Design Technician

This is a rare 6 month opportunity for someone to gain invaluable insight and experience working in a dynamic team in the Renewable Energy industry. The role will based at our head office so you'll need to be based within a reasonable distance and able to travel to our offices 3 days a week in Stroud, Gloucestershire. This role would be ideal for a university graduate or someone with a keen interest in renewables and knowledge of GIS database.

The Development Team is responsible for securing the necessary permissions to enable the construction of renewable energy projects, including but not limited to onshore wind, solar, energy storage and anaerobic digestion (green gas). This involves four main stages:

Identifying suitable sites for renewables in the UK;
Signing an option to lease with the landowner;
Securing a commercially viable grid connection;
Securing an implementable planning permission and discharging planning conditions.

The overall purpose of the role is to complete technical assessments and site designs for new renewable energy projects.

Core responsibilities:

Assisting and supporting the Principal Design Technician in the completion of feasibility studies, site design and other technical assessments.
Identify, understand, and interpret the site constraints and requirements to produce the optimum site design
Create and prepare figures as required
Support the team with site finding using GIS
Update GIS datasets
Raise Purchase Orders on workday

Essential skills:

An interest in renewable energy
An understanding of GIS and aptitude to learn
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Organised and able to manage time and work to meet deadlines
Good team player who is willing to support and assist other team members when required.

What's in it for you

Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
Volunteering Day
Hybrid Working
Various company discounts (including shops, gyms, days out and events)
Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team, you will be supporting the Group Environmental Policy and its associated sustainability objectives and targets.

Flexibility statement

The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use its people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make their contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity - the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain - by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too - we build windmills, sun parks and green gasmills in Britain. We call this turning 'bills into mills'. Some of our biggest achievements to date include building Britain's first megawatt windmill and the country's first grid-scale sun park, as well as building our first green gasmill, generating 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of grass.

We don't just focus on energy though- we built the Electric Highway, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points; we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world; and we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk, where they use the money from their customers' bills to protect and regenerate Britain's lost rainforests.

Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.

Job Types: Temporary, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 6 months

Pay: £25,150.00 per year

Benefits:
Canteen
Casual dress
Employee discount
Free parking
Health & wellbeing programme
Life insurance
Referral programme
Work from home

Ability to commute/relocate:
Stroud GL5 3BY: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):
Will you need sponsorship in the near future?

Experience:
GSI: 1 year (preferred)

Work authorisation:
United Kingdom (required)

Location:
Stroud GL5 3BY (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Stroud GL5 3BY

Application deadline: 31/10/2025
Reference ID: 2509