We recruit for businesses in the Downstream, Midstream, LNG, and Upstream sectors, providing personnel for some of the world’s most important energy projects.
Global reach; local service
Our workforce solutions go beyond typical staffing support to incorporate global mobility and assignment support services, demonstrating service that supports businesses and contractors alike from the beginning of the recruitment process to the end of an assignment and beyond.
Our global office network ensures that we stay close to your project site and operate in the same timezone and local language to drive real value and workforce efficiencies. Our teams understand local employment laws, can coordinate bulk visas for contractor workforces, and orchestrate in-country payroll for temporary workers.
Industry Recognition
The Financial Times ranked NESF in the silver category for “The UK’s Leading Recruiters 2024” for our services in Oil & Gas. Ratings are based on reviews from clients and peers and are indicative of service excellence alongside confidence in the brand.
Our Oil & Gas Recruitment Service Goes Beyond Sourcing Staff
As a specialist recruiter for Oil and Gas jobs, our consultants are knowledgeable, discipline-specific, and skilled in providing contract and permanent staffing. Our search methodology is a detailed process during which we develop an in-depth understanding of your requirements and culture to effectively allow us to operate as an extension of your business. Our flexible and tailored workforce solution enables you to manage your hiring needs for optimum results.
Our comprehensive workforce solutions go beyond typical staffing support to incorporate global mobility and assignment support services, demonstrating a customer service which supports businesses and contractors alike from the beginning of the recruitment process, through to the end of an assignment and beyond.
Our global office network ensures that we stay close to your project site, operate in the same timezone and local language to drive real value and workforce efficiencies. Our teams have an excellent understanding of local employment laws, can coordinate bulk visas for contractor workforces and will orchestrate in-country payroll for temporary workers, ensuring all applicable taxation is applied.
Our international set-up, coupled with our in-house support teams and developed talent networks means we are able to support your Oil & Gas endeavour across the full project lifecycle from exploration and fabrication, through to construction, operation and decommissioning. Whether you need to secure your Oil & Gas talent pipeline, are looking to consolidate your workforce suppliers or are unsure how to mobilise your multi-national team to your next project phase, we can help.
NES Fircroft’s Oil & Gas staffing solutions encompass sourcing technical positions through to Board level executives across:
- Construction & Commissioning
- Engineering & Design
- Drilling
- Geology & Exploration
- Health, Safety, Environment & Quality
- Operations & Maintenance
- Project Controls & Services
- Subsea & Subsurface
Our international talent networks deliver the very best in Upstream hires
The foundation of our global legacy was built in staffing offshore oil platforms and providing industry-leading contractor care so that businesses could thrive.
From sourcing personnel for geological exploration and platform fabrications, to marine engineering and subsea installations, the breadth of our international candidate networks, coupled by our global office footprint ensures we will connect you to top engineers in the Upstream field.
We are a Tier 1 supplier to some of the world’s largest oilfield operators and full-stream providers, holding several MSAs with the biggest names in energy. Our track-record includes staffing flagship projects and world-firsts, including deep-water projects in some of the world’s most challenging terrains.
Remote locations are not a barrier to our capacity to mobilise staff to site. Our in-house assignment support and travel teams are on-hand to take care of all contractor logistics, including orchestrating insurances, rotational travel and transport to site, to ensure that hires arrive to your project site on time and compliantly. For large scale hiring drives, we have opened satellite offices to support a project’s hiring on the ground, and to provide a face-to-face interaction with contractors and hiring managers.
Our major Upstream recruitment experience includes the following projects
Case Study - Upstream
Contractor Management Across 4 Continents
The client has achieved significant costs savings through utilising NES Fircroft as the single contractor management solution.
Case Study - Oil & Gas, Renewables
Supporting a client's diversification journey
We have supported our client since the late 1980s, growing our support to cover several continents, and supplying staff to some of the most ground-breaking energy projects to date. During this time the client has diversified from solely Oil & Gas, into Wind and Solar.
Case Study - Oil & Gas
Abu Dhabi - Contractor Transfer and New Hires
Our client needed to significantly increase their workforce on their coil tubing and fracking project in a short period of time.
Case Study - Oil & Gas
Reducing Recruitment Costs in a Competitive Market
Our recruitment services have saved over £400,000 for the client, one of the biggest independent oil and gas companies in the UK.
Case Study - Oil & Gas
RTO benchmarking in Houston
Located in close proximity to the Energy Corridor, the client was struggling to attract experienced Real Time Operator personnel in such a competitive market.
Case Study - Malaysia Fabrication Yard
Malaysia - Expatriate Workforce Compliance
After successfully winning the engineering and procurement contract for the Wheatstone project, the client was required to fabricate train modules. Lumut fabrication yard was selected as the chosen yard for a duration of 3 years.
Case Study - Oil and Gas
Abandonment & Site Reclamation Programs - Canada
Following significant challenges to Canada’s energy sector as a result of COVID-19, the government decided to launch a new initiative to support Canadians and get people back to work, investing $1.7bn into cleaning up inactive oil and gas wells.
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Regions we operate in
The Americas
We have a large network of offices across Canada, coast-to-coast USA, The Caribbean and Latin America
Middle East
Our teams are committed to supporting nationalisation strategies and partner with the region's biggest energy companies
Europe & CIS
Our office network spans the European continent, from Oslo to Paris, and contains our global head-quarters in Manchester
Asia
From North to South East Asia, we have a broad array of offices to offer clients a truly localised and on the ground recruitment service
Oceania
We have offices across Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea, holding prime vendor status on some of the region's largest engineering projects
Africa
NES Fircroft has extensive experience supporting the continent’s major oil & gas developments and has mobilised over 1,000 technically skilled personnel to remote locations and offshore.