Omega opens new office in Haugesund

This week, Omega is moving into its new office in Norheim, near Haugesund in Norway. This is the first time the global provider of software and personnel will have an office in the Haugesund area. 

The goal of the office is to bring Omega even closer to the local market and clients in and around Haugesund. Omega also wants to be more visible in order to strengthen long-term recruitment.

"The Haugesund region, and our clients and consultants here, have been crucial to a good deal of our success and development for 30 years. It is really pleasing to now be able to strengthen our client relations, build our local profile, and support this important market in the best way possible from right here", says Corporate Communications Manager, Lauren McPherson Simonsen.

"Omega’s people have moved around the world in order to be closer to our clients; it is important that we also achieve this close to home, here in Haugesund".

In the new, modern office premises, there will be approximately 20 office spaces. In addition to Simonsen, who will be based here part-time, the engineering and architectural firm, Omega Areal, and the systems development company, Omega PS, will initially share the office’s capacity.

Close to clients

General Manager of Omega PS, Svein Tore Haraldseid, suggests there are two primary reasons why Omega wants to establish itself in Haugesund.

"We have many clients and employees in Haugesund and the surrounding area. It is important for us to get closer to our clients here, whilst also helping our employees who live here to avoid commuting so much", says Haraldseid. He believes the central office premises will be important in order to better position themselves both as an attractive supplier and employer in the Haugesund region.

"It means a lot to us to become part of a larger Omega community here, it provides a more diverse working environment, and we hope it can help to attract great people to join us in Haugalandet".

Newer and larger office space

Gisle Heggebø is the General Manager of Omega Areal and points out that the company has a large client base in Haugesund and the municipalities elsewhere in Haugalandet. Haugesund, Tysvær, and Karmøy municipalities are all clients of Omega Areal.

"We needed a newer and larger office space in central Haugalandet. We have been very happy with the offices we have had in Tysvær, but this move also provides us with the chance to become part of a shared location with other Omega companies. That community is important to us", Heggebø suggests.

Kari Kalstveit, who is Department Manager for Omega Areal at the new office, points out that the central location will probably assist Omega Areal in gaining better contact with a larger market region, in terms of both in new jobs and more employees. At the office in Haugesund, several disciplines will be represented, including construction, fire, planning, landscape architect, and project management.

While Kalstveit will manage the Omega Areal office, Vidar Nordnes will lead the Haugesund department of Omega PS.

About Omega 

Omega is a global company, headquartered in Ølensvåg in Rogaland, which provides project management systems and project personnel to some of the largest clients and projects in oil and gas, healthcare, infrastructure, energy and construction.

The project management system, Pims, supports the entire project process with modules designed for project areas such as completion, document control, cost control, risk, and HSE. Pims has approximately 100 000 registered users.

Omega also assists clients by providing project personnel for projects in many sectors in Norway and around the world. Six hundred consultants are currently on assignment via Omega in 13 countries.

Companies in the Omega Group also provide subsea engineering services, the provision of IT consultants, architectural and engineering services, spatial and community planning, as well as design and communication services.

In addition to the head office in Ølensvåg, Omega has regional Norwegian offices in Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim, Kristiansund, Oslo, and Haugesund as well as international offices in Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Guyana, Australia, Lithuania, France, and Singapore.

Omega's over 1300 employees all work to ensure that Omega is "Big enough to deliver - small enough to care". In 2019 the Omega Group reported a turnover of NOK 1.9 billion.