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No matter where you stand in your project lifecycle, our dedicated team brings you the right engineering expertise, with a solution portfolio built to drive impact. We’ll ensure your best possible outcome.
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WHAT WE DO

The right talent strategy across your full project lifecycle.

Kelly Engineering solutions are designed to fit exactly where your work is, at any stage of your project or program. You’ll get industry expertise across key functional practice areas for the right people, in the right model, at the right time. From decades of experience, we mix specialized capability with the scale of Kelly to deliver specific outcomes in complex engineering environments across an array of mission-critical operations and niche sectors.

Automotive & Aerospace

Companies in automotive, aerospace, and sustainable mobility are moving rapidly toward electrification, autonomy, advanced connectivity, lightweighting, and lower-carbon production. Meanwhile, they’re facing talent shortages, complex regulations, supply-chain volatility, cybersecurity risks, and pressure to reduce time to market.  

We provide clients with solutions through expert talent placement, project delivery, and program delivery across R&D, design, quality, systems engineering, integration, embedded systems, and manufacturing or process engineering. That means specialized expertise to launch, scale, and sustain innovation. 

Chemical & Energy

Chemical and energy businesses are navigating challenges today in decarbonization, alternative fuels, and digital operations amid aging infrastructure, stricter emissions standards, and persistent demands for safety and reliability. We help them to execute capital investments, optimize plant performance, and maintain operational continuity through strategic talent placements and SOW- or outcome-based solution models.  

Our expertise spans project engineering, commissioning support, reliability, maintenance, process engineering, EHS, and controls. We can connect specialized professionals to your most complex, high-impact environments. 

Manufacturing & Automation

Modern manufacturers are adopting smart factories, robotics, AI-enabled inspection, digital twins, and flexible automation to improve their throughput, quality, and resilience. They’re confronted by gaps in skilled labor, legacy equipment, integration complexity, and rising uptime expectations.  

We deliver contract and permanent talent, plus project- or outcome-based solutions that help modernize operations and keep your production moving. Our teams support disciplines across mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, design, field service, and maintenance — supplying practical expertise from equipment deployment through continuous improvement. 

Medical Devices

Medical device companies are developing connected, minimally invasive, and personalized technologies while managing complex regulations, cybersecurity, supply-chain risk, cost pressures, and demanding product-launch timelines. We strengthen their critical programs without compromising compliance or quality by delivering flexible workforce solutions, from contract, direct-hire, and project-based talent to full project or program delivery. 

Our specialists support functional practices that span R&D, design, quality, regulatory affairs, verification and validation, procurement, systems, manufacturing, and project or process engineering. We can help you move innovations forward from concept through commercialization. 

Semiconductor & Electronics

Organizations in semiconductors and electronics are racing to expand advanced-node capacity, AI hardware, edge computing, and electrification technologies. Meanwhile they’re managing talent shortages, yield demands, supply-chain constraints, and highly complex manufacturing environments.  

Kelly Engineering delivers targeted workforce solutions with SOW- or outcome-based project and program delivery that accelerates development, production, and facility expansion. Our specialists support chip design and verification, FAB operations and process engineering, facilities and infrastructure, assembly, and packaging and testing. 

Engineering solutions.

Choose the right model for your business goals, from specialized talent to project and outcome-based solutions. Backed by deep engineering expertise, 6,000+ professionals on assignment, and recruiters with real-world engineering experience, Kelly Engineering helps keep critical projects moving.

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Contract Staffing

Scale your team as project needs change. Access specialized engineering talent quickly, with flexible support that helps you keep work moving, respond to shifting demands, and stay on schedule.

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Direct Hire

Build your team for the long term with highly qualified engineering talent. Our search experts streamline the hiring process, reduce the burden on your internal team, and help you secure the right fit with less risk. 

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Project Delivery

Get a defined engineering project delivered from start to finish. Kelly provides the resources, management, and accountability to meet agreed deliverables, timelines, and quality expectations. 
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Program Delivery

Keep complex engineering programs moving with a dedicated team built around your needs. Kelly can manage the ongoing delivery, resources, and performance required to support your goals.

Tell us about your work.

Share a few details and a Kelly Engineering consultant will be in touch. Whether you're scoping a new project, staffing a critical milestone, or need a specific engineering outcome, we'd like to hear from you.

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Expertise in action.

Explore how Kelly Engineering helps clients solve critical challenges with specialized expertise, talent, and flexible delivery solutions.

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Frequently asked questions.

How is Kelly Engineering expertise organized?

By industry, with engineering practice areas inside each one. We work with organizations from small startups to the Fortune 500, across five sectors: Automotive and Aerospace, Chemical and Energy, Manufacturing and Automation, Medical Device, and Semiconductor and Electronics. Each is led by a named specialist with teams aligned to it. That structure exists because engineering problems are industry-shaped: a quality engineer in the medical device sector and a quality engineer for semiconductors do different jobs under different constraints. The person scoping your role should already know which one you mean.  

What if my engineering discipline isn't listed?

Tell us the role anyway. The sectors and practice areas on this page are where our expertise runs deepest, not the boundary of what we recruit. We place civil, electrical, electronics, mechanical, industrial, and emerging engineers across a much wider range of work than these pages show. We supply engineers and other experts with niche technical skills, down to the specific platform. If a role genuinely sits outside our expertise, we will say so rather than take the brief. 

What if my project spans more than one of your practice areas?

That is the normal case, and it is how our expertise is arranged. We focus on industry environments where several engineering practice areas coincide, so a single program can draw on design, quality, controls, and manufacturing engineering without you managing separate suppliers for each. Tell us the outcome you need and we will scope which practice areas it touches.  

Can Kelly take on the engineering work itself, rather than supplying engineers to my team?

Yes. Alongside contract staffing and direct hire, we deliver defined engineering work through Project Delivery and run entire engineering functions through Program Delivery. The expertise is the same in every case; the sector specialists who recruit for an area are the ones who deliver in it. Which model fits your work depends on whether you want more resource capacity, a specific deliverable, or a full function taken off your hands. 

How does Kelly Engineering keep its expertise current as technology changes?

Through the Kelly Academy of Engineering, our internal knowledge-sharing and upskilling platform, which keeps our sector teams current in their specialties as the underlying technology moves. It matters most in the fastest-moving areas, like semiconductor process, EV and battery systems, or industrial automation, where a recruiter working from three-year-old assumptions will scope the wrong role.