Large-scale logistics workforce planning: 200–1,000 across a network

How the programme is structured

• Demand plan by site, role and month for 12–24 months; the country rule applied site by site — some sites in a network cannot be staffed from the Philippines at all (Flanders, the Netherlands), and the plan says so.
• One pipeline: standard tests per role, monthly interview rounds in Makati, waves assembled per site with team leaders.
• Permit tracks per country, staggered per site, with a shared document standard for employer accreditation at each Migrant Workers Office.
• Housing standard agreed across the network and audited; attrition modelled per country (where workers can change employer after six or twelve months, the model says so) and replacement pipeline sized to it.
• Governance: a monthly review with your programme owner — pipeline, permits, arrivals, housing audits, attrition, incidents — and a single escalation route for site managers.

What the Philippine side looks like at scale

Prime Search ran 100 employer projects and recruited 1,800 workers for Europe between January and September 2026, and 629 positions for 25 employers in September alone; a network programme of 500 is a season's work on a pipeline that already exists. Employer accreditation at each Migrant Workers Office is done once per legal employer; contracts are verified per worker; departures run in waves with the OEC per wave.

Which logistics roles can come depends on the country. Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, Romania and Croatia sponsor warehouse operatives, pickers and forklift drivers on national permits (Croatia exempts warehouse and driver roles from its labour-market test in several counties). Flanders excluded warehouse workers from economic migration on 1 January 2026; the Netherlands' UWV test blocks them; Germany has no unskilled route — qualified logistics roles (dispatchers, team leaders, mechanics) and professional drivers have their own routes. Australia sponsors logistics roles only under a regional DAMA. The Gulf sponsors the full mix at MoHRE skill levels. Professional drivers follow the driver route of each country — licence conversion and Code 95 planned on arrival.

Drivers

Need professional drivers? Drivers are a profession with its own page and country guides — Germany, Croatia, the UAE — and we do not duplicate them here: see /truck-drivers/. In September 2026 a single five-day round recruited 117 truck drivers for one Lithuanian transport company; the licence conversion and Code 95 phase was planned into the timeline, as it must be in every EU country.

The Philippine side

Recruitment runs through our own DMW-licensed agency, Prime Search Manpower Agency Inc. in Makati (licence DMW-027-LB-11182024): your company is accredited at the Migrant Workers Office for the destination, the job order is registered with the DMW, and every worker leaves Manila with a verified contract, medical clearance, pre-departure orientation and an Overseas Employment Certificate. The Philippine ban on direct hiring applies; the employer is always your company, directly.

Everything here is subject to the permit, qualification and licensing requirements of the destination country.

Frequently asked questions

• Can one contract cover several countries?

  Commercially yes; legally each country has its own employer entity, permit track and MWO accreditation — the programme is one, the paperwork is per country.

• How do you handle attrition at scale?

  By modelling it per country and site, keeping a replacement pipeline warm, and fixing the causes — housing and pay as promised — rather than refilling.

• Reporting?

  Monthly programme review with a dashboard: pipeline, permits by stage, arrivals by site, housing audits, attrition, incidents.