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Hiring in Papua New Guinea
Our contract and direct hire recruiters help top talent at every stage of their job search. Whether you’re searching for full-time or temporary work, Airswift can help you find the right role for your career goals and skill set.
Start hiring talent 3x faster than your in-house hiring solution
Get the talent acquisition service you need to grow your business anywhere in the worldHire permanent staff
Find specialised technical talent that others can't deliver
Our engaged search approach ensures your critical technical roles are filled with qualified specialists who fit your culture and requirements - not just the most available candidates.
Why our approach works:
- Discipline-specific recruiters who understand your technical requirements
- Research-driven process that goes beyond job boards to find passive candidates
- Comprehensive screening ensuring technical and cultural alignment
"Airswift did a lot of the heavy lifting for us in that first year. They marketed us to the right people, reaching out to over 5,000 people and helping us hire 26 new employees."
Hire contractors
Accelerate your projects with top-tier contract talent
Our contract hire service provides you with pre-vetted technical specialists for your complex, time-sensitive projects while ensuring full compliance with international employment laws.
Key benefits:
- Access to pre-vetted specialists - Integrate high-calibre professionals quickly for complex technical projects
- Comprehensive compliance assurance - Navigate international employment laws with confidence
- Customisable benefits packages - Attract and retain top talent with location-specific benefits
- Full-spectrum support - From onboarding to payroll consultancy to and contractor care
"Airswift provided excellent service throughout the entire recruitment process for several technical positions. Candidate shortlists were assembled in good time and had strong tech backgrounds. The new colleagues have the in-depth knowledge and ability to positively impact our business."
Executive & Board Search
Strategic leadership for technical organisations
Finding the right technical leaders is critical to achieving your financial, strategic, and commercial goals. Our executive search team, led by industry specialists, focuses on sourcing C-suite leaders who can transform your technical organisation.
Our approach:
- In-depth industry analysis – Understand your specific market challenges
- Comprehensive candidate assessment – Looking beyond technical skills to leadership capabilities
- Extensive due diligence – Thorough background verification and reference checking
- Long-term success partnering – Supporting both client and candidate throughout the onboarding process
"Airswift has officially refreshed our faith in recruiters. They helped fill a critical leadership role and exceeded expectations with their professionalism, collaboration and communication. The feedback from the candidates was tremendous. The only difficult part was selecting the final candidate because the calibre of talent we interviewed was exceptional."
Managed Service Provider (Vendor Management)
Optimise your entire technical workforce strategy
Our Managed Service Provider solution, delivered by Airswift Resourcing, helps you control costs, ensure compliance, and improve quality across your entire contingent workforce.
What we deliver:
- Vendor management - Consolidate and optimise your recruitment support chain
- Rate card management - Ensure consistent and competitive pricing
- Technology platform - Streamline requisition, onboarding, and reporting
- Compliance oversight - Mitigate risks across your entire contingent workforce
- Data analytics - Gain insights to continuously improve workforce strategy
"Having access to skilled contingent talent is essential to deliver to our clients. Partnering with Airswift has transformed how we manage our contingent workforce. Their MSP model has streamlined our recruitment process, giving us access to a vetted network of specialist agencies, real-time visibility into hiring metrics, and full compliance with IR35 and other regulatory requirements. This has improved our time-to-hire and also ensured we're engaging the right talent, at the right time, with the right controls in place. Airswift has helped us build a more agile, scalable workforce strategy."
Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)
Streamline your entire hiring process
Our Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) service acts as an extension of your HR team, managing the complete recruitment lifecycle of permanent hires from sourcing to onboarding. Our comprehensive approach accelerates hiring timelines, reduces costs, and gives you access to hard-to-find technical talent.
Key Benefits:
- Optimised recruitment process - Centralise your permanent talent acquisition and eliminate the complexities of managing multiple
agencies - Sustainable cost reduction - Identify opportunities to improve workforce management without sacrificing quality
- Specialised technical expertise - Access recruiters who genuinely understand complex STEM roles and can effectively evaluate specialised qualifications
- Scalable solutions - Adapt quickly to changing project demands and new market entries with customisable recruitment support
"Airswift Resourcing's solution is one of the energy, process, and infrastructure industries' deepest and most forward-thinking. Across the globe, they have consistently delivered high-touch, innovative, and Best-in-Class services to drive talent sustainability and help their partners compete in a skills-based, people-centric enterprise arena."
Employer of Record
Expand globally without legal entity establishment
When you need to hire technical talent in regions where you don't have a
legal presence, our Employer of Record service provides a fully compliant
solution with none of the administrative burden.
Complete global employment solution:
- Legal compliance - Eliminate the need to establish legal entities
- Payroll & benefits administration - Ensure competitive, locally-compliant compensation
- Immigration support - Navigate complex visa and work permit requirements
- Risk mitigation - Transfer employment liabilities to Airswift
- Rapid deployment - Enter new markets in days, not months
"I have always found Airswift to be very responsive, helpful, and knowledgeable. We have used Airswift specifically to facilitate talent needs in countries where we have not had an entity or where we have needed specific workforce assistance that Airswift can provide."
