Disaster recovery staffing for contractors
For primes, subcontractors, and monitoring firms who have the mission and not enough people.
You already know how this goes. The notice to proceed comes in, the client wants trucks rolling in seventy two hours, and the constraint is never equipment. It is finding forty monitors who will actually show up in a county three hundred miles from home, and finding them before the other prime does.
That is what we do. We recruit and hold a roster of people for disaster recovery jobs/disaster relief work, sorted by role, by state, and by whether they will travel. When you call with a requirement, we work that roster against it rather than starting a job posting from zero.
How a request actually works
Tell us four things and we can start immediately: the role, the headcount, the location, and the report date. Certification requirements and client specific screening rules matter too, and the earlier we have them the less rework there is at mobilization.
From there we work the roster by role and state, confirm availability by phone rather than by email, verify that the certifications on file are current, and come back to you with names. People who do not answer are not on the list we hand you. That sounds obvious. It is also the single largest source of no shows in this industry, and it is the reason a roster of two thousand names can produce twelve usable people.
We are candid about what we cannot do. If a requirement calls for credentials our roster does not currently hold in that region, we will say so on the call rather than confirm and hope. A prime who was told no on Tuesday can solve the problem by Thursday. A prime who finds out at mobilization cannot.
Roles we recruit for
Eleven roles, described in operational detail on the roles section of our jobs page. In brief:
- Monitoring. Debris monitors, tower monitors, load site monitors, and environmental monitors. The largest headcount requirement on most debris missions and the hardest to fill at speed.
- Administration. Project admins for ticket reconciliation, timekeeping, subcontractor tracking, and daily reporting.
- Transport and equipment. CDL drivers, heavy equipment operators, and skid steer operators.
- Vegetation. Arborists and certified utility foresters for hazard trees, leaners and hangers, and line clearance corridors.
- General labor. Laborers for hand crews, chipper operations, sorting, and traffic control.
Where we staff
Fourteen states across two hazard profiles. Hurricane, tornado, and flood response in Florida, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Virginia. Wildfire and post fire recovery in California, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, Montana, and Wyoming. Texas runs both.
Those are different labor markets with different certification expectations, and we do not pretend a Gulf coast roster solves a California ash removal requirement. The state by state breakdown covers what drives hiring in each one.
Why the phone matters
Calls are answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including weekends and holidays. Placement happens on a callback if a role is available.
Mobilization decisions do not respect business hours. A track shifts at eleven at night and the requirement changes with it. Most of this industry answers the phone between nine and five on weekdays, which means a Sunday landfall costs everyone a day they do not have.
We will not tell you we can place people instantly, because nobody can. What we will tell you is that when you call, a person answers, and the roster work starts then rather than Monday morning.
Screening, classification, and compliance
Client screening requirements vary widely, from a basic identity and eligibility check through to full background screening and badge access for controlled sites. Tell us what your contract requires and we will confirm what we can verify before anyone reports.
Ask us for our classification and coverage details before you commit to anything. Whether people are placed as W2 or 1099, who carries workers compensation and general liability, E-Verify participation, and any state staffing registrations that apply are all fair questions. You should have those answers in writing from any staffing vendor, including us.
We are a staffing and recruiting company. We are not a government agency and we are not affiliated with FEMA.
Start a request
Or call 407-890-2345 at any hour. If you would rather see what we tell candidates before you talk to us, the FAQ is the same information we give them, including how to tell a legitimate disaster company from a scam. Looking for work rather than hiring? Apply here.