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Ideas on resourcing the energy transition.
Market insight, hiring trends and practical guidance for teams delivering critical-infrastructure projects.
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Resourcing the nuclear new-build and SMR pipeline
Large-scale new build and the first SMR sites are drawing on the same SQEP population. The programmes that cope best treat competence, vetting and clearance as a supply chain in their own right — planned years out, not chased at mobilisation.
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Contract versus permanent in a tightening energy market
The old rule — permanent for the core, contract for the peaks — still holds. What has changed is how quickly the peaks arrive, how long they last, and how much the decision costs when you get the balance wrong.
6 min read
Getting mobilisation right on major renewables projects
Mobilisation is where renewables programmes quietly lose weeks. Not through bad hiring, but through medicals, sea survival refreshers, vessel berths and inductions that nobody put on the plan until the start date was already fixed.
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The compliance burden — and how to stop it delaying your starts
CompEx, BOSIET, medicals, SC clearance, client inductions. None of it is optional and none of it is fast. The fix is not less compliance — it is moving compliance from the end of the hiring process to the beginning.
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Building a talent pool ahead of an AMP cycle or turnaround
Regulatory cycles and turnaround seasons are the most predictable demand spikes in UK infrastructure. Which makes it remarkable how many organisations start resourcing them once the work has already been sanctioned.
7 min read
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