Industry

The energy workforce

Generation, transmission, storage and renewables are all building at once, drawing on the same licensed electrical and mechanical capability.

Free for tradespeople, permanently. Companies pay for access and on a confirmed placement.

Why capability is scarce here

Not a labour shortage in the abstract. These are the specific reasons the people who can do the work are hard to find.

Battery storage, renewables, grid connection and thermal plant maintenance now compete for one pool of licensed workers.
Storage and inverter work needs controls and protection capability that few people have depth in yet.
Much of the work is regional, so mobility - not skill - is often the binding constraint.
Outage and commissioning windows are fixed, which makes late hiring extremely expensive.

Licensed and authorised people who have worked on the relevant plant class, are willing to travel or camp, and are free in the outage window.

Energy work rewards specific plant experience and a willingness to mobilise. Record both, including roster tolerance.

Instead of relying on a supplier's bench, you search directly for the authorisation and plant experience the outage needs.

Each page sets out what the capability covers, what companies screen for and how it appears on a Passport.

Electricians - Licensed electrical workers installing, terminating, testing and energising power systems on critical infrastructure projects.
Electrical supervisors - Leading hands, site supervisors and electrical leads who run crews, sequence electrical work and carry the quality and safety load on site.
Instrumentation and controls - Technicians who install, terminate, calibrate and prove the control and monitoring systems that make plant behave predictably.
Fitters - Mechanical fitters who install, align, maintain and repair rotating and static plant to tolerance.
Boilermakers and welders - Fabrication and welding trades producing and repairing structural and pressure work to a qualified procedure.
Technicians and commissioning - Test, commissioning and specialist technicians who prove that installed systems perform the way the design says they will.

Data centres - Hyperscale and colocation campuses need licensed electrical, mechanical and commissioning capability in volume, on fixed energisation dates.
Electrical infrastructure - Substations, grid connections, protection and HV systems depend on a small licensed pool whose work cannot be substituted.
Construction - Major construction programmes are increasingly constrained by trade capability rather than by design, funding or approvals.
Infrastructure - Water, transport, tunnels and public assets need technical trades who can work inside live systems and strict approval regimes.
Rail - Rail systems work needs technical trades who can hold rail-specific competencies and work inside possession windows.
Mining and resources - Resources sites need maintenance and shutdown-hardened technical trades who will work a roster in remote conditions.

Discover technical capability as a company - search by skill, experience, region and availability instead of filtering CVs.
Create a capability profile as a tradesperson - free, private by default, and you decide who gets through.
What workforce capability means - the difference between a job title and what someone can actually do.

Search proven capability directly, or put your own on the record. Capability, discovery, connection, mobility.