We recruit, onboard and manage the temporary and permanent teams behind some of the UK’s busiest waste, warehousing and manufacturing operations. Shifts get filled. Sites stay compliant. Good people stay.
Warehouse, recycling, driving and production work across the UK, with a proper induction, a team that’s got your back and a real route to progress. Temporary, ongoing and permanent roles.
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The real cost of a missed shift
When agency supply is treated as a numbers game, your operation pays for it in empty stations, overtime, wasted inductions and risk you can’t see. Sound familiar?
No-shows and short fills that ripple down the line and into your SLAs.
Churn that wipes out the cost of every induction and every hour of training.
Fragmented supply, inconsistent standards, and nobody accountable for the whole picture.
Modern slavery, right-to-work and pay-rate exposure hiding deep in your supply chain.
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What we do
Whether you need 20 extra pickers for peak or thousands of shifts a week across a national network, we design, deliver and manage the model that fits your operation.
We take ownership of your entire temporary labour supply chain, including our network of 75+ vetted partner agencies. One contract, one set of KPIs, one invoice.
Best for: multi-site operations that want one accountable partner.
Our managers work from your site, running inductions, rotas, welfare and floor walks, and solving problems before they reach your desk.
Best for: high-volume sites with large temporary teams.
Skills-tested, inducted operatives ready for your next shift, from a handful of extra hands to a full peak ramp-up.
Best for: peaks, seasonal swings and fast-moving demand.
End-to-end permanent hiring for blue- and white-collar roles across transport, waste, the built environment, green industries and engineering.
Best for: supervisors, managers, engineers and specialists.
Running sites across the UK? Ask about becoming a National Recruitment Partner: one point of contact, one standard, every region.
The ALS method
Retention isn’t luck. It comes from a process we run on every site, for every worker, every week.
We learn your operation, your peaks and your KPIs, then build a workforce plan around them. Peak planning starts in July, not November.
Skills testing before day one. Inductions scheduled around real shifts, so night workers are inducted on nights. A buddy on the floor, plus language and health support.
Weekly appraisals, a 12-week upskilling programme and a clear route from the warehouse floor to team leader and trainer, with rewards for safety and performance.
Results
Real numbers from real sites, published with our clients. Pick a story.
40% of new starters were leaving within two weeks. Inductions ran at 60% attendance, and peaks were short of people.
Skills testing for every new worker. Inductions on the shift people wanted. Our own trainer, adding 30 inductions a week. A 12-week upskilling programme with weekly appraisals and buddies, and Christmas peak planned from July.
ALS delivered an outstanding level of achievement with over 140,000 being processed per day. Prior to ALS coming onboard, this would not have been achievable.
Cory wanted a managed service partner on the floor, not just on the phone, and one that matched its own high standards for welfare, training, progression and retention.
Referral-led recruitment, peer-to-peer buddying, structured training with external providers, and rewards for performance and safety. Our on-site team walks the floor regularly, and our directors visit site.
Referred workers are far more likely to stay: 74% last at least a month, against 42% through traditional recruitment.
An incumbent supplier of eight years, 25% retention, skills shortages in drivers and plant engineers, and £100,000 of invoicing inaccuracy.
A 17-strong account management team visiting sites weekly, a dedicated transition project manager, a fit-for-purpose invoicing system and a bespoke online induction platform.
Year-one cost-saving targets delivered, with bigger savings in years two and three. 1,150+ workers trained on our induction platform, with a 92% pass rate.
An established, UK-wide courier brought us in during July 2020. On takeover, only 788 of 909 shifts were being filled.
Our shift managers motivated and supported the temporary team on site, and we worked proactively with the customer to help them improve productivity.
Shifts requested rose by 17% over the same period, and fulfilment still went up.
Compliance & ethics
Every worker we place is vetted, inducted and paid correctly, and our supply chain is checked for exploitation at every level. You can put our compliance in front of any auditor, client or board.
ALS People clearly demonstrated that it took a proactive approach to understand and tackle modern slavery.
Sectors
We go deep, not wide. Our account managers know the shifts, the safety culture and the skills each sector runs on.
A safety-first workforce for MRFs, transfer stations and energy-from-waste sites.
Peak-ready teams for distribution centres and parcel hubs, from Black Friday to Christmas.
Technically skilled operatives for consumer goods and automotive production lines.
When the UK needed Covid-19 testing centres at pace, we mobilised traffic marshals, operatives and site management teams across the country.
For job seekers
Whether you want extra shifts, a steady contract or a step up to team leader, we’ll find work that fits your life, and look after you once you’re there.
What site teams say
Our people work on your site, on first-name terms with your team, and accountable for the results.
The communication from ALS to the site has been outstanding from the beginning. The contacts for the agency are more than happy to help with any issues and information is communicated clearly and quickly.
Site ManagerFedEx
ALS have been fantastic and Sylwia always delivers and ensures our staffing levels and recruitment are correct. Great to work with.
Group Operations ManagerWaste & recycling customer, Scotland
ALS have been superb this peak. Aga and her team on site have supported us and delivered our requirements every day. Thank you for your fantastic work.
Warehousing customerUK
ALS have been an amazing company to work with. They have supported all staff with incredible individual support. I would highly recommend working with this company.
Site ManagerALS client
About ALS People
Since 2014, we’ve worked on a simple belief: look after people properly, and they’ll look after your operation.
From our home in South Wales, we’ve grown into a UK-wide managed workforce partner for waste, logistics and manufacturing. Turnover has grown from £13.3m to more than £60m and headcount has doubled since 2018. In September 2026 our management team completed its second buy-out, backed by the Development Bank of Wales.
“It gives us the platform to scale what we already do well — delivering reliable, compliant workforce solutions in some of the most operationally demanding sectors in the UK.”
up from £13.3m in 2018
doubled since 2018
in workforce & supply chain
Caerphilly, South Wales
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