**Location:**

London, United Kingdom

**Job ID:**

R0010622

**Date Posted:**

2022-07-04-07:00

**Company Name:**

Hitachi Europe Ltd.

**Profession (Job Category):**

Other

**Job Schedule:  **

Full time

**Remote:**

No

**Job Description:**

**Graduate Sustainability and Carbon Researcher (6-9 months)**

Hitachi is a Company that contributes to society through the development of
technology and products that are both superior and original. Hitachi’s
Founding Concepts of harmony, trust, honesty, integrity, and pioneering spirit
have guided Hitachi's growth into a flourishing, technologically diverse and
innovative Company.

The Sustainability Laboratory (SUSL), is part of Hitachi’s European R&D
Centre, located in central London. The SUSL team has a mission to be at the
forefront of Hitachi’s activities as we evolve as climate change innovators.

The team creates, analyses, and develops innovations in the energy,
environment, and sustainability sectors, leveraging Hitachi’s technologies and
customer co-creation. The focus is across the broad European energy (power
systems and renewables), environment (carbon mitigation and nature-based
solutions), and sustainability (carbon management and circular economy)
sectors to enable digital and physical solutions. As part of Hitachi's Global
R&D Group, the SUSL team also works and co-creates with other European
laboratories covering Automotive, Industry, Data and Service Design, and
several innovation research laboratories in Japan and around the globe.

Hitachi were principal partners of COP26 where we demonstrated our global
commitment to being climate change innovators. The Sustainability Lab and
European R&D centre were a key part of our COP26 activities and technology
showcasing.

We have a new opportunity in the SUSL team for a Graduate Sustainability and
Carbon Researcher to participate in the design of Hitachi European R&D
products and benchmark products helping to translate business requirements and
partner and customer feedback into product features and functionality.

In this position, you will work closely with both the development team and
product manager to define product features that deliver customer value and
support product strategy and participate in related research and
prioritization of new features and functionality.  


The successful candidate will need to be highly motivated with a strong
techno-economic background, coupled with a demonstrable appetite for
creativity, business innovation and application of entrepreneurial experience.

Hitachi’s European R&D Sustainability Lab focuses on assessing and developing
new and innovative business opportunities for Hitachi’s technologies.
Therefore, a technical background is essential with strong commercial
capabilities.

You will gain an understanding and appreciation of policy, regulation and
government bodies is important to understand how technologies and solutions
would fit within and engage as part of a wider society and ecosystem.

Projects will typically involve various stages from creation, through
development to delivery and reporting. The candidate will be working with both
internal and external global stakeholders, therefore experience of in working
in diverse teams and demonstrated strong interpersonal skills will be
beneficial.

This is a mixed remote position where you’d have to come into the office once
or twice a month.

**_What You’ll Do_**

* Sustainability Research to help develop the benchmarking product

* Work with the software development team to design the product, help producing material.

* Help setting up partnerships with business units within the HITACHI family.

* Support Hitachi Business Units with market investigations and future scenario development of specific issues in the EU market, providing technical and economic input.

* Work closely with the product management and sustainability team.

**_What Makes You a Great Fit_**

* Academy background in a discipline with exposure to sustainability and energy.

* Understanding software development projects.

* Understanding of the UK/European energy markets and carbon offset markets and/ s knowledge of a broad range of the low carbon energy/sustainability markets.

* Basic knowledge of optimisation algorithms and coding capabilities (preferably Python) is desirable

* Understanding of UK and European taxonomy is a plus.



Since its founding in 1910, Hitachi has responded to the expectations of society and its customers through technology and innovation. Our mission is to “Contribute to society through the development of superior, original technology and products.” Over the past 100+ years this commitment has led us to work towards creating a more sustainable society through our “Social Innovation Business”. We work to apply our expertise in information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and a wide variety of products to advance social infrastructure systems and improve quality of life across the world. 

Hitachi’s Social Innovation Business is centered around 5 growth sectors: Mobility, Smart Life, Industry, Energy, and IT. Globally, we have nearly 300,000 employees who are working to improve people’s quality of life and our customers’ social, environmental, and economic values to create a sustainable future. The challenges we face as a society are unprecedented, but so are the opportunities. Together, let’s start powering good.

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Hitachi 

Hitachi Europe Ltd. is seeking a Graduate Sustainability and Carbon Researcher for a 6-9 month fixed-term contract in London, UK. This hybrid role involves contributing to the Sustainability Laboratory within Hitachi’s European R&D Centre, focusing on energy, environment, and sustainability innovations. The position requires a strong techno-economic background, creativity, and an understanding of sustainability and energy sectors.

Graduate Sustainability and Carbon Researcher (Fixed Term Contract6-9 months)

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