For contractors & developers
Falisha Manpower is a construction recruitment agency in Pakistan, licensed by the Bureau of Emigration & Overseas Employment as Overseas Employment Promoter No. 4035. Main contractors, subcontractors and developers in the Gulf, Türkiye and Europe come to us for the people a building site runs on: steel fixers, shuttering carpenters, masons, MEP tradesmen, equipment operators, foremen and the engineers who direct them.
A construction project does not need all of those people at once. Earthworks crews and operators come first, structural gangs follow, MEP trades build up as the frame rises, and finishing trades arrive as floors are handed over. Recruiting in the same sequence, in batches timed to your programme, avoids paying for idle crews and keeps visas and flights in step with the work, which is why this page is laid out stage by stage.
Every worker is employed by you or your subcontractor, under your contract and work visa. We handle the Pakistan side: sourcing, document and experience checks, practical trade tests coordinated to your specification, your interviews, and the medical, visa and emigration formalities for the people you select.
Where we recruit
Buildings, infrastructure, utilities and industrial works, and the subcontractors who deliver each package.
Residential towers, villa communities, hotels, hospitals, schools and offices: concrete frames, blockwork, façades and dense MEP, followed by a long fit-out tail.
Highways, interchanges, bridges, metro and rail corridors, where earthmoving fleets, formwork for piers and decks, and survey and QA/QC teams carry the programme.
Desalination and treatment plants, reservoirs and tanks, pipelines, drainage networks, ports and quay walls, combining civil crews with pipe-fitters and plant installers.
Civil and structural works for refineries, power stations, solar parks and factories: foundations, steel erection and equipment installation under industrial safety regimes.
Formwork, rebar, MEP, scaffolding, façade and fit-out subcontractors who need a defined crew for a defined package, often across several projects at once.
Workforce by build stage
Each employer guide sets out the specialisations, standards and tests to settle before you hire that trade.
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Site clearance, excavation, dewatering and road sub-base. Plant operators and drivers set the pace here, so equipment experience and licences matter more than headcount.
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Foundations, columns, walls and slabs, floor after floor. Formwork, rebar and concrete gangs work in a tight cycle, and lifting, temporary works and inspection hold-points govern how fast it turns.
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Power, lighting, water, drainage, fire protection and air conditioning, installed floor by floor behind the frame, then tested and commissioned system by system.
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Blockwork, plaster, tiling, ceilings, joinery, doors and paint. The emphasis moves from strength to precision, and acceptance is judged at snagging against the consultant’s specification.
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The engineers, inspectors and safety staff who plan, check and sign off the work. Their competence shows up in every other crew’s output, so they deserve the same rigour in selection.
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The equipment, vehicles and stores that keep materials moving to the workface, and the mechanics who keep plant running between shifts.
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Before you request workers
Most problems with overseas construction crews trace back to a brief that was too vague or a mobilisation that ignored the programme.
Share the baseline programme, or at least the start date of each package. Mobilising earthworks, frame, MEP and finishing crews in waves keeps your camp and payroll matched to the work actually available, and spreads visa and travel processing into manageable batches.
A shuttering carpenter and a finishing joiner, or a block mason and a stone or tile setter, share a job family and little else. Specify each separately, with its own test, and set terms that reflect the difference in skill.
Tell us the formwork system, how your drawings detail reinforcement, the pipe materials and jointing methods, and the specification your consultant inspects against. The trade tests we coordinate are set against those, not against a generic trade description.
Decide the ratio of tradesmen to helpers and who leads each gang. Recruiting chargehands and foremen alongside their crews, and testing them on drawings and setting out, gives a new gang direction from its first week on site.
The occupation on the visa determines which documents and tests apply, including Saudi skill verification where the occupation is notified. Agree titles that match the trade actually being tested before the visa application is filed.
Site entry & competence
Qualifications are issued by test bodies, training providers and regulators. We check what candidates hold and coordinate what your project still requires.
Formwork builds, rebar fixing to a bending schedule, blockwork, tiling, pipework and wiring tests are coordinated at a trade-test facility or witnessed by your engineer, and judged against the criteria you set.
Mandatory only for occupations Takamol has notified; NAVTTC onboards the test centres in Pakistan. Its approved list includes builder, carpenter and construction formwork, concrete finisher, steel fixer, stone mason, tile setter, plasterer, painter, scaffold labourer, building electrician and plumber trades.
Where a project follows British practice, BS 5975 sets out how temporary works are designed, checked and authorised before formwork or falsework takes load and before it is struck. Chargehands should understand the permits they work within.
Some main contractors require scaffolders to hold a recognised card, such as the UK’s CISRS scheme or an equivalent, while others assess competence on site. We check what candidates hold against your requirement.
Gulf states restrict outdoor work in the hottest hours each summer: in 2026, 12:00–15:00 in Saudi Arabia and 12:30–15:00 in the UAE from 15 June to 15 September, and 10:00–15:30 in Qatar from 1 June to 15 September. Shifts, rest areas and output plans need to allow for it.
Engineers practising in Saudi Arabia need Saudi Council of Engineers accreditation, and degrees must first be verified by the Higher Education Commission and attested by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Pakistan.
How it works
Run once for a single trade, or wave by wave across a whole project.
We go through your packages, trades, quantities, specifications and the date each crew is needed, and propose how many recruitment waves to run and in what order.
Trades are sourced from our recruitment database and through targeted campaigns in Pakistan for trades where the pool is thinner or the specification narrower.
Identity documents, trade certificates and experience letters are checked, with references from previous sites or photographs of a candidate’s own work used where letters are thin.
Practical tests run to your criteria at a trade-test facility; your engineer can attend, watch remotely or nominate a third-party assessor.
You review the results, interview the people who passed and confirm offers. Each wave is selected on its own, so the frame crew is never waiting on decisions about finishing trades.
Selected workers complete the destination medical and, for Saudi Arabia, skill verification where the occupation is notified, while visas and certificate attestation are processed.
Contracts are registered with the Bureau of Emigration and cleared by the Protector of Emigrants, and each wave travels to the date its package starts.
Sourcing
Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states are consistently among the leading destinations for Pakistani workers in Bureau of Emigration statistics, so many candidates have already worked to Gulf site rules, camp routines and summer working hours.
NAVTTC has onboarded Takamol test centres across Pakistan for the trades Saudi Arabia has notified, so Saudi-bound tradesmen are verified at home before they travel rather than tested after arrival.
Civil, mechanical and electrical engineers graduate from PEC-accredited programmes recognised under the Washington Accord, and three-year DAE diplomas produce site technicians and foremen, so crews can travel with their supervision.
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.
FAQ
References: NAVTTC: Takamol skill verification in Pakistan · BSI: BS 5975-1 and BS 5975-2 temporary works standards · CISRS scaffolder card scheme · Saudi HRSD: 2026 midday work ban · Clyde & Co: GCC midday work bans compared (2026) · Saudi Engineering Professions Practice Law (Saudipedia) · Bureau of Emigration & Overseas Employment
Last updated 10 November 2026. General guidance for employers; site, client and destination requirements change, so they are confirmed for each recruitment.
Send us the packages, trades, quantities, specification and the date each crew is needed. We will propose the recruitment waves and a realistic timeline.
