Contract
18 May 2025
Doha, Ad Dawhah, Qatar
Sr. Planning Engineer - Offshore Project
Airswift are a Global Manpower Provider specialising in the Energy, ...
Oil and Gas Recruitment, Staffing, EoR and Consulting
Employment services for the energy industry
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Working in Oil & Gas
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.
Oil and gas disciplines we recruit for
- Chemicals
- Commissioning
- Construction
- Data Systems
- Design
- Drilling
- Engineering
- Facilities Management
- HSSE
- Land Management
- Logistics
- Plant Management
- Procurement
- Project Management
- Quality
- Terminal Management
- Turnaround/Shutdown
- Upstream
Employer services
Hiring in Oil & Gas
Our team specialises in contract and direct hire recruiting, connecting businesses with top professionals. From filling long-term positions to scaling teams for short-term projects, Airswift delivers the right talent to support your company’s goals.
Why choose Airswift?
Airswift is the staffing agency of choice for world-leading energy 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.
Technical recruitment expertise guaranteed
Airswift delivers top-notch energy professionals, essential equipment, and premier services for necessary projects, ensuring compliance and cost-efficiency throughout. Safety is paramount; we ensure every team member is well-trained for safe field operations. Our local supervisors uphold excellent contractor relations, optimising operations across diverse sites, including:
- Onshore and Offshore Oil and Gas
- Refineries & Production Facilities
- Liquefied Natural Gas Production
- Pipelines
- Floating Production Storage and Offloading Vessels (FPSO)
- Fabrication Yards
Our Services
Talent Acquisition
We offer specialised recruitment and contractor management services for the oil and gas industry, helping companies find and manage top talent. Our talent acquisition services include retained search and headhunting for specialised roles, contingent staffing with full contractor management (covering payroll, compliance, and benefits), direct hire for permanent roles, and executive search for board-level leadership.
With a focus on industry expertise and a vast network, we simplify workforce scaling and ensure you have the right people in place to drive your business forward.
Employer of Record
For oil and gas companies expanding globally, swift and efficient talent acquisition is crucial for the success of international projects. Our Employer of Record services offer a flexible, cost-effective solution for establishing a global presence, reducing administrative complexity.
We provide comprehensive global mobility services, including immigration, visa support, mobilisation, relocation management, and payroll and taxation, ensuring your workforce remains compliant and ready for deployment, wherever your projects take you.
RPO & Managed Solutions
Airswift provides a complete range of managed solutions tailored for the oil and gas industry, covering the entire recruitment cycle. Our services include supplier performance evaluation to reduce compliance risks and costs, on-site assistance to ensure projects are adequately staffed, and smooth transition management for contingent workers.
Additionally, our Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) solutions streamline hiring, offering talent sourcing, candidate screening, onboarding, and ongoing talent management. We help minimise recruitment costs and time, ensuring you have the right people in place to optimise your workforce performance on every project.
Consulting
As a leading oil and gas employment company for four decades, Airswift truly understands energy labour markets.
Our consultancy services help oil & gas clients plan their talent pipeline.
Tackling the talent gap is one of the biggest challenges of the energy transition. As the world races to build a more sustainable future, the demand for skilled professionals is skyrocketing – but supply isn't keeping up.
Our vast network of qualified candidates spans the globe, with expertise in energy, construction, technology and engineering.
Through our industry-leading workforce consulting we can help you with :
- Talent mapping
- Salary and market rate benchmarking
- Identification and delivery of cost savings
- Skills assessment
- Strategic workforce planning
- Performance and risk management advice
Testimonials
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.
Individuals have gone the extra mile to ensure that my needs are met. In my opinion, no company has conducted itself in a more professional manner than Airswift.
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.
Exxonmobil Equatorial Guinea
- ExxonMobil has operated in the Zafiro Field since 1996, with Airswift supplying personnel since 2018. A 2022 incident required rapid deployment of additional staff.
- ExxonMobil needed a flexible, compliant solution for fluctuating staffing needs. Airswift delivered sourcing, employment, payroll, logistics, and immigration support.
- We also handled medical assessments, tax certificates, background checks, D&A testing, and tracking of certifications.
- Over 50 expatriates were deployed across roles including Construction Foreman, Dive Leads, Facilities Engineers, Subsea Engineers, and Logistics Coordinators—with 100% compliance in immigration and payroll.
- Airswift was appointed staffing provider for the duration of an FLNG project for a large supermajor within Asia Pacific. In addition to staffing, Airswift provided full mobilisation support and consulting services.
- Sole labour supplier to a West African LNG project. This included full global employment services for 250+ gas professionals in technical and non-technical disciplines.
- Largest provider of technical expertise to an LNG project in Asia Pacific. We opened a local office in Port Moresby to provide staffing, training workshops, global employment services and consulting support.
- Supplier of permanent, fixed-term and contract technical personnel for all phases of a global LNG project. This included engineering professionals in Australia, United Kingdom, South Korea, Malaysia and Thailand.
- Provided all safety, construction and engineering personnel to a multi-billion-dollar downstream project in Texas. The project is split into two parts, an ethylene cracker installation and a polyethylene expansion.
- Exclusively staffed contingent workers for three large Canadian pipeline projects over four years and onboarded pre-identified and recruited candidates.
- Delivered a fully compliant on-boarding process for 2,000+ workers and third-party contractors on a refinery mobilization project in Indiana. This resulted in an incident free transition with zero disruption to business and 100 percent transfer rate. There was $1.4m initial cost savings through rate benchmarking. Throughout the duration of the contract, the client made total savings of $4m.
- Supplied all contingent workers and managed all onboarding compliance requirements for a turnaround project in Texas. A team of 30 turnaround specialists was provided to effectively support the project resulting in $400,000 of savings.
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.
Kaombo FPSO
The Kaombo development is located off the coast of Angola and is the first project on ultra-deep offshore Block 32. In 2017, Airswift supported teams on the first FPSO vessel's voyage from Singapore and in Angola for the offshore hook-up and commissioning (HUC), providing recruitment, logistics, PPE, visa and work permits, verification of offshore certification, and 24/7 contractor support.
At peak, Airswift supported over 500 contractors for engineering, construction and commissioning across multiple global locations, including Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Angola, Netherlands, France, Norway and the United Kingdom.
You may also be interested in these case studies
Case Study: Tyra Gas
Our client needed to identify a company who could serve as a "one-stop shop", providing Global Employment and Mobility across seven locations.
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: Aoka Mizu
Airswift delivered a full suite of Global Mobility services throughout the lifecycle of our client's project across the North Sea and United Arab Emirates.
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.
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