Engineering Executive Search Services | GCC

What We Do

The wrong hire has consequences that go well beyond the recruitment process and can cost a project its timeline, its margin and even its reputation.

We work with clients across four areas, and whichever service you engage us for, the partner you meet at the start is the partner doing the work.

Leadership appointments, senior project and functional roles, and specialist technical positions across engineering and project delivery businesses in the GCC. Whether the brief is a Country Head, a Project Director or a hard-to-find technical specialist, we work on a retained or contingent basis depending on the role and your needs.

Executive, Senior and Specialist Technical Search

Staffing a project is one of the most high-pressure hiring situations an engineering business faces, and getting it wrong can follow both the project and the business for a long time. We have built and mobilised project teams across the Middle East at every stage of the project lifecycle and understand what it costs when the right people are not in the right place at the right time.
We work as a dedicated hiring partner for a defined period and fixed fee, focused entirely on building the team or function your project needs, across all levels and disciplines. Whether that means a project kick-off team, a group of specialist technical experts, or your construction and commissioning team, we work as an extension of your business to make sure you have the resources to deliver.

Project Team Hiring

Meeting nationalisation targets is a commercial and regulatory reality for every business operating across the GCC, and we work with you to develop your nationalisation strategy and find the talent to deliver it.
Nationalisation strategy and planning. We work alongside you on nationalisation strategy, covering government support initiatives, incentive programmes and compliance planning across the region, drawing on years of managing nationalisation targets across the Middle East for one of the world's largest engineering and project delivery businesses.
National talent search. The best nationalisation programmes build genuine capability within a business while balancing commercial and delivery pressures. Quality of hire matters here as much as it does on any other search, and we source national talent across all levels and functions, from graduate and specialist roles through to senior leadership.

National Talent Strategy and Search

TA and Mobilisation Performance Check

Are slow hiring and mobilisation processes costing your projects money?
In a billable environment, the time between identifying a resource need and a person on the ground directly impacts your revenue. Small inefficiencies in each step compound quickly, and most businesses do not know where the time and money is actually being lost until someone maps it properly.
We carry out a data-led diagnostic review of your end-to-end process, from requisition approval to day one on site, identifying exactly where time and cost are leaking and what needs to change. The output is a standalone report with a clear set of prioritised, practical recommendations, and for clients who want to go further, we can work alongside your internal team to implement the changes.
We have done this work before, most recently in Saudi Arabia for a company making 550 hires a year, resulting in a 34% reduction in mobilisation time and millions of dollars in additional billable revenue.

A Note on What We Do Not Do

We are a specialist search firm for engineering and project delivery across the GCC. We are not a contractor staffing business, EOR partner or a generalist search firm. There are plenty of good people who do this well, and if that is what you need we will happily point you in the right direction.