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RecruitCHINTEC: Solar EPC hires in three countries, on schedule
CHINTEC needed experienced EPC engineers across Portugal, Greece and Finland — quickly enough to keep utility-scale solar projects on schedule. Remote People placed them in all three markets at once.
Sectors Renewable Energy · Solar EPC · Energy Storage
Challenge Fill experienced EPC roles in Portugal, Greece and Finland fast enough to keep utility-scale solar projects on schedule.
Location
China
Industry
Renewable Energy, EPC
Company size
10K+
Founding Year
1984
With Remote People since
2022
- EPC schedules don’t wait for hiring
- The brief: experienced EPC talent across three national markets
- From project management to commissioning — the full delivery chain
- The result: timelines protected
- The Bottom Line
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EPC schedules don’t wait for hiring
CHINTEC, part of CHINT Green Energy Europe, delivers end-to-end EPC solutions for utility-scale solar and energy storage projects across Europe. Engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, operations support — every phase has milestones, and missing one cascades into the next.
For an EPC business, recruitment isn’t an HR function in the abstract. It’s the most direct lever for project delivery. An open Project Manager seat means a project doesn’t move; an unfilled Commissioning Engineer role means a substation doesn’t go live.
The brief: experienced EPC talent across three national markets
CHINTEC needed Commissioning Engineers, Project Managers, and Electrical Engineers — across Portugal, Greece, and Finland. Each role required renewable-energy expertise specifically, multi-country exposure, and the leadership skills to operate inside cross-border project teams.
The candidate pool in renewable EPC is genuinely tight. Solar and storage have grown faster than the workforce that builds them, and competition for experienced commissioning and PM talent is sharp.
From project management to commissioning — the full delivery chain
Remote People worked the searches as a single engagement covering the full delivery chain — from upstream project management through procurement to on-site commissioning. That mattered because the roles aren’t independent: a strong PM with a weak Commissioning Engineer below them is still a project at risk.
By calibrating the searches together, CHINTEC built coherent local teams in each country rather than a collection of unrelated hires.
The result: timelines protected
The roles closed quickly enough that the projects they supported stayed on schedule. For an EPC business, that’s the only metric that ultimately matters — every other KPI follows from it.
| The Results | |
|---|---|
| 3 countries | Portugal, Greece, Finland |
| 3 role types | Commissioning Engineers, Project Managers, Electrical Engineers |
| Project timelines protected | Hires closed fast enough to keep utility-scale solar on schedule |
| Renewable-specific expertise | Sourcing calibrated to a sector where talent supply is genuinely tight |
Remote People helped us secure hard-to-find EPC talent across Europe quickly and professionally, keeping our project timelines on track from project management through procurement to commissioning.
Marcin Karcz HR Manager, CHINTEC
The Bottom Line
Renewable energy is a sector where talent constraint has become as real as supply chain constraint. Projects don’t slip because the panels are unavailable; they slip because the people who commission them are.
CHINTEC chose a recruitment partner who treated EPC hiring as a delivery problem — not a generic engineering search. The result was three filled roles, three protected timelines, and a credible model for the next round of European projects.
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