Lead Recruiter
Houston, Texas Area
What started as a small-time temp nursing agency in Stavanger, Norway grew into a global project-based staffing organization focused solely in the Oil, Gas & Energy sector. Further development led to merger and acquisition of the company by the largest Energy staffing firm in the world, AirSwift.Competentia largely and selectively supported major operators in the Oil & Gas realm, namely Chevron, ConocoPhillips/Phillips 66, Total, Equinor (formerly StatOil), Shell, BP & Exxon. Another bulk business for Competentia was the staffing support of large EPC client's in the Oil, Gas & Energy realms, such as Technip, WorleyParsons, Jacobs, Sempra LNG, Fluor, SNC-Lavalin, KBR, Baker Hughes and WoodGroup.They also irregularly supported service providers (Schlumberger, Halliburton).My peak performance was a total billings of just under $5 million per year with a Gross Margin profit over $500k per year. Business was largely contractual. We implemented various employment strategies and solutions to overcome visa challenges and logistic issues while remaining competitive in the market.One of the crowning achievements of Competentia NSA was the procurement of "Preferred Vendor" status for the CameronLNG project located in Hackberry, LA. We supported the Commissioning and Start-Up phase of the project as the preferred and dominant staffing agency, transitioning to a main agent of the Operations Team. With the M&A, AirSwift kept their household name