Samuel Knight Energy

Samuel Knight is a specialist recruitment company founded in 2014 by Steven Rawlingson in Newcastle Upon Tyne, delivering end-to-end workforce solutions for the energy and infrastructure sectors. The company has grown from a team of four to a multi-disciplinary organisation with over 40 years of combined board experience, placing 32,000 candidates and serving 678 clients globally. Samuel Knight offers permanent staff, contract placements, and full project operations solutions tailored to each client's exact requirements, distinguishing itself through bespoke delivery rather than traditional recruitment approaches.

Samuel Knight specialises across five core disciplines within energy and infrastructure. Development and Origination support early-stage project creation with specialist talent for feasibility, strategy, planning, site identification, and permitting. Engineering and Design provides multidisciplinary engineers, designers, and technical specialists delivering technical precision across complex requirements. Civils and Pre-Construction supplies specialists for land development, structural works, planning, and early-stage site preparation. Construction and Commissioning places skilled teams for execution from groundbreaking through energisation, ensuring quality assurance and on-time delivery. Operations and Maintenance supports long-term reliability and efficiency through experts managing routine maintenance and complex operational challenges across renewable energy, traditional power, and infrastructure environments.

Samuel Knight operates across multiple continents with established offices in Newcastle, London, Bristol, and Wales in the United Kingdom, Boston and Dallas in the United States, Madrid in Spain, Berlin in Germany, Chicago and Virginia in the United States, and Kyiv in Ukraine. The company expanded into the USA in 2021, achieving significant growth and establishing itself as a leader in data centre and renewable energy recruitment. Clients choose Samuel Knight for its deep industry experience, ability to connect entire project phases and disciplines through transferable talent and integrated workforce models, and commitment to delivering resilience and cohesion to mission-critical projects worldwide.