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Rockwood uses trained retained search recruiters that we have worked with for years. They are senior researchers with many years of background. In addition, they have specialties such as senior executive recruiting, plus functional specialties in engineering and other areas.

About Rockwood Energy Search, LLC

With the advent of energy storage and the fast-dropping output prices of wind and solar, the economics of power production are changing rapidly. The size and distribution of energy storage, too, is just getting started so change is accelerating.

These trends will change the types of companies involved, the jobs, their location and compensation throughout the business. We are changing to meet the related recruiting challenges.

As a very early member of the energy recruiting community, Rockwood Energy Search has gone through multiple evolutions of the energy jobs world.  Now, it's all about renewable energy jobs.  Rockwood Energy Search has seen how energy efficiency jobs, for example, have changed from  simple energy performance activities to distributed energy projects.

Another example is found among solar energy jobs.  The business started with either residential solar or utility-scale solar.  Now, Community Solar has appeared as an alternative ot residential solar.  It's relatively easy to permit since communties see the power generated by the solar field array coming to their own town, not being exported to the wholesale energy power grid.

Hence, there are more intermediate-level solar permitting jobs where less-experienced people can learn more quickly, even remain in their own region to work on 1-5 MW solar generation units.


Charles R. Bamford, Managing Partner

Charles Bamford co-founded Rockwood Energy Search LLC in 1986. Since then, he and the firm have specialized in energy-related recruiting in the United States.

He spends a significant portion of his time going to energy conferences and talking to specialists in the energy business about the impact of technology and regulatory initiatives.

In addition to his past line and staff responsibilities, Charles worked as a consultant for the firm of Douglas Williams, a pioneer in the field of attitude research. In this firm, he participated in a number of client engagements on organizations, their management structure and corporate effectiveness.

He has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA in Quantitative Methods from The Stern School of Business at New York University. He has lived in South Florida, Georgia, the Texas Gulf Coast, Boston, Los Angeles, New Jersey (THE SHORE) and now lives in New York City.