For international employers · Engineering
Falisha Manpower recruits mechanical engineers from Pakistan for oil and gas operators, EPC contractors, power and desalination plants, MEP contractors and manufacturers — a single specialist such as a piping stress engineer, or the mechanical team for a construction package, a commissioning campaign or a plant’s maintenance department. As a BEOE-licensed Overseas Employment Promoter (OEP Licence No. 4035), we handle the Pakistan side end to end: sourcing, credential verification, degree attestation, visa documentation and Protector of Emigrants clearance.
Mechanical engineering is one of the broadest engineering disciplines, and the job title hides more than it reveals. An HVAC design engineer sizing a chilled-water system, a rotating equipment engineer chasing compressor vibration and a piping engineer checking a hot line for thermal stress share a degree but not a skill set. Project phase matters as well: design, construction, commissioning and operations each call for different experience. We shortlist on the equipment, codes and phase in your brief — not on “mechanical engineer” alone.
Before you interview, we verify degrees and registration and map each engineer’s equipment and plant history against your requirement. Technical interviews and any calculation or software test are led by your engineers and coordinated by us, and the destination’s attestation and accreditation steps are built into mobilisation from day one.
Roles & specialisations
Matched to your specification and the work itself, not just a job title.
Engineers who route process and utility piping in 3D plant-design tools and check flexibility, supports and nozzle loads to ASME B31.3 or B31.1. Caesar II is the stress-analysis tool employers most commonly request.
Specialists in pressure vessels, heat exchangers, columns and storage tanks: design review, datasheets, vendor document checks and fabrication follow-up to ASME Section VIII and API 650.
Engineers for pumps, compressors, turbines, fans and gearboxes — specification and vendor evaluation to API equipment standards on projects, or condition monitoring, alignment and failure analysis in operations.
Building-services engineers who calculate cooling and heating loads, size air and chilled-water systems and produce coordinated designs to ASHRAE-based criteria. HAP and Revit MEP are commonly requested.
Mechanical engineers who supervise installation of HVAC, plumbing, drainage and fire-fighting systems on buildings, coordinate with civil and electrical trades, and manage submittals, inspections and testing.
Plant-based engineers who run preventive and predictive maintenance, plan shutdowns, investigate repeat failures and manage work orders through a CMMS such as SAP PM or Maximo.
Engineers who own inspection and test plans for mechanical works, review welding and NDT records, witness pressure tests and control material traceability. Some also hold individual inspector certifications.
Engineers who take systems from mechanical completion through pre-commissioning, flushing, testing and start-up, manage punch lists and compile handover dossiers.
Mechanical engineers who design or install sprinkler, fire-pump, foam and gas-suppression systems, typically to NFPA standards and the local civil-defence authority’s approval requirements.
Before you hire
The distinctions that decide whether a hire works on your project.
HVAC and MEP engineers work on buildings to ASHRAE-based criteria and local authority approvals; industrial mechanical engineers work on process plant to ASME and API codes. Engineers move between the two less often than employers expect, so state clearly which world the role sits in.
In oil, gas and power these are separate specialisms with different codes, vendors and failure modes, and a strong static equipment engineer is not automatically a rotating equipment engineer. Name the equipment the engineer will be accountable for, and we search on that.
Design engineers need software and code depth; construction engineers need installation, testing and subcontractor control; commissioning engineers need system-by-system start-up experience; maintenance engineers need reliability and shutdown planning. Ask for evidence from the phase the role is actually in.
QA/QC engineers manage quality systems and records; certified inspectors (for example to API 510, 570 or 653) hold an individual certification for in-service inspection; technicians do the hands-on work. Also check the qualification type: in Pakistan, engineering-technology graduates (B.Tech, BSc Engineering Technology) register as technologists rather than with the Pakistan Engineering Council, and destination bodies may classify them differently from engineers.
For Saudi Arabia, the visa must carry an engineering profession and the engineer needs Saudi Council of Engineers (SCE) professional accreditation; SCE sets its criteria, which have included minimum documented experience and professional examinations. Several other Gulf states require engineers to register or be accredited with a national engineering body. These steps often take longer than recruitment itself.
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.
The piping code most often specified for refineries, chemical and gas plants; ASME B31.1 Power Piping is its counterpart for power stations. Piping and stress engineers should know the edition and any client supplements your project applies.
Rules for the design and construction of pressure vessels — central to static equipment work, calculation checks and vendor document review.
API 610 (centrifugal pumps), API 617 (compressors) and API 650 (welded storage tanks) govern equipment specification; API 510, 570 and 653 cover in-service inspection of vessels, piping and tanks, with individual inspector certifications issued by API.
