Contract
29 Apr 2025
Milan, Italy
Lead Project Controls Engineer
Role: Lead Project Controls Engineer Location: Milan, Italy and Maputo, ...
Oil & Gas Recruitment and Workforce Solutions
Staffing, HR and employment services
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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
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 provide permanent recruitment and contractor management services for oil and gas companies.
Our talent acquisition offerings include:
- Retained search and headhunter services. Our dedicated recruiters work to find the best candidates for specialised roles within the oil and gas industry. By leveraging our industry expertise and extensive network, we identify the right candidates.
- Contingent staffing and contractor management. We provide our clients with the flexibility to scale their workforce up or down without the administrative burden of managing contractors. We take care of all the logistics, including payroll, compliance, and benefits, so that you can focus on your core business.
- Direct hire and permanent recruitment. For clients who need to fill a critical role within their organisation, our team work with you to understand your unique requirements and identify candidates who meet those criteria. We handle everything from sourcing and screening to negotiating offers and onboarding.
- Board and executive search. Find the best leaders for your organisation. We strive to understand your strategic goals, values and culture before identifying the right candidates.
Employer of Record
For enterprises in the oil and gas sector aiming to extend their footprint on a global scale, swift and precise talent acquisition is paramount for the success of international projects.
Our Employer of Record services provide a flexible and cost-effective solution for companies seeking to establish a global presence while minimising their administrative burden.
We also offer a comprehensive suite of global mobility services designed to help firms hire internationally and mobilise talent around the world.
Our global immigration and visa services, mobilisation and logistics services, relocation management, and payroll and taxation services ensure that your workforce is compliant and ready to hit the ground running, no matter where your projects take you.ad.
RPO & Managed Solutions
Airswift offers a comprehensive suite of managed solutions for talent management.
Our suite of services spans the entire recruitment cycle, specially optimised for the oil and gas industry, including:
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Supplier performance evaluation: We assist you in monitoring and evaluating your staffing suppliers' performance, aiming to bolster productivity, diminish compliance risks, and cut down on expenses.
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On-site assistance: We guarantee that your oil and gas projects are appropriately staffed, ensuring that the right personnel are in place when you need them.
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Transition management for contingent workers: We facilitate a smooth and efficient transition for incumbent contingent workers to new staffing arrangements.
Furthermore, we provide Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) solutions, uniquely designed to streamline your hiring processes, offering a cost-efficient approach to staffing. Our RPO solutions address the challenges of high recruitment costs and time-consuming hiring processes by delivering a holistic staffing service that includes:
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Talent sourcing: Utilising our extensive network, we identify and secure the most suitable candidates for your oil and gas projects.
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Candidate screening: Our rigorous evaluation process ensures that only the most qualified and fitting candidates' profiles are forwarded to you.
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Onboarding: We manage all facets of the onboarding journey, from conducting reference checks to handling necessary documentation.
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Talent management: We provide continuous support and talent management services to ensure your staffing requirements are consistently met, optimizing workforce performance in the oil and gas sector.
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.
- 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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