Graduate Engineer - Heat Networks - Ramboll Group

Graduate Engineer - Heat Networks

To be considered for this role, please make sure you read the job description carefully and apply by submitting all the relevant documents.

Launch your career and find your professional home at Ramboll. Be part of a welcoming and engaging environment, where you can develop and explore your professional interests and passions, and curiosity in ways that make the most of all the opportunities ahead of you.

At Ramboll, we offer a unique work environment. Our culture is built on openness, understanding, and respect, allowing you to shape your role to match your working style, aspirations, and personal life. Our Nordic heritage drives our commitment to improving conditions for people and nature through our projects. As a foundation-owned multinational company, the profit we make is reinvested into the company. This ensures the continued development of employees or is used to fund research, charity, and humanitarian projects. Our commitment to be 'The Partner for Sustainable Change' ensures your work makes a meaningful impact on people, communities, and the environment.

Our Early Careers Programme – EarlyCareers@Ramboll

We have designed a training program that will boost your personal, commercial, and technical development to kick-start your career with Ramboll. You will also be paired with a mentor and have access to a clear framework to work towards your professional development.

The Early Careers Challenge is one of the highlights of the graduate training. This is a fun and exciting event where you get to travel around the UK and work on a project that will provide you with an insight into the concept of design. You also get the opportunity to collaborate and network with amazing people and peers.

About the Opportunity

Our Graduate District Energy Engineers, you will work with our Energy Systems division of over 35 engineers and consultants, covering differing disciplines. You will work in project teams that can be anywhere as large as 20 persons and as small as 2 persons. Your willingness to learn new engineering concepts and pick up new technology quickly is important. We want enthusiasm to help our clients transition off fossil fuels at a scale above that of a single building.

We are looking for someone who can:

• Create engineering design solutions for district systems, such as heat networks.
• Carry out engineering calculations and computational analysis.
• Communicate complex engineering principals in plain English through writing, verbally, drawings, sketches.
• Technical model using specialist software (energy modelling, hydraulic modelling), CAD, and Microsoft Office Suite.

Your skills and experience

From the moment you join Ramboll, we will support your personal and professional development so that you grow with the company. For this role, we believe your starting point is:

• BEng (Hons), MEng or MSc level degree in a relevant energy or engineering subject.
• Design and problem-solving skills to allow you to create engineering solutions.
• Numeracy to all you to carry out engineering calculations.
• Communication skills to allow you to communicate complex engineering principals.
• Knowledge of district scale and heat network technologies

Personal qualities that will help you succeed in this role include: flexibility and adaptability, a growth mindset, positive attitude, proactivity, creativity, good communication skills, willingness and ability to learn, curiosity, enthusiasm, reliability.

Benefits you will enjoy:

• Hybrid & Flexible Working
• 27 days holiday per year + 8 days bank holiday
• Professional subscription + support on becoming chartered.
• Matched pension scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• A great list of flexible benefits you can choose from including discounted taste card subscription, cycle to work scheme, gym flex and many more!

Selection Process:

We aim to respond to your application shortly after the deadline by the latest. There are several steps to our selection process. You will advance onto the next step if you are successfully shortlisted.

• Step 1: CV Screening
• Step 2: Screening telephone call
• Step 3: Assessment Centre details will be sent to selected applicants with sufficient notice for travel arrangements.
• Step 4: Interview

How to apply

Apply online. Attach your CV and brief Cover Letter. In a separate document, please address the following questions through a sketch with notes – candidates are required not to use AI to answer the question as applications may be screened out if the volume of applications is high:

• Describe energy generation and consumption for a large town in net zero UK 2050, including heating networks and cooling networks. (A3 drawing and 250 word maximum)
• Describe the technologies involved (in the large town in net zero 2050), and how they operate together. (A3 drawing and 250 word maximum)
• Outline your implementation plan of the change to get to the 2050 goal, with key milestones. (A3 drawing and 250 word maximum)
• Describe the non-technology issues will need to be overcome, and ideas on how to solve them. (A3 drawing and 250 word maximum)

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the heart of what we do. At Ramboll, we believe that diversity is a strength and that different experiences and perspectives are essential to creating truly sustainable societies. We are committed to providing an inclusive and supportive work environment where everyone is able to flourish and reach their potential. We also know how important it is to achieve the right balance of where, when, and how much you work. As a company, Ramboll recognises the importance of having a good work/life balance, both in terms of individual well-being and its positive impact with respect to the engagement and retention of our employees. We aim to support all employees to achieve a work/life balance which enables them to work in a supported manner while having the time to achieve personal aspects of their life outside of work. We invite applications from candidates of all backgrounds and characteristics.

As a Disability Confident Committed employer, Ramboll ensures opportunities are accessible to candidates with disabilities. Please let us know if there are any changes we could make to the application process to make it more comfortable for you. You can contact us at E-Mail schreiben with such requests.

Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered.

Based on the volume of applications received we reserve the right to close applications early.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Deadline for applications:

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Ramboll in numbers

• : 18 000

more than 18,000 employees worldwide

• : 300 office

across 35 countries

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