Renewable energy jobs at BEW Berliner Energie und Wärme

BEW’s flagship project is the operation and ongoing modernization of Berlin’s city-wide district heating network, which supplies about 700,000 apartments and around 8,000 additional buildings (source: bew.berlin). In the district cooling sector, BEW operates a major facility on Stresemannstraße that provides cooling to approximately 12,000 offices, 1,000 apartments, and numerous cultural institutions around Potsdamer Platz (source: businesslocationcenter.de). A key program is the decarbonization of heat supply, aiming to phase out coal-fired power by 2030 and achieve climate-neutral heat generation by 2040 or 2045. This will be realized through the use of waste heat, biomass, thermal storage, and power-to-heat technologies (source: berlin-spart-energie.de). Additionally, there is a long-standing partnership with Landis+Gyr to expand the district heating meter infrastructure, covering over 20,000 household connections (source: landisgyr.eu). The Berlin Energy Agency highlights BEW as the largest district heating supplier in Western Europe, serving about 550,000 households with a 27% market share in Berlin’s heat sector (source: berliner-e-agentur.de).

The most significant development in the past two years was the full acquisition of BEW by the State of Berlin on May 2, 2024, making the company entirely publicly owned and closely aligned with political goals of supply security and heat decarbonization (source: berlin-spart-energie.de). In 2024, the partnership with Landis+Gyr for district heating meter infrastructure was extended, underscoring ongoing investments in the operational network (source: landisgyr.eu). In 2026, BEW reiterated on its corporate pages the importance of its over 2,000-kilometer network, the workforce of around 2,300 employees, and its central role in Berlin’s heat transition (source: bew.berlin).

BEW offers a wide range of roles in engineering, operations, IT, security, procurement, project management, and digitalization. Examples of advertised positions include process and electrical engineering, OT network and security administration, M365 engineering, customer and partner management, as well as security management (source: smartrecruiters.com). Technical and vocational training paths are also prominently featured, including apprenticeships as automation technicians, industrial electricians, and plant operators with a tiered training model combining automation technology and later qualification as certified plant operators (source: indeed.com). The main workplace is Berlin, and the company culture emphasizes a secure job within a large urban utility playing a key role in the energy transition (source: bew.berlin). Visible benefits include 30 vacation days, days off on December 24 and 31, and structured remuneration for trainees (source: arbeitsagentur.de).