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European hiring isn't easing off heading into summer. This week's board covers 11 roles spread across the Nordics, central Europe and the UK, with a strong skew towards commissioning, BMS and senior client-side appointments. Here's what's open. FINLAND OFCI Package Manager, Helsinki area (€70K to €85K + rotation package) Electrical Package Manager (€75K to €90K DOE + accommodation, travel, flights) Mechanical Construction Manager (up to €110K + rotation package) SWEDEN CSA Engineer, Skellefteå (circa €80K + overseas allowance, flights, travel, accommodation, 17/4 rotation) BIM Lead, Skellefteå (up to €80K + package) GERMANY Electrical Commissioning Manager, Munich (€130K per year) BELGIUM BMS Project Manager (up to €90K + package) UK OR IRELAND BMS Sales Director (up to £130K + package) UK (REMOTE) Design Director EMEA, client side NORDICS Data Center Sales Manager, Critical Power (€90K to €100K basic + bonus + car) GLOBAL Commissioning Lead, Tier 1 Global Contractor, Data Center Projects (competitive salary + package) Skellefteå keeps drawing senior talent, and the BMS Sales Director package is one of the strongest commercial briefs on the board right now. The Design Director EMEA is also worth a look if you're operating at that level on client side. Talk to the team: Daniel James Bonner - daniel.bonner@clear-er.com Will Hennessy - will.hennessy@clear-er.com Abe Luckins - abe.luckins@clear-er.com Stanley Nelli - stanley.nelli@clear-er.com Chris Unwin - chris.unwin@clear-er.com Bailey Morris - bailey.morris@clear-er.com Sadie Martin - sadie.martin@clear-er.com Joseph Logue - joseph.logue@clear-er.com Lewis Basanese - lewis.basanese@clear-er.com Luke Alliband - luke.alliband@clear-er.com Liam Northwood - liam.northwood@clear-er.com Know someone who should see one of these? Pass it on. 👇 #HotJobs #Europe #DataCenter #BMS #Commissioning #Electrical #Mechanical #Construction #Leadership #Sales

The engineers who will build the next generation of Data Center campuses don't exist yet. Not as a defined talent profile. SMR-adjacent Data Centers are coming. The first campuses co-located with small modular reactors will need engineers who understand both worlds: NRC compliance and IST protocols. Radiation safety and BMS controls. Nuclear QA and commissioning 100MW+ of critical IT load. Right now, these are two completely separate talent markets. Nuclear engineers don't think of themselves as Data Center candidates. Commissioning managers don't have nuclear safety on their radar. The operators who start mapping this hybrid profile now will have a 3 to 5 year head start on everyone who waits for the job title to appear on a competitor's LinkedIn page. #DataCenter #Nuclear #SMR #EngineeringRecruitment #MissionCritical #CriticalInfrastructure

New week, new freelance contracts. 15 roles across five countries, all live, all need filling fast. Commissioning is the headline this week. Cx Managers, Cx Engineers and Cx Leads spread across Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and Norway. QA/QC and security work in the mix too, plus four UK-based contracts running through London and Slough. Most need data center experience, so check the brief before reaching out. DENMARK Mechanical QC Lead, Fredericia (6 month rolling, 3/1 rotation) Quality Manager, Fredericia (6 month rolling, 3/1 rotation) MEP Commissioning Manager, Fredericia (12+ months, 3/1 rotation) Security (LV) Project Manager (long term / T2P, 10/4 or 3/1 rotation) Cx Manager (18 months) Mech Cx Engineer (6 months) Elec Cx Engineer (6 months) Elec Cx Lead, Copenhagen (6 to 12 months) NORWAY Security Engineer, Skien (6 months) NETHERLANDS Cx Manager, Groningen (3 months) BELGIUM Cx Manager, Mons (12 months) SWEDEN BMS Commissioning Engineer, Gavle (6 to 9 months, DC experience required) UK Construction Manager ELV, London (6 to 8 months) CSA Supervisor, Slough (6 to 8 months) BMS Commissioning Engineer, London (6 months minimum, smart commercial building) Rotations and ASAP starts are already locked on most of these. If you've got the data center background, don't wait on it. Get in touch: Ruby Skinner - ruby.skinner@clear-er.com Ashleigh-Rose H. - ashleigh-rose.horton@clear-er.com Josh Alleyne - josh.alleyne@clear-er.com Ben Harvey - ben.harvey@clear-er.com Know a contractor who should see this? Send it their way. 👇 #Freelance #ContractJobs #Commissioning #BMS #DataCenter #MissionCritical

