Our people

Our people are the key to our distinctive delivery-focused culture; they set us apart from our competitors and allow us to attract and retain clients.

We are committed to continuous learning and development for all our employees. We also plan to do more to enable and encourage employees to pursue local or regional (and potentially global) career opportunities that are available across the Group.

Our target

Our people strategy is directly aligned to our business priorities, and places great emphasis on helping our talented people achieve their potential.

Our people strategy is based on the following principles:

• Developing all of our people – viewing current employees as the natural candidates for tomorrow’s roles and equipping them to progress in their careers
• Identifying and developing those with leadership potential – with effective talent management and succession planning identifying the next generation of senior leaders and providing the support they need
• Strengthening our leadership and management capabilities – developing the skills of those responsible for others
• Driving high performance – cascading consistent and aligned performance measures to enable us to achieve our business plans
• Attracting and developing the right talent – evolving our graduate programmes to create a global cohort who are closely networked, collaborative and high performing
• Encouraging people to ‘join our journey’ – portraying a consistent employee value proposition that helps us to compete for and retain talent
• Refining our HR operating model – seeking greater efficiency, integration, consistency and effectiveness across all our HR activities

Our people in numbers

As of the end of December 2017, we employed around 12,500 people and they make the 'HWOGS difference'. We continually look to improve our people planning through an annual integrated process that reviews both our staff bench-strength and capability.

Gender Pay Gap reporting

In line with new reporting laws, UK employers of 250 or more people must publish calculations every year showing the pay gap between male and female employees. Within the scope of this legislation is Petrofac Facilities Management Limited (PFML), which incorporates employees of our North Sea Operations and Maintenance business.