Infrastructure, Power & Built

Environment recruitment

Experts

About Resourcing Solutions

• Established since 1996

• Current business turnover £32m +

• Offices: Reading, Ashby, Middlesex, Dubai

• Total staff: c85

• Geographic reach: UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Australia

• Matrix structure to maximise opportunities and delivery

• Specialists in the transportation and utility sectors, with a strong emphasis in rail and power

• Diversified service offering:

– Permanent

– Contract

– Search and selection

– Value added services

Structure/Overview

Overview of our power division

Experts in recruiting across power networks

Specialists in transmission, distribution, private networks and connections

Team with over 40 years’ combined experience

Track record of providing resources on the largest National Grid, DNO and offshore wind farm projects of their kind

Delivery capability

Delivery of contract and permanent placements across the range of power disciplines:

Overhead lines Electrification

Cables Gas Networks

Sub stations Multi Utility Networks

Civils

Recruitment engagement covers white collar ‘Professional & Technical’, Professional ‘Trades & Labour’, and ‘Executive Search’ on a retained basis.

Typical power roles

Project Director Contract Manager Project Manager Site Manager Site Engineer Construction Manager Design Manager Design Engineer Protection and Control

Engineer Commissioning Engineer

Professional trades:• Wiremen/Electricians• Fitters• Cable Jointers• Machine Operators• Competent Persons

Assurance Managers Asset Managers SCO authorised

personnel

Safety and compliance

• Certified with the Achilles UVDB (Utilities Verification DataBase)

• Understand National Grid National Safety Index and associated training requirements

• Dedicated compliance team

• Zero RIDDORS in last three years

Clients include

• Atkins

• Balfour Beatty

• Blu-3

• Capita

• E.ON

• Energetics

• Freedom Group/Enserve

• HVMS

• McNicholas

• Morrison Utility Services

• Nexans

• Prysmian

• Scottish & Southern Energy

• UK Power Networks

• UPL

• VVB Engineering

Case studies

• London Power Tunnels - Electricity Alliance East required project engineering and project management support to ensure effective construction methodologies and interface management with a number of critical National Grid substation sites across London

• London Cable Cooling - Electricity Alliance East’s supply chain required teams of electrical and mechanical installation staff and National Grid ‘competent persons’ to work on the refurbishment of the cable cooling system between a number of substations

Case studies

• Beauly Denny - A major project to install a 400kV overhead electricity transmission line to replace an existing 132kV overhead transmission line. Resourcing Solutions sourced a number of scarce skilled operations management, tower and line designers to complement the contractor's core team

• West of Duddon Sands Offshore Wind Farm - onshore cabling and onshore substation. Recruitment of a number of critical resources, including planning support, supervision and management, to aid the delivery of the cable route works and the onshore substation elements

Case studies

• Humber Gateway Offshore Wind Farm - Provision of specialist supervisory resource to assist the timely delivery of the cabling package of works

• London Underground Sub Surface Railway Power Supply Upgrade - Resourcing Solutions provided a number of critical design and project engineering resources on the electrical engineering aspects of this high value, high profile programme of work

HV/EHV Cable Jointing Recruitment

• Utility services client required good quality, competent, professional HV/EHV Cable Jointers

• Struggled to find via HR team despite using 15 external suppliers

• Engaged Resourcing Solutions to identify suitably qualified and available candidates

• Used industry knowledge, specialist advertising and recruitment techniques – 45 applications

• Resulted in 3 CVs leading to two key appointments

Olympic Park

• Partnered with McNicholas on Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) Utilities Contract, at the Olympic Park

• Requested to supply resources covering site installations of multi-utilities including water, power, telecoms and gas

• Required:

‒ mains and service layers

‒ reinstatement gangs

‒ ground workers

‒ plant operators

‒ site managers

‒ project managers and planners

‒ designers and design managers

‒ health & safety managers

‒ environmental and geotechnical engineers

Olympic Park (continued)

• Resourcing Solutions developed bespoke and robust registration process that ensured the quality of personnel and compliance requirements were met in short timescales

• Implemented ‘quality plan’ to meet specific quality and compliance including candidate attraction, registration, compliance, implementation, continued monitoring of project

ACCREDITATIONS

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Richard Lawrance

CEO

Mob: 07730 007 700

Tel: 01189 320 100

Email: rlawrance@resourcing-solutions.com

www.resourcing-solutions.com