Critical hires we've secured
Senior Project Controls Manager - Engineering & Design - Oil & Gas - LNG - Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Senior Business Development Lead - Executive & C-Level - Oil & Gas - LNG - Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
HSE Lead - Engineering & Design - Oil & Gas - LNG - Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
We identified and secured an accomplished candidate who demonstrated mastery in risk management, incident analysis, cross-cultural leadership, and the implementation of complex safety systems.
As HSE Lead, the individual quickly established and embedded project-specific HSE management systems, conducted site audits, led training for multinational teams, and ensured full compliance across contractors and subcontractors. Their proactive leadership strengthened safety culture, mitigated operational risks, and ensured best-in-class safety performance, directly safeguarding project delivery and the wellbeing of all site personnel.
Airswift partners with Harness Energy
Understanding the vital role that training and education play in ensuring workplace safety and enhancing productivity, Airswift have partnered with Harness Energy, a leading training organisation recognised for its exceptional work in preparing individuals for medium-to-high risk roles within the resources sectors.
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This collaboration is not just a meeting of minds but a fusion of shared values and a mutual commitment to generating positive change within the communities we serve in PNG.
Through this, we hope to enrich our existing offerings by integrating some of Harness Energy's training services, utilising their state-of-the-art training facility in Port Moresby. This initiative is designed to not only meet the evolving needs of our clients but also to contribute to the development of the national skill set in PNG.
Hiring in Papua New Guinea
If you are looking to expand your global footprint take a look at our guide to hiring employees in Papua New Guinea.
Testimonials
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Case Study: PNG Oil & Gas Projects
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Our Office
Port Moresby
B2, Commercial Plaza Building
Nambawan Super Plaza
MacGregor Street
Port Moresby NCD
t: +675 308 9500
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Different disciplines we recruit for
Technical recruitment and staffing for major projects in PNG
Since acquiring a local consulting and recruiting firm, Pacifica HR in 2010, we have developed a deep understanding of employment trends in PNG.
We are a leading engineering recruitment agency that has provided technical staffing and employment services to several major projects in Oil and gas, Infrastructure, and Mining. From our office in Port Moresby, Airswift has grown to become the premier employment agency and labour supplier in PNG.
Local knowledge
Global expertise
Airswift is the staffing agency of choice for world-leading businesses.
We manage 60 offices worldwide, 1,000 employees and 9,000 contractors. Our global reach and pool of available talent is unmatched in the industry.
Our connected infrastructure ensures unique project insights and agile talent acquisition. Whatever the project, we can help find and mobilise the best onshore and offshore talent.
Other Airswift Locations in Asia Pacific
Team Photos
Celebrating Airswift's Double Double goals
Bake sale to raise funds for cancer research
Group picture after the Relay For Life event
Celebrating the 42nd Anniversary of PNG
Key Achievements
Good Corporate Citizen Award

In 2013, Airswift received the Good Corporate Citizen (GCC) Award by the Department of Labour and Industrial Relations.
This was awarded for our commitment to employing and training PNG citizens. It additionally recognised our compliance with labour and immigration laws.
Airswift was the only workforce solutions company recognised as a Good Corporate Citizen.
Through our business practice as a Good Corporate Citizen, our clients benefit through:
- Ability to obtain Long Term Work Permits which is valid up to five (5) years,
- Priority processing of applications and renewals.
Langley Program

Inspired by Airswift chairman, Ian Langley, the Langley Graduate Program builds local careers. Since 2012, the program has invested over K400,000 in the career development of 86 UPNG graduates.
Aimed at Bachelor in Business students, the program provides intense pre-employment training.
The program comprises:
- 3 Human Resource Certificate courses
- 12-week secondment
- Professional development workshops & seminars
- Practical assignments
- Volunteer and networking opportunities
- Mentoring secondary students.
The program also gives companies the chance to find excellent employees for secondment.
We aim for all graduates to find permanent employment before completion. To date, our graduates have a 90% success rate.
Community involvement
Airswift is dedicated to supporting the local communities in Papua New Guinea. The following is a snapshot of the events we regularly support.
- Airswift Global Relay For Life
- PNG Cancer Foundation
- Airswift Career Fair in Partnership with the PNG Australia Alumni Association
- Zonta Birthing Kit Project (Zonta Club)
- Cheshire Homes BBQ fundraiser
- Dance for Freedom - Violence against Women Initiative.
- Susu Mama Project
- Transparency International Walk Against Corruption
- PNGHRI AGM
- IEPNG AGM and AGM Dinner
- UPNG Netball Team
- Verenagi and Milne Canoe Sail Sponsorship
- World AIDS Day Sponsorship
- Operation Open Heart Donations
- Hiri Moale Cultural Festival
- PWC Corporate Challenge
- Konedobu Outrigging canoe club
Find your next role
Working in Papua New Guinea
Our contract and direct hire recruiters help top talent at every stage of their job search. Whether you’re searching for full-time or temporary work, Airswift can help you find the right role for your career goals and skill set.
Jobs in Papua New Guinea
We recruit technical specialists in a wide range of roles including, but not limited to:
- Engineering
- Technology
- Construction & Commissioning
- Geosciences
- Operations
- Project Management
- Health, Safety and Environmental Management
- Quality Control
We work with a wide range of innovative companies, including small and medium enterprises, EPCs and 100% of the energy supermajors.
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