Design Technician

Ecotricity; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading renewable energy company is seeking a candidate for a unique 6-month role to assist in technical assessments and site designs for renewable projects. Key responsibilities include supporting feasibility studies, updating GIS datasets, and working collaboratively with the team. Ideal for graduates or those with a strong interest in renewable energy. This role offers a hybrid working model and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Healthcare plan

Life assurance

Generous pension contribution

Volunteering Day

Various company discounts

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Cycle to work scheme

Onsite parking

Qualifications

• Interest in renewable energy.
• Understanding of GIS and willingness to learn.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Organized and able to manage time effectively.
• Good team player willing to assist others.

Responsibilities

• Assist in feasibility studies and site design for renewable energy projects.
• Identify and interpret site constraints for optimum design.
• Prepare required figures and update GIS datasets.
• Support site finding using GIS.
• Raise Purchase Orders on Workday.

Skills

Interest in renewable energy

Understanding of GIS

Excellent communication skills

Time management

Team player

Job description

About The Role

This is a rare 6 month opportunity for someone to gain invaluable insight and experience working in a dynamic team in the Renewable Energy industry. The role will be based at our head office, so you’ll need to be based within a reasonable distance and able to travel to our offices 3 days a week in Stroud, Gloucestershire. This role would be ideal for a university graduate or someone with a keen interest in renewables and knowledge of GIS database.

Responsibilities

The Development Team is responsible for securing the necessary permissions to enable the construction of renewable energy projects, including but not limited to onshore wind, solar, energy storage and anaerobic digestion (green gas). This involves four main stages:

• Identifying suitable sites for renewables in the UK;
• Signing an option to lease with the landowner;
• Securing a commercially viable grid connection;
• Securing an implementable planning permission and discharging planning conditions.

The overall purpose of the role is to complete technical assessments and site designs for new renewable energy projects.

Core Responsibilities

• Assisting and supporting the Principal Design Technician in the completion of feasibility studies, site design and other technical assessments.
• Identify, understand, and interpret the site constraints and requirements to produce the optimum site design
• Create and prepare figures as required
• Support the team with site finding using GIS
• Update GIS datasets
• Raise Purchase Orders on Workday

About You

Essential skills:

• An interest in renewable energy
• An understanding of GIS and aptitude to learn
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Organised and able to manage time and work to meet deadlines
• Good team player who is willing to support and assist other team members when required

About Us

What's in it for you...

• Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
• Volunteering Day
• Hybrid Working
• Various company discounts (including shops, gyms, days out and events)
• Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
• Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team, you will be supporting the Group Environmental Policy and its associated sustainability objectives and targets.

Flexibility statement

The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use its people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make their contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity - the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain - by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too - we build windmills, sun parks and green gasmills in Britain. We call this turning 'bills into mills'. Some of our biggest achievements to date include building Britain's first megawatt windmill and the country's first grid-scale sun park, as well as building our first green gasmill, generating 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of grass.

We don't just focus on energy though - we built the Electric Highway, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points; we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world; and we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk, where they use the money from their customers' bills to protect and regenerate Britain's lost rainforests.

Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.