Frequently asked questions

Precise Consultants currently support numerous offshore operations (including offshore construction, geophysical investigations, cable trenching/installation) providing multi-discipline offshore personnel (Client Representatives, Party Chiefs, Online Surveyors, Data Processors, Survey Engineers, Geophysicists) and onshore project management support.

Registering allows you to create a personal profile on our database in which you can enter additional information about yourself and your skills. It also allows you to enter the dates you are next available for work. We are able to search against this and approach you directly if we have a role that could be of interest to you. Once we have received your application we will get in touch to complete your registration process and inform you of next steps.

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When you submit your CV to a job on our website it will be sent immediately to the relevant Account Manager. Please check your email to see if you have received our automated response, which confirms that we have received your CV. If your application is successful, the Account Manager will contact you to discuss next steps.

When you register and/or apply for a job, the CV and information supplied will automatically go onto our database, so we can match further requirements to your expertise and background and reserve the right to contact you with this information. We will not disclose your personal details to any clients without explicit permission.

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Your privacy is of utmost importance to us. Precise Consultants’ data processing activities are regulated by the General Data Protection Act which comes into effect on the 25th of May 2018 and requires organisations to put numerous technical and organisational measures in place to implement data protection to the highest standard.

Precise Consultants’ lawful basis for processing is ‘legitimate interests’. We confirm that we hold your data on our database with the sole purpose of finding you jobs that match your skill sets and experience.

Precise Consultants will not in any case submit your details to any client or other third party without your permission.

We will process your personal data at any time in accordance with national and international privacy laws and regulations. Please take a look at our privacy policy for more details.

Under the new Data Protection law (coming into effect 25th of May 2018) an individual (data subject) has the following rights:

1. Right to Transparency: Precise will be transparent about what information is held on you, why we hold it and how it will be used.
2. Right to Access: You can request to see the information we hold on you at no cost. Please be specific and let us know what type of information you would like to see. Precise Consultants reserves the right to respond within 30 days to this request. Please find the Subject Access Request Form here.
3. Right to Rectify: You can ask us to correct the information we hold on you if you believe that the information is incorrect or incomplete.
4. Right to Restrict Processing: If you believe that the data we hold on you is not accurate, processing can be restricted by you until the accuracy of the data is verified.
5. Right to Object: You can request us not to process your data (for example: for a certain time period or direct marketing).
6. Right to be Forgotten: You can request us to delete all the data we hold on you. We will comply with your request only if we do not have a legal obligation to retain that data. In the case of placement data, Precise Consultants have a legislative requirement to keep this data for at least 5 years and it cannot be deleted upon request. If you ask us to never contact you again, we will always keep a minimum amount of information on you on our system to ensure we have a record of this request and can prevent people from Precise contacting you again.
7. Right to Portability: Data can be requested from us and transferred elsewhere (Please note: this right only applies where the lawful basis is ‘consent’).
8. Rights related to Automated Decision Making including Profiling: Precise Consultants does not rely on automated decision making nor does it do any profiling. If we were to do this, the data subject would be informed and would have the right to opt-out of this.

Please see our privacy policy with details on the above.

Please e-mail derya@preciseconsultants.com if you have any questions with regards to the above.

If you believe we have failed to comply with the above – please contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (the supervisory body) to complain.

Yes, you will have a dedicated account manager per project who will be able to support you at all times, all the way from pre-placement, during and after.

As a freelancer it can be difficult to avoid being limited to certain roles and we appreciate this can be frustrating. Our aim is to get to know the freelancers who work with Precise Consultants and help them realise the careers they hope to have. This involves us providing advice on how people may transition into new roles and what courses are available and advantageous to career development. We believe that it is important to continually improve ourselves and our services - so it only fair to allow our freelancers the chance to do the same.

This is the cornerstone of our business, we are fully credit insured with Credit Indemnity & Financial Services (CIFS) acting as our underwriters, which allows us to make our payments on time regardless of any potential extenuating circumstances.

We take complaints about our service very seriously and have our own internal procedures for dealing with them. We will acknowledge your complaint within one working day and inform you on how we will proceed with your complaint. If we cannot answer your complaint within the timeframes provided we will contact you and tell you when you can expect a full response.

Please contact Derya Aydogan our Business Operations Manager - Email: derya@preciseconsultants.com
Phone: +44 (0) 203 325 0616

To stop any of the above communications please email: team@preciseconsultants.com subject line: STOP COMMUNICATIONS with the following information:

• Full name
• Email
• Details of your request

Once we have received your email we will be able to update our database.

Payment terms are 30 days from invoice date.

Yes. Please submit a signed timesheet to accounts@preciseconsultants.com at the middle and end of each month then finally on project end date.

For expenses, please submit these to accounts@preciseconsultants.com with your invoice using the Precise expense sheet template with supporting receipts (in PDF/JPEG format). We are also happy to accept expenses via apps such as Expensify.

You can find the timesheet and expense sheet templates below:

You will be paid via electronic bank transfer using Faster Payments or CHAPS depending on the location of your bank account.

If you live outside the UK/Western Europe you may encounter a minor delay in payments being credited into your bank account. This is usually caused by the “clearing banks” the recipient’s bank chooses to use. This is something we cannot control. If you have not received a payment within five days of the expected payment date then please contact our finance team and we will contact our bank to investigate the delay.

Please send any payment queries to accounts@preciseconsultants.com FAO Sami Fehmi or call +44 (0) 203 325 0630.

