Graduate Renewable Energy Consultant – Low Carbon Heat Engineer. 

Hybrid working (Stockbridge, Edinburgh).

Locogen are looking for a Graduate Engineer with a keen interest in low carbon heat technologies such as heat pumps, heat batteries, biomass and district heat networks to join our growing, award-winning, renewables consulting team.

Locogen’s vision is a world powered 100% by renewables; where everyone has access to affordable, sustainable energy and clean air. We’re a multidisciplinary renewable energy company; offering our clients consultancy, design, development, build and management of renewable assets.

Our work is innovative and varied including projects from community and local energy level to utility scale across Wind, Solar PV, Hydro, Renewable Heat, Battery Storage (BESS) and Hydrogen.

About our Graduate Heat Engineer Role:

This is a great opportunity for someone with a graduate engineering degree to work closely with our senior team delivering commercial projects to our clients.

Who would be a good fit?:

An engineering graduate who is confident with excel and loves spreadsheets who wants to model heat and electrical demands of existing buildings, then come up with unique strategies for helping those buildings meet net zero carbon.
Someone who recognises that there isn't a "one size fits all" solution, and that some puzzles are harder to solve than others.
Someone who is happy to work in confined spaces like operational plant rooms and ceiling voids.

Someone who thinks they'rethose principles to remote island communities or rural villages.
Someone who is not afraid of working with aspirational clients who have big ideas.
Someone who loves learning, because we have a number of incredibly knowledgeable people who love to teach and develop people’s skills.
We are not corporate, it’s a friendly environment where we all collaborate, support and learn from each other. So, if you like to have fun and enjoy your work you will fit right in here.

Here are some beneficial but not essential skills:

Renewable sector experience.  
A good working knowledge of low carbon heat systems such as heat pumps, biomass and district heat networks.
Experience working in a technically orientated organisation.

What does the day to day look like?:

Our work is really varied but here are some of the things you might find yourself doing:

Liasing with clients and consultancies.
Heat and electrical load calculations and energy analysis for projects. 
Outline design and performance specifications. 
Identifying energy efficient improvements that could be installed within buildings and making recommendations for the retrofit of low carbon solutions.
Using Excel and data processing software to quickly analyse and present large data sets and financial modelling.

Supporting senior staff during feasibility and design phase of projects, including first pass assessment of feasibility, preparing outline designs and procuring and managing survey works and specialist design contractors. 
Assisting with proposals and the technical aspects of estimate preparation. 
Providing ongoing support to project managers as sites go through design, construction and commissioning works (e.g. researching the market, liaising with partners to complete grant applications / tender documents, etc).

What is it like to work at Locogen?

This role is based in our Stockbridge (Edinburgh) office with some home working - the office is dog friendly, modernly kitted out and has free parking.

We are a multidisciplinary team of friendly, innovative, and creative people who are passionate about renewable energy. We are informal. non-hierarchical, inclusive, open, and collaborative. Locogen is a place where everyone can grow and develop supported by experienced people, doing innovative and interesting work.

We love what we do and believe in empowering and trusting each other to deliver. We learn from our experiences, take accountability, and hold others to account. We are client focused and inspire each other to do the best we can. We like a chat and value communication with each other and our clients. We are a social bunch so there is always something going on – we have regular organised socials and get togethers.

Some of our benefits:

Flexible working hours: core hours are 10am – 4pm - if you make up your weekly hours then we don’t mind how you manage your time.
34 days holiday.
Ongoing professional and personal development opportunities – training, memberships, and educations costs covered.
Private Health insurance.
Life Assurance, Critical Illness, and Income Protection options.
Growth Shares Scheme.

Pension at 10% (5% employee/ employer contribution split). We are flexible on if employees want to opt out or contribute more of their salary.
Enhanced maternity and paternity policies.
Cycle to Work Scheme.
EV Car Scheme.

No candidate will meet every single desired criterion. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified, and you think you can bring value to the role then we'd love to hear from you.

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