Employment and visas for your GCC industrial teams, fully managed.
Auxilium sponsors work visas and employs your manufacturing and industrial staff across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC, as your Employer of Record. We handle residency visas, compliant contracts, WPS payroll and HR for the professional and technical roles that stand up and run industrial operations. Whether you're commissioning a plant, localising production or scaling regional operations, we carry the employment workload so your team focuses on output.
Industrial strategy is regional policy. Your hiring is on its critical path.
The GCC is industrialising deliberately, Operation 300bn in the UAE, Saudi Arabia's National Industrial Strategy, and free zones like KEZAD and JAFZA competing for global manufacturers. Standing up production takes plant managers, process engineers, quality leads and supply-chain professionals, usually international, always needed before the line runs.
That's what an Employer of Record provides. Auxilium becomes the legal employer of your professional and technical staff, sponsors their visas and runs WPS payroll and HR. Manufacturers with an established plant use us for commissioning surges and specialist roles; those still building use us to employ the advance team before the entity and facility are live.
We run the employment for you
Your facility is licensed and running, but commissioning surges and specialist hires stretch the local HR function.
- Employ engineers & specialists under Auxilium
- Visas, Emirates ID, renewals handled
- WPS payroll, shift allowances, gratuity
- Nationalization quotas managed alongside
Employ the advance team without an entity
Your plant, licence or JV is months from completion, but the commissioning team is needed now.
- Hire under Auxilium's established entities
- No waiting on industrial licensing
- Compliant contracts for technical roles
- Transfer staff to your entity when it's live
Commission before the entity completes
Plant commissioning can't wait for corporate setup. Employ process engineers and plant leadership in days while the licence and facility complete in parallel.
Nationalization handled cleanly
Emiratization and Saudization thresholds are real planning constraints. We structure compliant employment while keeping your quota position clean.
Professional & technical focus
We employ the salaried professional layer, engineers, managers, quality and supply-chain, the roles that carry your IP and run your plant.
We don't recruit your team, you choose who to hire. What we do is employ and sponsor them compliantly once you have. These are the professional and technical roles we most often handle the GCC employment and work-visa sponsorship for in manufacturing:
Where your plant sits shapes the employment route. Industrial free zones like KEZAD and JAFZA sponsor through their own authorities and suit export-oriented operations; mainland employment via MOHRE or MHRSD fits domestic-market production and roles that move between sites. Saudi industrial cities carry their own frameworks plus Saudization planning.
For plant leadership and senior engineers on multi-year programmes, the UAE Golden Visa and Saudi Premium Residency anchor the people you least want to lose mid-programme.
The mistake we correct most often: bringing commissioning specialists in on business visas for 'visits' that are really months of on-site work, or leaving the advance team on offshore payroll while the entity completes. Both carry real compliance risk in jurisdictions that increasingly enforce work-authorization rules on industrial sites.
Scope note: our EOR service covers the salaried professional and technical layer, not bulk labour supply. For production workforces, we advise on the right local structures and keep your professional employment clean alongside them.
Industrial localisation is state strategy, and it's pulling global manufacturing talent into the region on an unprecedented scale.
The UAE's Operation 300bn and Saudi Arabia's National Industrial Strategy are funding factories, offtake deals and localisation targets across sectors from food and pharma to EVs and defence. Every new facility needs an international professional layer, plant leadership, process engineering, quality, before local production talent scales underneath it.
The manufacturers that hit their commissioning dates are those that decouple hiring from entity and licensing timelines. An EOR lets the advance team start while the industrial licence, facility and JV complete in parallel.
Reflects UAE Operation 300bn, Saudi National Industrial Strategy and nationalization frameworks as of 2026. Quota thresholds and free-zone rules should be confirmed per facility.
A factory is a fixed asset on a fixed timeline, the commissioning date is set years ahead. The manufacturers that start production on schedule are the ones whose engineers were legally employed and on site while the corporate paperwork was still in motion.
Four steps, fully managed
Scope the team
Commissioning, permanent or mixed. We confirm routes, zones and quota interactions.
Compliant contracts
Technical employment agreements with IP and confidentiality protection.
Visa & onboarding
Residency visas, Emirates ID/Iqama, medicals, handled.
Employ & run payroll
WPS payroll, shift allowances, gratuity and HR, managed by us.