Recruitment Solutions and Engineering Jobs in Abu Dhabi

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NES Fircroft has been established in Abu Dhabi since 2009. We have the ability to provide bulk temporary labour and support some of the region's largest energy companies.

UAE Recruitment

Staffing Abu Dhabi's Critical Infrastructure

Our recruitment teams are dedicated to supporting the country's growing energy mix and have job opportunities across the oilfield services and chemical sectors, including within EPC companies. We’ve been a registered ADNOC supplier for almost a decade, and we’re proud to have provided staff to Abu Dhabi’s first LNG import terminal – a significant development in the country’s infrastructure.

1200+
in-country contractors
13+
offices across the Middle East

With our vast Middle East and wider global network, you can rest assured we will get the technical talent you need into Abu Dhabi.

Recruitment services in Abu Dhabi

We’re able to provide CICPA security passes for onshore & offshore work, and can organise residency and mission visas on a large scale for contractors. However, our services go beyond just visas and payroll, our in-house recruitment team is supported by compliance experts, payroll professionals and assignment support staff to provide an efficient solution for all aspects of compliance and risk management whilst onboarding personnel.

With our comprehensive recruitment service, you can rest assured that contractors and candidates start their new role quickly, compliantly and efficiently, whether you’re looking for drilling, slickline, coil tubing and fracking specialists, or need personnel with photovoltaics expertise, our experts will find the talent you need.

Our Employer of Record services have proven invaluable to businesses who do not have an office in the UAE, but want to engage staff on project work. With our dedicated set-up, long in-country tenure and in-house commercial and legal team, we’re well versed with local Emirati legislation and are committed to ensuring compliance in all that we do. Our workforce solutions expertise has also helped countless businesses to streamline their operations through transitioning their contract workforce across to our operation

We are a Tier 1 workforce supplier to some of Abu Dhabi’s largest oilfields and have built deep talent pools in-region. To date, we have placed over 2,000 contractors into Abu Dhabi for 40 different businesses We stay close to our contractors’ assignments and talent pool those with up-coming end-dates to re-engage personnel on their next assignment.

Through our international office network we’re able to take our recruitment search to an international level with ease, locating and mobilising personnel at short notice. With this approach, we have been able to relocate personnel under NES sponsorship across national borders throughout varying project stages, without the need for them for them to return to their home country first.

We have supplied engineering and technical staff to key energy projects including:

  • Bab Gas
  • Barakah Nuclear Power
  • Bu Hasa Integrated Debottlenecking and Pipeline Development
  • Bulk Liquid Storage Terminal at Khalifa Port
  • Dalma Sour Gas
  • KIZAD expansion
  • Hail and Ghasha Sour Gas
  • Petrochemical Derivative Complex in Ruwais
  • Ruwais Fertiliser Expansion Project: Ammonia/Urea Plant (Fertil 2)
  • Shuwaihat Gas Field
  • Sweihan Solar Power Project
  • Taziz: Blue Ammonia Production Facility
  • Umm Shaif Field Long Term Development Plan
  • Upper Zakum

We place technical and engineering specialists in a huge range of technical areas, including, but not limited to:

  • Coil Tubing Operators
  • Completions Specialist
  • Construction Engineers
  • CRI/ Solid Control Operators
  • Drilling Engineer
  • Electrical Engineers
  • Instrument Engineers
  • Instrumentation & Control
  • Mechanical Engineers
  • Process Engineers
  • Project Managers
  • Pump Operators
  • Safety Officer / HSE Engineer / Manager
  • Subsea Engineers
  • Well Testing

NES Fircroft will help you to find your next job in Abu Dhabi

For technical personnel and engineers looking for contract employment or permanent work, NES Fircroft is one of the biggest recruitment agencies in United Arab Emirates. Our discipline-specific recruitment teams specialise in either contract placements or permanent hires, and will help you through every stage of your job search.

As a registered ADNOC supplier, you can be confident that your energy career is in good hands. We also work with small / medium enterprises and EPCs.

Our established recruitment teams have fantastic industry connections across Abu Dhabi’s growing energy mix and have job opportunities within:

  • Power Generation, Transmission & Distribution
  • Renewable & Alternative Energy (including jobs in Desalination, Energy from Waste, Solar and Wind)
  • Maritime
  • Oil & Gas (oilfield, offshore)

Together with our clients, we are committed to supporting the UAE's Emiratisation programme, so as well as having job opportunities for expatriate workers, we also have plenty of opportunities for the local Emirati talent pool. Our clients are committed to providing local employment opportunities and are actively recruiting local candidates across all disciplines. In particular, many oil businesses are undertaking a major shift from upstream to downstream investments and a new $15 billion refinery project at Ruwais is creating huge numbers of job opportunities for the local community.  

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