Junior R&D Engineer

Do you want to be a key player in taking Vattenfall forward in the emerging energy landscape? We seek to expand our Digital Energy Solutions section with a skilled R&D Engineer with focus on Smart Energy Solutions.

Vattenfall R&D has group-wide responsibility for conducting business driven technical development that supports the company’s strategic focus areas. We offer you a flexible work environment where you will have the freedom to be creative, work and develop in an exciting and rapidly changing technical field of strategic importance to the company.

Job description

As a Junior R&D Engineer within Digital Energy Solutions you will have the opportunity to help shape the future of Vattenfall in a complex energy landscape. You will work across Vattenfall’s business units and areas as well as with external stakeholders. You will identify and analyse new technology and develop new conceptual solutions for the future businesses. Following trends and developments in the energy and related sectors to gain knowledge and insights is a natural part of the job.

In a creative environment, you take responsibility to follow up on your own and other’s ideas and develop into new business concepts, with technical and value chain analysis as key tools. The role offers a high degree of freedom to shape the work with strong support from experienced colleagues.

Your primary responsibilities will be to:

Coordinate and execute the work together with skilled and engaged colleagues as required

Work with market intelligence and trend analysis

Identify and evaluate new technology and business models

Identify innovation projects and pilot initiatives of interest

Collaborate with key external stakeholders such as start-ups, research institutes, universities and external technology manufacturers

Work with Vattenfall internal communication and knowledge sharing

Act as the R&D go to person for innovation related questions