QuarkCrew
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Every match comes with a receipt.

QuarkCrew is a Pittsburgh staffing agency. We fill hourly and skilled jobs at warehouses, machine shops, robotics companies, support desks and building facilities. A model breaks each job into its parts and matches people on the evidence. A recruiter checks the match and signs the receipt that goes with it.

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Open this week 23 open, by family

  • Reach-truck operatorNeville Twp, 2nd shift$21.50
  • CNC operator, Haas millsO’Hara Twp, 1st shift$26.00
  • Test vehicle operatorStrip District, days$27.00
  • PorterOakland, nights$17.50

QUARKCREW

Match receipt

Req
QC-26-0412
Role
Warehouse associate (reach truck)
Shift
2nd, 3:00–11:30 PM
Site
Distribution center, Neville Twp
Date
Tue Sep 29, 2026

Candidate C-08213 (name withheld)

Requirements, evidence and points
RequirementEvidencePts
Reach truck✓ 3 yrs18/18
↳ last evaluation: prior employer, 03/2025
2nd shift✓10/10
Lift 50 lb, repeated✓6/6
RF gun✓6/6
Cooler zone, 38°F✓ 6 mo4/4
Steel toes, on feet, labels✓3/3
Nice to have+ 2 of 82/8
↳ sit-down forklift, cycle counts
Fit89

Not used name, photo, age, school, graduation year, home address. How far to travel is the candidate’s call.

Drafted
qc-match 3.2, 1:20:31 PM
Signed
Dana K., recruiter, 1:35 PM
Sent
to client, 1:44 PM
Printed
4:02 PM

File copy

QC-26-0412-C08213

Sample receipts from one Tuesday.

One job title, taken apart

“Warehouse associate” could mean a reach truck at thirty feet or a tape gun at waist height. Before we look at anyone, the model breaks the req into its parts. The hiring manager then edits that list and signs it, and we match on the signed version.

This is the req behind the first receipt above, as the manager signed it. The crossed-out items were all in their first draft.

The job $21.50 an hour, overtime most weeks (usually a Saturday half shift), starts October 14, Neville Twp

Required 8

  • Reach truck
  • 2nd shift
  • Lift 50 lb, repeated
  • RF gun
  • Steel toes
  • On your feet most of the shift
  • Cooler zone, 38°F
  • Reads pick labels

Nice to have 8

  • Manhattan WMS
  • Order picker
  • Cycle counts
  • FIFO date rotation
  • OSHA 10
  • 3PL experience
  • Has trained others
  • Sit-down forklift

Crossed out by the hiring manager 7

  • High school diploma
  • Forklift “certification card”
  • 1 yr “warehouse experience”
  • Lift 75 lb
  • Resume
  • Typing test
  • “Clean background,” any offense

Signed off by the hiring manager on September 29.

Apply by answering questions about the work

No resume. For a reach-truck req it’s these nine questions, about six minutes on a phone. Send us your name and the work you’ve done, and we’ll send the questions for the closest open req.

We check what we can with whoever issued it: certifications with the issuer, licenses with the state, your last forklift evaluation with the employer who did it. Your new site will still evaluate you on its own trucks, because OSHA requires it, but they’ll start from what you’ve done.

You hear back within one business day. A no comes with the reason, and with what else is open.

Apply
  1. Which lift trucks have you run, and for how long? Sit-down, reach, order picker, pallet jack.
  2. What’s the highest you’ve put away?
  3. Which shifts can you work, and is any of them a hard no?
  4. How long a commute works for you?
  5. Have you used an RF scanner or a WMS? Which ones?
  6. Can you lift 50 pounds over and over through a shift?
  7. Have you worked in a cooler or a freezer?
  8. When could you start?
  9. You’re putting away at 28 feet and the load on the forks shifts. What do you do?
    How we score this one
    1. 4 Stops, sounds the horn and keeps people out of the aisle. Lowers the load slowly to the floor, restacks it there, and tells a lead.
    2. 3 Lowers it slowly to the floor, but doesn’t warn anyone or report it.
    3. 2 Tries to nudge it into the slot at height.
    4. 1 Doesn’t mention the load at all.

    The hiring manager writes the rubric with us. Every answer is scored against it, with the reasoning written out, and everyone in a req gets the same questions.

Paid every Friday

Friday’s check covers the week before. Or take up to half of what you’ve earned and haven’t been paid for yet, the next morning, at no charge; it comes off that Friday’s check.

