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Gustavo Enrique Albornoz, General Manager Oil and gas operations depend on people who can make sound decisions in demanding conditions. Yet the need for particular expertise often follows the rhythm of a project rather than a permanent organisational chart.
The strongest matches are invited to interviews. These conversations allow the team to explore a candidate’s experience in greater depth, confirm their current employment status and availability, and assess professional attributes relevant to the assignment. Consultora Profesional then presents the candidates it considers most suitable. The client interviews the shortlisted professionals and makes the final selection in collaboration with the company.
Drilling campaigns, completions programmes and unconventional developments may require experienced professionals for a defined period, with little reason to expand a client’s long-term workforce.
Consultora Profesional has built its service around this practical challenge: helping operators secure qualified personnel who can enter an operation quickly, understand its demands and contribute from the outset.
For approximately 15 years, the company has provided specialist and senior personnel to the oil and gas industry. Its approach combines a regularly updated database of experienced professionals with a selection process shaped by each assignment’s technical and operational requirements. Rather than treating recruitment as a matter of filling a vacancy, Consultora Profesional works to understand the conditions in which a person will perform, the experience the role requires and how the professional must work with an established field team.
The model has supported projects of varying durations and levels of complexity across Argentina and beyond. Its clients include Shell, Pampa Energía and Tecpetrol, and its work extends to operations in the Strait of Magellan in Chile. As the company expands its regional presence, it aims to bring the same focused personnel management service to additional Latin American markets.
Understanding the Assignment
A staffing request begins with a client’s operational needs. The company receives a job description that sets out the role, relevant experience, technical competencies and operating conditions. These details guide the search and help establish which professionals are genuinely suited to the assignment.
Demand is especially strong in drilling and completions, in both conventional and unconventional operations, including shale oil and shale gas projects. Requested positions include drilling and completions supervisors, fracturing engineers, geologists, well-testing supervisors, water-transfer supervisors, sand supervisors, fuel supervisors and health, safety, environment and quality (HSEQ) professionals. Other technical specialists may be required as project needs change.
“An effective match begins with a clear understanding of the operation and the experience the role demands,” says Gustavo Enrique Albornoz, General Manager. “Our responsibility is to identify professionals whose backgrounds fit the assignment, not simply candidates whose CVs contain the right keywords.”
A Selection Process Built on Evidence
Once the client’s requirements have been defined, the company searches its continually updated database. Candidates enter the database through the company’s website, consultoraprofesional. com, its LinkedIn profile and email. The initial review considers each person’s work history, professional background and suitability for the stated requirements.
Technical experience is fundamental, but the way a person integrates into a team can be just as important in a remote and demanding operation.
The process generally seeks candidates with at least five years of experience in their respective roles, but the number of years on a CV does not settle the question. References are checked carefully to understand how candidates have performed technically and how they have worked with others. Communication, adaptability and collaboration matter because oil and gas personnel may spend extended periods together in remote locations and demanding natural environments.
Ignacio Tomas Albornoz Parisi, Attorney-in-Fact at Consultora Profesional, describes the human dimension as an essential part of personnel management. “Technical experience is fundamental, but the way a person integrates into a team can be just as important in a remote and demanding operation,” he says.
Responsiveness Beyond Recruitment
In a project-driven industry, speed has practical consequences. Delays in securing a specialist can affect schedules and interrupt the continuity of work. Consultora Profesional therefore emphasises reducing the time between receiving a request, identifying appropriate candidates, completing the selection process and formally incorporating the selected professional into its workforce so that services can begin.
The company’s model also recognises that the same position can involve different demands from one site to another. A supervisor’s prior experience, for example, is most relevant when it reflects the types of wells, equipment and work patterns involved in the new assignment. By revisiting operational details throughout screening and interviews, the team can assess whether a candidate’s experience is relevant in practice. This disciplined matching helps clients evaluate candidates against the actual requirements of the work while keeping the selection process collaborative and evidence-based.
