We provide specialist recruitment services to organisations modernising electricity grids – from transmission and distribution operators and engineering consultancies, to grid software providers, OEMs, investors, and fast-scaling flexibility innovators.
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Grid Modernisation Recruitment
As electrification accelerates and renewables connect at pace, grids are becoming the critical enabler of the energy transition. At Acre, we help clients build the leadership and technical capability required to deliver a safer, smarter, more resilient grid – globally.
Partner With Acre
Grid investment and delivery is becoming a defining constraint for the transition. The International Energy Agency highlights that global grid investment needs to nearly double by 2030, with particular emphasis on digitalising and modernising distribution networks.
Acre partners with organisations across the grid modernisation ecosystem to recruit senior leaders, programme owners, engineering specialists, and digital talent into critical roles. We combine deep market insight with a global network across energy infrastructure, clean technology, and sustainability-led transformation.
A Modern Grid Starts with the Right People
Whether you are accelerating connection queues, upgrading substations, rolling out ADMS and DERMS, building flexibility markets, or strengthening cyber resilience, we connect you with world-class talent across the grid value chain.
From board-level leadership and transformation executives to protection and control engineers, product leaders, data scientists and market design specialists, our executive search and professional recruitment capabilities are designed to place people who keep the system reliable while enabling rapid change.
Why Grid Modernisation, Why Now?
Electricity grids are increasingly the backbone of secure, affordable decarbonisation – and a potential bottleneck if upgrades lag behind renewables, electrification, and new demand (including data centres and EV charging).
Modernisation is not only about cables and substations. It is also about digital capability, data visibility, operational flexibility, stakeholder consent, supply chain readiness, and new market mechanisms that reward demand-side participation. For example, Great Britain’s Demand Flexibility Service has seen participation scale into the millions, demonstrating how consumer and aggregator-led flexibility is becoming a mainstream system tool.
Our Services
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Executive Search: C-suite and senior leadership roles across grid strategy, operations, capital delivery, digital, resilience, and regulation.
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Professional Recruitment: Specialists across T&D engineering, grid digitalisation, flexibility, interconnection, and programme delivery.
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Interim Solutions: Rapid access to experienced leaders and technical consultants for time-critical programmes and regulatory milestones.
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Advisory & Market Mapping: Strategic insight on team structures, capability build, compensation benchmarking, and future skills planning.
Expertise You Can Trust
Acre has over 20 years of experience at the intersection of sustainability, energy, and innovation. With deep networks and an international presence, we are trusted by global organisations to deliver forward-looking hiring strategies in complex, regulated environments.
We understand the realities of grid modernisation – ageing assets, connection backlogs, workforce constraints, evolving standards, cyber risk, and heightened scrutiny from communities and regulators. Our approach is insight-led, values-driven, and aligned to long-term system resilience and climate goals.
Grid Modernisation Role Types
Executive Leadership
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Chief Grid Officer / Director of Networks – enterprise accountability for network performance and investment.
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VP, Grid Modernisation & Strategy – multi-year roadmap, benefits realisation, stakeholder alignment.
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Director, Digital Grid & Operations – SCADA, ADMS, OMS, DERMS, control room transformation.
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Head of Flexibility & Markets – demand response, VPPs, congestion, ancillary services strategy.
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Director, Asset Management & Investment Planning – risk-based planning, reliability, performance.
Let’s Build a More Resilient Grid
Whether you’re delivering grid reinforcement, integrating distributed energy resources, or digitising network operations, Acre is your partner for recruitment that accelerates delivery and strengthens long-term capability.
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