George Ibbott
Principal Consultant
Vertiv
Date published: May 2026
Author: George Ibbott, Principal Consultant, Pangea
“Pangea has provided valuable support across a number of our data centre delivery activities, helping us secure experienced professionals for site-based and project-led roles."
George Ibbott
Principal Consultant
PANGEA DATA CENTRE SOLUTIONS
Pangea supports high-growth infrastructure and energy businesses with contract and permanent recruitment built for scale, continuity, and long-term success. With deep sector knowledge, we help clients secure the talent they need to deliver projects, strengthen teams, and support business growth.
In fast-paced sectors where timelines are tight and technical expertise is critical, access to dependable talent is a competitive advantage. Pangea partners with clients to provide both experienced contractors for immediate project needs and permanent staff who can support long-term capability building. This enables clients to stay agile while also investing in the future of their teams.
By combining market insight, specialist networks, and a partnership-led approach, Pangea helps clients build resilient, high-performing teams in complex and fast-moving markets.
VERTIV OVERVIEW
Vertiv operates in the critical infrastructure and data centre market, delivering solutions in environments where uptime and technical performance are essential. As the sector continues to grow, Vertiv requires access to specialist contract talent capable of supporting live project delivery and project management across site operations.
VERTIV AT A GLANCE
- Company: Vertiv
- Sector focus: Data centres, critical infrastructure, power and cooling environments
- Delivery model supported by Pangea: Long-term contract hiring
- Core areas supported: Site management, project management, site coordination, technical delivery support
- Partnership focus: Supplying specialist contract professionals across live and planned data centre-related programmes
OUR PARTNERSHIP IN NUMBERS
- Placements made: 11
- Projects supported: 9
- Average contract duration: ~20 weeks
Countries supported:
- Germany
- Netherlands
- United Kingdom
Snapshot of roles supported
- Commissioning Managers
- Document Controllers
- Project Managers
- Site Coordinators
- Site Managers
- Site Project Managers
See latest vacancies like these roles.
PANGEA VERTIV PARTNERSHIP
Pangea’s support has been particularly valuable in roles where practical delivery, experience, flexibility, and speed of mobilisation are essential. These assignments require professionals who understand live project environments, stakeholder coordination, installation and delivery programmes, and the pace of mission-critical infrastructure projects.
This relationship reflects the value of a contract model built around responsiveness and sector understanding. Rather than simply filling urgent roles, Pangea has supported Vertiv with professionals aligned to the realities of data centre delivery, helping create continuity across projects and dependable access to specialist capability over time.
“Working with Vertiv is a great example of what a strong specialist partnership looks like in the data centre market, where speed, flexibility and technical understanding all matter. We’re proud to support their teams with contract professionals who can add value quickly across live projects in multiple countries, helping maintain delivery momentum where it matters most.”
George Ibbott, Principal Consultant, Pangea
WHY PANGEA?
Pangea’s understanding of the data centre and critical infrastructure market enables us to identify and deliver professionals with the right blend of technical expertise, delivery experience, and adaptability, and, at speed. Our partnership with Vertiv demonstrates how a specialist recruitment partner can support long-term delivery needs while remaining flexible enough to respond to changing project requirements across different sites and geographies.
“Pangea has provided valuable support across a number of our data centre delivery activities, helping us secure experienced professionals for site-based and project-led roles. Their understanding of the market and their ability to respond to project requirements quickly have helped us strengthen delivery capability in key areas. They have shown a clear understanding of the type of talent needed to perform in complex and fast-moving environments.”
Director - Project Delivery, Vertiv
PANGEA DATA CENTRE RECRUITMENT ACROSS EMEA
To find out more about how Pangea could help you with your hiring needs visit our Data Centres page to see:
How we support clients with their recruitment needs across permanent and contract roles in the data centre market. Case studies include:
"Partnering with Pangea has been a game changer for our data centre projects across Europe. We needed a partner who could not only find the highly specialised talent we require but could also handle the logistics of international recruitment, from relocation to payroll and compliance. Pangea’s team has consistently delivered, providing us with project-ready, high-quality contractors, often with an incredibly rapid turnaround. Their Project Services solution has streamlined our operations, allowing us to focus on what we do best while knowing that our talent needs are in expert hands. We consider Pangea a crucial partner in our continued success."
EMEA Director, Cummins
"We have been working with Pangea and George Ibbott since 2023. George has demonstrated a profound agility in handling our requests, sourcing personnel and managing the information and processes we required. George has shown perseverance and determination in following up on the various profiles he submitted, and this is with pleasure that we could, thanks to his service, concretise a long-term assignment for one of our key global accounts. We are looking forward to continuing our relationship with Pangea and George."
Pierre Blot, Manager Supply Chain Services, Bureau Veritas
The latest live data centre vacancies were working on.
2026 data centre hiring landscape report: We’ve gathered compensation data, hiring trends, and market intelligence from across the EMEA data centre sector through placements made, as well as ongoing conversations with both candidates and clients as part of our day-to-day recruitment activity.
The result is our 2026 EMEA Data Centre talent and market insights report: a detailed overview of recruitment across one of the world’s fastest-growing infrastructure markets, covering salary trends, compensation data, and the latest people moves.
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