The work of validating candidates and building industrial assessments requires knowing exactly what good looks like on the floor. Sometimes that knowledge is useful in other ways — closing a hiring gap, aligning internal training to real standards, or fixing the operational documentation that wouldn't survive a customer audit. These engagements come in through referral and are taken selectively.
How this works: Consulting is not the primary service at Setpoint Advisors — but when the fit is right, the work is good. Most engagements start with a 30-minute conversation at no charge. If there's a clear fit, we scope from there. If not, you'll at least leave knowing what to prioritize.
Hiring a welder, machinist, or fabricator without a reliable way to evaluate them is expensive when it goes wrong. This service helps manufacturers understand exactly where their hiring process breaks down — whether that's the screening criteria, the skills assessment, or the absence of any structured evaluation at all.
Work includes assessment design for internal use, hiring criteria development against real production standards, and structured evaluation frameworks your team can run without outside help going forward. The same methodology behind the Validated Talent Profile service, applied to your internal hiring process.
See Validated Talent Profiles →Most manufacturers have some form of internal training — onboarding checklists, informal mentoring, occasional toolbox talks. Few have training that is documented, sequenced, and aligned to the standards their customers or regulators actually care about. The gap between what employees are taught and what AWS, OSHA, or NCCER require is often larger than anyone realizes until an audit makes it obvious.
This service reviews your existing training materials and practices against applicable standards, identifies the gaps, and produces a roadmap to close them — or builds the aligned curriculum from scratch. The same work done for publishers and CTE programs, applied to your shop floor.
See Training & Assessment Services →For fabrication shops and job shops facing specific compliance or documentation gaps — welding procedure records that wouldn't survive an AWS D1.1 review, SOPs that exist only in experienced employees' heads, or audit preparation for a regulated customer. Engagements in this lane are taken selectively and are most useful where the work intersects with fabrication, welding compliance, or pharma/food-grade documentation requirements.
Typical work includes SOP development, welding procedure and qualification record review, gap analysis with a prioritized findings report, and customer audit preparation. Not a generalist consulting engagement — specific, technical, and grounded in production floor experience.
If someone pointed you here, reach out. Thirty minutes, no charge — we'll figure out quickly whether there's a fit.
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