Tetrad Contract Services
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Houston, Texas

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Contract technical staffing · Houston, Texas

Specialist technical talent.When projects can’t wait.

Tetrad Contract Services places experienced engineering, project and technical professionals with operators, EPC contractors and industrial organizations across energy, mining, renewables and EPC — on contract terms that follow the project.

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Not a generalist agency

We work exclusively where the disciplines are hard to find.

Our clients operate on fixed project schedules where an unfilled specialist role delays milestones and adds cost. Sector-specific vacancies for experienced engineers and project professionals remain persistently difficult to fill from the general labor market. Our focus is closing those gaps faster and more precisely than a generalist firm can.

01 — Sector Expertise

A defined set of adjacent industries

Deep, narrow focus on oil and gas, mining and minerals, renewable and alternative energy, and EPC. We do not spread across unrelated markets.

02 — Technical Precision

Recruiters who know the disciplines

Our recruiters understand the disciplines, certifications and project environments involved, so shortlists are relevant on the first pass.

03 — Speed to Shortlist

Responsiveness as the differentiator

Responsiveness and time-to-shortlist are the metrics we compete on. When a project cannot wait, the search cannot either.

Services

Three ways to bring specialist people onto your project.

Contract staffing is our core offering. Retained search and contract-to-permanent extend it to leadership hires and to roles you intend to make permanent.

Service 01 — Core offering

Contract Technical Staffing

We place experienced technical and project professionals on contract with client organizations on flexible weekly, monthly or project-duration terms. Clients scale specialist headcount up or down as project phases and workloads shift, without carrying permanent overhead.

  • Weekly engagements
  • Monthly engagements
  • Project-duration engagements
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Service 02

Retained Executive Search

Engaged, milestone-based search for senior technical, engineering and operational leadership roles where a confidential, structured and thoroughly researched process is required.

  • Engaged and milestone-based
  • Confidential by design
  • Senior technical and operational leadership
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Service 03

Contract-to-Permanent

Clients evaluate a contractor’s performance and cultural fit on the job, then convert that individual to a direct hire — a lower-risk path to permanent hiring than a cold placement.

  • Engage on contract terms
  • Evaluate real-world performance
  • Convert when appropriate
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Industries we serve

Four sectors. One staffing model.

Adjacent industrial markets that draw on the same technical disciplines and run to the same kind of fixed project schedule.

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Oil & Gas

Upstream, midstream and downstream.

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Mining & Minerals

Mining and minerals operations and projects.

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Renewable & Alternative Energy

Renewable and alternative energy.

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Engineering, Procurement & Construction

EPC contractors and project delivery organizations.

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Disciplines we place

The technical roles industrial projects are built around.

Engineering, project delivery, commercial and supply chain, project execution, and technical integration — the staffing structure of a major industrial project.

Engineering

  • Process
  • Mechanical
  • Electrical
  • Civil
  • Structural
  • Process Safety
  • Subsea

Project Delivery

  • Project Management
  • Project Controls
  • Construction Management
  • Field Supervision

Commercial & Supply Chain

  • Procurement
  • Contracts
  • Supply Chain
  • Logistics

Project Execution

  • Commissioning
  • Start-up
  • QA/QC
  • Inspection

Technology

  • Technical and Digital Integration
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Technology-enabled sourcing

A specialist network, reached deliberately.

We maintain a proprietary, extensively developed candidate network supported by purpose-built digital sourcing tools that let us identify, qualify and reach suitable candidates in a fraction of conventional timelines.

  • Proprietary candidate network

    Proprietary and extensively developed, and built around the disciplines our sectors hire for.

  • Purpose-built sourcing tools

    Purpose-built digital sourcing tools help us identify, qualify and reach suitable candidates. The technology supports the recruiting service; it is not the service.

  • Relationship-led business development

    We engage decision-makers at target organizations directly rather than competing through procurement portals alone.

Two ways in

Whichever side of the requirement you’re on.

For Employers

You have a role the general market can’t fill.

Tell us the discipline, the project environment and the timeline. We work the requirement through our sector network and come back with candidates who are relevant to the actual technical scope — not a high-volume résumé dump.

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For Candidates & Contractors

You’re an experienced professional weighing your next assignment.

We recruit specifically for engineering, project, construction, procurement, commissioning, QA/QC, inspection and technical integration disciplines across energy, mining, renewables and EPC. Register once and we’ll match you against live requirements.

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Tell us what the project needs.

Send the discipline, the project environment and the timeline. We’ll come back with a shortlist built around the actual technical scope.

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