Google is in talks with SpaceX to put data centres in orbit. That's not a moonshot. It's a constraint signal. When a hyperscaler seriously evaluates low Earth orbit as a build site, it tells you what's already binding on the ground. Power. Grid. Water. Community consent. And the engineers to run any of it. Every workaround the sector has tried, nuclear PPAs, liquid cooling, Tier-2 builds, has solved one constraint and created a hiring brief the industry hasn't grown the talent for yet. Nuclear-coupled campuses need engineers fluent in two safety regimes. Liquid-cooled AI clusters need thermal specialists who think in workloads, not plant rooms. Orbital prototypes will need people who can commission a payload from 400 kilometres away. None of those role profiles existed when most of the industry's job specs were written. The new issue of The Build-Out walks through what each pivot does to the hiring brief, and why generalist recruitment now produces CVs that look right and candidates who can't do the work. Worth a read if your next 18 months depend on engineers no one's grown yet. #DataCenter #MissionCritical #AIInfrastructure #EngineeringRecruitment #CriticalInfrastructure

Google can't find enough power, land, or cooling on Earth. So they called SpaceX. Google is in talks with SpaceX to launch Project Suncatcher, a constellation of orbital satellites carrying its TPUs. First two prototypes targeted for early 2027. This is what the binding constraint on AI infrastructure actually looks like… Capex isn't the bottleneck. Silicon isn't the bottleneck. The physical inputs to running a Data Center, power, real estate, water, cooling, are running out. It's the same conversation we have every week with hyperscalers, MEP contractors, and Power & Cooling OEMs. The shortage everyone talks around is people. Engineers who can design liquid cooling at AI rack densities. Commissioning leads who hand over capacity on schedule. Senior operators who run mission-critical sites once they go live. If we're seriously talking about putting Data Centers in orbit, we should be just as serious about the talent shortage that's still binding the ones on the ground. Both have to be solved at the same time. And neither gets solved by a generalist recruiter. #DataCenter #MissionCritical #AIInfrastructure #Commissioning #EngineeringRecruitment

The new clear recruitment website is live. Here's what's different. Built to feel like the sector it serves. Precise. Considered. No fluff. Live vacancies you can filter by discipline, region, and contract type. Whether you need a Cx engineer in Frankfurt or a VP of Engineering in Virginia, the search does the heavy lifting. 7 specialist expertise areas, each with dedicated consultants. Find the right person for your exact discipline in a couple of clicks. 3 engagement models clearly laid out: Permanent, Contract & Freelance, and Executive Search. So you know what you're getting before the first call. A blog worth reading. Real takes on commissioning shortages, the liquid cooling shift, AI inference talent, and more. Direct lines to your regional team in London, New York, and Dubai. Clean navigation. Clear hierarchy. Everything where it should be. See it for yourself! #DataCenter #MissionCritical #Commissioning #EngineeringRecruitment #CriticalInfrastructure

The Data Center industry has a maths problem nobody's solving with salary increases alone. 40% of your workforce plans to leave. Only 15% of applicants are qualified to replace them. A third of technical talent is approaching retirement. And 51% of operators already can't find the people they need. That's not a hiring challenge. It's a structural workforce contraction in a sector that needs to double capacity by 2030. Most operators respond by raising salaries. It's not working. The 40% planning to leave aren't citing pay. They're citing burnout, limited development, and poor work-life balance. You can't outbid those problems. Retention deserves the same rigour as recruitment. Because when only 15% of applicants qualify, every departure costs more than it did 2 years ago. #DataCenter #MissionCritical #Retention #EngineeringRecruitment #CriticalInfrastructure

Celebrating Ashleigh-Rose H.’s 1 year anniversary at Clear today! 👏 Joining the business as a Senior Consultant, Ashleigh has made an impact from day one, bringing energy, and consistency to everything she does. In just 12 months, she has already achieved so much, including taking home our Best Newcomer award at our end of year party last month and also being Directors pick to join us in Meribel on our incentive trip🏆 We’re proud to have you at Clear and excited to see what the future holds. Congratulations on your first year Ashleigh!

This week marks 4 years since Will Hennessy joined Clear and what a journey it’s been 👏🏼 From joining as Delivery Consultant to now stepping into the role of Divisional Manager with his own team, Will’s progression has been unreal. Congratulations on 4 great years, and thank you for everything you have contributed to Clear so far! 🚀

Every Data Center programme has a capital investment plan, a project portfolio, and a delivery timeline agreed with investors. Almost none of them have a workforce plan built to the same standard. That's how a $200 million build stalls because 8 commissioning engineers can't be found. The capital was planned. The steel was planned. The people weren't. The hiring conversation starts when the programme is already mobilising, not when the capital is committed. By then you're competing with every other operator who made the same mistake and accepting candidates you'd have passed on 6 months earlier. The operators who avoid this treat workforce planning as a capital planning discipline. Audit commitments. Map gaps by discipline and geography. Phase hiring to the build schedule. Give talent the same rigour you give every other line on the capital budget. #DataCenter #MissionCritical #Commissioning #EngineeringRecruitment #CriticalInfrastructure