Houston contractors and plant operators use Cruitfly to add certified abatement, insulation, scaffold, demolition and general labor crews without adding permanent headcount. Cruitfly has no Houston office. It mobilizes vetted traveling crews to Houston and the surrounding Gulf Coast metro from its national network, with every order run from its Indianapolis and Charlotte offices, and each worker stays on Cruitfly's W2 payroll for the life of the job.
Much of Houston's heavy work sits along the 52-mile Houston Ship Channel, which the Greater Houston Port Bureau describes as the largest petrochemical manufacturing complex in the U.S. Plant work there runs on fixed windows. A turnaround or outage has a start date that does not move, needs a surge of insulators, scaffold carpenters and abatement workers for a few weeks, and then releases them. That is exactly the headcount a plant or contractor does not want to carry year round.
Cruitfly's crews have done this kind of work elsewhere: its scaffold carpenters have worked industrial turnarounds at power plants, and its insulation crews have held long-term plant contracts that required TWIC cards.
A Houston order usually fills in 48 to 72 hours. The range moves with the certifications, the site requirements and when Cruitfly receives the request, which is why an order that lists TWIC, badging and asbestos licensing up front fills faster than one that discovers them on day one. When a worker does not work out, Cruitfly typically has the replacement on site in 12 to 24 hours, with a longer and honest timeline for a hard-to-source certification.
A traveling crew carries costs a local hire does not: travel, per diem and lodging. The construction staffing cost guide shows how those sit alongside wages, workers' compensation and payroll taxes in a bill rate.
Workers' compensation, payroll taxes and unemployment insurance are Cruitfly's, because the workers are Cruitfly's W2 employees. Public work for Texas or a Texas city, county or school district falls under the state prevailing wage law, Chapter 2258 of the Government Code, and federal money brings Davis-Bacon. Either way, Cruitfly delivers certified payroll weekly. Worker training certificates, physicals and respirator fit tests are available to you through software before mobilization. Projects in other Texas cities are covered on the Texas construction staffing page.
No. Cruitfly is headquartered in Indianapolis with a second office in Charlotte, and it sends traveling crews from its national network to Houston projects.
Yes. Cruitfly supplies insulators, scaffold carpenters, abatement workers and general labor for fixed-window plant work. Give the start date, duration and site access rules on the order.
Some do, and TWIC cannot be obtained on short notice, so list it as a requirement when you order and Cruitfly will match workers who already hold one.
Typically in 48 to 72 hours. Specialized certifications or site access requirements can extend that, and Cruitfly tells you when they will.
Yes. Cruitfly produces certified payroll every week for projects under the Texas prevailing wage law and for federal Davis-Bacon work.
Yes. Direct hire places a worker on your payroll from day one with a 90-day guarantee, and conversion staffing lets a worker move to your payroll after a trial period on Cruitfly's.
Request an employee with your site, start date, headcount and certifications, or call 317-426-7703.
Cody is co-owner of Cruitfly, where he leads business development and works with commercial and industrial contractors to staff abatement, demolition, insulation, and scaffolding crews across the country. Connect with Cody on LinkedIn.
Need a certified crew on site? Tell us the project, the start date and the certifications you need. Typical fill is 48 to 72 hours, and every worker is a W2 Cruitfly employee covered by our workers' compensation. Prefer to talk? Call 317-426-7703.