The service can extend well beyond candidate identification. Depending on the client’s requirements, Consultora Profesional provides resources such as four-wheel-drive vehicles, information technology equipment and communications equipment. For rotational assignments, it coordinates travel for professionals recruited from different parts of Argentina, including flights and accommodation where needed. This support helps address the practical arrangements associated with field deployment.
Before work begins, assigned professionals receive role-specific training, client inductions and the documentation required by the client’s audit system. The company coordinates the authorisations and preparation needed for each person’s duties, helping ensure that personnel arrive ready to work in accordance with the operation’s technical, safety and procedural requirements. In this way, staffing becomes a coordinated service rather than a handover at the point of hiring.
Continuity for Clients and Professionals
Assignments may last for months or longer, but the end of a project need not mark the end of the relationship. Consultora Profesional aims to assess future opportunities while a professional is still working on a fixed-term assignment. When the current operation concludes, the company seeks to redeploy that person to another project or client, where a suitable opportunity exists and practical circumstances permit.
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Our responsibility is to identify professionals whose background fits the assignment, not simply candidates whose CVs contain the right keywords.
A representative search for drilling supervisors illustrates the method. The client needed people with more than five years of experience in the role and demonstrable experience working on unconventional shale oil and shale gas wells. Consultora Profesional used its database to identify potential candidates, then checked their availability, recent assignments and experience with comparable projects.
The strongest matches were presented for in-person or virtual interviews. The selected professional brought relevant experience that enabled rapid integration into the team and helped address the project’s technical requirements.
Quality and Safety as Operating Disciplines
Consultora Profesional’s service is structured around a Quality Management System aligned with ISO 9001. The framework defines procedures for each stage of service delivery, from receiving a client’s request and selecting personnel to providing and monitoring the service. Documented criteria promote consistency, while periodic audits and reviews help identify opportunities to improve processes.
For the company, quality does not stop when a candidate is approved. It also involves monitoring service delivery and maintaining communication with both the client and the professional. This ongoing engagement helps the company track the assignment and determine whether the service continues to meet expectations.
Safety and compliance are equally central to oil and gas operations. The company’s procedures include an annual training programme in which all personnel must participate. Before entering the field, individuals complete the training, inductions and authorisations required by the client for their specific roles. The aim is to ensure that professionals possess the necessary experience and competencies and understand the procedures that apply to the operation.
“Quality means following a defined process, documenting our work and continuing to review how the service is delivered,” says Gustavo Enrique Albornoz. “The relationship with the client and the professional remains important after the selection has been made.”
Experience That Supports Lasting Relationships
Consultora Profesional has grown to approximately 70 employees while maintaining long-standing client relationships. The company attributes this continuity to prompt responses, careful selection and a close understanding of each operation’s requirements. More than 30 years of combined industry experience among the people who lead and contribute to its selection processes inform candidate assessments and the interpretation of client requests.
For Ignacio Tomas Albornoz Parisi, trust grows through consistent execution rather than promises alone. “Clients need a partner that responds, understands the technical requirements and stays close to the assignment,” he says. “Delivering that consistently is how long-term relationships are maintained.”
Building a Regional Platform
The company operates in various parts of Argentina and in the Strait of Magellan in Chile. Its offices in Caracas, Venezuela, mark an important step in its regional expansion. The company sees opportunities in Venezuela’s changing energy sector and its historic role in Latin America’s oil industry. It has also begun discussions with companies it already serves in Argentina that have started operations in Venezuela.
Expansion requires more than replicating an established process across borders. Consultora Profesional intends to adapt its procedures to the employment, operational and regulatory conditions of each market while preserving the elements central to its model: precise assessment of client needs, rigorous selection, prompt responses, operational support and continued follow-up with professionals. Its presence in Caracas is part of a broader effort to extend its services into other Latin American markets.
