For international employers · Engineering
Falisha Manpower recruits degree-qualified electrical engineers from Pakistan for EPC contractors, MEP consultants and contractors, power utilities and producers, oil and gas operators and industrial plants — from a single protection engineer for a substation package to the electrical team for a new facility. We are a BEOE-licensed Overseas Employment Promoter (OEP Licence No. 4035), so the pathway runs under Pakistan’s regulated overseas employment system, from credential checks and degree attestation to work-visa documentation and emigration clearance.
Hiring an engineer turns on different questions from hiring a tradesperson. Which side of the project have they worked on — design, construction, commissioning or operations? At which voltage levels, on which systems, to which family of standards? And will their degree and registration satisfy the destination’s professional accreditation rules? A building-services design engineer and a substation commissioning engineer share a degree title and very little else.
Before you see a CV, we verify the degree, Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) registration and project history against your brief. We then arrange the technical interviews and any written or software assessment your team sets, and prepare the attested documents that visas and professional accreditation depend on — such as the Saudi Council of Engineers accreditation required to practise engineering in Saudi Arabia.
Roles & specialisations
Matched to your specification and the work itself, not just a job title.
Prepare load schedules, cable sizing and voltage-drop calculations, lighting, earthing and lightning-protection designs and distribution schematics for buildings and infrastructure, coordinating with architects and the other MEP disciplines.
Run the electrical installation on the contractor’s side — method statements, material submittals, inspection requests, subcontractor coordination and getting the works signed off by the consultant.
Plan and witness pre-commissioning tests, energisation and functional testing of switchgear, transformers, generators, UPS and transfer systems, and close out punch lists before handover.
Calculate and apply relay settings, carry out coordination studies and secondary-injection testing, and check protection schemes — increasingly on numerical relays and IEC 61850 substation automation systems.
Work on GIS and AIS substations, overhead lines and underground cable projects for utilities, from design review and erection supervision to testing and energisation.
Model networks and run load-flow, short-circuit, protection-coordination, arc-flash, motor-starting and stability studies in tools such as ETAP, DIgSILENT PowerFactory or PSS®E.
Keep plant running — maintenance planning for transformers, switchgear, motors and drives, and condition monitoring such as thermography, partial-discharge testing and transformer oil analysis.
Handle hazardous-area classification and equipment selection to IEC 60079, motor control centres, emergency power and the electrical interfaces of process packages.
Design and deliver rooftop and utility-scale PV — string and inverter design, yield modelling in tools such as PVsyst, grid-connection requirements and, increasingly, battery storage.
Own inspection and test plans, material inspections, test records and non-conformance reports, and assemble the electrical handover documentation.
Before you hire
The distinctions that decide whether a hire works on your project.
Define the role by its deliverable: calculations and drawings, installed works signed off, energised systems, or plant availability. Many CVs list all four. Most engineers have real depth in one or two, so ask candidates to evidence the deliverable your role depends on rather than the job titles they have held.
A consultant’s engineer reviews submittals and supervises; a contractor’s engineer produces them and builds the works; an owner’s or utility engineer operates and maintains. Two engineers from the same project can have very different skills depending on which side they sat, so tell us which side your role is on.
IEC- and BS-based projects and projects run to IEEE, ANSI and NEC conventions use different calculation methods, equipment ratings and documentation. Likewise, an engineer who will maintain your network models should know your study tool — ETAP, DIgSILENT PowerFactory and PSS®E are not interchangeable. Specify both.
Specify a BSc or BE in electrical engineering from a PEC-accredited programme if the role, your client or the destination’s accreditation body requires a recognised engineering degree. B.Tech and DAE holders are technologists, not PEC-registered engineers, and may not qualify. In Saudi Arabia, engineering may not be practised without Saudi Council of Engineers accreditation, which requires a recognised engineering degree and provides for technical tests in the specialty — build that step into your plan.
On a lead or package-engineer role, distinguish engineers who prepared calculations under supervision from those who took responsibility for a package and its interfaces. Ask for the packages they were accountable for, the voltage levels and the authority they reported to.
Your requirement
The more precise the brief, the more precise the shortlist. Anything you are unsure of, we work out with you.
Standards & qualifications
Qualifications, codes and licences candidates may hold or be assessed against — you decide which apply.
Requirements for low-voltage electrical installations — the design basis for building-services and LV distribution engineers on IEC- and British-practice projects.
Short-circuit current calculation and arc-flash hazard calculation — the basis of the power-systems studies employers ask engineers to perform or review.
Measuring relays and protection equipment, and communication networks for power utility automation — core references for protection, control and substation automation engineers.
Explosive atmospheres, including area classification and the design, selection and erection of electrical installations — essential for oil, gas and process electrical engineers.
Graduates of PEC-accredited programmes register as Registered Engineers (RE); experienced engineers can progress to Professional Engineer (PE) through PEC’s Engineering Practice Examination. Candidates hold this registration — it is not a recruiter credential.