Our main insurances are Professional Indemnity*, Public & Employers Liability and Business Travel. In addition, we credit insure all of our clients to safeguard your payments. Simply put, if our client doesn’t pay us, our credit insurance underwriter pays us, so we can pay you. Most agencies we have encountered do not have this in place so always check they are financially stable and contractually obliged to pay even if they themselves do not get paid!

*Note this is becoming industry standard but some agencies still do not offer it so if you are working through another agency always check this is included.

As we are NOT a professional services firm and are not regulated by the FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) we are unable to offer any formal advice on tax and payroll solutions. We can however, let you know the companies that are used frequently by our other freelancers so that you can contact them directly for further help.

Precise Consultants are flexible enough to tailor our service to your needs. Our clients range from multi-national Oil and Gas companies to niche consultancies. One thing remains the same for all clients, the need for reliable freelance personnel to help them execute their projects. We understand that as a supplier we need to align ourselves with how our clients work and become a useful tool to implement when required.

You tell us what you want and how you want it - then we deliver.

Precise Consultants have developed a process lead system that ensures we deliver a high-quality recruitment solution consistently. A multi-stage competency assessment is completed before freelancers are submitted for work with our clients including self-assessment, formal and informal referencing, this is complimented by a process of gathering and reporting feedback on all placements to ensure we develop an in-depth understanding of the freelance survey personnel who work via Precise Consultants.

Please contact us on team@preciseconsultants.com for more information on these procedures

Typically, we will provide you with between two and five freelancers in a shortlist; though this will be dependent on how specific your requirements are. Some clients like to see a larger pool of freelancers in a shortlist and some just one freelancer. If this is the case, then simply ask your Account Manager.

Precise Consultants’ clients work on projects across the world and we can support them globally. We have an extensive database of freelancers from all corners of the world and are well-versed in logistics required to get personnel to global projects.

Precise Consultants tailor our services per client, some require us to assist with everything from flights to visas and others prefer to handle things internally. We also have access to 24-hour travel support, so in the event of emergencies we can book travel on behalf of our clients - this includes access to marine fares etc.

You will partner with your Account Manager to devise a communication plan to keep in touch effectively; this could be a catch-up call every week or an email update every 10 days, whatever works for you.

Precise Consultants are ISO 9001:2015 and MLC 2006 certified.

We have a credit line in place with ABN AMRO that ensures we can always pay our freelancers on time regardless of the payment terms we agree with a client. In addition, we only work with clients that we can gain full credit insurance on. Simply put, if a client is unable to pay us, our credit insurance underwriter pays us and then seeks the funds of the client who has not paid. This ensures that we are financially robust.

Your privacy is of utmost importance to us. Precise Consultants’ data processing activities are regulated by the General Data Protection Act which comes into effect on the 25th of May 2018 and requires organizations to put numerous technical and organisational measures in place to implement data protection to the highest standard.

Precise Consultants’ lawful basis for processing is ‘legitimate interests’. We confirm that we hold your data on our database with the sole purpose of providing qualified personnel for project requirements you have.

We will process your personal data at any time in accordance with national and international privacy laws and regulations. Please take a look at our privacy policy for more details.

Under the new Data Protection law (coming into effect 25th of May 2018) an individual (data subject) has the following rights:

1. Right to Transparency: Precise will be transparent about what information is held on you, why we hold it and how it will be used.
2. Right to Access: You can request to see the information we hold on you at no cost. Please be specific and let us know what type of information you would like to see. Precise Consultants reserves the right to respond within 30 days to this request. Please find the Subject Access Request Form here.
3. Right to Rectify: You can ask us to correct the information we hold on you if you believe that the information is incorrect or incomplete.
4. Right to Restrict Processing: If you believe that the data we hold on you is not accurate, processing can be restricted by you until the accuracy of the data is verified.
5. Right to Object: You can request us not to process your data (for example: for a certain time period or direct marketing).
6. Right to be Forgotten: You can request us to delete all the data we hold on you. We will comply with your request only if we do not have a legal obligation to retain that data. In the case of placement data, Precise Consultants have a legislative requirement to keep this data for at least 5 years and it cannot be deleted upon request. If you ask us to never contact you again, we will always keep a minimum amount of information on you on our system to ensure we have a record of this request and can prevent people from Precise contacting you again.
7. Right to Portability: Data can be requested from us and transferred elsewhere (Please note: this right only applies where the lawful basis is ‘consent’).
8. Rights related to Automated Decision Making including Profiling: Precise Consultants does not rely on automated decision making nor does it do any profiling. If we were to do this, the data subject would be informed and would have the right to opt-out of this.

Please see our privacy policy with details on the above.

Please e-mail derya@preciseconsultants.com if you have any questions with regards to the above.

If you believe we have failed to comply with the above – please contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (the supervisory body) to complain.

Precise Consultants’ mission is to provide long-term recruitment support to our clients. We pride ourselves on understanding, partnering and satisfying our clients with a market leading service.

If we do disappoint, please contact our Operations Manager, Derya Aydogan:

Email: derya@preciseconsultants.com
Phone: +44 (0) 203 325 0616

We will acknowledge your complaint within two working days and inform you on how we will proceed with your complaint. If we cannot answer your complaint within the timescales provided we will contact you and tell you why and when you can expect a full response.

Whilst it is difficult for hydrographic surveyors to start work in the hydrographic survey industry without any prior experience we have been able to assist in securing summer internships and trainee hydrographic surveyor positions with our client base. It’s an excellent way for graduates to get a taste of the offshore industry and for our clients to get an extra pair of helping hands when the summer season is in full swing.

2. Can I apply for an internal role at Precise Consultants?