Energy Transition Advisor Location
Junior Energy Transition Advisor advises on complex energy issues with a focus on the subsurface.
You coordinate soil investigations and projects and use GIS, sensing, and data analysis.
Requirements: completed higher professional or university education in earth sciences or similar and strong communication and analytical skills.
Description
As a Junior Energy Transition Advisor, you work on major challenges such as grid congestion, the installation of cables and pipelines, and the remediation of old gas pipelines. You advise on complex energy issues and help governments, grid operators, and companies realize their sustainable ambitions, with an emphasis on subsurface-related issues.
Job requirements
- Completed higher professional or university education in Earth Sciences, Earth & Environment, Geography, Land and Water Management, Environmental Sciences, Environmental Science or a comparable field of study.
- Motivation to start a career in energy and subsurface.
- Ability to work on a project basis.
- Preferably experience with or an affinity for working in diverse teams of junior to senior colleagues.
- Good communication skills and strong analytical skills to explain complex issues in an understandable way.
Tasks
- Working on complex energy issues with an emphasis on the subsurface, for example, laying underground high-voltage cables, connecting solar parks, resolving grid congestion, and remediating contaminated soil.
- Advising on innovative solutions for energy issues and collaborating with governments, grid operators, and businesses.
- Applying sensing, big data, AI, and software, including GIS.
- Managing and coordinating projects, particularly regarding soil issues: historical soil investigation, preparing fieldwork, analyzing soil investigations, and advising thereon.
- Interdisciplinary collaboration on themes such as ecology, land development, archaeology, and water.
- Maintaining contact with internal and external parties such as government agencies and clients.
- Room to choose your own focus: technical work (e.g. drawing in energy cables, calculating heat networks) or focusing on environmental management and process.
Working conditions
- Various locations in the Netherlands, including Friesland, Apeldoorn, Hilversum, Rotterdam, Emmen, and Breda.
- An excellent work culture with attention to a healthy work-life balance.
- Secondary employment benefits such as 27 vacation days and a 13th month.
- Good travel expenses and home work allowance.
- Laptop and mobile phone.
- Excellent training and career advancement opportunities, support from a personal buddy, and an active young professional network.
Description of the organisation
You will be working at an independent engineering and consultancy firm that is at the forefront of the energy transition and supports grid operators, government, and industry with smart, sustainable solutions. The organisation combines knowledge of the subsurface, energy, and digitalization, ranging from geotechnics and energy planning to soil investigation and hydrogen projects. Projects vary from self-sufficient islands and neighborhood batteries to the construction of high-voltage substations. The organisation has a strong reputation for mentoring and training junior professionals, with ample opportunities to advance to positions such as senior consultant or project manager.