Tekniq

What Tekniq does

Tekniq is a Finland-based project engineering staffing and consultancy firm that supplies its own permanently employed engineers and specialists to large international customers in the energy, marine, and industrial sectors. The company was established in 2015 as a spin-off from K-Service Vaasa Oy and is headquartered in Vaasa, with wholly-owned offices or branches in nine countries (Finland, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Philippines, Colombia, and the United States) and project execution across more than 30 countries. Its offering is organized into six integrated service lines: Project Management and Consultancy; Quality Management and Industrial Inspections; Recruitment and Competence Management; HSE Management and Supervision; Construction Management and Supervision; and Civil, Electrical and Mechanical Management, Supervision, and Commissioning Services.

The company's core capability is the recruitment, employment, and global mobilization of skilled technical personnel — drawing on a workforce drawn from 25 countries — and the absorption of all employer-of-record risk (payroll, visas, work permits, training, PPE, occupational health, 24/7 site support). Tekniq holds ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015, and ISO 45001:2018 certifications (DNV-audited) and emphasizes safety (1,723 LTI-free days reported). Anchor customers include Wärtsilä, Valmet, ABB, and Neste, with relationships spanning more than a decade.

Revenue is generated through bill-rate-based professional services contracts with enterprise customers; pricing is project- and consultant-level rather than publicly disclosed. Group turnover was €10.7M in 2023, and management is targeting approximately €15M in 2026 following the June 2026 merger with Seilo Consulting, which added automation expertise to the portfolio and brought Seilo Invest Oy in as a shareholder. The company is privately held, primarily controlled by co-founder and CEO Jyrki Lahti, with no evidence of venture capital or institutional ownership.

Name

Tekniq

Legal name

Tekniq Oy

Website

https://tekniq.fi

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Tekniq is a Finland-headquartered engineering staffing and consultancy firm that permanently employs and globally mobilizes skilled engineers for energy, marine, and industrial projects. It serves enterprise customers including Wärtsilä, Valmet, ABB, and Neste across 30+ countries via 9 office locations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Engineering Staffing and Project Consulting Services

NAICS

Engineering Services (54133), Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services (5413)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711)

akta.pro primary industry

Systems Engineering & Technical Program Management (BPAHAIAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Civil, Construction & Infrastructure Engineering Staffing (BPACADAH), Testing, Inspection, Certification & Commissioning (TICx) Technical Services (BPAHAIAL)

Keywords

• Engineering staffing services
• Project management consulting
• Construction supervision services
• Commissioning and inspection
• HSE management services

Headquarters

HQ city

Vaasa

HQ country

Finland

HQ region

Europe

Offices11 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Project Engineering and Staffing Services: Tekniq provides highly skilled engineering and technical professionals to customer projects on a contractual basis. Professionals are Tekniq's own employees, supplied to customers for the duration of projects. Revenue is generated through bill rates on these personnel placements, covering project management, consultancy, quality management, HSE management, construction and commissioning supervision. The company operates with its own permanent workforce and deploys them to customer sites globally.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Tekniq supplies highly skilled engineering and technical professionals (electrical, mechanical, civil, automation, HSE, commissioning, quality management) as its own permanently employed staff to customer project sites worldwide in the energy, marine, and industrial sectors. The company handles all HR administration, payroll, visa/work permits, training, PPE, and occupational health for deployed personnel. Services are organized into six lines: project management and consultancy, quality management and industrial inspections, recruitment and competence management, HSE management and supervision, construction management and supervision, and civil/electrical/mechanical management with commissioning services.

Product overview

Tekniq is a professional services company offering a unified portfolio of consulting and resource management services. The core offering consists of six integrated service lines: Project Management and Consultancy, Quality Management and Industrial Inspections, Recruitment and Competence Management, HSE Management and Supervision, Construction Management and Supervision, and Civil/Electrical/Mechanical Management with Commissioning Services. These services support energy, marine, and industrial project teams globally, with expertise deployed through a worldwide office network. Tekniq positions itself as a 'house of project competence' providing end-to-end support from consultancy through to site execution.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• 1723 days since last Lost Time Injury (LTI-free)
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Seilo Consulting (Seilo Invest Oy)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2026Seilo Consulting, specializing in automation solutions, merged into Tekniq Group effective June 1, 2026. Seilo Consulting becomes part of Tekniq Group, enhancing Tekniq's automation capabilities and enabling comprehensive lifecycle services for global industrial customers. The merger addresses the challenge of finding automation experts and combines Seilo Consulting's automation expertise with Tekniq's international organization. Seilo Invest Oy becomes a shareholder in Tekniq. Post-merger headcount exceeds 80 employees.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• WTS Energy: WTS Energy is a specialist technical-recruitment and workforce-solutions provider focused on the global energy sector. Its emphasis on commissioning, construction supervision, and project engineering staffing closely matches Tekniq's energy-segment service offering and customer base.
• Brunel International: Brunel International is a Dutch-headquartered global specialist in engineering, project, and technical staffing across energy, marine, and industrial sectors. It is the closest direct competitor to Tekniq in terms of international project-based engineering resource deployment and customer overlap.
• Ework Group: Ework Group is a Nordic-headquartered specialist in IT and engineering consulting and staffing, with operations across Northern Europe. It competes with Tekniq for engineering and technical talent placements in the Nordic market, with overlapping service lines in project-based consulting.
• Poolia: Poolia is a Nordic professional-staffing firm specializing in engineering, technical, and white-collar placements. It overlaps with Tekniq in the Swedish and Finnish engineering staffing markets and serves similar mid-to-senior technical professional segments.
• NES Fircroft: NES Fircroft is a global technical staffing firm focused on energy, infrastructure, and engineering projects worldwide. It directly mirrors Tekniq's bill-rate-permanent-employment model for engineers on energy and industrial project sites, serving similar customer profiles (OEMs, EPC contractors, operators).

Broad incumbents

• Ramboll: Ramboll is a major Nordic-rooted engineering, design, and consultancy firm with a global footprint and significant energy, marine, and industrial client overlap. It competes for the same project-engineering and site-supervision engagements but operates at substantially larger scale and scope.
• AFRY: AFRY (formerly ÅF) is a large Nordic engineering, design, and consultancy firm that also deploys staff on industrial and energy projects. It is significantly larger than Tekniq but serves overlapping customer segments (Wärtsilä, Valmet, ABB, forest products, energy) with overlapping project-engineering and site-supervision services.
• Michael Page International: Michael Page is a global recruitment firm with a substantial engineering and technical placement practice. While broader than Tekniq, it competes for senior engineering professionals and project-based technical hires across European markets and overlaps in industrial and energy customers.
• Hays: Hays is a global professional-recruitment firm with a sizeable engineering and technical staffing practice. While broader in scope (also covering IT, finance, life sciences), its engineering division competes with Tekniq for the same commissioning, construction, and site-management placements at enterprise customers.

Regional players

• Academic Work: Academic Work is a Nordic recruitment and staffing firm focused on early-career professionals and engineering/technical talent across the Nordics. It overlaps with Tekniq's lower-end commissioning and site-supervision placements and shares the Nordic geographic base.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tekniqoy

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Subsidiaries9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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