Strategic talent support for power & renewables
Scaling Renewables helps growing renewable energy, grid, HV and BESS businesses solve specialist hiring problems, add flexible Talent Partner capacity and build recruitment and onboarding capability that lasts.
Beyond filling vacancies
This is not a CV-sending transaction. Scaling Renewables works alongside your business to understand the pressure, solve the immediate problem and leave stronger internal capability behind.
Where growth gets stuck
Start with the business problem rather than trying to choose a package. Open any challenge to see how Scaling Renewables could help—and use the conversation to work out what is actually needed.
What is happening
Critical roles stay open, the same candidates circulate through agencies and growth plans begin to depend on people who have not been hired yet.
What better looks likeA more credible route to scarce talent and better information for the hiring decision.
How Scaling Renewables can help
What is happening
Technical leaders are sourcing, chasing feedback, coordinating interviews and managing candidates alongside the work they were actually hired to do.
What better looks likeManagers stay involved in the decisions that matter without carrying the entire recruitment workload.
How Scaling Renewables can help
What is happening
Recruitment has become a series of separate transactions, with little retained knowledge, limited direct capability and a new fee attached to every successful hire.
What better looks likeMore control over recruitment spend and a capability that becomes stronger with each search.
How Scaling Renewables can help
What is happening
The hiring need is real, but permanent recruitment headcount would be premature, difficult to justify or unable to flex with project demand.
What better looks likeThe benefit of an internal Talent Partner without committing to permanent overhead before the business is ready.
How Scaling Renewables can help
What is happening
Hiring depends on individual managers, ownership becomes unclear after the contract is signed and new starters receive a different experience each time.
What better looks likeA repeatable employee journey that managers can run and the business can keep improving.
How Scaling Renewables can help
Not sure where to start?
No obligation and no need to arrive with a finished brief.
Flexible by design
Every engagement is shaped around the business, the hiring challenge and the growth plan. The right response may be a targeted project, embedded capacity, wider consultancy or a combination that changes over time.
Focused intervention
Concentrated support when one vacancy, hiring campaign or recruitment problem needs experienced attention.
Flexible internal capacity
Hands-on recruitment support working alongside leaders and hiring managers as part of the internal team.
Capability for the long term
Practical design and implementation support when the systems around hiring and joining need to mature with the business.
The shape of the work is agreed after understanding the situation—not before.
Start with a conversationHow every engagement begins
No off-the-shelf package is forced onto the problem. The first conversation explores the current situation, what growth is asking of the business and what has already been tried. Only then is a proportionate scope of work and proposal produced.
Book a no-obligation conversationDiscuss the pressure, priorities, people and existing approach.
Identify the level of support most likely to make a practical difference.
Set out a clear scope, outcomes, responsibilities and commercial proposal.
What the partnership builds
Develop direct routes, useful market knowledge and more selective use of external agencies.
Give leaders clearer responsibilities, useful information and time back for their core work.
Retain the pipelines, processes, templates, onboarding assets and habits developed together.
About Alex
Scaling Renewables was founded by Alex Waddington, a Talent Partner specialising in recruitment and onboarding across renewable energy, grid infrastructure and HV engineering.
With an MSc in Occupational Psychology and experience spanning agency recruitment, clean-energy growth and in-house talent, Alex combines specialist search with hiring design, manager support, preboarding, induction, probation touchpoints and new-starter feedback.
“The aim is not to create dependency on another supplier. It is to solve the immediate problem and leave the business better equipped for the next one.”
Straight answers
It is a no-obligation conversation about the business, current hiring or onboarding pressure, the growth plan and what has already been tried. If there is a sensible fit, the next step is a clearly defined scope of work and proposal.
The focus is not on sending CVs and collecting a placement fee. Scaling Renewables works as a strategic talent partner inside the client’s context—solving immediate hiring problems while improving the capability, process and knowledge retained by the business.
Support can range from a targeted specialist search or recruitment review to embedded Talent Partner capacity, onboarding design, manager enablement and wider talent consultancy. The appropriate mix is shaped after discovery.
Yes. Alex specialises in both recruitment and onboarding. Support can include reviewing the current journey, clarifying ownership, designing practical workflows and communications, aligning the first 90 days with probation, or helping operate and embed an existing process.
Yes. The scope reflects the client’s priorities, internal capacity, hiring volumes, systems, stakeholders and growth plans. Work begins only after the proposed outcomes and responsibilities are clear.
Renewable energy, grid connections, HV, ICP, BESS, power infrastructure and related clean-energy businesses—particularly where hiring is specialist and growth is putting pressure on managers or People teams.
No-obligation discovery conversation
No finished brief or pitch deck required. Start with the hiring pressure, the onboarding gaps and what the business needs to achieve next.
Book a discovery conversation alex@scalingrenewables.co.uk