Specialist supplier of complete shutdown crews for refinery turnarounds, petrochemical maintenance shutdowns, and gas plant outages across the GCC. Pre-screened, certification-verified workforce ready for compressed mobilisation.
Arman Consultants is a specialist supplier of complete shutdown crews to refinery turnarounds, petrochemical maintenance shutdowns, gas plant outages, and major plant overhauls across Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and Bahrain. As a Government of India licensed recruitment agency (License No: 000140/BOM/PROP/1000+/3/436/84) with deep experience in oil & gas turnaround mobilisations, we deliver pre-screened, certification-verified shutdown workforce on compressed timelines.
Shutdowns are the highest-pressure recruitment scenario in oil & gas. You need bulk technical workforce, compressed mobilisation windows, and zero margin for error. Schedule slippage on a major shutdown costs operators millions per day. Generic recruitment partners cannot handle this — they scramble to source when the timetable demands they should already be mobilising.
Our shutdown specialism is built on three pillars: an active database of shutdown-experienced workers, established mobilisation procedures refined across hundreds of GCC turnarounds, and a technical screening team that understands turnaround-specific certification requirements. When your shutdown date is fixed and your manpower window is compressed, this is the difference between a recruitment partner who delivers and one who promises.
Send your requirement and receive a complete crew plan within 24 hours.
Shutdowns are the highest-pressure recruitment scenario in oil & gas. You need 50, 100, sometimes 500+ technical workers — welders, fitters, riggers, inspectors, HSE officers, supervisors — mobilised together on tight schedules with verified certifications and complete documentation. Schedule slippage costs operators millions per day.
Pre-built shutdown crews ready for 4-6 week mobilisation. Active database of certified turnaround workers.
Full shutdown teams — welders, fitters, riggers, inspectors, HSE, supervisors — mobilised cohesively.
Welder qualifications (PQR/WPQ), NDT certifications (ASNT/PCN), HSE credentials (NEBOSH/IOSH) all pre-verified.
Workers briefed on turnaround-specific HSE — PTW procedures, confined-space entry, hot-work permits, LOTO.
Active shutdown deployments to Aramco, ADNOC, KOC, PDO contractors, and major refining operators.
End-of-shutdown demobilisation, exit visa processing, and return travel coordination.
We assemble complete shutdown crews tailored to your turnaround scope. Every crew member is certified, screened, and mobilisation-ready.
6G GTAW pipe welders, SMAW welders, MIG/MAG welders, Combination welders, Structural welders, Stainless and duplex welders.
Pipe fitters, Mechanical fitters, Certified riggers, Millwrights, Fabricators, Heat-exchanger maintenance crews, Column maintenance crews.
NDT Level 2 (UT, RT, MT, PT, VT), ASNT/PCN inspectors, CSWIP/AWS CWI welding inspectors, NACE painting inspectors, Turnaround QA/QC coordinators.
NEBOSH HSE officers, IOSH safety supervisors, Fire-watch, Hole-watch, Gas testers, Confined-space attendants.
Instrument technicians, Calibration technicians, Electrical technicians, Motor maintenance specialists.
Shutdown supervisors, Area foremen, Mechanical superintendents, Planning engineers, Turnaround engineers.
Certified scaffolders, Scaffold supervisors, Access specialists.
Active shutdown deployments to every GCC energy market.
Aramco contractor turnarounds — refineries, gas plants, petrochemicals. See Saudi recruitment.
KOC contractor and refinery turnarounds. See oil & gas recruitment for Kuwait.
ADNOC EPC turnarounds, PDO maintenance shutdowns, Qatar LNG outages, Bahrain refinery turnarounds.
Our six-step recruitment process has been refined across four decades of shutdown & turnaround staffing deployments to the GCC. From initial brief to candidates arriving on site, every stage is managed by a dedicated lead so you always have one accountable point of contact.
You share roles, candidate counts, technical specifications, target deployment date, and destination country. We respond within 24 hours with capacity confirmation and a realistic mobilisation timeline, flagging any certification or documentation considerations up front.
We activate our India-wide recruitment network — regional sourcing offices, trade-test centres, and our continuously refreshed candidate database — to identify the workers best matched to your shutdown & turnaround staffing requirement.
Each shortlisted candidate passes our five-stage assessment: skills evaluation, practical trade testing at a certified centre, credential and document verification, background checks, and a structured in-person interview.
We submit shortlisted CVs for your review and coordinate video or in-person interviews, with our team facilitating and translating where needed.
Once candidates are selected, we manage emigration clearance, medical examinations, certificate attestation, and consulate visa stamping for the destination GCC country.
We coordinate travel, deliver a pre-departure briefing on labour law and workplace expectations, and follow up after arrival through the first 90 days.
Shutdown work in the GCC is structurally different from normal-operations recruitment. The largest operators — Aramco, ADNOC, KOC, PDO, QatarEnergy, BAPCO — schedule major turnarounds on rolling cycles, each requiring rapid mobilisation of hundreds of certified workers within narrow windows. Compressed schedules, exacting certification requirements, and bulk demand together make this the most demanding workforce supply scenario in the region.
The economics also bear thinking about. A day of lost shutdown productivity can cost a refinery operator several million dollars. A bad recruitment partner who fails to mobilise on time, or who supplies workers who cannot pass operator credential checks on arrival, can therefore cost orders of magnitude more than they ever charge in fees. That is why the operators and contractors with the highest cost of failure are also the ones most willing to pay for a recruitment partner with a verifiable shutdown track record.
Shutdown & Turnaround Staffing recruitment is not generic manpower supply. Each sector has its own certification expectations, its own technical standards, and its own pace. A worker who cannot perform on arrival costs you time, money, and credibility with your client. Our 40-plus-year track record exists because we treat sector specialism as fundamental, not optional.
Our recruitment licence (No: 000140/BOM/PROP/1000+/3/436/84) is issued directly by the Government of India Ministry of External Affairs. Every worker we deploy is recorded in the official emigration system, every visa is processed through legitimate channels, and every placement is fully documented. Unlicensed agencies expose employers to deportations, project disruption, and serious compliance risk — we eliminate that risk.
Our shutdown & turnaround staffing recruitment is staffed by people who understand what they are recruiting for — the trades, the certifications, the technical vocabulary, the operator approval processes. This is the difference between a CV that looks right and a worker who actually performs on site.
Active candidate pools and established mobilisation procedures allow us to deliver bulk workforce on tight schedules without compromising our screening standards. Whether you need ten specialists or several hundred crew members, the same quality discipline applies.
For pre-screened candidates from our active shutdown database, typically 4 to 6 weeks. We maintain ready-to-deploy pools for major operator turnarounds.
Yes. Complete demobilisation support including exit visa processing, final settlement coordination, and return travel.
Yes. Multiple parallel shutdown mobilisations are supported with dedicated recruitment leads per project.
Welders: PQR/WPQ verified. NDT: ASNT or PCN Level 2. HSE: NEBOSH or IOSH. Scaffolders: recognised scaffolding certifications. All verified before submission.
No. Our fees are billed to the employer; candidates are never charged placement fees.
Send us your shutdown workforce requirement — full crews mobilised for refinery, petrochemical, or gas plant turnarounds. Certification-verified workers ready for compressed timelines.