How Centrii built a global pre-employment checks programme as rigorous as the infrastructure it secures
Protecting 400+ renewable energy sites across 20 countries starts with people
customers • Centrii400+ sites protected
Wind, solar, hydro and battery storage
Hours back every week
Candidate comms handled by HirePass
Every employee, every year
Annual checks renew automatically
Global coverage
One framework, one process
ISO 27001 audit-ready
Documentation in place before auditors arrive
Digital right to work
Government-certified in the UK, global coverage
Small tasks don't add up, they multiply
Centrii protects critical renewable energy infrastructure with AI-driven cybersecurity. The company manages more than 400 sites across 20 countries, from wind farms and solar installations to hydro plants and battery storage facilities.
When a company is small, pre-employment checks are manageable. One person can track the requirements, handle everything by hand and keep it all in order. But as a business scales across borders, each new country brings its own regulations, its own documentation requirements and its own risks.
For a cybersecurity company protecting critical national infrastructure, that complexity carries real weight. The people Centrii hires have access to sensitive systems, intellectual property and its codebase. Getting pre-employment checks right isn't a nice-to-have, it's a baseline requirement. And because that access continues long after day one, so does the responsibility to check.
Checks that start before day one,
and don't stop there
Cinara Macias, Centrii's People & Talent Partner, worked with HirePass to build a compliance framework around the specific challenges of the business. Rather than treating checks as a single step in hiring, it covers every person at Centrii for as long as they work there.
The framework rests on two check packages.
Global Pre-Employment Checks run before day one, including employment references and education verification, so potential red flags surface before time is invested in a candidate who isn't the right match.
Global Annual Compliance Checks cover all current and future staff and renew automatically each year, keeping the team compliant as the company grows.
Together, they support three priorities for the business.
Trusted access to intellectual property
Everyone with access to Centrii's intellectual property and codebase needs a clear background. That gives Centrii and its clients confidence in who has access, and reassures customers that their critical infrastructure is in safe hands. Checking before access, and again every year, keeps that confidence current.
Right to work compliance across borders
Government-certified checks give Centrii a statutory excuse, protecting the business against Home Office fines in the UK. With staff across multiple countries, right to work has to be handled consistently everywhere, so digital verification is now the standard in every region.
Supporting InfoSec with ISO 27001
For Centrii's Information Security team, pre-employment checks are part of ISO 27001 compliance. The framework supports InfoSec and other internal stakeholders with their requirements and prepares for future auditor reviews, so when auditors arrive the documentation is ready. Passing the audit matters, but the bigger point is showing clients that Centrii takes security seriously at every level, including who it hires.
The platform just works,
the team makes the difference
Every country Centrii hires in comes with its own rules, documents and candidate questions. Rafael Narezzi, Centrii's CEO, puts it simply.
"The platform just works. It's modern, it's intuitive, and managing checks across 20 countries has gone from complicated to simple".
Four words that anyone who has battled pre-employment checks software will appreciate. But Rafael doesn't stop there.
The platform is only half of it. The HirePass team is what really makes the difference. They're proactive and genuinely collaborative, and they handle every candidate conversation so my team doesn't have to."
The back-and-forth, the chasing and the explaining are all handled by HirePass. For the Centrii team, that means hours back each week and more time for work that needs their attention.
It's not just Rafael. Across Centrii the feedback has been consistent. The HirePass team listens, takes feedback on board and is genuinely interested in getting things right. There's less chasing and fewer queries landing on the team's desk.
As Cinara puts it, "That kind of personal engagement is rare. It feels like a partnership, not a transaction".
Trusted, compliant and audit-ready
Centrii needed a pre-employment checks provider that could help protect the organisation, keep right to work compliant across multiple countries and support its Information Security team with ISO 27001. It also needed one that would reduce workload rather than add to it.
Today, every new hire is checked before day one, every employee is checked again automatically each year, and InfoSec has the documentation it needs whenever auditors ask.
HirePass took the time to understand what a company like ours needs, then built it with us. That's why I recommend them."
When Talent and the CEO both recommend the same pre-employment checks provider, there's not much left to say.
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