Student employee for Flexible Asset Management

Student employee for Flexible Asset Management
Location
Aarhus, Denmark

Jobtype & start time
Part-time, as soon as possible.

Deadline
09.01.2025. We will be screening candidates on an ongoing basis. We will be screening candidates
on an ongoing basis.

Are you motivated by creating value for large-scale customers such as asset owners and energy producers? Are you curious about the field of energy trading and eager to kickstart your career with a central role in the energy transition? If so, you might be the junior optimisation specialist we are looking for!

The job

Here’s what the job entails
In this role, your primary responsibilities will include covering the operational shift and optimising and supporting our flexible asset portfolio such as CHPs, batteries and renewables assets. You will act as the link between all our customers’ assets and the power market, maintaining continuous dialogue with asset operators and making optimisation decisions that create value for the asset owners.

Concretely, your areas of responsibility will include the following:

• support in covering the 24/7 shift for the flexible assets portfolio. This includes monitoring external communication, system surveillance and ad-hoc problem solving. The team covers three shifts on a rotation of 7-15, 15-22 and 22-7. The latter is currently covered via an on-call shift
• participate in the shift scheme, which will be your main focus, and assist the team with ad-hoc analyses

The team

Meet the team
As our new junior optimisation specialist, you will join the Flexible Asset Management team, where we develop Danske Commodities’ flexible asset business. Our core task is to optimise Danske Commodities’ portfolio of flexible assets, finding the perfect balance between internal development opportunities and our customers’ expectations. The team is currently on a growth journey, with a growing number of asset portfolios, and we are looking for a new team member to take part in the operational shift scheme.

We are a team of 10 specialists within asset optimisation and asset-backed trading. We are a dedicated and motivated team that always seeks to maximise value for both DC and the asset owners who trust us with their assets.

You will get the opportunity to join the energy trading industry and support the operations of our flexible assets portfolio – ensuring that systems and processes are always working as intended and assets are responding as expected

Jesper Vestergaad

Head of Flexible Asset Management
Your qualifications

But enough about us… over to you!
As you will be working with critical power grid systems and data that require great attention to detail, we are looking for someone who is well-structured, precise and ready to make a difference for our customers. Since the team covers a wide range of tasks, and supports each other in getting the job done, it is important that you have a positive attitude where no job is seen as too big or too small.

Furthermore, we imagine that you:

• are currently enrolled in an education within Business, Engineering or similar
• can work approximately 15-20 hours per week (most of the shifts will be evening shifts from 14:45-22:00)
• are motivated by delivering excellent customer service, monitoring processes and creating value for our customers
• are fluent in both Danish and English

We offer

We’ll take good care of you
At Danske Commodities, we take great care of our people. Joining us means you’ll get a lot of great perks – including social events, cultural experiences, tasty food and benefits to better your health, your life and your future.

Here are some of the benefits we offer our employees:

• Flexible working hours
  to fit with your studies
• Vast development opportunities
  with the help of your own individual development plan, access to our DC University with 50+ courses as well as remote courses through Harvard Learning
• Global career prospects
  as part of the Equinor group with +20,000 colleagues across the world
• Beneficial health care and insurance package
• Compensation for working night and weekend shifts
• Bonus scheme
• 100+ yearly social and professional events
  including DC Sports and DC Talks events, gatherings in our book club, bicycle club, student network, wine club, CS:GO team and more
• Various free tickets
  to family-friendly and cultural attractions
• Discounts
  at hotels, restaurants, sports clubs and more
• Organic food
  including a light breakfast, lunch buffet and snacks throughout the day
• An office in the heart of Aarhus
  right next to the central train station

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The process

Recruitment process and relocation
You can read more about our recruitment process here. Please note that if you are an international candidate, we will reimburse travel expenses in connection with potential interviews and support you with the relocation process.

About us

What we’re about
We're a tech-driven energy trading company present in 42 markets across five continents. Our +600 people are driven by a need to constantly better things. If you are too, we could very well be the right place for you. You'll join a collective of thinkers and doers. Aspiring chefs, runners, parents, beekeepers, gamers – the list goes on. We're highly specialised experts within our fields. But it’s actually our diversity of ideas we’re most proud of, which is why we continuously work on strengthening an inclusive culture where diverse teams thrive.

Our organisation is flat with an open-door policy. We expect you to care. About your work. About your own and your colleagues’ collective successes. And about the difference we make at Danske Commodities. Together with our parent company Equinor, we have the vision and strength to accelerate the energy transition and make an impact. Like no other.