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EV charging recruitment · Texas

EV charging recruitment in Texas

We recruit across EV charging in Texas from our office in Austin, and the first thing to know is that the public network is not where most of the hiring sits. Texas has close to thirteen thousand public charging ports, and the federal programme meant to extend them has opened 15 of the 65 sites it funded in 2023.

The money moving fastest here is private and it follows freight. Truck charging hubs on the Dallas to Houston corridor, depot charging for electric fleets, and large companies building charging for their own sites. That is where the delivery and service roles are, and it is a different search from a forecourt.

Clients we have helped

The niches inside the niche

EV charging is not one market

Public charging, depot charging, the software platforms and the hardware manufacturers all hire differently, and people rarely move between them. Whichever one you sit in, the hiring problem next door is not your hiring problem.

Public charging and CPOs: You are hiring grid connection, siting and field service across an estate that is dispersed by design, and so is everyone you are bidding against for the same people.
Bus, truck and depot charging: If you build the charging, the people who genuinely understand megawatt charging sit with a handful of specialist providers, and you already know who they are. If you run the fleet, the expertise you need is one line inside a generalist operations role, so it has no job title to advertise against.
eMSPs, roaming and charging software: You are hiring like a software business, not an energy one, which means you lose people to fintech on salary before you reach offer. The one thing you cannot hire generically is roaming and protocol interoperability.
Charge point manufacturers: Design is not usually where it hurts. Certification, compliance and the units already in the field are, and the gap that keeps reappearing is embedded firmware and after-sales engineering.
Home and domestic installation: You are not competing with other charging businesses for electricians, you are competing with solar and heat pumps for the same qualified trades, and the qualification itself is becoming the constraint rather than the experience.
Fleet and workplace charging: Almost never its own job title, so when you need it you are hiring out of consultancies and specialist installers rather than from a business that looks like yours. The buyer sits in fleet or facilities rather than energy, which changes who the hire has to convince.

Our Approach

How we work here

Recruitment fundamentals travel. Markets do not. In Texas the charging announcements and the charging vacancies point in different directions, so we go to the employers themselves before we believe either. Most live roles sit with fleet operators, depot specialists and corporate networks rather than public operators, and a single posting in one city often means someone expected to cover the whole state. Our US office is in Austin, so we work this market from inside it.

Before you brief anyone

Two questions worth answering first

Hiring from outside the sector means persuading somebody to change industry, and that turns on two things most businesses have never written down.

Why should a good engineer come into EV charging rather than any other part of the transition? And why should they come to you rather than the operator down the road?

Most cannot answer either, because most are offering the same things: a growing market, a good team, interesting work. None of that is a reason to move.

A business that hires on skills alone, without knowing whether the person actually cares about the transition, is usually hiring for the same role again sooner than it planned.

Why Hiring Here Is Different

Why hiring here is different from anywhere else

The charging headlines are public. The charging hiring is private.

On paper Texas should be one of the busiest charging hiring markets anywhere. Close to half a million plug-in vehicles, growing by around 1,500 a week, and a federal programme with more than two hundred funded sites across its two phases. In practice the public build is slow, small and scattered. Fifteen of the first 65 federal sites are open three years in, and the next 147 are mostly rural stations with construction reported for late 2027. A public operator does not hire a regional delivery team for that. It hires one or two people who can run a lot of small builds a long way apart, and it hires them later than the announcement suggests. The live hiring sits somewhere else. When we went looking, the public operators and the large charger manufacturers had nothing open for Texas charging. What was open was fleet and corporate work: a large business building charging for its own sites across several Texas cities, depot service management in Fort Worth, field service for electric fleets, and utility programme leadership in Austin. Freight is pulling the private capital, with truck charging hubs going in on the Dallas to Houston corridor for 2027. So a Texas charging search is usually not a search for public network people at all. It is a search for people who have kept fleets running: depot electrical, service management, and project managers who have delivered behind a customer’s fence rather than on a forecourt.

Source: Texas Transportation Commission, April 2026
Source: Greenlane plans I-45 truck charging

Talent Scarcity

Where the pressure is right now

Construction and project management for private charging networks. The clearest live demand in the state, from businesses building charging for their own fleets and sites in several Texas cities at once. These roles have stayed open longer than anything else we found, which in a market this size says the profile is narrower than the title.

Depot and fleet service management. The service side of electric fleets, where uptime is a contractual number rather than an aspiration. Few people have run it at scale, because the fleets themselves are new.

Field service technicians for electric fleets. Hourly, travelling and spread across the state rather than tied to one city. The people who can work on both the vehicle and the charger are the ones employers keep coming back for.

Utility programme leadership. Managed charging and utility programme design is a senior niche in Austin, and the pool is the small number of people who have worked on both the utility side and the software side.

Heavy duty and megawatt charging delivery, ahead of the demand. The first corridor hubs open in 2027, which makes this the part of the market where capability can be built before the rush rather than during it.

Based on live vacancy activity across the Texas charging market. Reviewed 5 October 2026, updated monthly.

Market Intelligence

The market right now

5 October 2026

Close to thirteen thousand public ports, four in ten of them fast

The Department of Energy counts 3,776 public charging stations and 12,773 public ports in Texas, of which 5,471 are DC fast and 7,302 are Level 2. TxDOT put registered plug-in vehicles at 456,667 in February 2026, growing by about 1,500 a week, which works out at roughly 36 plug-in vehicles for every public port.

