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.

CHINTEC
CHINTEC specializes in engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services for utility-scale solar projects across Europe.

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 extremely limited. 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

RemotePeople 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 countriesPortugal, Greece, Finland
3 role typesCommissioning Engineers, Project Managers,
Electrical Engineers
Project timelines protectedHires closed fast enough to keep utility-scale solar
on schedule
Renewable-specific expertiseSourcing calibrated to a sector where talent supply
is genuinely tight

RemotePeople 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 hiring across three key role types, three protected timelines, and a credible model for the next round of European projects.

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