Under Saudi Arabia’s Engineering Professions Practice Law, engineering may not be practised without SCE professional accreditation. The engineer obtains it from the SCE; we prepare the attested degree and experience documents the application relies on.
Assessment
Arranged to your criteria before you interview, so you evaluate ability rather than a CV.
We check the degree and transcripts through HEC attestation — which now runs online and includes verification by the awarding university — and confirm PEC registration status and whether the programme was PEC-accredited.
Experience letters, project lists and references are checked to confirm each candidate’s actual role on each project — design, site, commissioning or operations — the voltage levels involved and which side of the contract they worked for.
Your engineering manager or panel interviews shortlisted engineers with discipline-specific scenarios — sizing a feeder with derating and voltage drop, explaining discrimination between protective devices, walking through an energisation sequence, or interpreting a single-line diagram. We coordinate the schedule; your panel conducts it.
Where you specify, candidates sit a written test you set or a supervised software exercise — for example building a short-circuit model in ETAP or marking up a drawing in AutoCAD Electrical — remotely or at a venue we arrange.
We collect samples of reports, method statements or test records the candidate has written, so you can judge the English-language documentation they will produce for clients and consultants.
How it works
From your requirement to workers on site.
We agree the discipline, deliverables, voltage levels, standards, software, seniority, degree and accreditation requirements, and the assessment you want to run.
We search our candidate database and professional network by project type and system — many suitable engineers are currently employed and are approached discreetly.
Degrees, transcripts, PEC registration and experience letters are checked, and profiles whose experience does not match the deliverable are removed.
Shortlisted engineers sit your interview panel and any written or software exercise, by video, in person or through a recruitment delegation to Pakistan.
You make the offer; we manage acceptance, any client or consultant CV approval and the candidate’s notice period with their current employer.
We coordinate HEC degree attestation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs attestation and any further legalisation the destination requires, and assemble the documents for professional accreditation such as the Saudi Council of Engineers.
Selected engineers complete the GCC-approved medical where the destination requires it, the work-visa file is submitted, and BEOE and Protector of Emigrants formalities are completed before departure.
Travel is timed to the notice period and your project start, with the engineer briefed on any accreditation steps that remain after arrival.
Sourcing
Pakistan, through the Pakistan Engineering Council, has been a full signatory of the Washington Accord since 2017, so PEC-accredited engineering programmes are recognised by the other signatories as substantially equivalent. That is why we check whether a candidate’s programme was PEC-accredited, not just that they hold a degree.
Pakistan’s generation, transmission and distribution utilities, independent power producers and process industries give engineers hands-on grid, plant and industrial experience. Many have also worked on Gulf EPC and utility projects — we verify that experience rather than assume it.
Engineering degrees in Pakistan are taught in English, and drawings, specifications and project correspondence are normally in English too, so engineers are used to producing calculations, reports and submittals in the language your consultants and clients review.
Pay & terms
Engineers’ pay is set by the employer and written into the employment contract. It reflects discipline and scarcity — protection, power-systems and commissioning engineers with substation or plant experience are generally harder to find than general building-services engineers — along with seniority, sign-off responsibility, and whether the package is single or family status, with housing, schooling, rotation, leave and flights.
Experienced engineers are often employed when approached and may be comparing offers or facing a counter-offer. A package that is clear about allowances, family status and who meets attestation and accreditation costs tends to move faster; during requirement planning we can discuss how your package compares with what engineers at that level expect.
Candidates should never pay unlawful recruitment fees. The agreed terms are recorded in the employment contract, which forms part of the emigration process.
Compliance & trust
Falisha Manpower recruits under Overseas Employment Promoter Licence No. 4035, issued by the Bureau of Emigration & Overseas Employment (BEOE), Government of Pakistan.
Every selected worker is processed through BEOE and Protector of Emigrants formalities before departure — the legal route for Pakistani workers taking overseas employment.
Workers are not charged unlawful fees and their passports are not retained. Terms are documented in the employment contract before travel.
You set the specification and the acceptance criteria, and you make every final hiring decision — we source, coordinate, document and mobilise.
Read our quality policy, anti-trafficking statement, or report recruitment fraud. Licence status can be checked with the BEOE.
Sectors
Destinations
Subject to active employer demand and each destination’s visa and work-permit requirements.
FAQ
References: Saudipedia (Saudi Ministry of Media) — Engineering Professions Practice Law · Saudi Council of Engineers (SCE) · Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) · Higher Education Commission (HEC) — Degree Attestation · Engineers Canada — Pakistan admitted to the Washington Accord (2017) · International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
Last updated 10 November 2026. General guidance for employers; destination rules change, so requirements are confirmed for each recruitment.
Send us the role, numbers, specification, destination and joining date. We will review it, confirm what the assessment must prove, and give you a realistic plan.
