have a number of international offices to assist with our global sourcing.

We can help with specialist global talent searching, on-hire contracting, permanent placements and local recruitment services - both fixed fee and traditional services. In addition we can also provide outsourced HR solutions, specialist training and workforce development.

Mining technical specialists

The skills shortage in Australia has seriously impacted technical and trade roles. In response to this, Blue Tongue has developed its global skills programme to help ease the problem. We have invested in setting up international recruitment agencies that primarily function to source technical specialists.

Global mining recruitment and migration experts

Our recruitment and migration experts have been at the forefront of global recruitment for the mining industry in Australia. The team has large scale recruitment and employment project experience, having worked with many leading Australian-based heavy maintenance companies who require specialist skills that are not readily available in regional Australia.

Our senior team also has the HR and recruitment expertise to ensure that our clients can achieve desirable levels of workforce stability for their business operations.

Technical candidate sourcing for mining

We offer our clients in the heavy maintenance sectors superior value in terms of quality technical candidate sourcing and recruitment, sound employment-related migration expertise, comprehensive candidate relocation, settlement and post-settlement support. Blue Tongue is also able to take on all of the initial employment risk, which provides greater flexibility and limited up-front cost.

Many of our clients find it hard to fill roles in remote areas of Australia. This usually leads to delayed work on projects and in turn, lost income. As a solution to this, we developed a specialist practice that sources talent from national and international locations who are prepared to live in remote regions of Australia. We currently have representation in over 30 remote locations across Australia.