Is your organization undergoing, or about to experience, change that requires an oil and gas recruiting team? Do you need a recruiter that specializes in oil fields? An experienced and professional executive search firm can be a valuable resource when new investors, a change in strategic direction or a digital transformation create new talent requirements. With extensive experience in supporting clients with their oil & gas recruitment needs, we are well positioned to provide experienced personnel for a variety of projects.
The oil and gas sector is undergoing a dynamic evolution. Finding the right talent to lead and implement change can be challenging. The Energists’ recruiting department supports clients’ HR departments to deliver the talent you need. Call the professional recruiters and executive search team who have been successfully sourcing strategic leadership and hard to find senior technical managers and directors to the oil and gas industry since 1979.
E&P organizations are facing an ever-changing market environment filled with technical and regulatory challenges. We live in that community and we speak your language. When you need assistance recruiting the right leadership and technical talent, we can help. We are particularly strong in the areas of Unconventionals, Offshore, Deepwater, Subsea and A&D.
The Industrial Internet of Things is here. Has your midstream organization embraced it? Does it know how? Digital transition can result in a significant reduction in operating costs particularly for fee-based industries that are dominated by huge legacy assets. Recruiting the leader who can navigate this new environment and successfully optimize the merging of old and new is a specialty of our executive search team.
Having the technology, big data and an agile supply chain are all important to refining, product marketing, and retail operations but recruiting the right talent who knows how to optimize available resources is the key to continued growth. If you are looking for that human resource, consulting with a professional oil and gas recruitment team is a prudent business decision.
The technology that dramatically improved performance for the E&P sector, coupled with a dynamic global market, sent many OFSE companies into a tailspin. Smarter drilling rigs, equipment that requires less service, and new drilling technologies sent rental rigs from a high of 5,600 in 1981 to less than half of that today. Recruiting the talent who can offer the strategic planning and implementation skills to keep up with a rapidly changing industry is a challenge. If that’s where you find yourself, we can help add clarity to your objectives and find the talent you are looking for.
A large domestic midstream company with more than 1,500 miles of liquids focused in-state infrastructure contacted The Energists when they were looking to replace an existing Vice President of Operations. The incumbent was a partner in the business who wished to retire from their operational role, while retaining their interest in the enterprise. Given the sensitivity of such a material change in leadership, the search would have to be conducted confidentially. Initial reach outs needed to be conducted on a no-names basis; all candidates would have to enter into a confidentiality agreement to fully engage.
With the State’s Governor recently (H2, 2021) publicly stating that: “We don’t see oil in our future,” coupled with nuances of the state’s midstream regulatory environment, this looked like it would be a challenging search.
After meeting with the client’s executive leadership team and analyzing the specific requirements, our oil & gas recruiting team began an extensive search, both in and out of state.
By virtue of the location and its specific competency requirements, an extensive long list of more than forty qualifying candidates was whittled down to a (very) short list of just three. Much of this whittling by our recruiters occurred naturally following divulgence of the work location and corresponding perception of the negative outlook for oil related businesses.
Nevertheless, each of the short-listed candidates were interviewed by the client. Following these interviews, the field was narrowed down to just two finalists, both of whom resided in-state.
The Energists recruitment team attempted to split the candidates to aid the decision making process. This effort included the deployment of behavioral assessment tools. Ultimately, a very difficult hiring decision was made and The Energists completed the recruiting effort by assisting in the successful candidate’s resignation and onboarding process.
The role was filled, and by a gender diverse candidate. This person’s pre-existing academic pursuit of an MBA program was unaffected by the transition to their new employer.
We can you help find top oil and gas talent across the globe. We have a presence in the following cites: Aberdeen, Abu Dhabi, Adelaide, Al-Khobar, Austin, Birmingham, Boston, Brisbane, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Dallas, Damman, Denver, Dhahran, Dubai, Glasgow, Houston, Limassol, London, Los Angeles, Manama, Manchester, Mexico City, Midland, Minot, New York, Nicosia, Oklahoma City, Perth, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Sydney and Tulsa.