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EV charging recruitment

We recruit across EV charging in fourteen markets: the charge point operators building public networks, the depot and megawatt charging behind electric bus and truck fleets, the software businesses that make any of it interoperable, and the manufacturers behind the hardware.

The thing that catches businesses out is that the constraint moves. In one market it is the grid connection and nothing else. In the next it is a planning system that never made room for charging, or a shortage of qualified electricians that charging is losing to solar and heat pumps. Hiring against last year’s constraint, or against another country’s, is the expensive mistake in this sector.

Go straight to your market

Clients we have helped

  • InstaVolt
  • Ubitricity
  • Balfour Beatty
  • Hubject
  • E.ON
  • Siemens

The niches inside the niche

EV charging is not one market

Public charging, depot charging, the software platforms and the hardware manufacturers all hire differently, and people rarely move between them. Whichever one you sit in, the hiring problem next door is not your hiring problem.

Public charging and CPOs
You are hiring grid connection, siting and field service across an estate that is dispersed by design, and so is everyone you are bidding against for the same people.
Bus, truck and depot charging
If you build the charging, the people who genuinely understand megawatt charging sit with a handful of specialist providers, and you already know who they are. If you run the fleet, the expertise you need is one line inside a generalist operations role, so it has no job title to advertise against.
eMSPs, roaming and charging software
You are hiring like a software business, not an energy one, which means you lose people to fintech on salary before you reach offer. The one thing you cannot hire generically is roaming and protocol interoperability.
Charge point manufacturers
Design is not usually where it hurts. Certification, compliance and the units already in the field are, and the gap that keeps reappearing is embedded firmware and after-sales engineering.
Home and domestic installation
You are not competing with other charging businesses for electricians, you are competing with solar and heat pumps for the same qualified trades, and the qualification itself is becoming the constraint rather than the experience.
Fleet and workplace charging
Almost never its own job title, so when you need it you are hiring out of consultancies and specialist installers rather than from a business that looks like yours. The buyer sits in fleet or facilities rather than energy, which changes who the hire has to convince.

Before you brief anyone

Two questions worth answering first

Hiring from outside the sector means persuading somebody to change industry, and that turns on two things most businesses have never written down.

Why should a good engineer come into EV charging rather than any other part of the transition? And why should they come to you rather than the operator down the road?

Most cannot answer either, because most are offering the same things: a growing market, a good team, interesting work. None of that is a reason to move.

A business that hires on skills alone, without knowing whether the person actually cares about the transition, is usually hiring for the same role again sooner than it planned.

Choose your market

The constraint is different in every country

Same sector, same job titles, a completely different problem underneath. Each of these is written from live vacancy evidence in that country and reviewed monthly, so pick the one you are actually hiring in.

Europe

North America

Asia Pacific

Hiring somewhere that is not on this list? We work well beyond these fourteen markets. Tell us where and we will tell you honestly what we know and what we do not.

How a search runs

You see it as we see it

Before we start
The brief and the target companies are agreed in writing. You know which businesses we are approaching and which we are not, before anyone is contacted.
Every week
The outreach, the response levels, where each person sits in the process, and the reasons anyone said no. The money, the location, the counter-offer, the part of the role that put them off.
When it stalls
You hear it from us. A search that has gone quiet is a conversation about the brief, not a report we delay until you ask.

TalentPilot

We would rather you needed us less

Most agencies are built so that you call them again. The model only works while hiring stays hard for you, which means nobody selling it has much reason to make it easier.

We took the opposite bet, and not only out of principle. A business that hires well on its own stays a client for years and brings us the roles that are genuinely difficult. A business that depends on an agency resents every invoice and leaves the first time somebody undercuts us. The second kind of relationship is worth less and lasts less long.

So we built TalentPilot. Twenty-one tools across planning, attracting, hiring and keeping people: map the roles before they become urgent, see where the people actually are, write the advert properly, run a consistent interview, and know which of your new starters is at risk before they resign.

And one thing almost nobody has. Every week, the real reasons candidates said no. Not a summary. The actual objections: the money, the location, the counter-offer, the part of the role that put them off. Most businesses never find out, which is why they keep making the same hire the same way.

Everything on this page is one market on one date. Our clients see their own, continuously.

What is left for us is the work that genuinely needs a search. That is the part we are good at, and the part worth paying for.

See how TalentPilot works

Insights

EV charging thinking.

Practical insight for teams planning, funding and delivering dependable electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

What happens when you get in touch

A first call is a conversation about your hiring plan. Half an hour, with the consultant who runs this market for us.

We will tell you what we are seeing in your part of it: where the difficulty sits, which roles are moving and what people are actually being paid. You get that whether you decide to work with us or not.

If there is something we can help with, we will say what it would take and roughly how long. If there isn't, we will say so and point you at whoever is better placed.

No slide deck, no pitch, and nobody will chase you afterwards.

Questions

Clear answers for the next step.

What specific EV charging roles do you cover?

We cover the full lifecycle of EV charging infrastructure, from site acquisition and grid connections to hardware engineering, software development, and network operations.

How do you assess technical capability in EV charging?

We evaluate candidates based on their track record in delivering functional public or commercial charging networks, their understanding of grid constraints, and their familiarity with CPPO and OCPI protocols.

Can you help us build a team for a new market entry?

Yes. TalentPilot is designed precisely for scaling teams into new territories, providing the market map, executive search for leadership, and tools to hire operators.

Do you recruit for hardware or software specifically?

Both. We have dedicated networks across EVSE hardware engineering and e-mobility software platform development.

How long does a typical specialist search take?

Four to six weeks for a straightforward hire in most of these markets. Past seven weeks the brief is usually the problem rather than the market, and we would rather tell you that than keep sending CVs.

Is the grid connection always the constraint?

No, and assuming it is will cost you. In some markets the connection is the whole problem. In others it is planning, or the supply of qualified electricians, or a policy decision nobody has made yet. Each market page says which one applies where you are.

Do you work outside the markets listed here?

Yes. These are the fourteen markets we have written up and review monthly. We work well beyond them, and where we do not know a market properly we say so rather than guess.

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