NES Fircroft

Our Story

With over 90 years’ combined experience of delivering workforce solutions to the global energy industry, NES Fircroft is proud to be the world’s leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining, Automotive and Chemicals sectors worldwide.

We provide tailored staffing solutions, sourced from a global talent pool by a dedicated, discipline specific team of consultants.

We are a people focused business and have access to the best talent wherever it may be in the world. NES Fircroft offers a full range of staffing solutions: Contract, Permanent (Direct) Hire, Managed Solutions, or a fully outsourced service. These services are complemented by an industry leading support service and global mobility package to ensure our clients keep hold of the top talent in a compliant manner for as long as they need it.

Celebrating 5 decades of success

In 1978, Northenden Engineering Services was established by co-founders, Geoff Lloyd and Bryan Sullivan.

The company was known as NES International, NES Overseas and often simply “NES” before becoming NES Global Talent as part of a re-branding exercise in 2011. The business grew impressively and was sold to AEA Investors in 2012 for £234m, more than three times as much as it was valued six years previously.

Since then, we went through a major merger with Fircroft (September 2020) to become NES Fircroft - our combined reach makes us true world-leaders in technical and engineering workforce solutions.