For international employers · Oil, Gas & EPC
Falisha Manpower recruits industrial pipe fitters from Pakistan for refineries, gas plants, petrochemical facilities and power stations, and for the EPC and mechanical contractors who build and maintain them. We supply spool-shop fitters, site erection crews and shutdown fitters, either on their own or as part of a matched crew of fitters and welders. Our licence from Pakistan’s Bureau of Emigration & Overseas Employment (OEP Licence No. 4035) covers the whole engagement, from testing and selection to contracts, visas and Protector of Emigrants clearance.
A pipe fitter’s value shows in the joint a welder receives. Fitters read the isometric, work out cut lengths, bevel, align, and tack or clamp each joint so the gap, alignment and orientation are right before welding starts. When fit-up is poor, welders wait, joints are cut out and test packs fall behind schedule. That is why we screen fitters on isometric reading and fit-up accuracy in your materials and pipe classes, not on job title or years alone.
Shortlisted fitters complete an isometric-reading exercise and a practical fit-up test built to your dimensions and tolerances, which your QC inspector or a third-party inspector can witness. You interview those who pass. We then handle medicals, visa files, any Saudi skill verification the visa occupation requires, and mobilisation to your construction or shutdown schedule.
Roles & specialisations
Matched to your specification and the work itself, not just a job title.
Fitters who erect process piping in the plant. They land spools on racks and sleepers, align them to equipment nozzles, set supports, and fit up the field joints that close each line.
Shop fitters who cut, bevel and fit spools on the bench from fabrication isometrics. They mark spool and weld numbers and keep heat-number traceability for every component.
Line-up fitters for cross-country and in-plant pipelines. They use internal or external clamps to set root gap and hi-lo along long runs, ahead of a pipeline welding crew.
Fitters for operating plants who break and make flanged joints, change valves and spools, and fit and remove blinds and spectacle plates, all under permit-to-work within a fixed outage window.
Fitters for steam, condensate, feedwater and cooling-water systems in power stations and desalination plants, where thick-wall pipe and alloy steels are common.
Fitters who keep corrosion-resistant materials free of carbon-steel contamination by using dedicated tools and grinding discs, and who set up purge dams for the welder’s TIG root.
Fitters for socket-weld and threaded small-bore piping, vents, drains and instrument connections. The joint counts are high, so accuracy and neat routing matter.
Fitters and bonders for glass-reinforced epoxy (GRE) and other non-metallic systems used for firewater, cooling water and produced water. They work to the manufacturer’s and the project’s bonding procedure.
Experienced fitters who plan each day’s joints from the isometrics, balance work between fitters and welders, walk down lines for punch lists and prepare test packs.
Before you hire
The distinctions that decide whether a hire works on your project.
The fitter prepares and aligns the joint, the welder welds it, and a fabricator-welder does both, usually in a spool shop. Many process-piping procedures require tack welds to be made by a qualified welder. So decide whether your fitters need a welder qualification to tack, or whether tacking stays with your welders.
Shop fitters work at a bench with full access and turn out repetitive spools quickly. Site fitters work at height on pipe racks, deal with accumulated fabrication and erection tolerances, and close lines with field-fit welds cut to suit. The two jobs need different habits, so tell us which you need, or how many of each.
A capable fitter reads the line number, pipe class, coordinates, elevations and bill of materials from the isometric, and works out cut lengths from fitting take-off dimensions. Fitters who depend on someone else for this slow the whole crew, so our assessment tests it directly.
With too few fitters, welders wait for fit-ups. With too few welders, fitted joints sit unwelded. The right balance depends on bore size, material, joint count and whether the work is in the shop or the field, so we plan and recruit fitters, welders and helpers together against your scope.
Greenfield erection needs productivity and drawing discipline. Work in a running plant adds permit-to-work, isolation and gas-testing routines, plus controlled bolting and flange management. If your fitters will work inside live units, ask specifically for shutdown or maintenance experience.
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 code most often specified for refinery, chemical and gas-plant piping. It sets requirements for fabrication, assembly, erection, examination and testing. Your project specification turns these into the fit-up and alignment criteria fitters work to.
ASME B31.1 for power piping, ASME B31.4 and B31.8 for liquid and gas pipelines, and EN 13480 for metallic industrial piping on European projects. Tell us which one applies and we screen for experience under it.
