Expertise · Data center recruiting
Power and Project Controls Recruiting
We recruit power and program roles for data center builds: substation, interconnect and utility engineers, electrical design leads, energy managers, and project controls staff for scheduling, cost control, estimating and PMO reporting. These roles are often filled last.
Audience
We work with developers and operators, EPCs and general contractors, engineering firms, utilities-facing teams and infrastructure programs with multi-site portfolios.
Common hiring problems
- Nobody inside the company owns the interconnect schedule, so delays go unnoticed.
- Cost and schedule reports come out too late to change a decision.
- Estimating and scheduling roles stay open while construction speeds up.
- Energy strategy and capacity planning sit with people who have no time for it.
Role families
Roles and screening
Power and utilities engineering
Substation engineer, interconnect lead, electrical design lead, power systems engineer
Utility coordination, study work, equipment lead-time reality and the schedule they owned.
Energy and capacity
Energy manager, capacity planning lead
Load forecasting, utility rate and tariff literacy, and the tradeoffs behind on-site generation.
Project controls
Project controls manager, scheduler, cost controller, estimator
Schedule integrity, earned value practice, change management and reporting that leadership can act on.
PMO and program delivery
Program manager, PMO lead, project manager, document control
Multi-stakeholder delivery, governance cadence and portfolio reporting across sites.
Environments
Technologies and environments
- Utility interconnect and substation delivery
- Primavera P6 and CPM scheduling practice
- Earned value, change orders and cost reporting
- Long-lead equipment procurement and expediting
- Multi-site program governance and PMO reporting
Role scope
Requirement mistakes
Sort these out before outreach starts.
- Hiring project controls after the schedule is already unreliable.
- Treating a scheduler and a cost controller as one role on a large program.
- Screening power engineers on software tools without asking about utility coordination.
- Leaving interconnect ownership with a consultant and no internal counterpart.
Process
Search process
Czarina Tabayoyong agrees on the scorecard with your interview panel, builds a list of named candidates and contacts them directly. You get a written report every week. At the end, your team keeps all the research and the candidate pipeline. We use AI tools for research, and Czarina makes the recommendations herself.
Talent Intelligence Sprint
A fixed-scope research project on the candidate market before you commit to a search. Scopes are listed on the homepage.
Embedded Search Sprint
A recruiter inside your process for a defined sprint.
Site Launch or Team Build
Monthly recruiting support timed to your project milestones.
FAQ
Recruiting questions
- Why hire project controls early?
- A reliable schedule and cost baseline lets you change decisions while there is still time. Someone hired after the schedule slips spends their first months rebuilding a baseline people trust.
- Do you recruit utility-side power engineers?
- Yes, including candidates from utilities, transmission and distribution engineering firms and industrial power markets who transfer into data center interconnect work.
- Can you cover PMO and document control roles?
- Yes. We include program delivery and document control roles in the same hiring plan.
- How do you assess schedulers?
- On the schedule they owned: logic quality, float discipline, how change was absorbed, and whether the schedule was used for decisions or produced for a report.
Next step
Bring the scorecard and the deadline. We'll tell you what the candidate market looks like and which engagement we'd recommend, including when your team can fill the role internally.