Headquartered in Shanghai, with offices in Beijing, Hefei, Qingdao, Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur.
Making employment simpler, and giving talent a sense of belonging.
At KUTA, people from every background and discipline can build a successful career.
Combined by project stage — from a single role to a full project team, delivered on site.
We don't try to be everywhere we go deep in select industrial niches. Every consultant comes from an industry background, so we search by sector, not by CV database.
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EngineeringEngineering, design and construction management roles for modular build, offshore, infrastructure and data centre projects.
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InnovationTechnical and management roles across AI, semiconductors, industrial software and R&D management.
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EnergyUpstream oil & gas, refining and chemicals, new energy, power grids and mining roles.
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ManufacturingSmart manufacturing, robotics, new materials, and inspection & certification roles.
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Cross-borderLocal team building, Contract deployment and mobilisation support across the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
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ConsultingTalent mapping, pay benchmarking, employment compliance review and recruitment process design.
View sectorFrom a single search to staffing a whole project team, KUTA offers four services aligned with the industrial client hiring cycle.
Long-term search for mid-to-senior technical and management talent, accountable well beyond the start date.
Learn moreTargeted search for executives and critical roles, with market mapping, pay benchmarking and motivation analysis.
Learn moreVolume engineering staffing for new-build and expansion projects, mobilised by discipline and schedule.
Learn moreEmployment formalities, payroll contributions and on-site people management for dispatch and outsourcing.
Learn moreEmployer-of-record and payroll services for compliant employment where you have no local entity.
Learn moreVisa advice, local employment consultation, insurance and logistics so people reach site safely.
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Most consultants come from industrial backgrounds they read the technology, speak the engineering and only serve sectors they truly know.
One network spans China and host-country talent pools across the Middle East & Southeast Asia, matching both expatriate and local-staffing needs.
The same client can hire long-term key talent and flex Contract personnel around project milestones as business demand shifts.
We understand the pressures of schedule, safety and compliance, and run end-to-end confidentiality so both clients and candidates can trust us fully.
From role profiling and sourcing to vetting, offer and probation-period support, KUTA stays accountable for results well beyond onboarding.
Since 2016, KUTA has served clients in energy, chemicals, marine & offshore and industrial manufacturing most partnerships spanning 5+ years.
Every case reconstructs a real business scenario background, challenge, solution and results not a one-line "successfully placed XX role".
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Marine & Offshore Oil & Gas
Middle East · Shipyard + Offshore
For an international EPC contractor on a programme compressed by four months, we placed 40+ Contract personnel across structural, outfitting, mechanical and electrical & instrumentation disciplines and completed their overseas mobilisation on schedule.
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Petrochemical & Fine Chemicals
Middle East
During the start-up and operational-support window of a Middle East integrated refining project, we filled 25+ unit engineer and operations technician roles for the client within 90 days, delivered through a dual model of permanent search and Contract staffing.
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Industrial & Energy Engineering
Southeast Asia
For a Chinese group's new Southeast Asia base, we built a 120+ localised management, technical and operations team across three phases mid-to-senior posts seconded from China and execution-level roles hired locally with attrition below the local industry average.
Read case studyKUTA was founded by Li Wei in 2016, and the founding team still takes part in consultant allocation and project delivery today.
Li Wei is the founder of Shanghai KUTA Enterprise Management Consulting Co., Ltd. He spent his early career on the front line of corporate human resources management, facing the everyday realities of hard-to-fill roles, retention problems and employment compliance risk, and saw at first hand how urgently companies need professional HR services. With the founding idea of making employment simpler and giving talent a sense of belonging, he founded KUTA in 2016.
Over the years Li Wei has kept looking at every question from both the employer and the talent side. Beyond staffing, recruitment and flexible employment services, he wants HR to be the lever that helps a company grow. He leads the team to stay strictly within employment compliance, to refuse low-effort service and to keep refining the delivery process, helping companies reduce employment risk and optimise workforce cost while helping candidates find the right platform. He will continue to work deep in human resources services as a long-term partner companies can rely on.
How to staff overseas marine and chemical projects, how to manage Contract workers, talent trends in emerging markets first-hand observations from KUTA consultants.
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Contract Staffing
From permanent hiring to staffing around project cycles, Contract is becoming the model of choice for overseas EPC and operations & maintenance projects. This article breaks down why it is on the rise, where it fits best, and the key risks managers need to watch.
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Market Insights
With integrated refining projects in the Middle East and chemical new materials bases in Southeast Asia breaking ground at the same time, the talent war is shifting from "supply from China" to a dual loop of localisation and cross-border mobility. What talent moves should Chinese companies going global watch?
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Marine & Offshore Oil & Gas
Why are marine & offshore EPC roles always harder to fill than petrochemical ones? Schedule pressure, niche skills and cross-sector competition stack up to defeat traditional search playbooks. This article sets out the difficulties and our approach.
Read moreWhether it's one critical role or an entire overseas project team share your project background and role profiles, and a sector consultant will reach out within one business day.
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