Summer Internship, Analysis Services (Bristol, UK)

Interested in joining a world-leading consultancy within the renewable industry?
At K2 Management, we’re on the hunt for a highly motivated student to spend the summer as part of our Analysis Services team in Bristol, UK. We’re an exciting, independent renewable energy consultancy with offices around the world, employing approximately 155 people. You’ll be joining one of the industry’s most experienced and well-respected wind and solar analysis consultancy teams, supporting our clients in their efforts to facilitate the growth of renewable energy worldwide.

You will have the opportunity to contribute to our industry-leading research and development programme. Recent R&D projects have included industry-leading studies into real-world turbine performance, the advancement of engineering models of turbine wake effects and the world’s largest published validation of offshore wind farm energy yield assessment.

We are located across the globe, but we work together as one team. We cultivate a professional, yet open and inclusive, team environment where commercial commitment to top quality technical work is highly valued. Your placement will involve innovative and exciting work with every opportunity to learn and develop new skills and knowledge from many diverse and experienced people in an exciting growth industry.

What you’ll be doing:
You will be required to complete a project that will be of material commercial benefit to the K2M Analysis Services team by improving the efficiency, accuracy, or dependability of our work. Delivery of the project will be directly supported by your supervisor as well as the wider Analysis Services team. Recent examples of internship projects include:

• Developing an improved approach to predicting the impact of extreme flow conditions on turbine performance using CFD modelling results
• Improving on our current industry leading approach for calculating wind farm curtailments in the time domain
• Developing an improved graphical software tool to facilitate improved analysis of Wind Farm SCADA data
• Investigating the ability of a new open-source turbine wake modelling package to predict turbine interaction losses for offshore wind farms

The Analysis Services team:
The Analysis Services Team work closely together to ensure that we offer the highest quality service to our clients. We work on both pre-construction and operational wind farms. All our analysts have solid numerical ability, good technical judgement and carry out work involving some or all the following tasks:

• Analysis and interpretation of measured wind data
• Analysis of long-term trends using reference meteorological data
• Modelling of wind flow over wind farm sites using CFD and mesoscale models
• Calculation of long-term wind farm energy yield, including consideration of energy yield losses such as wake effects, turbine performance and environmental constraints such as noise
• Written and verbal communication of complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Effective teamwork to deliver projects on time and to budget

Our working environment is open plan, allowing junior staff immediate opportunity to work closely with experienced senior staff. You will work closely with analysts to support our work and contribute to developing new tools or knowledge to improve our processes.

About you:
To excel in this role, you’ll need to have:

• Strong interest in renewable energy
• Beginning the final year of an engineering or scientific degree course in Autumn 2024
• A-Level, higher or equivalent in Maths
• Advanced computing aptitude including data handling and analysis. Ideally including Python.

If you also have relevant previous work experience or education in the renewables industry or a background in fluid dynamics, you’ll have an edge. Excellent communication skills and the flexibility and enthusiasm to thrive as part of our expanding team will also come in handy.

Duration:
The internship will last for approx. 3 months with an ideal start date in June 2025. The start date is flexible to suit your availability.

Remuneration:
For the duration of the internship, you will be treated as though you are a full-time K2 Management employee. You will receive a competitive salary and accrue annual leave.

More about K2 Management:
K2 Management is a technical consultancy focused on wind and solar projects around the world. We use our extensive expertise to support our clients in their efforts to develop and operate energy projects that achieve the best possible return on investment. Our reputation and track record mean we are involved in the most exciting and influential renewable energy projects at the cutting edge of energy transition and decarbonization.

As of November 2024, we have become part of Ramboll, an international architecture, engineering and consultancy company. This enables us to come together as a world-leading renewables consultancy - with increased resources to take on major projects on a global scale. Through our Ramboll ownership, you will in addition get access to a vast pool of world-leading technical insight, data and knowledge across all engineering, design and socio-economic disciplines.

You will be working with great colleagues with the opportunity to be close to our core business, which is developing and supporting onshore and offshore projects on behalf of our clients. We work as one team with dedication, respect, and credibility as our core values. Overall, you will have a unique and challenging job where you have every opportunity to learn and develop your skills as a team member in a highly professional environment with strong technical and commercial commitment.

Our people are fundamental to our business, and we strive to offer an environment where every employee feels safe and included as their true, authentic self. We are committed to cultivating a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion across K2 Management, and believe that collaboration between individuals with varied backgrounds, cultures and experiences combine to build a stronger, more agile, and competitive company.

More about the Analysis Services team:
Wind and solar analysis is an evolving science, and our aim is to be the best wind and solar analysis team in the industry; to deliver the highest quality work and maximise our contribution to project value and the development and operation of better renewable energy projects.

The Analysis Services team currently contains over 35 individuals based in Germany, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, UK and USA with major hubs in Bangkok, Bristol and Glasgow. The three analysis sub-teams (Pre-construction wind, Operational wind and Solar) cooperate closely, with some team members working across several disciplines. We are a growing team, committed to developing the wind and solar analysts of the future and have an active graduate recruitment scheme in Thailand and the UK.

We focus heavily on constant refinement of our methods through R&D. This fosters a dynamic and forward-thinking working environment, and we develop many methods and tools inhouse, including our high-resolution CFD modelling and data analysis software. Our industry-leading WTG performance methods and offshore energy yield validation differentiate us from our competitors and give us strong confidence in our methods. We are always looking to the future to meet new challenges such as larger wind turbines, larger wind farms and complex wind climates.

We look forward to receiving your application. For more information, visit our website at www.k2management.com/careers

Deadline for applications: 28 February 2025

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Lokation: Bristol (UK)