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Bob Bell says Renault is being effected by a recruitment problem that has hit all of Formula One.
The Renault chief technical officer says that with many teams tying engineers down to long-term contracts, teams who are keen to recruit, like the rebuilding Renault team, face difficulties.
Despite there being many young graduates available, Bell says that the pool of potential employees is lacking skills.
"I don’t think there’s necessarily a shortage of young, eager and very capable of graduates, for example, coming out of the education system. Most teams on the grid try and use that resource as much as they possibly can," he told F1i. "And so, I think I would agree there is potentially a skill shortage but I think perhaps the difficulties that a team such as ours faces in recruiting is more to do with the difficulty of acquiring experienced F1 engineers already locked into existing teams."
He also pointed out that Brexit could cause issues for the eight Formula One teams with a UK base , although it is still too early to say for sure.
"As for the influence of Brexit, it’s too early to tell what the consequence of that will be on the future of the supply of engineers in the UK. I think it would be great if the UK plc could develop a stronger industrial base. I think that would be good for the country and I think all of us in Formula One would be fully supportive of initiatives that helped develop that.
"Not only would it potentially provide more engineering candidates for us in recruitment – but I think it would be good for the country as a whole. But ultimately, what happens, post-Brexit, I don’t think any of us can really tell."
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