Since 1973, Bilet Products Company (a subsidiary of United Pacific Forest Products) has been a leading manufacturer of lumber products in the Northwest. Their products include pallets, crates, skids and custom wood boxes, and more. Bilet’s Tualatin location is responsible solely for custom pallet design and manufacture for its wide customer base, and therefore has ever-shifting staffing needs at a moment’s notice.
The Challenge: Quickly-trainable Staff Willing to Work Hard
The Challenge: Quickly-trainable Staff Willing to Work HardBilet had a constantly-changing order frequency from top-notch customers such as Coca-Cola, Kroger, Intel, Costco, Albertsons, and others. But management at Bilet had little to no time to manage the HR overhead that comes with hiring additional workers to help design, produce, and ship specialty pallets and crates in a short timeframe. Bilet creates shippable pallets, skids, boxes and bins for anything from fragile computer parts to bags of living ladybugs to gigantic steel beams for the renovation of the Brooklyn Bridge. Such varied orders can (and do) come in at a moment’s notice. Bilet needed some help.
The Solution: DePaul’s Pool of Safe, Skilled Workers
Pallet building at Bilet is “real tough work,” according to Dennis Murphy, Site Supervisor at Bilet. Therefore, Murphy needs a steady stream of dependable, safe employees who are willing to work hard. In this manner, Bilet is able to test out workers before hiring them on full-time to ensure that they’ve got the mettle to perform. In other words, Bilet now is able to “try before they buy” and source quality candidates straight from the temporary pool provided by DePaul.
The Benefits
With DPI Staffing, Bilet is able to meet both its temporary staffing needs and its long-term staffing needs while solving its customers’ product and logistics problems. Bilet is a tight-knit family and have people who have worked side-by-side together for many years. It’s important to Bilet that the company providing their HR and staffing solutions—their people solutions—have open, honest communication and select employees who are not only hard workers, but who fit best with the culture of the company. For Bilet, DePaul and its employees are the perfect fit.
What do you think about “trying before buying” when it comes to a quality workforce?
