Design Technician

Ecotricity Jobs; Stroud; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading renewable energy company in Stroud is seeking a graduate or someone keen on renewables to assist in site designs and feasibility studies. The role involves using GIS, supporting a dynamic team, and offers a hybrid working model with ample benefits including healthcare, volunteering days, and a generous vacation policy.

Benefits

Healthcare plan

Life assurance

Generous pension contribution

Volunteering Day

Hybrid Working

Various company discounts

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Responsibilities

• Assist in feasibility studies and site design.
• Identify and interpret site constraints for optimal design.
• Create and prepare required figures.
• Support GIS site finding.
• Update GIS datasets.
• Raise Purchase Orders on Workday.

Skills

Interest in renewable energy

Understanding of GIS

Excellent written and oral communication skills

Organized and able to manage time

Good team player

Job description

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.

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 \