Graduate Scheme - Glasgow (Hiring Immediately)

With the UK government’s ambitious goal of delivering 60GW of solar power by 2030, Solar Careers UK are on a mission to help recruit, train, and place over 43,000 new professionals into rewarding careers within the solar and battery storage industry. Solar Careers UK is a division of Solar Energy UK, the trade association representing over 425 solar businesses across the country. Many of these companies specialise in delivering high-quality solar installations for domestic, commercial, and utility-scale projects.

By completing this application, Solar Careers UK can help connect you to Graduate Schemes in Glasgow that match your skills and experience, and provide guidance on the qualifications and training needed to pursue your chosen career in the solar sector.

We are a Solar PV distributor offering a unique graduate scheme that sees our grads get stuck in to all aspects of a busy and growing renewables sector.

You’re intelligent, friendly, good with technical detail, and you want a career that will make a difference. Perhaps you’re inclined to start your own business one day - at any rate disappearing into a large organisation or doing the same thing every day doesn’t appeal. You’re eager for early responsibility and you want to find out first-hand how a growing business operates in a young and competitive industry. You’re ambitious, passionate about the environment and about business. You’re well-rounded in your skill-set - you’ve a head for figures, great communication skills and you’re willing to get stuck in. Don’t meet all these requirements? Don’t worry, you might still be the right person for the job. If you have enthusiasm and potential we want to hear from you!

The purpose of the graduate scheme is to give you wide ranging experience of all aspects of operating a small company. You will spend time in various departments of the business, possibly some of the following:

• Solar Sales Team: Working with the Sales and Administrative teams, you will deal direct with customer enquiries and orders. As well as speaking to customers on the phone, or answering their emails, you will be processing online orders and helping with customer payments and stock or design queries. You will also liaise with the operations team while handling customer enquiries about deliveries and logistics, and spend some time in one of our warehouses.
• Renewable Heat Team: A rotation in the heat team offers the opportunity to learn the technical ins and outs of heat pumps, and the associated system parts, as well as the considerations that go into a proper system design for retrofit and new build applications. You'll handle customer enquiries, get hands-on with the hardware, and take part in developing, using and promoting our unique heat pump sizing software, Heatpunk.
• Marketing and Communications: Any successful company needs a great marketing team and ours is the best. You may be plunged straight into the planning and logistics of setting up our stand for a trade show, or get creative and help to design materials for a new product launch, or refresh those literary skills by writing an article for our blog.
• Software Sales: As part of the Software Sales team, you'll play a key role in promoting and supporting customers to use and get the most out of our innovative software tools, Easy PV and Heatpunk. You may also provide technical support and guidance to users, resolve any issues they encounter, and ensure that their experience with our software is smooth and efficient.

As well as the above, the scheme will expose you to business functions that may include the following:

• Operations & Purchasing
• Off Grid Systems
• Business Development
• Administration & Accounting
• Technical Support
• Warehouse & Logistics

As a hands-on introduction to all aspects of running a small company, our graduate scheme will equip you with skills and experience that would transfer to any small but growing firm, and an insight into a career in the renewables industry.

You’ll be joining a young, dynamic company with positive values that is aiming to position itself as the leading distributor of renewable energy systems in the UK. There’s a friendly and informal atmosphere in the office, and a real buzz when things get busy. The programme offers a salary of £29,000 with 25 days annual leave.