Competency Management Software for Oil & Energy
Accurate, Real-Time Skills Data
Working in remote, highly regulated environments is challenging. Disparate skills and competency data only make this more difficult.
Kahuna’s skills and competency management SaaS platform was built specifically for the frontline workforce, offering mobile and offline functionality to give you real-time visibility into skills and operational capabilities. With Kahuna, you can understand the skills across your teams, target training to close skills gaps, and ensure workforce readiness to meet customer, industry, and regulatory demands.
Managing my frontline workforce has never been easier. Kahuna helps me make better, more informed decisions with validated skills data.
Experience Kahuna in 60 Seconds
Take a quick guided tour to explore a few of Kahuna’s features. You’ll see how to track and manage competencies, close skills gaps, and ensure your frontline teams are ready for the work that matters most.
Oil & Gas Competency Management System
Kahuna supports your full competency management program. Ensure competency assurance and development across your organization in one digitized platform.
Competency Development
- Enhance your workforce capabilities
- Foster a culture of continuous learning
- Engage employees and encourage career growth
- Facilitate knowledge sharing and transfer
- Ensure proficiency with role requirements
- Meet industry, customer, and operational needs
- Exceed production and efficiency goals
Competency Assurance
- Track skills in a digitized competency management system
- Monitor skills and compliance data in real-time
- Keep precision, safety, and regulatory compliance top of mind
- Mitigate lapses in proficiencies
- Pull compliance reports for customers and regulatory bodies
- Enhance operations with more qualified teams
Build a Skills-Based Organization
Manage Your Workforce Like You Manage Your Assets—Efficiently and Effectively
Building a skills-based organization requires validated insights to inform how operational needs align with workforce capabilities at the technical level.
Employees
Enable ownership of professional development with transparent insights into current and future role requirements.
Managers
Understand available skills, deploy the right teams, target training to close skills gaps, and standardize assessments to meet regulatory requirements.
Executives
Anticipate demand to capture market share, secure projects, align training with operational goals, address critical skills gaps, and retain expert talent.
Competency Assurance Management System Built for the Frontline Workforce
Ensure Safety, Compliance, Efficiency, and Operational Excellence
Managing skills data with homegrown systems, HR and LMS tools, or spreadsheets is costly, hard to maintain, and quickly outdated. While AI-powered platforms generate buzz, they often fall short when it comes to validating the technical skills required for operations.
In the dynamic oil and energy industry, your skills management tool needs to keep up. Kahuna integrates with your HR, L&D, and Operations systems to help you manage, assess, validate, and develop the technical skills of your frontline workforce in real-time.
Track Skills Data Anywhere
Support Remote Teams with Offline Capability
Capture skills and competencies anywhere, anytime, even in harsh or remote, offshore conditions. Kahuna’s offline capability and mobile platform enable you to visualize and action on skills and assessment data in the flow of work, even when there is no internet connection.
Attract, Retain, and Develop Talent
Increase Engagement and Retention with Personalized Development Plans
Create plans based on specific skills, roles, and development goals encourage employees to own their development plans within the organization. Kahuna also identifies applicable training and mentors to help guide employees in their career development.
Midstream | Upstream | Downstream | OFS | Renewables
Trusted Across the Energy Value Chain
We work with organizations that rely on validated skills data to make operations effective, efficient, and safe.
Dispatch Qualified Teams
Deploy Teams Based on Proficiency Levels
Connect validated skills data with your scheduling and dispatch systems to make more informed dispatch decisions. Using role-specific proficiency data, you can ensure each project team is equipped with the right mix of skills based on customer, compliance, and project requirements.
Ensure Competency Assurance
Keep Safety at the Forefront with Real-Time Data
Seamlessly integrate compliance and safety into daily operations across diverse geographic areas and regulatory landscapes. Kahuna offers transparency for skill requirements based on specific equipment, customers, locations, roles, or projects, enabling managers and designated assessors to verify skill proficiency in real-time.
How Does Skills Management Support Critical Energy Operations?
WEBINAR ON-DEMAND
Across the energy value chain, Kahuna is helping organizations ensure the safety, quality, and compliance of their workforce while meeting strategic business goals. Explore how validated skills data impacts critical operational processes, such as:
- Competency Assurance
- Scheduling and Deploying Resources
- Training and Development
Prioritize Health, Safety, Quality, and Compliance
Embed Competency Assurance Into the Flow of Work
Strategic skills management initiatives ensure regulatory compliance becomes a standard operating procedure throughout the day-to-day work, and decreases the likelihood of violations and potentially catastrophic damages on the job site.
FAQs
Kahuna provides real-time visibility into workforce competencies, certifications, and regulatory requirements, ensuring only qualified individuals are assigned to safety-critical tasks. The platform centralizes compliance and audit documentation, supports recurring assessments, and enables proactive identification of gaps, helping energy organizations reduce risk, meet regulatory standards, and improve safety outcomes across sites and teams.
Kahuna supports role-based competency tracking for a wide range of positions in upstream, midstream, and downstream operations, including field technicians, maintenance crews, control room operators, HSE staff, engineers, and offshore crews. Organizations can define custom competency frameworks by role, site, equipment, or certification, making it easy to manage specialized workforce needs across high-risk and regulated environments.
Kahuna equips energy organizations with a real-time view of workforce readiness, making it easier to match qualified personnel to the right work. By automating skills tracking and enabling dynamic gap analysis, the platform reduces non-productive time (NPT), supports faster onboarding, and ensures that workers are validated and ready for each task, improving deployment decisions and operational outcomes.
Yes. Kahuna integrates with commonly used systems in the energy industry, including ERP (including SAP), EAM, CMMS, LMS, and HRIS platforms. These integrations support the seamless exchange of data across systems to connect training records, job assignments, certifications, and skills data, providing provide a complete view of workforce readiness and compliance, and enable smarter, safer deployment.
Kahuna helps energy organizations ensure contractor and offshore personnel meet all competency and compliance requirements before stepping on site. The platform allows for digital pre-validation, recurring assessments, and role-specific tracking across distributed and rotating workforces. This reduces onboarding delays, improves safety assurance, and ensures regulatory alignment, especially in high-risk or remote workforce environments.
Kahuna helps energy organizations meet a wide range of regulatory and industry standards by providing a centralized digital platform to manage workforce competencies, certifications, and role-based requirements. The platform supports compliance with standards such as OSHA, ISO 45001 (Occupational Health and Safety), ISO 9001 (Quality Management), ISO 14001 (Environmental Management), API RP 75 (Safety and Environmental Management Systems), and company-specific competency assurance programs. Kahuna automates assessment cycles, tracks expiration dates, and provides real-time validation of workforce readiness. With audit-ready records and full visibility across job functions and locations, energy companies can reduce compliance risk and ensure safe, qualified deployment in high-hazard environments.