Aaron Dowds

About Aaron Dowds

A successful sales & recruitment Business Manager, with over 20 years’ experience in sourcing, securing, delivering, and supporting contract-hire manpower services to the international Energy sector [oil & gas, LNG, renewables], in addition to 7 years project engineering and site management experience within the civil construction sector.Professional profile combines a strong engineering education with a solid international career base. Through mentoring, external coaching and on-the-job experiences, natural leadership skills have been developed to provide competency across the full staffing sector business lifecycle. Comfortable with both high-level presentations and high-pressure negotiations, and enjoys mentoring sales, recruitment, and operational support staff in developing requisite functional skill sets. Processes a can-do attitude and is a proven solution-creator, who is able to think outside-of-the-box. Able to generate accurate annual/quarterly business forecasts as well as securing a positive P&L position.Direct Operational Experience: Americas - USA and Canada;Europe - the Netherlands, UK, Norway, Denmark, France, Spain, Italy, Romania and Kazakhstan;Africa - Angola, Libya, Nigeria and Mozambique;

Experience

1. Co-founder President

   Teal Energi

   Jan 2021 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   TealEnergi is a technical manpower provider with extensive experience supporting the successful execution and operation of major capital project investments. We provide complete project lifecycle recruitment, payroll, and contractor management support, from the front-end engineering phase through construction and commissioning, to operations and maintenance. Forged through a desire to provide best-in-class service to clients, candidates, and contractors alike, TealEnergi was formed in late 2021 in Houston, Texas - the ‘Energy Capital of the World’. Satellite offices in Denver, Colorado and Boston, Massachusetts [the ‘New Energy Capital of the US’] are due to open in early 2022, to provide regional support to the developing US renewable sector.In addition to supporting traditional oil & gas, power, infrastructure, and mining activities, TealEnergi has unified its operations to provide focus on the developing energy transition initiatives, including LNG, ethylene, hydrogen, wind, solar, CO² management, emission controls and Environmental, Social & Governance [ESG]. By understanding Industry best practices and having a network of highly trained and transferable skillsets, TealEnergi is well-positioned to support the projects of the future.

Education

• Oxford Brookes University

  BSc. Honours, Civil Construction Management

• University of Gloucestershire

  BTec. ONC, Civil Engineering

Skills

• Talent Acquisition
• Performance Management
• Sourcing
• Contract Management
• Management
• Contract Recruitment
• Human Resources
• Lng
• Drilling Recruitment
• Oil & Gas
• Petrochemical
• Leadership
• Petroleum
• Sales Recruitment
• Sales
• Business Management
• Temporary Placement
• Oil & Gas Industry
• Executive Search
• Contract Negotiation
• Construction
• Offshore Drilling
• Oil & Gas Recruitment
• Project Management
• Energy Industry
• Energy
• Oil/Gas
• Temporary Staffing
• New Business Development
• Technical Recruiting
• Engineering
• Procurement
• Networking
• Pipelines
• Recruiting
• Recruitment Advertising
• Gas
• Permanent Placement
• Budgets
• Epc