Junior Certification Engineer to Vattenfall

About the role

Imagine knowing that your work directly secures the integrity, safety, and compliance of massive offshore wind farms across Europe, ensuring they deliver clean, reliable power to millions of homes. Reaching climate goals and building a fossil-free future requires diverse viewpoints, continuous curiosity, and genuine teamwork. At Vattenfall, they don’t expect you to arrive with all the answers on day one; they are just as excited to learn from your ideas as they are to help you grow into an exceptional engineer.

On behalf of Vattenfall, Academic Work is looking for a committed early-career engineer to join the Project Certification team (BU Offshore / WO-PSC) in Kolding. This is a 1-year full-time employment through Academic Work, where you will work on-site and integrated as an essential part of the team at Vattenfall. As part of an international team of 10 colleagues across Kolding, Copenhagen, and Hamburg – with backgrounds spanning many different countries – you will collaborate closely with experienced engineers on technical compliance, risk management, and digital innovation.

Alongside your core team responsibilities, you will continuously take part in a cross-functional graduate AI implementation project together with other graduates – giving you an instant peer network and the opportunity to create tangible, real-world impact across Vattenfall. You will step into a work environment characterized by high trust, flexibility, dedicated mentorship, and a strong focus on your long-term personal and professional well-being.

At Vattenfall, they foster a culture built on trust, well-being, and balance. For them, it is not just about reaching our goals, but very much about how they reach them:

• Supportive community & mentorship: A thorough, safe onboarding alongside dedicated mentors and colleagues to give your career the strongest possible start.
• Inclusive environment: An open environment where you can ask questions, challenge existing ways of working, learn from mistakes, and share ideas from day one.
• Flexibility with respect for your life: A 37-hour working week with weekly work-from-home options and flexible hours, giving you the trust and freedom to balance career and personal life.

Work tasks

In this role, you will be integrated directly into real, large-scale offshore wind projects from day one – gaining broad visibility across the entire project lifecycle and seeing how different engineering disciplines come together. Your core purpose will be supporting compliance, quality, and project delivery while bringing fresh perspectives on data, digital tools, and AI. You will never face challenges alone, but will always have experienced colleagues and mentors by your side.

Your main focus areas include:

• Certification & Compliance Support: Assisting certification activities on ongoing offshore wind projects, working closely alongside Certification Managers and Engineers on technical and regulatory topics.
• Risk & Compliance Tracking: Monitoring and analyzing certification risks, findings, conditions, and compliance-related data across European projects.
• Data Visualization & Dashboards: Developing data-driven reporting solutions, dashboards, and visual tools to enhance transparency and support sound decision-making.
• Digitalization & Process Optimization: Exploring and testing practical opportunities to apply AI, automation, and analytics to optimize certification workflows and daily routines.
• Documentation & Technical Communication: Preparing analyses, presentations, guidance material, and technical documentation to communicate findings and recommendations within Certification and PDE.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Supporting proactive communication and alignment with internal project teams, technical specialists, authorities, and independent certification bodies.
• Industry & Technology Trends: Investigating emerging technical and regulatory developments, new technologies, evolving certification schemes, and cross-project lessons learned.

We are looking for someone who:

• Is a recent graduate or has up to approximately 1–2 years of post-graduation experience.
• Holds an engineering degree (Bachelor's or Master's) – e.g., within Mechanical, Electrical, Civil/Structural, Renewable Energy, Energy Systems, Offshore, or Industrial Engineering.
• Brings a structured, analytical mindset, an eye for detail, and a genuine eagerness to dig into technical standards and certification schemes.
• Has strong communication skills, a collaborative approach, and the confidence to follow up on commitments and challenge ways of working when needed.
• Thrives in an inclusive, multicultural environment where people listen to each other's ideas, ask questions, and learn together.
• Speaks and writes fluent English (Vattenfall’s corporate language). Danish is an advantage, but not a requirement.

It is an advantage if you:

• Have a specialization or demonstrated interest in data analytics, digitalization, automation, or AI tools.
• Have had study-relevant experience, internships, or project work focusing on offshore wind, renewable energy, project management, or technical compliance/standards.

Our recruitment process

The recruitment process is managed by Academic Work, and it is our client's wish that all inquiries regarding the position are directed to Academic Work.

Our selection process is ongoing, and the job posting may close before the recruitment process is completed if we advance to the next phase. The process includes two tests: a personality assessment and a cognitive test. These tests serve as tools to find the right talent for the right role and ensure equal opportunity, diversity, and a fair evaluation process.

Do You Feel a Match?

Even if you don't feel you check every single technical box, we still encourage you to apply! Both we at Academic Work and the team at Vattenfall value your potential, your curiosity, and your drive to learn just as much as your specific experience. Previous certification experience is not required—we are looking for the right mindset and motivation to grow.

VATTENFALL A/S

Vattenfall is one of Europe's largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat. Vattenfall’s main purpose is to enable fossil-free living within one generation. The company employs approximately 20,000 people and primarily operates in Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the UK.

Vattenfall works actively to build a more attractive and diverse workplace where all employees have equal rights and opportunities regardless of background, and where everyone's contribution is valued.