Blue Tongue

Blue Tongue provides Blue Collar and Trades Recruitment from Perth and Melbourne to mining, civil, rail, oil and gas, heavy transport and defence employers across Australia, sourcing, hiring and managing heavy mobile mechanics, electricians and other specialist maintenance trades since 2005.

• International Talent Program has hired, relocated and managed more than 1,000 specialist tradespeople from overseas, covering sourcing in multiple countries, agent and candidate management, flights, onboarding and settlement, and visa pathways through to permanent residency.
• 2026 international hiring projects target industrial electricians and heavy mobile mechanics, including underground and drilling mobile plant technicians and HV electricians.
• Employs its own workforce and supplies trade service crews of a team leader and supervisor supported by tradespeople and apprentices for electrical and mechanical contracting.
• Placements are supported by in-house virtual reality training for maintenance and electrical trades.

Best for: mining contractors, OEM dealers and heavy industry operators with long-term shortages of heavy diesel mechanics, HV electricians and other maintenance trades.

Blue Tongue provides Apprenticeship and Traineeship Training from Perth to mining, rail and heavy transport employers in Western Australia through its Advanced Group Training programs, which have upskilled light vehicle mechanics into heavy plant roles since 2010.

• Programs cover Mobile Plant Mechanic, Body and Trailer Builder and Rail Signalling Technician qualifications.
• Participants are employed by Blue Tongue, complete eight weeks of upfront training, then work on client sites while finishing their qualification.
• The model ends with transfer of a dual trade qualified technician to the client.

Best for: WA mining, rail and heavy transport businesses building maintenance capability through upskilling.