Foundation Recruitment

Foundation Recruitment Established in 2007 Foundation Recruitment and Contracting is Australia’s foremost professional, dynamic, & exciting recruitment firm.

“We are successful at what we do and are proud to be leaders in our field”

Established in 2007, Foundation Recruitment is one of Australia’s foremost professional, dynamic, and exciting recruitment companies. With offices based in Brisbane, Sunshine Coast and Darwin, we provide our recruitment services nationally. Lead by Founder and Director, Paul Gay and with over 40 years combined recruitment experience, our team at Foundation Recruitment are “industry specialist” consultants who provide expert advice to both candidates and clients. As we work in partnership with our clients, we are experts at recognising their needs and requirements and understanding the challenges facing companies within our industry sectors. With an extensive industry network and strong relationships built and maintained over decades, we have an extensive range of contacts which is fundamental to our success. We are specialists in sourcing exceptional people for organisations and experts in finding the right career options for candidates. We find the best people, work hard to achieve the best result and give you a commitment to achieve the best outcome. Unlike many, we don’t rely on “job board advertising” to secure candidates for our clients, as many can do this themselves; instead we utilise our extensive database and contact network to ‘flush out” passive job seekers and present our client's opportunities to them!

“We don’t muck around….”

The market is moving quickly and it is important to move fast and deliver results in a timely manner. Our sense of urgency and determination to ensure that we address and solve the recruitment needs for both our candidates and clients alike is the pivotal to our success. When dealing with people, no process is flawless - sometimes through no-ones fault and outside any level of control, some placements just don’t work! We identify this and boast quite proudly that some of our strongest client relationships have been developed by delivering our highly valued “replacement guarantee” services as a priority! We pride ourselves on this and believe our clients come back to us time and time again as a result of their confidence in us to uphold this guarantee process. Our experienced Recruitment Consultants have years of specialist industry experience recruiting both nationally and internationally. We are recruitment leaders in the construction, development, building, project management, energy resource sector as well as the public practice accounting sector. We also work across a broad range of other industries, working with some of the country’s top companies both large and small providing the full spectrum of recruitment services for all of our clients. We recruit for temporary, contract, permanent and high volume placements.

16/09/2026

We work all over Australia, but the Territory is its own market.

Kerrin runs our operations out of the Darwin head office. She knows the market because she lives in it.

If you need labour in the NT, she is who you will be dealing with.

Alfie has been with us ten years, and he does not just turn up for the photos.He comes out to sites, meets the clients, ...
14/09/2026

Alfie has been with us ten years, and he does not just turn up for the photos.

He comes out to sites, meets the clients, and talks to the people we have placed.

If he is telling someone to jump on board, it is because he has watched how we treat them.

11/09/2026

Foundation started because Paul got tired of watching bigger companies treat clients and candidates like numbers.

He comes from a working class background. His view is that people should be treated as people, and that no one is any different to anyone else.

Twenty years on that is still how we run it. It is also why we have stayed small enough that you deal with the person who is actually filling your job.

The eye of the storm ! They loved their Japanese BBq , sharing was a challenge!
10/09/2026

The eye of the storm ! They loved their Japanese BBq , sharing was a challenge!

09/09/2026

Twenty years in. Privately owned and family run.

We started out in building and civil construction. These days we also cover manufacturing, infrastructure, mining, government, and white collar roles for the big utility companies.

There are two sides to it. Foundation Recruitment for permanent jobs. Foundation Labour Hire for casual and contract work.

05/07/2026
Was a little chilly, but well worth the Visit to Alice Springs this week.With two crews delivering skilled labour hire s...
28/06/2026

Was a little chilly, but well worth the Visit to Alice Springs this week.
With two crews delivering skilled labour hire skills across two sites including the critical Tanami Highway upgrade, Foundation Labour Hire
continues to deliver skilled labour resources for our valued clients .

Cities or remote regional projects, we stand ready to deliver labour Hire services across all sectors.

Address

29/90 Francis Bay Drive
North Lakes, QLD
0820

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

Telephone

+61738806944

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