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Segment: Material handling & intralogistics

You compete against corporate career pages.
With the better offer.

A recruiting system that belongs to your company – for service technicians, mechatronics engineers and electricians. Built once, then you hire on your own.

No obligation – no lock-in contract

In intralogistics, mid-sized manufacturers and service operators rarely lose technicians to a better offer. They lose them to a better careers page. 44 percent of companies with 20 to 199 employees and 47 percent with 200 to 999 report serious hiring problems – while the large players compete for the same service technicians with a dedicated recruiting department, an employer brand and a budget.

The bitter part: for many technicians, the 140-person material handling manufacturer has the more attractive offer. Shorter routes, direct line to management, more responsibility at the machine, no corporate matrix. Nobody knows it. Visibility here is not a marketing topic, it is the actual competitive disadvantage.

So we do not build you a campaign, we build you a position: your own careers page on your own domain, a channel to the people who are not searching who are not currently searching, and a response rhythm no corporation with three approval stages can match. And then we hand it over – with access, templates and training.

THE RESPONSE RHYTHM

One application. Answered the same day.

A technician applies in the evening after their shift – and usually not only to you. Whoever answers first gets the interview. That is not a service promise, it is the selection mechanism of this market.

First application within 72 hours.

Then a fixed rhythm: every application answered the same day – even when the service manager is at a customer site or on holiday. The process and the templates belong to your company from day one.

  • Answers in minutes, not days – evenings and weekends included
  • Asks the points your service manager defined
WhatsApp replies instantly
  1. Mr Aydin

    Your posting for a material handling service technician – is night work the rule or the exception?

  2. Blacklyne

    Good evening! Roughly one week in four involves night work at a distribution centre, with a premium and time off in lieu. The rest runs on days. Do you have experience with drives and controls?

    < 3 s
  3. Mr Aydin

    Yes, five years maintaining sorting systems, qualified electrician.

  4. Blacklyne

    Excellent. Monday 15:00 is free for a first conversation – shall I hold it?

    < 4 s
First application on launch day – interview the same evening.
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Blacklyne Your inbox All channels, one inbox

Every route. One entry point.

Careers page, ad, message, callback – all in one place, on your access and with your data. No agency inbox you have to have candidates forwarded from.

  • One entry point instead of five channels and three inboxes
  • All applicant data stays with you – from day one
WHERE IT HURTS

What keeps your roles open.

The bottlenecks in this segment – and why they rarely sit in the market.

Maintenance happens at night and on weekends

In a running distribution centre, work happens when nobody else works. On-call duty and night shifts are a hard no for some candidates and the very allowance others move for. Leave both out of the same ad and you reach neither.

The big names come to mind first

With the same job and the same region, what often decides is simply whose name the technician has heard before. That is not a verdict on your company – it is a visibility problem, and it is solvable.

The demographics are already visible in the service team

23 percent of employees in German mechanical engineering are over 55, only 12 percent under 30, the average age is 46.2 years. By 2034, according to IW Köln and the Impuls Foundation, 296,000 will retire while 118,000 enter. Every service manager knows who leaves in five years.

Every vacancy starts from zero

After each hire the agency engagement ends, access expires, the learning leaves with it. Six months later the same process restarts – same cost, none of the head start.

THE NUMBERS

6 percent are searching. a third would be open to an offer.

According to the EY job study 2025, a quarter of employees are actively looking and another third are open to an offer without searching. A job ad addresses the first 6 percent. The rest are reachable, just not where you advertise.

Every application is answered the same day.

Likelihood an applicant responds How many of 100 applications stay in the process With Blacklyne (AI) Without a system 100 % 75 % 50 % 25 % 0 % RESPONSE RATE Blacklyne < 1 min After 10 min Half are gone After 2 hrs 80 % lost After 24 hrs Almost nothing left 1 Min 10 Min 2 h 12 h 24 h REPLY TIME Based on Harvard Business Review, "The Short Life of Online Sales Leads" (2011, 1.25M leads) – illustrative curve, not measured response rates
WHAT CHANGES

Here is what changes for you.