Source: Texas charging station counts , Meeting demand for electric vehicle infrastructure .
4 May 2026

The federal build is slow, rural and mostly still to come

Phase I of the Texas federal charging programme began in 2023 with $53 million for 65 sites, and 15 of them are operating. In April 2026 the Transportation Commission authorised Phase II, around $250 million for 147 stations, many of them in rural areas, and construction on those is reported to begin in late 2027.

Source: Texas Transportation Commission, April 2026 , Texas moves forward on big rig charging .
8 May 2026

Freight is where the private money has gone

Greenlane announced two heavy duty charging sites on the Interstate 45 corridor in Dallas and Houston in May 2026, each planned with six to eight pull-through lanes and due to open in early 2027. In January, Nevoya announced 40 battery electric Class 8 trucks for the same Dallas to Houston run.

Source: Greenlane plans I-45 truck charging in Dallas and Houston , Nevoya to deploy battery electric trucks between Dallas and Houston .
6 August 2026

The new large load rules are not written for charging

Senate Bill 6, signed in June 2025, sets a 75 megawatt threshold for the large load standards in the ERCOT region, far above any charging site the federal programme is building. The pressure on a charging project is the queue it joins instead. Oncor alone reported 737 large commercial and industrial connection requests on its transmission system at the end of June 2026, around 282 gigawatts of it from data centres.

Source: Senate Bill 6, enrolled text , Oncor second quarter 2026 results .

Market intelligence reviewed 5 October 2026.

TalentPilot

We would rather you needed us less

Most agencies are built so that you call them again. The model only works while hiring stays hard for you, which means nobody selling it has much reason to make it easier.

We took the opposite bet, and not only out of principle. A business that hires well on its own stays a client for years and brings us the roles that are genuinely difficult. A business that depends on an agency resents every invoice and leaves the first time somebody undercuts us. The second kind of relationship is worth less and lasts less long.

So we built TalentPilot. Twenty-one tools across planning, attracting, hiring and keeping people: map the roles before they become urgent, see where the people actually are, write the advert properly, run a consistent interview, and know which of your new starters is at risk before they resign.

And one thing almost nobody has. Every week, the real reasons candidates said no. Not a summary. The actual objections: the money, the location, the counter-offer, the part of the role that put them off. Most businesses never find out, which is why they keep making the same hire the same way.

Everything on this page is one market on one date. Our clients see their own, continuously.

What is left for us is the work that genuinely needs a search. That is the part we are good at, and the part worth paying for.

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How a search runs

You see it as we see it

Before we start: The brief and the target companies are agreed in writing. You know which businesses we are approaching and which we are not, before anyone is contacted.
Every week: The outreach, the response levels, where each person sits in the process, and the reasons anyone said no. The money, the location, the counter-offer, the part of the role that put them off.
When it stalls: You hear it from us. A search that has gone quiet is a conversation about the brief, not a report we delay until you ask.

What happens when you get in touch

A first call is a conversation about your hiring plan. Half an hour, with the consultant who runs this market for us.

We will tell you what we are seeing in your part of it: where the difficulty sits, which roles are moving and what people are actually being paid. You get that whether you decide to work with us or not.

If there is something we can help with, we will say what it would take and roughly how long. If there isn't, we will say so and point you at whoever is better placed.

No slide deck, no pitch, and nobody will chase you afterwards.

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What we are seeing from the other side

The same searches, read from the candidate side.

Fleet and depot service people: The strongest position in Texas charging right now. Fleet operators need uptime they can put in a contract, and very few people have run depot service at scale because the fleets are only now arriving.
Project managers who delivered behind the fence: If you have built charging inside a customer site, a depot or a distribution centre, say so plainly. It is a different job from a public forecourt, and it is the one Texas is hiring for.
Anyone who has delivered heavy duty charging: Truck charging in Texas is a 2027 story, which makes people who have already done it elsewhere valuable now, before the corridor hubs open rather than after.
Where it leads: Depot service into regional operations, private network delivery into programme leadership, and utility programme work into commercial leadership. Texas is large enough to build a whole career inside one state.

Questions

Clear answers for the next step.

What EV charging roles do you recruit for in Texas?

Project and construction management, depot and fleet charging, service management and field service, electrical engineering, heavy duty and freight charging, utility programmes, and commercial leadership. We work private fleet and corporate networks as well as public charging, because in Texas that is where most of the live hiring is.

How big is the Texas public charging network?

The Department of Energy counts 12,773 public ports across 3,776 stations, about four in ten of them DC fast, against close to half a million registered plug-in vehicles. Large in absolute terms, thin per vehicle.

Is the federal charging programme creating jobs in Texas?

Slowly. Fifteen of the 65 sites funded in 2023 are open, and the next 147 are mostly rural stations with construction reported for late 2027. It creates delivery work for a small number of people rather than a hiring wave.

Do the new large load rules affect charging sites?

Not directly. Senate Bill 6 sets its threshold at 75 megawatts, far above a charging site. What affects charging is joining the same utility queues as a record volume of data centre requests.

Where are you based in Texas?

Our US office is in Austin, so this is a market we work from inside the state rather than from a distance.