The technician who knows the control.
Not the next placement fee.
We build your company its own recruiting system for service technicians, industrial mechanics and machinists. Built once – after that you hire on your own, without an agency and without us.
No obligation – no lock-in contract
A machine tool builder sells a machine once and services it for fifteen years. That is where the money is: in German mechanical engineering, service typically delivers 30 percent of total profit, and 50 percent or more on maintenance-intensive equipment. It is also where the people are missing. When you have no technician who can handle a Siemens 840D or a Heidenhain control in the field, it is not just the service calendar that slips – it decides who sells the customer their next machine. Service quality accounts for 50 percent of the investment decision, as much as product quality and price combined.
The second bottleneck sits inside your own plant. CNC machinists are part of the 42,000 open skilled-worker positions in German mechanical engineering – and you compete for exactly the same people with every contract manufacturer within 40 kilometres. The difference is rarely money. The difference is who is visible and who answers within three days.
The usual response is a job ad, and when that fails, a recruitment agency. Both are one-time purchases. At the next vacancy the same invoice starts over. We build the system once instead – role profile, your own careers page, channel, response rhythm, pre-selection, handover – and leave it with you. Whatever gets filled afterwards, you fill.
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
- Mr Krüger
Good evening, I saw your field service technician role. How large is the travel radius?
- Blacklyne
Good evening! Around 180 km, you sleep at home. Overnight stays about twice a month, company vehicle provided. Which controls have you worked on most recently?
< 3 s - Mr Krüger
Siemens 840D and Heidenhain, seven years of CNC service. I am used to on-call duty.
- Blacklyne
That fits. Our service manager has Thursday 16:30 open – shall I book it for you?
< 4 s
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
What keeps your roles open.
The bottlenecks in this segment – and why they rarely sit in the market.
A job ad reaches 6 percent of the market
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 only the first 6 percent. The machinist you need is standing at a machine and is not reading a job board.
Control expertise cuts the pool to a tenth
A service technician who handles Siemens, Heidenhain and Fanuc in the field is not an industrial mechanic with a weekend course. Put that requirement into an ad unfiltered and you get either nothing at all or everything – and then sort by hand.
106 days the advert sits open, and the service margin does not wait
The median time an advert stays open in German mechanical engineering is 106 days (own analysis, 23,707 Federal Agency postings, 2026). After roughly 120 days of vacancy, the cost of an open position exceeds a full annual gross salary – calculated at a factor of three, the midpoint of the common range of two to four. You are paying for the role before anyone sits in it.
An agency solves exactly one vacancy
Placement fees run between 15 and 25 percent of annual gross salary, with a German market average of 27.5 percent. That is bearable once. Even across two technical hires a year it becomes a permanent line item that returns every single year.
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.
Here is what changes for you.
What ends
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Recruiter fee per head -
Open-ended retainer -
Staffing mark-up -
Accounts and applicant data with a provider
First application within 72 hours
Not first review, not first report: first application. After that, a fixed rhythm – every application answered the same day, because the candidate is applying elsewhere in parallel.
The role profile a technician actually decides on
Travel radius, overnight stays, on-call arrangement, control systems, vehicle, setup time. Six points that appear in almost no job ad and that every service technician thinks about first. With us they are in the first line, not the fourth interview.
A guarantee on the outcome
We guarantee the hire, not the number of applications. If a committed role stays open, we keep working – at no further cost.
After the handover you do not need us
Careers page, ad accounts, audiences, message templates, applicant data and everything documented in writing belong to you. The next role you fill without an external invoice.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Honest answers.
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01 We need service technicians and machinists at the same time. Does that require two systems?
No. Both roles draw on the same pool: people with a metalworking or electrical apprenticeship. That is precisely why one system carries several roles. The role profile and the approach differ, the build does not. -
02 Our technicians need specific control systems. Does the system filter for that?
Yes, and before anyone loses time in an interview. The technical criteria come from your house – from your service manager, not from us. We build the path that asks for them. The questionnaire and the scoring logic are yours afterwards. -
03 We have already tried two agencies. What is different here?
An agency delivers applications for as long as you pay. We build the system inside your company and hand it over – with access, templates and training. The difference is not the campaign, it is the last step. -
04 If the system belongs to us, what do you live on?
On building new companies every year – not on old ones never finishing. Anyone who wants support afterwards gets it. Voluntary, cancellable, never a condition. -
05 How many machine tool builders do you work with in our region?
One. We never work for two companies competing for the same skilled workers in the same catchment area. If your region is taken, we say so in the first call.
Articles for this industry
Practical guides and levers – straight from the field
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
- You leave a postcode and a website. That is all we need to place your catchment area.
- 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.
- 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.