Dimensional standards for flanges and flanged fittings (B16.5), butt-welding fittings (B16.9), and socket-weld and threaded fittings (B16.11). Fitters use them to recognise pressure classes, facings and wall schedules, and to pick the right component from the pipe class.
Guidelines for gasket installation, bolt-tightening patterns and controlled bolting. Employers often specify them for flange management on new plants and during shutdowns.
Your pipe-class sheets, line list, isometrics and test-pack procedure define what fitters build and how it is pressure-tested. Hydrostatic and pneumatic tests run under your procedure and are witnessed by your QC team or the end client.
Assessment
Arranged to your criteria before you interview, so you evaluate ability rather than a CV.
Candidates get an isometric from a typical process line. They identify the line number, pipe class, elevations and bill of materials, then work out cut lengths using fitting take-off dimensions.
At a trade-test facility in Pakistan, each fitter cuts, bevels and fits a small spool to the drawing, typically pipe, elbow, branch and weld-neck flange. Root gap, alignment, hi-lo, squareness, flange bolt-hole orientation and overall dimensions are measured against your tolerances.
For shutdown and maintenance roles, fitters show how they check gaskets, follow a bolt-tightening sequence and handle blinds, using the bolting procedure you specify.
Your QC inspector or a third-party inspection agency you appoint can measure and accept the fit-up, or watch it live by video. The result comes from your side, not ours.
For Saudi roles whose visa occupation falls under the programme, fitters also take a theory and practical test at a NAVTTC-designated centre, following Takamol’s assessment method. This is separate from your own fit-up test and comes on top of it. We confirm coverage and coordinate the booking, and the programme issues the result.
How it works
From your requirement to workers on site.
We review your scope, piping specification, materials, size range and sample isometrics, and agree the fit-up tolerances and tests the assessment must cover.
We plan fitter, welder, helper and foreman numbers together against your joint count and schedule, so the crew arrives balanced instead of heavy on one trade.
Through our candidate database and sourcing network, we look for fitters whose experience matches the work, whether that is refinery and gas-plant erection, spool shops, pipelines, power plants or shutdowns.
We check experience letters, project histories and material experience, and filter out helpers presenting themselves as fitters before anyone is tested.
Shortlisted fitters complete the isometric exercise and fit-up test, measured by your inspector or a third party, alongside any welder testing for the same crew.
Your piping supervisor or engineer interviews the successful fitters, by video or during a visit to Pakistan. Before confirming anyone, they can talk each fitter through one of your own isometrics.
We coordinate Saudi skill verification where the visa occupation requires it, the pre-departure medical, attestation and work visas, followed by emigration clearance with the Protector of Emigrants.
For shutdowns, fitters are scheduled to arrive with time for site induction and permit-to-work training before the outage begins. For construction, arrivals follow the erection sequence.
Sourcing
Pakistan has its own oil refineries, fertiliser complexes, gas processing facilities and power stations, so many fitters gain industrial piping experience at home before they work abroad.
Pipe-fitting and pipe-installation trades are on the list assessed in Pakistan for Saudi Arabia’s Skill Verification Program, with NAVTTC as the implementing partner. Candidates can complete the verification without leaving the country.
When fitters and welders are recruited together and tested against the same isometrics and procedure, you get a crew assessed to one standard instead of two.
Pay & terms
Fitter pay is the employer’s decision and is fixed in the contract, but candidates weigh it against the kind of work on offer. Site erection and shutdown fitters on operating plants, fitters experienced in alloy, stainless or GRE systems, and those who can work out their own isometrics are valued above general spool-shop fitters, and foremen above all of them. Remote-site or camp allowances, rotation and leave also matter a great deal to experienced candidates.
Candidates judge shutdown work and construction work differently. A short, intensive outage is judged on total earnings over the window, including overtime. A long construction contract is judged on basic pay, leave and rotation. If your package is built for one type of work but the role is the other, expect candidates to withdraw late in the process. We can review the structure with you while planning.
No fitter should pay unlawful recruitment fees to get the job. Everything agreed at interview, including basic pay, how overtime is paid, rotation and allowances, needs to appear in the contract that goes through Protector of Emigrants clearance, because that document governs the employment.
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: Bureau of Emigration & Overseas Employment (BEOE) · Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development (MHRSD), Saudi Arabia: Professional Verification Program · NAVTTC: Pakistan–Saudi Arabia Skill Verification Program · ASME: B31 Pressure Piping, B16 and PCC-1 standards · CEN-CENELEC, European Committee for Standardization
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.
