Spinnaker Consulting - Offshore Recruitment Specialists

Spinnaker Consulting is a global marine and offshore recruitment agency with a track record of successful technical recruitment in the offshore, energy and shipping industries in more than 35 countries worldwide.

Spinnaker is retained by leading offshore employers to recruit offshore professionals at all levels via executive search assignments and contingency recruitment. We are known for and are proud of our ethical approach and long-term client relationships.

Don't just take our word for it. See a selection of client testimonials on our website.

Offshore, energy and shipping vacancies

Spinnaker is a preferred supplier for oil major vacancies, major offshore consultants and engineering consultants, classification societies, ship owners and ship managers in the tanker, gas, FPSO, FSRU, OSV, heavy lift, subsea and offshore renewable sectors.

Typical vacancies include DP specialists, dynamic positioning consultants, engineer superintendents, technical superintendents, offshore installation managers (OIM), warranty surveyors, classification surveyors, hull and machinery surveyors, project engineers, project managers, and technical managers.

Global offshore professional recruitment services

Whether the best candidate lives and works close to you or on the other side of the world, Spinnaker can help you find them. We build relationships across offshore, energy and shipping through our specialist recruitment consultants who focus on technical recruitment, commercial recruitment or professional services recruitment, and then on particular countries or regions only. This ensures that they are true experts who get to know the best candidates around the world in their particular specialism.

Specialist offshore recruitment services

Whatever the marketing bumph may tell you, recruitment isn't rocket science. It's about understanding your sector, building relationships, thorough research, discretion and respect for confidentiality. When choosing your recruitment consultancy, don't fall for the sales hype and the 'global network of offices'. Truth is, a small team will work on your assignment and its success will depend upon them - so, select people you can work with, people you trust, people you like and people who know about offshore recruitment.

Executive search for offshore professionals

'Executive search' is a targeted research-based project approach to identifying and confidentially approaching talented offshore professionals with the aim of motivating them to consider your specific opportunity. The chances of success are significantly increased by dedicating time and resources to the project. Search is most commonly used for senior vacancies, but also for business critical and hard-to-fill positions where skill sets are in short supply.

The main benefit of search is finding and hiring top achievers who are unlikely to be actively looking for a job, or those with potential who may be constrained in their current organisation.

Contingency recruitment services for the offshore industry

Otherwise known as database search or file search, 'contingency recruitment' is a no win, no fee service drawing upon the extensive Spinnaker database and network, which has been built upon since 1997.

Our consultants take a comprehensive assignment brief from you, match your person specification against our candidate database, and then contact appropriate individuals to establish their interest and suitability for your vacancy. Having interviewed and vetted them ourselves, interviews with you will then be organised and should a candidate introduced by Spinnaker commence employment with you, a fee is charged when they start work.

Salary benchmarking / compensation and benefits advice

Spinnaker is secretariat of the Maritime HR Forum, the most reliable source of maritime and offshore global compensation and benefits data available for thousands of shore-based staff. The members are oil majors, ship owners, ship managers, and mining, commodity and energy groups.

The Maritime HR Forum is a membership association. To request details of the annual membership costs and the membership rules, email us.

Services:

• Major annual global salary survey - base salaries and bonuses
• Annual full membership meeting
• Regional meetings
• Interim benefits surveys and research into issues on members' agendas
• Coordinating and collating members' requests for information sharing