Energy Talent Recruitment
We specialise in connecting top-tier talent with leading energy companies globally.
About Us
Energy Talent Recruitment Ltd is a specialist recruitment agency for participants operating within the Utilities, Banking, Engineering and Construction sectors of the vertical energy markets. We offer a complete package of recruitment solutions coupled with expert commodities knowledge gained from industry experience. Clients and candidates alike engage with our consultants who have direct experience and training in the commodities markets. Our consultants engage on a deeper and more personal level, developing better partnerships and in turn creating powerful long-term synergies for our candidates and clients.
We have a track record of success placing high level candidates including Heads of Desks, Traders, Originators, Sales, Brokers, Analysts, Risk Analysts / Managers, IT and Developers, Finance and Legal / Regulatory Staff. Offering complete coverage of Front / Middle / Back-office roles in the following markets Oil, Power, Gas, Coal, LNG, Wet/Dry Bulk Freight, Biofuels, Renewables, Agricultural, Softs & Metals.
Our Green Desk focus specifically on roles within the renewables sector including Solar, Wind & Storage analysts, Operation & Maintenance Technicians / Engineers and Construction workers involved in the Development of renewables projects. This also includes EPC contract workers. Full qualifications are checked in house and candidates are vetted, with DBS and background checks held on file where permitted subject to GDPR regulations.
Examples of some technical roles in onshore and offshore renewables include Site Managers, Electrical Engineers, Structural Engineers, Designers, Surveyors, Turbine Engineers, Reliability / Performance Engineers, Performance / Reliability Analysts and Technical Project Managers.
Our Services
We offer a range of comprehensive services tailored to the needs of energy companies and professionals in the industry. Our expertise and deep understanding of the energy sector enables us to provide targeted and exceptional support throughout the recruitment process.
We can work on a wide range of roles including those in relation to EBoP & CBoP i.e. foundations and civil work. Our Green Desk candidates are fully trained and experienced in conducting analysis (data / faults / root cause analysis), inspections & surveys, repairs and on-site work for renewable assets.
Job Placement
- Targeted candidate search and selection
- Screening and interviewing
- Matching candidates to job requirements
- Coordinating interviews and negotiations
- Supporting onboarding process
Talent Acquisition
- Market research and talent mapping
- Building talent pipelines
- Proactive candidate sourcing
- Assessment and pre-qualification
- Securing top talent for key positions
Consultancy
- Expert advice on talent strategy
- Market trends and insights
- Salary benchmarking and negotiation
- Succession planning
- Organizational development
Many of our candidates have a background in mechanical & electrical engineering, as well as renewable energy systems engineering and STEM backgrounds often having worked within the scope of long-term Asset Management / Operations & Maintenance agreements as well as in a third-party contractor capacity for asset owners.
Our global pool of energy talent can deliver experience across the entire wind asset drivetrain, including gearbox, main bearing and generator diagnostics, spectral oil / grease analysis, endoscope inspections and many other aspects of wind/solar/storage site construction, maintenance and transportation (including vessel operation) for offshore sites. Candidates possess unrivalled experience across a multitude of OEMs in all renewable technologies.
On solar, our candidates have direct experience repowering, repairing and analysing strings & panels, inverters and also transformers.
For storage sites and batteries, we can tap into a host of analytical and hands-on experience.
Our Management
We focus on recruitment solutions across the global commodities markets.
Sundeep Athwal
In his spare time, Sundeep enjoys reading, playing football/badminton/chess, long distance running and travelling to new places - especially where there are hiking trails!
Sundeep Athwal the Managing Director of Energy Talent Recruitment ltd started his career in an ADR trading internship for the Bank of New York Mellon during his final year studying Finance at CASS Business School, the number 1 ranked business school in London at the time. He graduated on to a global rotation placement scheme in client management for S&P Capital IQ. Other notable experience includes having worked at Trayport, Updata and IHS Markit where he developed expertise in trading, risk and enterprise data management for Commodities, Equities & FX departments.
For many years he enjoyed travelling to a new country every week to meet with hundreds of people from different cultures, backgrounds and commodities companies; both big and small. The final part of his employment career was working at the largest privately held renewables company in the world; RES Group where he learnt an incredible amount about Wind Turbines, Solar Farms and Storage sites.
Partners and Clients
Our clients, whether Banks, Utilities, Investment Funds, Asset Owners, O&M providers or Asset Managers love our flexible recruitment services which mean they can reduce costs, avoid or compliment long-term supplier contracts, develop in house analytics, have flexibility and scalability in a proactive preventative, yet needs based approach supporting constant direct communication with agile purpose-built teams.
On Green Hydrogen, as a growing alternative fuel we are slowly seeing an increase in the amount of interest and expertise developing for the technology. Our candidate pool is niche in this area however growing day by day. As is our entire amazing community of candidates from every corner of the world through our human endeavours to a Net Z…Positive future!
Energy Talent Recruitment are committed to strong Health, Safety, Quality & Environmental (HSQE) principles in order to ensure our candidates deliver an outstanding level of service for our clients. Our candidates aim to fit into the existing safety culture and principles of our clients, taking up additional in-house training supported by Energy Talent Recruitment where required thus creating a safe environment for everyone involved in a project. Regardless of whether the job is hours or years long! Safety comes first. Our proprietary internal portal allows candidates to securely store and upload necessary information in a safe and compliant manner allowing our consultants to rapidly and efficiently deploy new staff on projects.
For more critical time important jobs (i.e. to avoid any catastrophic failure or fill unavailable scheduled workers), we have a streamlined systems-based approach to determine which resources are available at any given moment across our covered geographic regions. This is based on close contacts with our candidates and systems. Our consultants seamlessly arrange interviews, travel and feedback to make the process as easy as possible for the hiring managers.
Partnering with us offers numerous benefits for your organisation:
- Access to a vast network of top-tier energy professionals
- Expert guidance in identifying and attracting the right talent
- Streamlined recruitment process to save time and resources
- In-depth knowledge of the energy industry and its unique requirements
We possess an unrivalled ability to source candidates from both your domestic company location and / or internationally where required. Our candidates who, when combined, speak over 40 different languages, not including the written ones - C#, Python, Java, MatLab plus many more including full stack developers can communicate effectively with turbine controllers, SCADA and CMS systems to internal trading, risk management and scheduling software as well as so much more. More information can be provided after setting up a discovery call to chat through your new and exciting opportunity.
We’d like to boast a little about having met the majority of our amazing clients & candidates face-to-face in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia, but we’re always happy to take a call. Our understanding of the market comes from our management and consultants having directly worked in the energy markets (Oil, Power, Gas, Renewables, Financial & Technology) for over 15 years in various capacities.
Energy Talent Recruitment work with the most sought-after sector specific candidates, and are highly focused and selective about who we search on behalf of in this incredible & fast-paced developing marketplace. Advice offered on benchmarking of regional salaries / bonuses / commissions / remuneration packages.
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