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A strategic partner for high-impact engineering results.
Kelly Engineering helps organizations reach the full potential of their projects with customized workforce solutions designed for their most complex engineering challenges. You’ll get deep industry expertise for tailored strategies and proven results that keep your business moving forward.
Why Kelly Engineering?
60+ years of engineering outcomes
We’ve evolved alongside the industry for more than 60 years, featuring established experts who deliver high-impact engineering outcomes across 1,000+ client locations.
Specialized industry expertise
Our dedicated team delivers true engineering expertise across key industries and practice areas to solve your most difficult challenges and strengthen your strategy.
Flexible portfolio of solutions
We listen, we solve, and we deliver proven solutions that fit your reality, from expert talent on a contract or direct hire basis, to project- and outcome-based deliverables.
Reinforce your business with expert engineering workforce solutions.
Engineering is changing faster than ever to adapt to emerging trends and technologies. Organizations partner with Kelly Engineering to stay ahead of the latest advancements through our consulting, expertise, and scalable solutions, tailored to their business goals.
Choose from SOW- and outcome-based models or workforce placements to fit your ideal strategy. You’ll work with true experts who bring real-world engineering experience to your solution, and instantly access top-tier engineering talent, perfectly matched to your industry and needs.
Kelly Engineering has been able to source excellent candidates in various roles, which has enabled us to grow our company in a very short period of time. Every one of the new employees has been able to hit the ground running which is a massive time saving within the company and has allowed me to focus on our customer requirements and deliver a far superior service. Your selection of candidates to the job description supplied for the role has vastly reduced the time in the interview process."
- Head of Operations, Energy client
How our expertise fits your reality.
The complex challenges that organizations face today span an array of key engineering disciplines. Our expertise is focused on industry environments where those practice areas deeply coincide.
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Kelly Engineering by the numbers.
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The people behind Kelly Engineering.
Joel Leege
President, Kelly SETT
Joel is an executive leader with experience in staffing, talent solutions and managed services across technology, engineering, life sciences, finance & accounting and creative specialized businesses. Throughout his career, Joel has led multiple teams through significant growth, transformation and maturation while focusing on building quality teams who can generate sustained results. He leads teams in a collaborative manner and with a growth focused mindset. Joel received his BA in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa, a Master’s of Human Resources & Labor Relations from Michigan State University and a certificate for Mergers & Acquisitions from London Business School.
Mark Walker
President, Kelly Engineering & Digital Infrastructure
Mark brings over 30 years of extensive experience in the wireless industry, having worked with leading global telecommunications manufacturers, world-class carriers, and a prominent telecom consulting and solutions providers. Prior to joining our team, Mark held the position of Network Vice President, where he oversaw the design, deployment, and operation of Sprint’s wireless network in the Northeast Region. His leadership roles extended across RF Engineering, Operations, and Solutions Engineering teams for both Sprint and Nextel. Mark’s career trajectory also includes roles within Motorola, where he contributed to Test Systems and Field Engineering teams. Beyond his professional endeavors, Mark is deeply committed to serving as a board member for Warriors4Wireless, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering military veterans by facilitating rewarding career opportunities within the telecommunications sector. Mark’s expertise, leadership, and dedication to bridging the gap between veterans and telecommunications careers exemplify his impact within the industry and the community.
Steve Ermak
Leader, Automotive, Aerospace & Mobility
Steve Ermak leads Kelly Engineering's work across automotive, aerospace, and sustainable mobility, industries where engineering programs are moving faster than the talent pipelines that support them. With more than 11 years in the industry, he works alongside engineering leaders to build the specialized teams that electrification, advanced manufacturing, autonomous systems, and next generation mobility programs depend on.
Steve starts with the engineering problem: which technical skills a program needs, when it needs them, and how to keep a team on track as requirements shift. Through flexible workforce and project based delivery, he helps clients close critical skill gaps, adjust capacity as program demands change, and deliver complex initiatives on time and within budget at every stage of the engineering lifecycle.
Jonathan Evans
Leader, Med Device, Semiconductor & Electronics
Jonathan Evans leads Kelly Engineering's Medical Device, Semiconductor & Electronics team, supporting engineering organizations in industries where product cycles are tight, technical standards are exacting, and specialized talent is hard to find. He works closely with engineering and program leaders to understand the technical demands behind their teams and build workforce plans that match where their programs are headed.
Jonathan is known for long standing client relationships built on consistent delivery. He invests heavily in coaching his team, so the people his clients work with understand both the market and the engineering context behind every engagement.
Craig Burke
Leader, Manufacturing & Automation, Chemical & Energy
Craig Burke brings more than 25 years of experience across engineering, product development, and technical leadership to his role leading Kelly Engineering's Manufacturing & Automation, Chemical & Energy team. Before joining Kelly, he spent a decade in product development, where he saw firsthand the technical, operational, and business pressures engineering organizations face. That hands on background shapes how he approaches every client problem.
Over 16 years with Kelly, Craig has applied that engineering perspective to complex talent and technical challenges across manufacturing, automation, chemical, and energy. He works directly with clients to define what their programs require, builds strategies around those needs, and leads teams grounded in collaboration and accountability.
Mark Saltrelli
Recruiting Leader, Engineering Recruiting.
Mark Saltrelli is the recruiting leader of Kelly Engineering, where he leads talent delivery for a global engineering practice spanning science, engineering, technology, and telecom. His focus is matching specialized engineering talent to complex technical programs at scale, backed by market data rather than guesswork.
Mark takes a solution agnostic view of engineering workforce strategy. Depending on the client's technical goals, that may mean staff augmentation, statement of work, project or program based delivery, or direct hire. He built Kelly Engineering's PowerBI reporting infrastructure, giving recruiters and clients real time visibility into fill rates, time to fill, and pipeline health. He uses AI tools for sourcing, pipeline enrichment, and market research, while keeping experienced people on the work that demands judgment: technical vetting, offer negotiation, and calibrating job requirements against real market conditions.
Mark built his career as a top performing engineering recruiter before moving into leadership. Kelly Engineering is ranked the #1 publicly traded engineering staffing firm in the U.S. and #4 overall by Staffing Industry Analysts, and Mark was named to SIA's 40 Under 40.
Frequently asked questions.
What is Kelly Engineering?
Kelly Engineering is the engineering division of Kelly, supplying specialized engineering talent and workforce solutions to employers across North America at over 1,000 client locations. We place engineers on contract, recruit them permanently, and take on defined engineering work ourselves through Project Delivery and Program Delivery solutions. We’ve been placing engineering talent for more than 60 years and deliver around 2.2 million hours of engineering work a year.
Are Kelly Engineering recruiters actually engineers?
Nearly all of them come from an engineering background, with an average of around ten years of experience each. They stay current through the Kelly Academy of Engineering, our internal knowledge-sharing and upskilling platform. In practice, it means the person scoping your vacancy understands the work itself, not just the job title on the requisition.
What makes Kelly Engineering different from a general staffing agency?
Two things. Our recruiters come from engineering, so a role gets scoped technically rather than matched on keywords. And the business is organized around engineering sectors, rather than around generic job families, so the person you speak to already knows your industry's constraints. Our key industry areas include aerospace, automotive, chemical manufacturing, electronics, energy/oil and gas, medical device, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, and sustainable mobility.
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Has Kelly Engineering been recognized independently?
Yes. Staffing Industry Analysts ranks Kelly #4 among U.S. staffing firms for engineering talent. Everest Group has named Kelly a US Contingent Staffing Leader and a Star Performer in engineering, based on market impact, vision, and capability.
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