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Employer Services

Hiring in LNG

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.

Hire 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

WHY MAKE YOUR PERMANENT HIRES WITH AIRSWIFT?

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"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."

MEG MANLOVE, VP of People & Culture, 8 Rivers

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

WHY MAKE YOUR CONTRACT HIRES WITH AIRSWIFT?

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"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."

Global VP of Business Development, Multinational Technology Conglomerate

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

WHY MAKE YOUR EXECUTIVE HIRES WITH AIRSWIFT?

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"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."

Vice President, People & Culture, CDN Controls

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

WHY CHOOSE AIRSWIFT RESOURCING AS YOUR MSP?

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"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."

Worley

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

WHY CHOOSE AIRSWIFT RESOURCING AS YOUR RPO PROVIDER?

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"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."

CHRISTOPHER J. DWYER, SVP of Research, Ardent Partners

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

WHY USE AIRSWIFT AS YOUR EMPLOYER OF RECORD?

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"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."

Worley

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LNG jobs filled globally

Countries where we have hired

Different disciplines we recruit for

Global Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) recruiters

Liquefied natural gas (LNG), which can be easily transported, is a critical element to meet the growing global demand for energy while helping to mitigate climate change. That's because natural gas is the cleanest burning and fastest-growing fossil fuel in the world.

Airswift understands the challenges facing the sector, and our dedicated team of consultants is able to support clients throughout the whole project lifecycle.

We have proven experience in supporting developers, and contractors for numerous liquefied natural gas jobs and projects throughout the world. Airswift has successfully placed both permanent and contract personnel across a wide range of disciplines.

These include engineering, planning, design, procurement, development, operations and maintenance, project controls, and project management.

Along with our talent acquisition offering, our unrivalled global footprint, and extensive Employer of Record (EOR) services allow us to support clients with a full turnkey solution to their project resourcing requirements. Whatever the project, we can help you find and mobilise the absolute best in liquefied natural gas talent.

Construction Division Manager - Oil & Gas - LNG - Doha, Qatar

We were tasked with recruiting a Construction Division Manager for a leading energy company in Qatar, overseeing large-scale oil, gas, and LNG projects. The role required expertise in civil construction, mechanical installation, and commissioning in high-stakes, safety-focused environments.

We identified a candidate with over 15 years of experience managing multidisciplinary teams on multi-billion-dollar projects in the Middle East. Their leadership, technical proficiency, and strategic skills streamlined project delivery, improved safety compliance, and strengthened communication, supporting the company’s goal of maintaining its global LNG leadership.

Valve Coordinator - Oil & Gas - LNG - Doha, Qatar

Our client in Qatar’s energy sector required an experienced Valve Coordinator for a critical project phase. We quickly sourced a candidate with over 10 years of experience managing valve projects in oil, gas, and LNG turnarounds.

The candidate brought strong project management, stakeholder engagement, and material coordination skills. They effectively managed daily progress, tracked discovery work, and secured technical approvals, ensuring the project stayed on schedule. Their documentation of lessons learned contributed to future improvements, streamlining processes and supporting an efficient project turnaround.

Pre-Commissioning & Commissioning Site Leader - Oil & Gas - LNG - Ensenada, Mexico

We were tasked with sourcing a Pre-Commissioning and Commissioning Site Leader for a major LNG project in Ensenada, Mexico. The role required extensive experience leading LNG commissioning phases, supervising contractors, and ensuring safety and quality standards.

We identified a candidate with extensive LNG commissioning experience, fluency in English and Spanish, and strong leadership skills. Their technical expertise, organisational ability, and problem-solving in multicultural environments ensured project milestones were met and safety protocols upheld, driving the project’s success and adding critical value to the client’s operations.

Why choose Airswift?

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.

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 had a need for specific workforce assistance that Airswift can provide.

Airswift gave excellent help with the whole process, from visa, flights to medical transportation. Everyone has been very helpful and welcoming. A great team all around. Airswift is an excellent organisation.

Airswift has a team of specialist recruiters which have been pivotal in providing high quality talent throughout our operations in Papua New Guinea. The team at Airswift have shown themselves to be an ethical, reliable and responsible partner continuously adding value in every situation.

I appreciate the engagement from the WA office, the team have partnered with us at Woodside to assist us achieve our talent requirements. The team have consistently provided suitable candidates while being responsive and provide great service to our team.

LNG project experience

We have worked with some of the most reputable LNG businesses in the world to help them find the talent they need to drive innovation and growth. Here are some of the projects we've been involved with:

Sole supplier to the Angola LNG project managing a peak headcount of 250 across technical and non-technical disciplines.
Tier 1 supplier to the Sabine Pass LNG and Corpus Christi LNG projects, delivered recruitment, global employment services and benchmarking studies.
Largest contingent labour supplier to the Gorgon project across key technical disciplines in Australia, China and South Korea.
Largest provider of technical expertise to Papua LNG with a max headcount of 300 contractors at peak.
Selected as a single source provider of operators and technicians for Yamal LNG. At peak, managed a headcount of 400 contractors.
Largest contingent labour supplier to Coral FLNG.
Exclusive supplier to BP on the Tortue project in Mauritania & Senegal.
Tier 1 supplier to Mozambique LNG.
Largest supplier to Rovuma LNG, providing comprehensive talent mapping, candidate attraction and screening of potential candidates.

Ichthys

The Ichthys project is one of the largest LNG projects, taking gas from the Ichthys Field in the Browse Basin offshore of Western Australia. Airswift has supported various clients throughout the project in Australia, Indonesia, Singapore and South Korea.

Airswift assembled a dedicated delivery team, consisting of a global account manager and discipline-specific recruitment consultants, who successfully completed all staffing and project requirements within target, which involved the construction, commissioning and start-up of the FPSO and CPF across two yards in South Korea. Our Service teams provided full global mobility services, including logistics, immigration, visa and work permit support, local payroll and destination services.

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Rovuma LNG

In early 2017, our client established a presence in Maputo, Mozambique to support the Rovuma LNG project and needed to staff the office with experienced professionals from the local market, as well as a team based in the Cabo Delgado province.

Airswift provided comprehensive talent mapping, candidate attraction and screening of potential candidates. Airswift managed and delivered an exclusive recruitment campaign for 40+ positions in Maputo and Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. Airswift also supported over 70 positions, became the largest supplier across all project locations and was awarded the contract to supply national and expatriate consultants.

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Angola LNG

Angola LNG operates one of the world’s most modern LNG processing facilities in Soyo, Angola. In addition to LNG, the $10 billion plant produces propane, butane and condensate. The project required a substantial number of skilled workers, both expatriates and local talent.

Airswift provided compliant mobilisation of expatriate workers efficiently support for any logistical challenges regarding visas and work permits, identification of accommodation and transportation.

Airswift supplied over 500 technical and 100 non-technical contractors (50% rotational, 50% residential) and was recognised as the sole employment supplier for the first five years of the project.

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Case Study: Rovuma LNG

Airswift maximizes local content development through best in class recruitment services for our clients and major LNG projects in Mozambique.

Case Study: Angola LNG

Airswift supplied over 500 technical and 100 non-technical contractors for the Angola LNG processing facilities in Soyo, Angola.

Case Study: PNG LNG

Our client needed help supporting a large number of contract personnel due to their lack of presence in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Find out how we helped.

Case Study: Prelude FLNG

Prelude FLNG is a floating liquefied natural gas project vessel, the first and largest of its kind, located in the Browse Basin off the coast of Australia.