Since August 2025, Sourcechange has filled the site-based and technical roles that keep Longroad Energy's utility-scale solar, wind, and storage projects moving: Construction Managers, Assistant Project Managers, and a Power Systems Engineer, across Texas, Arizona, California, and Utah. What began as a single Construction Manager brief became six placements on repeat mandates, each one drawing on the field network the last one built.
Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Boston, Longroad Energy develops, finances, owns, and operates renewable generation and storage across the United States. It has developed or acquired 7.6 GW of projects and raised $20.6 billion of equity, debt, and tax equity to build them.
The company kept most of what it built. Longroad owns 5.8 GW of wind, solar, and storage, and operates or manages 7.4 GW for itself and third parties, with a 36 GW development pipeline behind it. Its Sun Streams Complex in Maricopa County, Arizona runs to nearly 1.6 GW of solar and storage across four projects, and 1000 Mile Solar in Texas, 400 MWdc under a Meta offtake, is its seventh project in the state. Longroad is owned by Infratil, the NZ Superannuation Fund, MEAG, and Longroad Energy Partners, and has stated a target of 15 GW by the end of the decade.
Longroad's build program needs owner's representatives on site, on salary, and on the move. Three pressures shaped the brief.
Experienced utility-scale Construction Managers mostly work hourly, with per diem, moving between projects as contractors. Longroad hires them as salaried employees, rotating four weeks on site and one off, and relocating between projects every six to 12 months. The pool willing to take that seat is small.
With 1.7 GW under construction in 2026 and further projects reaching financial close, the roles did not arrive one at a time. Each project mobilization opened another brief, often for the same profile in a different state.
Longroad runs its own recruiting function and builds with tier-one engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) partners such as McCarthy and SOLV Energy. The roles that came to search were the ones applications could not fill: field leaders who had run solar and storage builds from the contractor or owner side, and who could pass three directors with a combined tenure of more than 20 years.
One consultant, one market, worked continuously. Each brief was run as its own search, and each search deepened the same field network.
The profile that converts at Longroad has delivered utility-scale solar or storage from the contractor side and then stepped across to the owner's seat. Placements came from Geronimo Power, SOLV Energy, Vanguard Energy Partners, and Geenex, and from independent owner's representative work.
Rotation, relocation, per diem, and the move from hourly to salary were settled on the first call, not at offer. Every shortlisted candidate received a structured brief on the interview panel, the project pipeline, and what the directors test for, so Longroad's time went on people who would accept.
More than 1,700 candidates were mapped and roughly 1,800 calls logged across the Longroad searches. By the third brief, the market knew the company and the role. One Construction Manager search briefed for a single hire produced three.
Six placements across four role types in 13 months, on repeat briefs, in four states.
Our placement track record to date with Longroad Energy, all placements made by the Sourcechange team. Inquire for more data regarding placements, partnerships, framework agreements, and employee track record.
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