ASHRAE 62.1 (ventilation and indoor air quality) and ASHRAE 90.1 (building energy) are common HVAC design references; ductwork is often specified to SMACNA construction standards.
NFPA 13 (sprinkler systems) and NFPA 20 (stationary fire pumps) are widely specified, alongside the requirements of the local civil-defence authority.
Professional engineering work in Pakistan requires PEC registration; the Professional Engineer (PE) title adds at least five years’ experience and a passed Engineering Practice Examination. Practising engineering in Saudi Arabia requires SCE professional accreditation. Falisha verifies registrations and coordinates applications — the registering bodies make the decisions.
Assessment
Arranged to your criteria before you interview, so you evaluate ability rather than a CV.
Before shortlisting, PEC registration is checked through PEC’s online verification and the degree programme confirmed on PEC’s accredited list. Inspector and welding-inspection certificates are checked against the issuing body’s records where a verification route exists.
We map each engineer’s history by equipment type, plant, project phase and codes used, and check experience letters and references against it — so you can see where experience is deep and where it is thin.
Your engineers lead the interview; we can supply question sets built on realistic problems — a pump losing head, a hot line overloading a nozzle, a chilled-water system failing to hold temperature — that separate hands-on engineers from those who only know the theory.
Where the role depends on it, a short practical task: checking a Caesar II model, a cooling-load calculation in HAP, a vessel wall-thickness calculation or a shutdown schedule in Primavera P6. You set the task and the standard.
Engineers review a datasheet, ITP, P&ID extract or commissioning procedure containing planted errors — testing the attention to detail that vendor reviews and handover packages depend on.
How it works
From your requirement to workers on site.
We go through discipline, equipment, codes, project phase, software, certifications and headcount, and confirm the destination’s accreditation route and the engineering visa title it needs.
We search our database and engineering network by equipment and project phase, so a rotating-equipment brief is not filled with general mechanical CVs.
PEC registration, degree programme, certifications and experience letters are checked; profiles with gaps or unverifiable claims are set aside before you see them.
Shortlisted engineers sit your interview and any test you set, witnessed by your team by video or in person. You decide who is selected.
For Saudi Arabia, the engineer’s SCE application is prepared alongside the visa, using SCE’s online route for engineers applying from outside the Kingdom. For other destinations we follow the registration steps set by that country’s authority.
We coordinate HEC attestation of the degree, then MOFA attestation or apostille and any embassy step the destination still requires; certificates and experience letters are attested where needed.
The destination medical, the work-visa file, and BEOE and Protector of Emigrants clearance — which every Pakistani worker needs before departing for overseas employment.
Engineers travel to your start date, timed around shutdown windows or commissioning milestones where relevant, carrying the documents needed for any post-arrival accreditation step.
Sourcing
Pakistan has refineries, gas processing and fertiliser plants, thermal and hydropower stations, cement plants and large textile and sugar industries. Engineers from these plants bring hands-on maintenance, reliability and shutdown experience that design-only careers do not.
PEC accredits Pakistan’s engineering programmes and has been a full Washington Accord signatory since 2017. Its accredited-programme lists and online registration check are public, so a candidate’s degree and registration can be confirmed rather than taken on trust.
ASME, API and ASHRAE references are taught and used in Pakistan’s own oil, gas, power and building-services sectors, and many engineers have worked on Gulf EPC and MEP projects. We verify that experience against project records.
Pay & terms
Mechanical engineers’ pay is set by the employer and written into the contract. Specialisation moves it more than the title does: piping stress, rotating equipment and commissioning specialists, and engineers holding recognised inspector certifications, are generally harder to find than general MEP site engineers, and packages reflect that. Plant location, rotation pattern, shutdown overtime and whether housing, transport and food are provided also shape the offer.
For rotation and shutdown roles, engineers look closely at the rotation cycle, travel arrangements and how overtime is treated, not only the base salary. During requirement planning we can talk through how your package is likely to be received by engineers at the level you need.
Agree before the offer who bears the cost of accreditation, any professional examination and certificate renewals — inspector certifications in particular must be kept current — and record it in the employment contract. Candidates should not pay unlawful recruitment fees at any stage; the contract forms part of Pakistan’s 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.
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Sectors
Destinations
Subject to active employer demand and each destination’s visa and work-permit requirements.
FAQ
References: Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) · Saudi Council of Engineers (SCE) · Saudipedia (Saudi Ministry of Media) — Engineering Professions Practice Law · Higher Education Commission (HEC) — Degree Attestation · Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan — Attestation and Apostille · ASME — Codes and Standards · American Petroleum Institute (API)
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.
