For contractors

Represented by someone who can read your work.

Black Ocean exists to place senior contract data specialists with mining, energy and infrastructure operators across Western Australia - from mid-cap producers to tier-1 majors. The person assessing you has 15+ years in enterprise data, so the conversation starts at the level you work at.

Join the network How the assessment works

The deal

Straightforward terms, in your favour.

Mid-cap to tier-1 operators

The enterprise end of WA mining, energy and infrastructure - from mid-cap producers with serious analytics needs to tier-1 majors. Contracts are scoped at 6-12 months, in the kinds of estates the founder has spent 15+ years delivering inside.

Fair market rates

Rates negotiated openly for the role and seniority, agreed before any client conversation. No games at renewal.

Prompt, reliable payment

Payroll runs through an established national payroll provider - paid on time, admin handled.

No speculative forwarding

Your profile is never sent anywhere without your explicit approval, per role. You always know where you are being represented.

The kit

Equipped from day one.

You arrive tooled properly. The kit grows the longer you are with us.

Claude, on us

A premium Claude seat on your Black Ocean account as standard kit - the tool most contractors never quite justify paying for themselves. Provisioned before your first day. For use only within each client's AI policy.

A certification a year, funded

One certification per year on us - DP-600, PL-300, Databricks, your call. Stay current; we cover it.

A Surface Laptop. Yours to keep.

Twelve months placed through Black Ocean and we send you a high-spec Surface Laptop (32GB). Not a loaner. Yours.

The assessment

A peer conversation about the work.

One full assessment. After that, each new role is a conversation about fit for that brief.

01

Technical review with a practitioner

A working session on real problems in your specialisation - architecture, modelling, code, decisions. A conversation between people who do the same work.

02

References

Short, specific reference checks with people who saw the work delivered.

03

Commercial alignment

Rate expectations, availability and working preferences agreed up front, so nothing surprises you later.

Your first contract

Leaving permanent? You will not do it alone.

Many of the best people in this market have never contracted - the move feels bigger than it is. The founder has spent 15+ years inside these estates and manages your landing personally: 30, 60 and 90-day check-ins on every engagement, straight answers on how extensions actually get decided, and what the absence of performance reviews really means.

Contracting has real trade-offs and we will tell you them straight. What it is not is a leap into the dark - payroll and super are handled, the kit is provisioned, and an engagement ending is a market event, not a verdict. That is the difference between contracting alone and contracting inside a network.

Join the network

Put your name in front of the right briefs.

If there is a fit, the next step is a technical conversation with the founder. From there you are matched to roles as they arrive - and only ever put forward with your say-so.

The promise

Your details are read by the founder only

No profile shared without explicit approval, per role

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