What ends

  • Recruiter fee per head
  • Open-ended retainer
  • Staffing mark-up
  • Accounts and applicant data with a provider

A careers page that belongs to you

On your domain, not as a profile on someone else’s platform. Applicable on a phone in 90 seconds, no CV requirement. Including source code and access from day one.

The one advantage only mid-size has: speed

A corporation needs approvals. You need a decision. A 72-hour response rhythm is the one competitive advantage no budget can buy – and it is part of the system, not of good intentions.

Pre-selection on your criteria

Your service manager defines what counts technically. We build the path that asks for it before anyone loses interview time. Questionnaire, scoring logic and all applicant data stay with you.

One company per specialisation and area

We never work for two manufacturers competing for the same technicians in the same catchment area. That is in the contract, not in the brochure.

HOW IT WORKS

4 steps.
Live from day one.

First we check whether the role can be filled in your region. Then it goes out – advert, application route and campaign from us, under your name. First applications within 72 hours.

  1. 15 minutes

    Feasibility check

    Can the role be filled in your region, and is your area still open? We put in writing what “the right fit” means technically. We decline roles that cannot be filled – even when that means one engagement less.

  2. your effort: one approval

    We launch it

    Role profile with travel radius and on-call, careers page on your domain, a 90-second application path, campaign in your region. We build it and switch it live – you approve it once. Every account runs under your name.

  3. first within 72 h

    Applications

    Then a fixed rhythm: every application answered the same day, pre-screened on your service manager’s criteria. You run interviews instead of sorting. If a committed role stays open, we keep working – at no further cost.

  4. next role: one click

    It stays live

    Accounts, audiences, templates and applicant data keep running under your name – live, not a kit to learn. The next role takes minutes: type the title, tick the box, live. If you would rather hand it back to us, you can – but you do not have to.

Questions

Honest answers.

  1. 01 We hire nationwide, not regionally. Does the system fit?
    Yes, it is then steered per service area rather than per site. The build stays the same, the outreach is split regionally – and you can extend it to new areas yourself afterwards.
  2. 02 Our technicians carry on-call duty. Does that scare people off?
    It scares off the wrong people, which is good. On-call with a clear arrangement and allowance is a reason to move for part of the market. Left unsaid, it becomes a reason to quit in year one.
  3. 03 What if nobody suitable comes through?
    Then we keep working, at no further cost. We guarantee the hire, not the volume of applications. Before that, though, we check whether the role can be filled at all – we do not take on roles that cannot.
  4. 04 How long does the build take?
    The first application arrives within 72 hours of launch. How long the full build including handover takes depends on how many roles you want covered – we settle that in the first call against your numbers, not against a standard plan.
Waiting list

One company per specialisation and area. Every slot is currently taken.

Put your name down. As soon as a slot opens in your area we will come back to you – with an assessment, not a pitch.

What happens next

  1. You leave a postcode and a website. That is all we need to place your catchment area.
  2. We come back as soon as we can – and we decline if your area is taken or the role cannot be filled. Honestly, before you lose time.
  3. If it fits, we run your area together: how many suitable technicians work within range, and what the build would cost you – including when we advise against it.
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A systems builder, not an agency

The last time you pay anyone for recruiting as a service.

Blacklyne is not a recruiter, not a retainer agency and not a staffing firm. We build the hiring system once inside your company and hand it over with accounts, templates and everything documented in writing. From handover on you hire on your own – no fee per head, no monthly retainer, and no us.

What ends at handover

  • Recruiter fee, 15–25 % of annual salary – per head, every time
  • Retainer: monthly, open-ended, paying for effort rather than outcome
  • Staffing mark-up, cost factor 1.5–2.0
  • Dependency: accounts, audiences and applicant data sitting with a provider

What stays – inside your company

  • A careers page on your own domain, source code and access included
  • Ad accounts, audiences and creatives running on your company
  • Applicant data, screening questions and scoring logic
  • Operating manual and training – you launch the next role alone

Your ad budget keeps running through your own accounts, paid straight to the platform. Nothing flows to us from day one – that is the difference, not the campaign.

How the system is built