Engineering Intern

at  Wood Mackenzie Limited

In the middle of the energy transition, businesses and governments are faced with significant challenges. But the pace and scale of change mean every decision is made under mounting pressure. Now, more than ever, companies need reliable data, analytics and actionable insight.
Wood Mackenzie is the leading global provider of data and analytics solutions for the renewables, energy and natural resources sectors.
Wood Mackenzie’s services include data, analytics, insight, events and consultancy. A trusted partner for over 50 years, Wood Mackenzie’s team has over 2,300 experts across more than 30 global locations who cover the entire supply chain.

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Wood Mackenzie empowers our customers to overcome the world’s toughest challenges and accelerate the world’s transition to a more sustainable energy future.
For 50 years our global research, analytics, and consultancy business, has provided the quality data, analytics, and insights our customers rely on to inspire their decision-making.
Work alongside some of the most inspiring people in Energy, Natural Resources and Technology, and influence decisions that could change the world.
Are you ready to transform the way we power our planet?
Learn more here or watch a short video here

JOB DESCRIPTION

This opportunity is best suited for candidates in their penultimate/ final year of study.
In the Power & Renewables Engineering teams we work closely with a variety of other functions and teams throughout Wood Mackenzie to build the products and processes that are at the forefront of the energy transition. We work on interesting, challenging, and important problems covering a variety of areas such as solar power, wind power, green hydrogen, carbon capture, real-time Power markets, and renewables policy. Every line of code you write is helping to change the way we power the planet.

REQUIREMENTS

• Studying towards a Bachelor’s degree or professional qualification with a computing, engineering or data focus.
• Applicants must have the legal Right to Work in the country this role is based in. We are unable to sponsor employment visas at this time.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

This role will allow you the opportunity to explore our technology stack, whether your interests are more frontend leaning, whether you’re more of a backend data engineer, or whether ultimately you want to be a full-stack engineer. You’ll be paired with a Senior Engineer who’ll help guide you through their team’s technical problems while also being supported and collaborating with the wider team.
As an intern you’ll be able to collaborate with our Product team to understand the problems our customers face and help design solutions to solve them. Write maintainable, testable, and optimised code, as well as break work down into small iterations and work with the wider team to solve them.

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE, WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Strong collaboration skills
• The ability to creatively problem-solve
• An analytical mind and eye for detail
• Great written and verbal communication
• Willingness to learn about our business from the ground up
• Some knowledge of, and an interest in, our tech stack
• Some knowledge of version control: Git

In this role, you will get the following:

• Valuable work experience and a comprehensive insight into the work of a leading research organisation
• The opportunity to contribute to a research project, enabling you to put theory into practice
• The encouragement to share your ideas
• The chance to learn new skills that will be valuable to you in your future caree