Descrição da função
Looking to gain experience at a leading European energy trading house with real growth potential? Want to work alongside industry experts, building experience and skills that will help you flourish in your early career? Then one of our year-long Industrial Placements could be just what you are looking for.
Join us at the UK headquarters of RWE Supply & Trading (RWEST) in Swindon where we currently have opportunities in the following area:
Choose Communications & Events
If you are passionate about storytelling and believe in the power of effective communication, this could be the perfect opportunity for you. As part of our team, you will help shape and deliver creative internal communication initiatives that bring the strategies of RWEST and the wider RWE Group to life for our employees. Working closely with experienced communications professionals, you will contribute to engaging campaigns, content development and employee communications across a range of channels. You will also gain hands-on experience in the planning and delivery of events, supporting the team in creating impactful employee experiences that inform, connect and inspire colleagues across the business.
The team sits within the broader Corporate Affairs function, giving you a unique opportunity to develop a strong understanding of RWEST and gain exposure to a wide variety of business topics, projects and stakeholder groups. This placement offers valuable insight into both strategic communications and event management within a leading international energy trading company.
Job requirements and experiences
As a team, we need creative and flexible thinking that helps us to produce content that will inspire and engage our employees. You will be someone who is organised, solution-oriented, and who finds satisfaction in seeing your hard work come to life as you bring an event from conception to reality.
Your work will have a real impact in uniting a global business and creating a positive company culture, and that's why we need the right person for our team. You will need to be self-motivated, enjoy teamwork, and be willing to step out of your comfort zone to develop both personally and professionally.
We're looking for students who are in the penultimate year of an English, Communications, Media Studies, Event Management or similar degree who are ideally on course to achieve a 2:1 or higher. What you must have is:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with fluent English.
- IT proficiency including the ability to use AI-enabled productivity tools.
- Strong organisational skills.
- Enjoy creative thinking.
- Good collaboration and teamwork skills.
- Self-motivated and comfortable acting on your own initiative.
- A positive mindset and enthusiasm to try new things.
From here, you'll have a community of support
At RWEST we have an energy to be inclusive and believe diversity drives success. Reaching your full potential means being able to bring your whole self to work and being respected for the different opinions, strengths and experiences you bring.
Our industrial placement programme has been designed to give you the chance to gain highly valuable work experience and skills - and potentially secure yourself a place on one of our graduate programmes. From day one, you'll be making a real contribution to your team. A current placement student will be allocated as a Buddy to all new joiners, enhancing the on-boarding process and overlapping your start date to ensure seamless support as you begin your journey.
To help you get the most out of your placement, we provide lots of support and development opportunities, including in-house courses and on-the-job training with everything you need to make the placement a success. Alongside the day-job, you'll be provided with comprehensive behavioural skills training with our expert partner, Cappfinity. This will enable you to harness your strengths from day one and identify new ways to utilise the key Skills That Build Skills. This includes interactive sessions where you can learn from our facilitators and your own peers, and self-led elements to support your application of learning back in your day-to-day role.
RWE is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment - we value your passion, your willingness to learn and your desire to thrive. Even if you don't have all the above skills, need flexible working arrangements or other adjustments not yet listed here, we'd love to hear from you.
Your benefits
We'll do everything we can to help you fulfil your potential with us. We offer a wide variety of initiatives to support you in and out of work, including:
- Competitive salary plus annual discretionary bonus.
- Company pension.
- Discounted employee share scheme.
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays; you can also buy up to an additional 5 days leave per year.
- Two paid annual volunteer days to be used with a charity or initiative of your choice.
- An enhanced maternity scheme and family friendly policies.
- Free on-site healthcare plus access to AXA Private Healthcare Scheme.
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providing you with immediate and confidential help for any work, health, or life matters.
- Access to a modern office and trading floor with state-of-the-art IT.
- Open and diverse company culture with various clubs and societies - join any of our employee networks for social interaction (including Diversity Ambassador Programme).
- Flexible benefits, including discounts at shops.
Please upload your CV and cover letter in English and as one document. Also, please include your recent university and A-Level (or equivalent) grades.
Keen to discover more? Why not meet #TeamRWE where you can get to know some of our colleagues better through videos, testimonials, interviews, and podcasts. Find out more on https://www.rwe.com/en/rwe-careers-portal or by looking for us on LinkedIn and Instagram.
We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications - regardless of gender, disability, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, age, sexual orientation, and identity. #inclusionmatters
As an inclusive employer, we want to support you to perform at your best at each stage of our recruitment process and can make adjustments to ensure this. If you'd like to request any adjustments or know how we can support you better, please contact us confidentially at [email protected].
