About CTS

Forty years placing engineers. Still answering the phone.

Founded in 1984 to supply skilled aerospace personnel in Europe. U.S. operations from 1985, headquartered near Seattle since 1991.

The short version

A specialist supplier, not a general staffing agency.

CTS International supplies engineering and technical talent to aerospace, defense, space and IT programs. We began in Europe in 1984 supplying skilled aerospace personnel, incorporated in the United States in 1985, and established the Seattle-area headquarters in 1991 that we still operate from today.

Over four decades we’ve become a top-tier approved supplier to five major aerospace manufacturers, with MSP and preferred-vendor agreements across airframe, systems and interiors companies. Our client agreements prevent us from naming them here — but the scale is the point: single programs where we’ve supplied 300, 500 and 1,200 engineers, and more than 10,000 green cards processed for people who came to build them.

1984
Founded, supplying aerospace personnel in Europe
1991
Seattle-area headquarters established
Tier 1
Approved supplier to five major aerospace manufacturers
10,000+
Green cards processed
Track record

The part that matters: scale.

Client names are withheld under our agreements, so programs are described by type. These are single-program cohorts, not career totals.

1,200
Engineers supplied to one wide-body aircraft program — our largest single cohort
500
Engineers on a next-generation twin-aisle program
350
Engineers supporting a fighter-aircraft program
300
Software test and development engineers for a technology client

Longest client relationship

Continuous work with a commercial airframe manufacturer since 1986 — four decades of the same relationship, renewed cycle after cycle.

Supplier standing

Top-tier approved supplier to five major aerospace manufacturers. Selected as one of nine preferred national staffing suppliers for a major airframer, with MSP and preferred-vendor agreements across airframe, systems and interiors companies.

Recognition

Supplier of the Year from a business-jet manufacturer, awarded consecutively since 2007, and an Outstanding Recruiting Performance award for support of a wide-body program.

Our own platform

TalentWorkspace® matches technical requirements against our candidate database and keeps clients and candidates working from the same information.

Today

Aerospace, defense, space and IT — plus emerging programs in electric aviation, autonomy and new space.

How we work

Discover · Connect · Employ.

Discover

Sourcing and skill-based matching against hundreds of job classifications and technical skills, so a requirement reaches people who genuinely fit it.

Connect

TalentWorkspace® matches technical requirements to our candidate database and keeps clients and candidates working from the same information.

Employ

We carry the employment lifecycle — onboarding, payroll, benefits, compliance and immigration — so programs stay on schedule and people get paid correctly.

Where we are

Issaquah, Washington.

160 NW Gilman Blvd, Suite 250
Issaquah, WA 98027

+1 877-878-2992
info@ctsinternational.com
Monday–Friday, 7:00am–5:00pm Pacific

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