Below is GreenJobs.com's list of green energy recruiting firms. Now, this isn't your average list, we took a lot of time to go find all most of the recruiting firms out there in the renewable energy industry offering recruiting services.
What is the criteria to be included on this list? GreenJobs.com doesn’t care about size of your recruiting firm, or how long it’s been around. We have tried to list recruiting firms that focus only on green energy. As the industry is rapidly growing, we might add or remove recruiters from this list.
This green energy recruiting list should be helpful for job seekers, recruiters, hiring managers, internal talent acquisitions teams, executive hiring committees, and more.
If you have been listed below and are interested in working with GreenJobs.com, we would be happy to chat.
Editor’s Note – The list below is no particular order.
WhithamGroup
First up is WhithamGroup, a recruiting firm we know well here on GreenJobs.com. WhithamGroup is all about placing executives and head honchos for various roles across the green energy industry.
WhithamGroup is based out of San Francisco, California and was started by Carina Whitham, an experienced executive recruiter. They have a lot of great contacts in the green energy industry you won’t find anywhere else. If you are looking for an executive or management position in the solar inudstry, Carina and her team would be the best to reach out to.
WhithamGroup has even been named the number one executive search firm in renewable energy by Solar Power International. We work with them personally here on GreenJobs.com and recommend them for executive search.
Allen & York
Allen & York – these folks have been rocking the environmental recruiting world for years.
Allen & York is truly one of the OGs of the green energy and environmental recruiting space. This company was founded in 1993 by Mark Allen. Keep in mind, 1993 is actually even before the internet was even a thing. And email was pretty new.
Of course the advantage to this is they have years of experience. Allen & York recruits in the environment, energy, sustainability, and ESG, and well-being industries and sectors. They have executive search, retained, fixed term, and also they do contract recruiting as well.
Eleven Associates
Eleven is a UK and US based recruiting firm that has several areas of recruiting specialty, but they are now big in greentech and renewable energy space. The company has been around for 23 years and has a dedicated team of recruiters.
HatTip Alex from BoltJobs.
AltGen
AltGen, beaming in from Cape Town, South Africa. AltGen are all over green energy recruitment in Africa and the UK. They're not your go-to if you're stateside, but they are good for projects in Africa. Would be a good point of contact and reference for anyone that has green energy projects in South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Kenya, Mauritius, and the UK.
Peak Demand
Next up is Peak Demand. Peak Demand is a smaller outfit based out of California. They've got their fingers on the pulse of executive roles. They focus on recruiting for solar, energy storage, wind, EVs, and other green emerging technologies.
Peak Demand is part of the MRI Network, which is an affiliate group of recruitment companies with 325 offices spanning four continents. Supposedly this helps them expand their recruiting capabilities, obviously, with a larger network, you have better options of placing more people. In recruiting, they typically say that your network is your net worth.
Gaia Human Capital Consultants
Gaia Human Capital Consultants is a boutique shop of executive search firms founded in 2007. Gaia is based out of California and they've been recognized by Forbes and Hunt Scallon Media as one of the top executive search firms.
They focus on ESG, sustainability, finance, and climate tech and green energy sectors. Gaia claims to try and recruit from a diverse talent pool.
Climate Recruit
ClimateRecruit.EU are climate talent experts. I believe that the founder mainly focuses on positions in the EU region as she is based in Spain. ClimateRecruit does offer services all around the world.
They offer specialized services for companies seeking strategic insights and guidance on how to approach their recruiting strategies within the green industry. Climate Recruit also offers talent and advisory services.
Climate People
Climate People is a newer recruiting firm that's only been around a few years that was founded by veteran recruiter Brandon Anderson. Climate People mainly focuses on green tech companies. They also have a climate job seeker playbook, and they do regular webinars for people that are seeking to change their careers into the green tech space.
Spencer Ogden
Spencer Ogden have been around since about 2010. The company’s mission is to create a dynamic and sustainable legacy in the ever changing green energy industry.
They have offices in UK, Europe, Asia Pacific region, Australia, and as well as the US. They're quite a large recruiting firm in the green energy industry. I'd say Spencer Ogden is actually probably the biggest one that I'm personally aware of. It looks like they have several hundred green energy recruiters.
SolSearch Energy
Next up on our list is a solar energy specific recruiting research firm called SolSearch Energy. This is a small team of four people, and they only focus on the solar energy industry if you're looking to recruit there. They're based in New York, and mainly focused on the US market. Positions they recruit for include solar project development, solar finance, solar engineering, and solar construction.
So if you have a solar job you need to fill, it may be worth it to reach out to SolSearch Energy.
PiperMaddox
PiperMaddox is another large player in the green energy space on this list today. They've been around for a good bit of time. PiperMaddox has offices in New York, Austin, Los Angeles, Miami, Bristol, UK, and London. They only focus on green energy, e-mobility and grid technology.
They have a battery storage salary survey, which I guess is useful if you are recruiting in the battery storage industry.