Salário e benefícios
Sobre esta vaga
Sobre RWE
Visão Geral da Empresa
RWE AG
SedeEssen, Alemanha
Fundação1898
DimensãoAproximadamente 20.100 colaboradores em todo o mundo, com uma receita de €26,21 bilhões no ano fiscal de 2025 (fontes: wikipedia.org, rwe.com)
O Que Fazem
A RWE é um dos principais grupos energéticos alemães, com um portfólio diversificado focado na geração de eletricidade e em projetos de infraestrutura energética. A empresa opera parques eólicos offshore e onshore, usinas solares fotovoltaicas, sistemas de armazenamento por baterias, além de usinas flexíveis a gás, investindo fortemente em tecnologias de hidrogênio. Em 2025, 41% da geração de eletricidade veio de fontes renováveis, enquanto gás e carvão representaram 31% e 27%, respectivamente (fonte: rwe.com). Com uma capacidade instalada de 46,8 GW no final de 2025, incluindo 3,3 GW em eólica offshore e 1,7 GW em armazenamento por baterias, a RWE está entre os maiores desenvolvedores globais nesses segmentos (fonte: rwe.com). A empresa foca no desenvolvimento e operação de instalações energéticas para concessionárias, clientes industriais e participantes do mercado, destacando-se por seu porte, ampla gama tecnológica e forte presença nos mercados do Mar do Norte e dos EUA (fonte: rwe.com).
Projetos e Histórico
A RWE realiza diversos grandes projetos no setor de energias renováveis, incluindo o parque eólico offshore Sofia no Reino Unido com 1.400 MW, Thor na Dinamarca com 1.080 MW, além dos clusters Nordsee A e B na Alemanha, com capacidades de 660 MW e 900 MW, respectivamente (fonte: rwe.com). No total, cinco grandes parques eólicos estão em construção no Mar do Norte, somando cerca de 3,1 GW de capacidade adicional (fonte: rwe.com). Nos EUA, a RWE colocou em operação em 2025 seis projetos de energia renovável com um total de 999 MW, incluindo instalações eólicas, solares e de armazenamento por baterias em quatro estados (fonte: rwe.com). Em Lingen, Alemanha, a RWE está construindo um eletrólito de 300 MW como parte do projeto GET H2 Nukleus, além de uma turbina a gás compatível com hidrogênio de 34 MW para reconversão de hidrogênio verde em eletricidade (fonte: rwe.com). A empresa também opera o Megabattery 117+, um dos maiores sistemas de armazenamento por baterias da Alemanha, utilizado nos mercados de atacado e de equilíbrio (fonte: rwe.com).
Desenvolvimentos Recentes
Em 2025, a RWE colocou em operação 2,8 GW de nova capacidade de geração, investindo cerca de €10,8 bilhões brutos, elevando a capacidade instalada para 46,8 GW (fonte: rwe.com). Para o período de 2026 a 2031, a empresa planeja investimentos líquidos de €35 bilhões para expandir a capacidade de energias renováveis, armazenamento por baterias e usinas flexíveis em 25 GW, alcançando cerca de 65 GW (fonte: rwe.com). Desses, €9 bilhões serão destinados a projetos flexíveis de backup e grandes baterias, além de até 3 GW em usinas a gás compatíveis com hidrogênio na Alemanha, e mais €7 bilhões para eólica onshore e solar na Europa e Austrália (fonte: rwe.com). A capacidade eólica offshore atingiu 3,3 GW pro rata no final de 2025, e cinco projetos britânicos receberam contratos governamentais com capacidade esperada de até 6,9 GW, dos quais a RWE detém 3,5 GW (fonte: rwe.com).
Trabalhar na Empresa
A RWE oferece diversas oportunidades de carreira nas áreas de engenharia, operações, desenvolvimento de projetos, construção, gestão de ativos, comércio, finanças, TI, jurídico, compras e funções corporativas (fonte: rwe.com). A cultura de trabalho é marcada pela colaboração internacional, aprendizado contínuo e modelos flexíveis, apoiada por benefícios abrangentes que promovem o bem-estar e o desenvolvimento profissional (fonte: rwe.com). Nos EUA, o pacote inclui bônus por desempenho, contribuições do empregador para 401(k), programas de aprendizado e rotação de funções, além de suporte emocional e recursos para famílias (fonte: americas.rwe.com). Em Lingen, as vagas estão focadas especialmente em hidrogênio, armazenamento por baterias, tecnologias de gás para hidrogênio e instalações de suporte à rede, enquanto nos EUA a contratação avança para novos projetos eólicos, solares e de armazenamento por baterias (fontes: rwe.com, rwe.com).