5 Interview Questions Every Power Generation Service Manager Should Be Able to Answer
Hiring a Service Manager isn’t simply about finding someone with technical knowledge or industry experience. The strongest Service Managers combine operational leadership, commercial awareness, customer management, and people development. They keep engineers engaged, maintain service standards under pressure, and make decisions that protect both customer relationships and profitability. Unfortunately, many interview processes focus on a […]
Why Do Businesses Hire the Wrong General Manager?
Hiring a General Manager is one of the most important decisions a business will make. The right person can improve commercial performance, strengthen delivery, develop leadership teams, and create a platform for sustainable growth. The wrong person can have the opposite effect, even when they appear to have an exceptional CV. In the power generation […]
5 Hiring Mistakes Growing Power Generation Businesses Make
Growth puts additional pressure on almost every part of a power generation business, and hiring is no exception. As project volumes increase, service operations expand, new customers are secured, or the business enters new markets, existing teams often absorb the additional workload first. Project leaders take on more delivery responsibility, Service Managers oversee larger engineering […]
Executive Search Pricing in Power Generation: What Does It Cost?
If you’re hiring for a leadership role in power generation, the first question is usually about cost. That question is valid. The issue is that it’s often asked without measuring the cost of not getting the hire right or not getting the hire in place quickly enough. In CHP, BESS, and decentralised energy, leadership roles […]
What High-Performing Leaders in Power Generation Have in Common
Power generation businesses are operating in an environment where delivery pressure is high and tolerance for failure is low. Across CHP, BESS, and decentralised energy projects, expectations are clear. Projects need to land on time, margins need to be protected, and teams need to perform consistently. Most businesses have strong technical capability. Engineering […]
What Are the 5 Biggest Hiring Mistakes Made by Growing Power Generation Businesses?
Growth in the power generation sector creates a specific type of hiring pressure. When demand increases across diesel generators, CHP, critical power, switchgear, hybrid systems, or BESS-related projects, internal teams often try to recruit quickly to protect delivery capacity. The problem is that speed can create risk. In power generation recruitment, the wrong hire does […]
Why Your New GM Isn’t Scaling the Business Even When Their CV Looked Great
Hiring a General Manager is one of the highest-impact leadership decisions a power generation business will make. It influences revenue growth, delivery performance, service stability, commercial discipline, and team retention. Yet many businesses experience the same outcome: the GM hire looks excellent on paper, the early weeks appear positive, and then growth stalls. This happens […]
Why Senior Hires Stall: The Hidden Cost of Stakeholder Misalignment
In senior or technical recruitment, it’s easy to assume the biggest challenges are external: a limited talent pool, uncompetitive packages, or a difficult market. But in many cases, what actually slows down a search isn’t external at all. It’s internal. The most common cause is stakeholder misalignment. When decision-makers aren’t aligned on what they’re hiring […]
Top 5 Skills Genset OEMs Are Missing in Their Project Teams
Generator OEMs operate in a delivery environment where expectations are increasing and tolerance for disruption is decreasing. Clients expect tighter reporting, clearer sequencing, faster mobilisation, and fewer surprises during commissioning and handover. The technical capability in many genset OEMs is strong. Engineering knowledge is rarely the problem. The problem is that project delivery in power […]
Strengthening Project Leadership to Support Scale in a UK Critical Power Business
Background Our client is a privately owned UK engineering business specialising in the design and delivery of diesel and gas generator systems, switchgear integration, and turnkey critical power installations. Operating nationally, the business supports commercial, industrial, and essential-infrastructure clients where resilience, uptime, and delivery certainty are non-negotiable. With turnover at £10–11 million and a clear […]