A week’s stub, line by line
Week of Sep 20–26, paid Friday, Oct 2. Reach-truck operator, 2nd shift, at a Neville Twp DC; lives in the city, files single.
Sample pay stub
EarningsHoursRateAmount
Regular40.0021.50860.00
Overtime ×1.56.5032.25209.63
2nd-shift differential46.501.5069.75
OT premium on the differential6.500.754.88
Gross pay1,144.26
Taxes and deductions
Federal income tax95.00
Social Security 6.2%70.94
Medicare 1.45%16.59
PA income tax 3.07%35.13
Pittsburgh earned income tax 3%34.33
Local services tax1.00
PA unemployment 0.07%0.80
Net pay890.47
Advance taken Thursday−300.00
Fee for the advance0.00
Deposited Friday590.47

Opening a req

Open a req before noon and you’ll usually have a shortlist by the next morning, with certifications checked. Prior employers get called the same day, and their answers follow as they come in. For volume shifts you order headcount instead, matched the same way.

Open a req
Shortlist
Three to five people for direct hire and temp-to-hire. Sometimes fewer, and then we tell you which requirement is narrowing the pool.
Employer of record
W-2 payroll, workers’ comp, unemployment insurance, I-9 and E-Verify.
Markup
Set per job family, because workers’ comp costs differ: from 1.36 times the pay rate for support desks to 1.58 for warehouse work. Overtime bills at time and a half.
Direct hire and conversion
Direct hire is 18% of first-year pay. Converting a temp costs 9% before 520 hours on assignment and nothing after.
Guarantee
A temp who doesn’t work out in the first 30 days is replaced, and the replacement’s first 40 hours aren’t billed. A direct hire who leaves within 60 days gets you a new search at no charge.
Billing
Weekly, from timecards your supervisor approves in the app or on paper. One invoice per site, net 15.
Forklift evaluations
OSHA treats training a temp as a shared job. You evaluate each operator on your trucks at your site before they run them; we send their last evaluation, and the contract says who does what.
Adverse-impact check
Every quarter we compare selection rates across all your reqs by sex, race and age, from the self-ID applicants can skip, and send you the numbers. Anything under four-fifths of the top group’s rate gets looked at.

What we’re filling right now

Role families, example roles, where they are, hourly pay range and open requisitions
FamilyRolesWherePay, last 90 daysOpen
Warehouse and fulfillment Picker/packer, reach-truck operator, order picker, shipping and receiving, inventory control Neville Twp, McKees Rocks, West Mifflin, Cranberry $17.50–$24 9
Advanced manufacturing CNC operator, setup machinist, electro-mechanical assembler, QC inspector (CMM), maintenance tech (PLC) RIDC Park, Lawrenceville, Hazelwood, Monroeville $19–$36 6
Robotics and AV operations Test vehicle operator, field robotics technician, fleet support, lidar and video annotator Strip District, Lawrenceville, Hazelwood Green $19–$32 4
Support desk Tier 1 support, dispatcher, bilingual support in Spanish or Nepali Downtown, or hybrid $18–$24 3
Facilities Porter, night custodian, facilities technician (HVAC helper) Oakland, Downtown $17–$27 1

Before shift differential. Refreshed every Monday.

Apply, or open a req

We answer within one business day.

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Does a computer decide whether I get the job?

No. Software drafts the shortlist and a recruiter makes the call. If you think it got you wrong, tell us and a recruiter will go through your application from scratch.

What does it cost me?

Nothing. Employers pay us.

When do you run a background check?

Only after a conditional offer, and only the checks the role needs; a forklift job doesn’t get a credit check. If a report comes back with something on it, you get a copy and a summary of your rights before anyone decides, and time to tell us what’s wrong with it. Driving jobs ask about your record up front, but we only pull it after an offer.

Where do you place people?

Allegheny County and the counties around it, mostly.

What happens to what I send you?

We keep applications for two years, then delete them. We don’t sell anything, and we don’t use your answers to train anything.

  • Dana K. warehouses and facilities, mostly 2nd and 3rd shift
  • Marisol R. machine shops, the robotics companies and support desks; Spanish
  • Bishnu A. warehouses in the South Hills and down the Mon; Nepali

Or email melo@quarkcrew.com

We use what you send to place you or fill your req.