Consult Energy
Consult Energy goal is to be the premier recruiting partner for companies in the renewable energy industry. They have built a team of recruiters excited to fill green jobs.
They focus on Solar, Wind and Energy Storage for Project Development, Construction Management, Engineering, and Financial Consulting.
Established originally in 2009 in Birmingham, UK, Consult Energy has expanded to the US with an office in Boston.
Dylan Green
Now let's talk about Dylan Green—the boutique firm founded by Catherine McLean. She has a lot of experience in the green energy and technology industry. She actually used to be a consultant at Acre, and then she founded a other green energy recruitment business back in 2011, which merged into J.D. Ross Energy, which is another green energy recruiting company that's been around for a long time.
I guess her non-compete must have expired because she now she started her own smaller women-focused green energy recruiting firm. Catherine hosts a great podcast called the Green Light, where she interviews people within the green energy sector. She also has a focus on DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) recruiting and trying to get women into the renewable energy space.
Wind Tech Recruiters
Wind Tech Recruiters does exactly what is sounds like, wind power recruiting. They have a lot of experience and connections in the wind and turbine industry. If you're recruiting in the U.S. for wind energy, they are team to reach out to because they have a lot of domain knowledge and connections to candidates in that market.
I actually interviewed William, the founder, on GreenJobs.com blog.
Clean Energy Talent
Lastly, Clean Energy Talent run by Louise Fitzpatrick and Tracy McNaughton—two headhunters with eco-expertise. Louise and Tracy offer everything from talent mapping to diversity inclusion initiatives.
They focus on solar energy, energy storage, vehicle electrification, and green tech recruiting for executive positions.
LSP Renewables
LSP Renewables recruits in the solar, wind and energy storage markets. LSP recruits in countries all over the world and is passionate about recruiting in the reneable energy industry.
HarryJames Group
HarryJames is based in London and New-York. Per the company's website they offering recruiting services in the Solar, Wind, Energy Storage, E-Mobility, and ESG Investing industries. The firm also offers a range of recruiting services from Direct Hire, Contract, and Executive Search.
Viridan Group
Specializing in Renewable Energy, Renewable Finance, and Infrastructure sectors, the Viridian Group operates across the US as a dynamic executive recruitment firm. With support from acclaimed investors, the company's goal is to fuel growth in the green energy industires. The recruiting firm is fairly new having been founded in 2021 and is based in Los Angeles.
Gaia Talent
Gaia Talent, not to be confused with Gaia above, is a niche green energy recruiting firm based out of Ireland. The team boasts over 35 years experience in green industry recruiting.
Gaia Talent mainly focuses on recruiting in the United Kingdom and Ireland for varous green energy positions. The company is a certified B Corporation.
GS2 Partnership
GS2 is a small and fairly new talent firm that specializes in executive and leadership roles within green energy across the United Kingdom.
The mission of GS2 is to help people make the world better than they found it. GS2 claims to have a 100% success rate on undertaken recruiting assignments.
GS2 also claims to allocate 5% of our annual profits to charitable causes.
Navitas Resourcing Group
Navitas is another newer and small recruiting firm. The company specilaizes in Wind, Solar, Energy Storage, and Electric Vehicles.
Based in the UK they have recruiters that work both in the UK and US markets.
Pangea Talent Solutions
Panega is an international green energy recruiting firm that I am surprised I haven't heard about before.
Pangea has offices all around the world. This includes London, New York, Austin, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kempen (Germany), Saudia Arabia, and The Hauge (Netherlands). They offer a range of recruiting services.
Pace People
Pace People is a small recruiting firm based out of the UK.
Specialty areas of green recruitment for AVA Energy include Solar, Wind, Nuclear Energy, and Future Energy? Unsure what Future Energy is.
Carter Maddox
Carter Maddox is a small renewable energy recruiting firm. They facilitate innovative, fast-paced green startups.
Carter Maddox will customize staffing solutions tailored to unique green jobs. Services include team building, permanent staffing, executive sourcing, contracting, worldwide payroll management and investment brokering.
Areas of expertise are Wind, Solar PV, HydroPower, Energy Storage, Internet of Things, and e-Mobility.
Carter Maddox is strategically located in London and the United States.
Futura Energy Group
Futura Energy Group is the only Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) firm I am currently aware on this list or in the industry. MBEs can be important for working on government projects or to show that you have diversity hiring programs.
Beyond being an MBE Futura lends in areas such as eco-friendly manufacturing, essential infrastructure projects, autonomous tech, grid edge, and more.
Based in Austin, Texas Futura focuses on placing jobs in the US green energy sector.
Green Energy Recruiting
While we hope you will use GreenJobs.com first, recruiters are a good option depending on your needs.
We did make this list since we know understand companies have a wide range of roles to potentially fill.
Nobody gets a link on this page, unless you have directly worked with GreenJobs.com. If you're feeling left out and think it's a mistake, give us as shout on our contact page, and we'll see about getting you onto this green recruiting list. If you think there is a firm we should add, let us know.