NES Fircroft has opened our first Belgian office in Antwerp, ideally located to support the Oil & Gas, Chemicals, and Power industries.
Our Antwerp office is centrally located near the country’s major Oil & Gas and Chemicals production facilities and is also situated in what is considered the leading European Chemical Cluster. By leveraging our wider European office network, our Belgium operation is poised to support businesses across the Benelux region where needed.
Recruitment Expertise in Belgium
We’ve placed candidates in Belgium for around 10 years, with our geographic positioning, language skills, and global reach setting us apart from competitors. Our multi-lingual team can engage people and businesses in different languages, providing support in their local language, which drastically increases our service offering and our response rates by over 15% during recruitment campaigns. Our recruitment and support teams speak Dutch, French and English. This, coupled with our international reach, enables us to source specialised candidates from further afield and bring them to Belgium for work compliantly.
20+
nationalities placed
60+
local contractors
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offices across Europe
Our international reach and in-country set-up give your business a competitive advantage.
Leading engineering recruitment agency for Belgium’s energy sector
We deliver both contract staffing and permanent (direct) hire solutions.
Our recruiters specialise in specific disciplines to stay informed about market trends and talent movements. Our Antwerp office specialises in sourcing staff for the Oil & Gas, Chemicals, and Power markets, but this is not a limit to their expertise. Our European offices work collaboratively to tackle each hiring challenge. Plus, we have a large international recruitment team based in Manchester that supports volume hiring projects, ensuring you can scale your workforce in line with business demands.
By utilising our local and international talent pools, we have compliantly placed over 20 different nationalities across Belgium.
Like our sister offices throughout the EU, our local team is backed by award-winning support functions to provide a market-leading contractor support service. This means we organise all contractor logistics, including visas/work permits, transport and accommodation, medical and personal insurances, and we also have our own financial teams to deliver in-country payroll. Together, our teams ensure that contractors arrive at your project site ready to work and in full compliance.
Our knowledge of how to remain compliant with Belgian labour law is second to none.
At NES Fircroft, compliance is at the heart of everything we do. We are dedicated to upholding the highest standards of legal, regulatory, and professional practices across all the regions we operate in. In Belgium, this means ensuring full alignment with local labour laws, tax regulations, and industry-specific standards. Our in-house compliance experts work proactively to monitor legislative changes, manage risk, and support both clients and contractors with transparent, up-to-date guidance. By prioritising compliance, we not only protect our stakeholders but also foster trust, integrity, and long-term partnerships in every placement we make.
We place technical specialists that support the entire production project life-cycle in a huge range of roles, including but not limited to:
- Commercialisation
- Construction & Commissioning
- Engineering
- Health, Safety & Environmental
- Manufacturing & Logistics
- Operations & Maintenance
- Project Management & Services
- Quality Control / Assurance & Regulatory Affairs
- Research & Development
- Supply Chain
- Technology
We’ll help you find your next engineering job in Belgium
Securing a job through NES Fircroft in Belgium gives you a huge competitive advantage. Through a European office network spanning the United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Germany, Norway, and Poland, coupled with our history of over 50 years, our legacy in the European engineering field is hard to beat.
Whilst our history was built on supporting the Oil & Gas market, we have significantly diversified our business focus to complement the evolving energy industry and have strengthened our prowess within the Downstream and Chemicals markets, in particular. Our Antwerp office is centrally located within the Chemicals production district, so we’re right next door to the industry’s major players.
You can be confident that our teams have access to the most exciting job opportunities in the market. Our tried and tested qualification process means we’ll only ever match you to a prospective role if we’re confident you’re a good fit. Whether you’re an electrical engineer, a regulatory affairs manager in the Biotechnology field, or an experienced process chemist, we will have a job opportunity for you.
Check out our latest Belgium-based job opportunities below or read more about our experience in the region.
Featured Jobs
Our Recruitment Services
Permanent Hire
We have over 50 years of experience in orchestrating retained search activities, enabling businesses to hire strategically and effectively.
Executive Search
We’ll find C-Suite personnel with shared responsibility and purpose to innovate your Board and secure your succession planning.
Contract Staffing
We manage tens of thousands of contractors globally, delivering industry-leading logistics support and payroll.
Assignment Support
We support contractors throughout their assignments, taking care of their welfare, travel practicalities and payroll.
Payroll
Our streamlined service is award-winning and fully compliant in the respective localities of our internationally mobile contractor base.
Consolidation
Our consolidation service will save costs, increase hiring efficiencies and improve your compliance levels.
Compliance
Our globally based team understand local legislation requirements and will help businesses to regain compliance in their employment.
Employer of Record
Expand your global presence without registering a new business entity; we can hire employees on your behalf, with minimal risk.
Managed Services Provision
We have decades of experience in delivering effective contingent workforce solutions and mobilisation programmes.
Recruitment Process Outsourcing
Outsource all or part or your direct hiring; we manage high volume demand and have a global candidate reach.
Other Regional Offices
France
Our Paris team recruit for France’s traditional and renewable energies, as well as life sciences
Germany
Based in Mannheim, we support Germany’s whole energy mix and the life science market
The Netherlands
We have multiple offices situated to support the country’s industrial and technological hubs
Norway
We've provided specialist consultancy and advisory services in Norway for over 20 years
Switzerland
Our Zurich office is our European Life Science hub, supporting all specialized verticals
Scotland
From offices in Aberdeen and Glasgow, we’ve staffed the region’s biggest energy projects
Teesside
We place technical personnel into local and national engineering organisations across the UK
