Oxwana finds and mobilises the scarce, business-critical people that complex operations depend on. Executive search, RPO, embedded teams, total talent solutions and talent advisory: take a single hire, a full project ramp, or your recruitment function entire. We become your talent function where you do not have one, and strengthen it where you do.
Sectors served
Our Positioning
Recruitment is the outcome. Understanding your business is where we start.
How we think
We work where hiring is hardest: remote sites, technical and safety-critical roles, scarce global talent. The same operational reality runs through every sector we serve, which is why depth in one transfers to the next.
We interrogate the brief before we move. Understanding the business problem behind the hire changes the result, and often changes the solution.
The senior people who win your work deliver it. No pitch team, no handoff to a junior desk once the contract is signed.
What We Do
Take your whole hiring function, or a single capability within it. Most clients start with one engagement and grow the relationship from there.
We run your recruitment, at the scale the work demands.
Your entire hiring function, joined up, accountable to one partner.
The hire where a mistake is measured in years, not weeks.
Senior talent capability, switched on when you need it.
Fix the cause, not the symptom.
AI in your hiring, done responsibly.
Selected mandates
Fully managed RPO for a smelter commissioning. 57 specialist engineers sourced, hired, mobilised and payrolled in four months.
Read the case studyBoard, C-suite and principal-level appointments into hard-to-fill roles across remote and emerging-market operations.
Surge hiring for new builds and expansions, scaled up for the ramp and down for steady state, with permits and compliance managed.
Our Process
Every engagement starts with the same question: what does success actually look like? We interrogate the business context, the constraints, the history of the problem and the real criteria for the right outcome. Whether the assignment is an executive search, a workforce programme or an advisory mandate, the brief we accept is always more precise than the one we received.
Before any outreach begins, we build a clear picture of the available landscape. For search assignments, that means mapping the talent pool. For workforce programmes, it means understanding supply, cost and mobilisation realities. For advisory work, it means benchmarking your organisation against comparable operations. We do not move until we know what we are working with.
Whether the mandate is executive search, project hiring or an embedded engagement, we approach the market directly and with purpose. No automated outreach. No junior calls.
Every candidate or recommendation presented has been assessed against the actual brief. For search, that means technical, cultural and commercial evaluation. For workforce programmes, that means pre-qualification against role, location and compliance requirements. You receive a shortlist with a rationale, not a stack of CVs.
On search, that means managing offer through to start date. On RPO, it means mobilisation confirmed and in-seat, including permits and compliance. On advisory, it means implementation support, not just a recommendations document. The engagement does not close until the work is done.
Where We Work
Ten sectors, one common thread: complex operations, technical and safety-critical roles, and talent that is scarce wherever you hire.
From exploration to energy transition.
Upstream oil & gas, LNG, solar, wind and the energy transition workforce across global markets.
From plant floor to boardroom.
Petrochemicals, specialty chemicals and process manufacturing. From plant operators to technical directors.
From seed to supply chain.
Large-scale commercial agriculture, food processing and agri-infrastructure across global markets.
From retail banking to development finance.
Commercial banks, development finance institutions and financial services operating across global markets.
From data centres to digital transformation.
Data centres, telecoms, digital infrastructure and technology-enabled services across global markets.
From pit to processing plant.
Hard rock and bulk commodity mining, mineral processing and critical minerals across global markets.
From groundbreaking to handover.
Major contractors, EPC firms and capital projects, from site teams to project directors across global markets.
From production line to design office.
Heavy manufacturing, industrial automation and precision engineering across global markets.
From warehouse to last mile.
Freight, ports, supply chain and logistics operations across global markets.
From port to platform.
Shipping, offshore and marine operations across global markets.
FAQ
About Oxwana
Oxwana is built on over 24 years of hands-on delivery across RPO, executive search, in-house talent acquisition and global recruitment operations, including multi-year RPO programmes delivered at board and C-suite level across multiple sectors and continents. The model is senior-led by design and scaled through a vetted delivery network, so a single critical search and a multi-country mobilisation both get the same standard of attention.
You're working with someone who has sat on both sides of the table, as a supplier, an operator, and a client.
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Operations
Operating globally.
Headquartered in the United Kingdom.
"Recruitment is the outcome. Understanding your business is where we start."