NES Fircroft has been operational in South Korea since 2010, and has three offices in country, in Geoje, Seoul and Ulsan. We are 100% locally owned and manage over 80 expatriates and local contractors. Our offices are staffed with local experts who have used their market expertise and candidate reach to provide staff to the three largest shipyards in the world.
Staffing South Korea's energy infrastructure
Many of the planet’s biggest and most pioneering energy ventures begin their life in South Korea, an essential hub to the world’s fabrication industry. Our Korea recruitment team was integral to supplying staff to the world’s first FLNG venture, Prelude, and through our dedicated global mobility team we mobilised volume numbers of contractors throughout the project’s various phases across Malaysia and Australia too.
Our team will source personnel for FEED, Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, and Hook-Up Installation activities, on a contract staffing and permanent (direct) hire basis. As the global energy market continues to divest, we have also helped businesses in Korea to secure expertise talent for manufacturing offshore wind turbines.
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Offices in South Korea
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Expatriates and Local Contractors
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Offices across Asia Pacific
Recruitment expertise in South Korea
Our search methodology is a detailed process during which time we develop an in-depth understanding of your requirements and culture to effectively allow us to operate as an extension of your business: we deliver a flexible and tailored workforce solution for optimum results.
If your business engages the support of NES Fircroft for recruitment services in South Korea, rest assured you’ll benefit from a localised service with global connections and quality management systems.
With in-house finance, legal and assignment support teams, we’ve got workforce logistics covered – from workers’ transport, to their payroll, tax obligations and insurances. Our knowledge of compliant immigration is second to none. We have helped countless Korean clients with large-scale workforce projects and mobilised Korean nationals to project sites across China.
We’ve mobilised Canadian expatriates to work on specialist Korean turbine manufacturing projects in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, and we’ve leveraged our global expatriate talent network to bring HSE expertise (NEBOSH certified) to several fabrication sites across the country. Whether you need long-term D-9 visas for your shipbuilding or industrial machinery manufacturing workforce, and F-3 visas for their dependents, or short-term C-4 visas, our assignment support team is well versed in navigating the legal immigration landscape to keep your multi-national workforces compliant.
We place technical specialists in a huge range of roles including, but not limited to:
- Construction
- Drilling and Completions
- Engineering
- Health, Safety and Environmental
- Operations
- Project Management
- Quality Control
- Technology
We recruit right across the spectrum, but our main efforts are to source Inspectors and Engineers across all disciplines.
We have been integral to supplying engineering and technical staff to key energy projects such as:
- Appomattox
- CHW01 & 02A
- Coral
- Ichthys
- Gallaf Batch 3 FPU
- Gato Do Mato FPSO
- Jafurah Project (Engineering)
- Janz Lo Compressor FPU
- Prelude
- Wisting Project FPSO / Firefly Floating Wind Farm
- Various shipping vessel construction
We’ll help you find your next engineering job in South Korea
For personnel looking for a job in South Korea, NES Fircroft is your agency of choice. Whilst we have over a decade of experience in-country, our global legacy exceeds 50 years, and we have offices in all corners of the globe. Our expert teams have placed staff onto some of the energy industry’s most pioneering projects, including Prelude – the world’s first Floating LNG facility. Our developed industry networks mean that we have access to the most exciting job opportunities in the field.
If you contract through us, we’ll take care of all logistical needs as part of our market-leading contractor care package. From arranging meet and greets at the airport, and providing cultural orientation training, to orchestrating your social security contributions and taxation, our assignment support, travel and legal teams work together to ensure that you remain compliant, from mobilisation to demobilisation. We’ll also make sure you’re covered by comprehensive local international and insurances for your medical, personal, and travel needs.
We’re also placing candidates into permanent (direct) hire roles. Our recruiters are discipline-specific and truly know their markets, so are in a position of strength to guide you throughout the interview process.
We have exciting local job opportunities across:
- Engineering and Design
- Completion
- Commissioning
- Construction
- HSE
- Project Management Services
- Quality
Featured Jobs
Our Recruitment Services
Employer of Record
Expand your global presence without registering a new business entity; we can hire employees on your behalf, with minimal risk.
Contract Staffing
We manage tens of thousands of contractors globally, delivering industry-leading logistics support and payroll.
Compliance
Our globally based team understand local legislation requirements and will help businesses to regain compliance in their employment.
Assignment Support
We support contractors throughout their assignments, taking care of their welfare, travel practicalities and payroll.
Permanent Hire
We have over 50 years of experience in orchestrating retained search activities, enabling businesses to hire strategically and effectively.
Executive Search
We’ll find C-Suite personnel with shared responsibility and purpose to innovate your Board and secure your succession planning.
Payroll
Our streamlined service is award-winning and fully compliant in the respective localities of our internationally mobile contractor base.
Consolidation
Our consolidation service will save costs, increase hiring efficiencies and improve your compliance levels.
Managed Services Provision
We have decades of experience in delivering effective contingent workforce solutions and mobilisation programmes.
Recruitment Process Outsourcing
Our RPO solutions allow clients to outsource part of their entire direct hiring, safe in the knowledge that they are partnering with a company offering a breadth of experience to manage high-volume demand and the global capabilities to source exactly the right individuals for their talent needs.
Case Study - Wind, Seoul
Recruiting HSE Expertise for Wind Turbine Fabrication
Following a spike in safety incidents, our client urgently needed to secure additional resources to improve and manage the health and safety at a fabrication site in Seoul.
Case Study - South Korea
Recruiting for the Ichthys Project
At peak, NESF supported circa 350 individuals working on the construction of the two Ichthys facilities in the South Korean fabrication yards.
Other Regional Offices
Japan
Our office is based in Yokohama and contains a bi-lingual team with Japanese and English language skills
China
Our offices are based in Shanghai and Hong Kong, with further registrations to operate across multiple provinces
Taiwan
Our Taipei office ensures international companies enter the Taiwanese market cost efficiently and with little risk
Vietnam
We're one of few international workforce solutions agencies that has an office in-country
Thailand
We have been operational in Thailand for over 15 years and now have offices located in Bangkok and Chonburi
Malaysia
Our Asia Pacific recruitment headquarters; we’ve placed staff onto Malaysia’s largest energy projects and chemical processing facilities
Philippines
Through our local office in Ayala Alabang we hold all required licences to ensure a 100% compliant recruitment solution
Indonesia
We are a 100% locally owned entity, with offices across the country in Jakarta and Batam
Brunei
We provide a premium, reliable service and our reputation in the local tight-knit Brunei market precedes us