Industries

Six sectors, one talent market

The people worth knowing move between these industries. We follow the moves rather than treating each sector as a closed market.

  • Bulk carrier under way in open sea at dusk

    Maritime

    Shipping, ports, shipbuilding and maritime logistics.

  • Offshore drilling platform lit at night

    Offshore

    Platforms, subsea engineering and offshore construction.

  • Process towers of a refinery lit at night

    Oil & Gas

    Upstream, midstream and downstream oil & gas operations.

  • Offshore wind turbines with sunlight breaking through cloud

    Renewables

    Wind, solar, hydrogen and energy transition.

Industries covered

Maritime

  • Shipping
  • Ship Management
  • Shipbuilding & Repair
  • Ports & Terminals
  • Dredging
  • Towage & Marine Services
  • Yachting

Offshore

  • Offshore Construction
  • Subsea
  • Heavy Lift & Transportation
  • Cable Installation
  • Marine Survey
  • Offshore Installation
  • Decommissioning

Oil & Gas

  • Exploration & Production
  • Drilling
  • EPC & Engineering
  • Offshore Production
  • Subsea Production Systems
  • Asset Integrity & Maintenance
  • Late-Life & Decommissioning

Renewable Energy

  • Offshore Wind
  • Floating Offshore Wind
  • Onshore Wind
  • Solar Energy
  • Hydrogen & Power-to-X
  • Energy Storage
  • Marine & Emerging Energy

Practice areas

Where the search work actually sits

Six practice areas cut across those sectors. This is how a mandate is scoped and who we go looking for.

Maritime & Shipping

Fleet · Commercial · Technical

Owners, managers and operators across dry bulk, tanker, container, offshore support and specialised tonnage. The leadership questions here are commercial exposure, fleet renewal and the compliance load that comes with decarbonisation.

Roles we place

  • Managing Director
  • Fleet Director
  • Commercial Director
  • Technical Director
  • Head of Chartering
  • HSEQ Director

Offshore Oil & Gas

Upstream · Drilling · Production

Operators, drilling contractors and the service companies around them. Mature-basin economics and late-life asset management are changing what a good operations leader looks like, and where the next one comes from.

Roles we place

  • Country Manager
  • Asset Manager
  • Drilling Manager
  • Operations Director
  • Head of Wells
  • Decommissioning Lead

Offshore Wind

Development · Installation · O&M

Developers, EPCI contractors and O&M operators. The sector is short of people who have taken a project from consent through installation and into operations — that scarcity, not salary, is usually what decides a hire.

Roles we place

  • Project Director
  • Package Manager
  • Head of Development
  • Installation Manager
  • O&M Director
  • Head of Consents

Renewable Energy

Transition · Storage · Hydrogen

Hydrogen, storage, and the transition programmes inside established energy businesses. Leadership here is usually a blend: someone with conventional-energy delivery scars and genuine credibility on the new technology.

Roles we place

  • Head of Hydrogen
  • Transition Programme Director
  • Commercial Director
  • Head of Origination
  • Technology Director
  • Head of Strategy

Ports & Terminals

Operations · Infrastructure

Port authorities, terminal operators and infrastructure owners. Automation, shore power and throughput growth all land on the same operations and engineering leadership.

Roles we place

  • Port Director
  • Terminal Manager
  • Head of Infrastructure
  • Operations Director
  • Head of Automation
  • Commercial Manager

Subsea & Marine Construction

Survey · Installation · Engineering

Subsea contractors, survey businesses and marine construction. Cable, pipeline and foundation work now serves both hydrocarbons and wind, and the leadership market has merged accordingly.

Roles we place

  • Engineering Director
  • Project Manager
  • Head of Survey
  • Vessel Operations Manager
  • Tendering Director
  • Head of Subsea

Energy transition

The sectors stopped being separate

A production manager from a mature oil and gas basin, an installation lead from a wind farm, and a terminal operations director are increasingly candidates for each other's roles. Treating those as three separate markets is the fastest way to miss the right person. We map across all of them.

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