The next stage of growth is therefore centred on regional expansion, not a departure from the company’s core business. Consultora Profesional aims to help more oil and gas companies secure specialist personnel and coordinated operational support while maintaining the service standards developed in Argentina. Its challenge will be to scale this approach while preserving the close client relationships and individual attention on which the model depends.
Consultora Profesional has been named Oil Industry Specialized Personnel Management Solution of the Year in Latin America 2026. The recognition reflects the role the company has established in a sector where specialist knowledge, careful personnel selection and readiness for field conditions are essential. As it expands its presence across the region, its proposition remains clear: connect operators with experienced professionals, prepare them for the work ahead and support each assignment with the practical resources and follow-through that help projects keep moving.
Oilfield Staffing Decisions Beyond Technical Credentials
A drilling campaign can lose time if a specialist arrives late or lacks the experience needed for the well conditions. Short project timelines make hiring harder, as operators need qualified supervisors without adding permanent staff for work that may last only a few months. Filling the vacancy is not enough if the person cannot join the field crew on time or follow the site’s safety procedures.
Role definitions often conceal the hardest part of recruitment. A drilling supervisor familiar with conventional wells may not have the experience required for unconventional completions. Before hiring, operators should ask staffing providers to show where candidates have done similar work, what conditions they have worked under and what their recent responsibilities involved. Time spent in the industry matters, but it does not guarantee that someone can handle the demands of a specific assignment.
Reference checks help establish what a résumé cannot. Technical capability needs confirmation from people who observed the candidate making decisions under field conditions. Equally important is how a professional communicated during handovers or adapted to an existing crew. On long rotations, workers spend weeks together, often in remote locations with limited support. Someone who struggles to work with the team can hold up the entire operation. Interviews should explore the candidate’s past work and what the existing crew needs from a new member.
Time-to-deployment depends on more than producing a shortlist. A candidate may accept the assignment yet remain unable to enter the worksite because induction records or client authorizations are incomplete. Those coming from other regions may also need travel and accommodation arranged before they can report for duty. Staffing agreements should clearly assign responsibility for these arrangements, training checks and equipment. Otherwise, operators end up managing the paperwork and logistics themselves.
“Consultora profesional also coordinates travel arrangements and client-required inductions for rotational personnel, and can provide vehicles or work equipment where an assignment requires them.”
Short-term assignments make it harder to retain experienced workers. When a contract ends, starting a new search each time can mean losing people who already know the site, its procedures and the demands of the job. Staffing providers that stay in touch with workers between assignments have a better chance of bringing them back when another position opens. They still need to check whether those workers are available and confirm their existing commitments before offering a start date. For operators managing fluctuating drilling schedules, responsiveness must remain compatible with careful screening.
Documented service controls provide some assurance that recruitment practices will remain consistent as demand changes. Clients should check how candidates are assessed, whether those assessments are recorded and how complaints are handled. It also matters whether the provider follows up after a worker starts. A quality certificate alone cannot show that the person sent to the site has the skills the job requires. The real test comes when the worker arrives and begins the assignment.
Consultora Profesional supplies specialized supervisors and technical personnel for oil and gas assignments through a process that begins with the client’s role requirements and a search of its maintained candidate database. It screens experience, conducts interviews, verifies availability and checks professional references before presenting a shortlist for the client’s final decision. Consultora Profesional also coordinates travel arrangements and client-required inductions for rotational personnel, and can provide vehicles or work equipment where an assignment requires them. Its procedures follow an ISO 9001-certified quality management system and include service follow-up after placement. Oil and gas operators managing short-notice drilling or completions assignments across dispersed Argentine worksites would benefit particularly from that combination of specialist sourcing and deployment coordination.
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Company
Consultora Profesional
Management
Gustavo Enrique Albornoz, General Manager
Description
Consultora Profesional provides specialised personnel management solutions for the oil and gas industry, connecting operators with experienced professionals through rigorous selection, responsive staffing, operational support, and quality-driven processes. With regional expansion underway, the company serves evolving workforce needs across Latin America.
