Meet Our Team
Our team
Luke-Keegan Floyd
Co-Founder / Director
0427 649 813
Luke brings more than six years of recruitment experience, backed by a background across trades, youth services and zoological work.
It is not the most conventional path into recruitment, but it taught him how to work with people from all kinds of backgrounds, ask better questions and quickly understand what makes someone tick.
Luke knows a resume can tell you where someone has worked. It cannot tell you whether they will turn up, handle pressure, communicate properly, fit the team or still be there six months later.
At Trial By Fire, he leads recruitment strategy, client relationships, delivery systems and business growth across trades, technical, design and white-collar markets.
His focus is on practical hiring, recognising transferable skills and building relationships that last longer than a single placement.
Luke’s strength is getting past polished answers and understanding the person behind the resume. He helps businesses find people who can genuinely do the job, fit the environment and grow with the business.
It is not the most conventional path into recruitment, but it taught him how to work with people from all kinds of backgrounds, ask better questions and quickly understand what makes someone tick.
Luke knows a resume can tell you where someone has worked. It cannot tell you whether they will turn up, handle pressure, communicate properly, fit the team or still be there six months later.
At Trial By Fire, he leads recruitment strategy, client relationships, delivery systems and business growth across trades, technical, design and white-collar markets.
His focus is on practical hiring, recognising transferable skills and building relationships that last longer than a single placement.
Luke’s strength is getting past polished answers and understanding the person behind the resume. He helps businesses find people who can genuinely do the job, fit the environment and grow with the business.
James Hall
Co-Founder
0423 804 788
James is the trade authority behind Trial By Fire.
A qualified carpenter with years of hands-on experience across high-end residential joinery, commercial shopfitting and custom cabinetry, he understands what good looks like beyond a job title or resume.
He has spent years working on the tools, leading teams and dealing with the realities that never make it into a position description. Changing deadlines, late materials, difficult site conditions, demanding clients and the pressure of delivering quality work when everything does not go to plan.
Before focusing on Trial By Fire, James was a Director of One Stop Joinery Solutions, giving him firsthand experience not only as a tradesperson, but also as someone responsible for running a business, managing people and delivering work to a standard.
Today, he supports Trial By Fire with practical industry insight, technical advice and candidate vetting, particularly across our trade and manufacturing markets.
His role is straightforward: help us look beyond the CV and understand whether someone genuinely knows their work, understands the environment and can deliver when it matters.
When we need a practical perspective from someone who has lived the job rather than simply recruited for it, James is one of the people we turn to.
A qualified carpenter with years of hands-on experience across high-end residential joinery, commercial shopfitting and custom cabinetry, he understands what good looks like beyond a job title or resume.
He has spent years working on the tools, leading teams and dealing with the realities that never make it into a position description. Changing deadlines, late materials, difficult site conditions, demanding clients and the pressure of delivering quality work when everything does not go to plan.
Before focusing on Trial By Fire, James was a Director of One Stop Joinery Solutions, giving him firsthand experience not only as a tradesperson, but also as someone responsible for running a business, managing people and delivering work to a standard.
Today, he supports Trial By Fire with practical industry insight, technical advice and candidate vetting, particularly across our trade and manufacturing markets.
His role is straightforward: help us look beyond the CV and understand whether someone genuinely knows their work, understands the environment and can deliver when it matters.
When we need a practical perspective from someone who has lived the job rather than simply recruited for it, James is one of the people we turn to.
Nicholas Jefferson
- Business Development Consultant
- 0483 988 645
Nicholas brings more than 15 years of hands-on experience across upholstery, automotive interiors, aviation, marine and bespoke furniture.
His career has taken him from traditional furniture upholstery and deep buttoning through to high-end automotive development, luxury vehicle interiors and VIP aircraft cabins. He has worked across pattern making, cutting, sewing, trimming, prototyping and production, giving him a genuine understanding of the skills, standards and people these industries rely on.
At Trial By Fire, Nicholas works in business development, building relationships with businesses across upholstery, furniture, automotive, marine and aviation.
He understands the challenges these businesses face because he has worked inside them. He knows how difficult it can be to find experienced tradespeople, how much pressure a missing person can put on production and why finding someone with the right practical ability matters more than simply matching a job title.
Nicholas’s strength is being able to speak the same language as the businesses we work with. He understands the craft, the technical requirements and the realities of the workshop floor, allowing him to have practical conversations about where a business is heading and the people it needs to get there.
When we are speaking with an upholstery or specialist interiors business that wants someone who genuinely understands their industry, Nicholas is the person we turn to.
His career has taken him from traditional furniture upholstery and deep buttoning through to high-end automotive development, luxury vehicle interiors and VIP aircraft cabins. He has worked across pattern making, cutting, sewing, trimming, prototyping and production, giving him a genuine understanding of the skills, standards and people these industries rely on.
At Trial By Fire, Nicholas works in business development, building relationships with businesses across upholstery, furniture, automotive, marine and aviation.
He understands the challenges these businesses face because he has worked inside them. He knows how difficult it can be to find experienced tradespeople, how much pressure a missing person can put on production and why finding someone with the right practical ability matters more than simply matching a job title.
Nicholas’s strength is being able to speak the same language as the businesses we work with. He understands the craft, the technical requirements and the realities of the workshop floor, allowing him to have practical conversations about where a business is heading and the people it needs to get there.
When we are speaking with an upholstery or specialist interiors business that wants someone who genuinely understands their industry, Nicholas is the person we turn to.