Summer Internship, Analysis Services

**Interested in joining a world-leading consultancy within the renewable industry?**

At K2 Management, we’re on the hunt for a highly motivated student to spend the summer as part of our Analysis Services team in Glasgow, UK. We’re an exciting, independent renewable energy consultancy with offices around the world, employing approximately 155 people. You’ll be joining one of the industry’s most experienced and well-respected wind and solar analysis consultancy teams, supporting our clients in their efforts to facilitate the growth of renewable energy worldwide.

You will have the opportunity to contribute to our industry-leading research and development programme. Recent R&D projects have included industry-leading studies into real-world turbine performance, the advancement of engineering models of turbine wake effects and the world’s largest published validation of offshore wind farm energy yield assessment.

We are located across the globe, but we work together as one team. We cultivate a professional, yet open and inclusive, team environment where commercial commitment to top quality technical work is highly valued. Your placement will involve innovative and exciting work with every opportunity to learn and develop new skills and knowledge from many diverse and experienced people in an exciting growth industry.

**What you’ll be doing**:
You will be required to complete a project that will be of material commercial benefit to the K2M Analysis Services team by improving the efficiency, accuracy, or dependability of our work. Delivery of the project will be directly supported by your supervisor as well as the wider Analysis Services team. Recent examples of internship projects include:

- Developing an improved approach to predicting the impact of extreme flow conditions on turbine performance using CFD modelling results
- Improving on our current industry leading approach for calculating wind farm curtailments in the time domain
- Developing an improved graphical software tool to facilitate improved analysis of Wind Farm SCADA data
- Investigating the ability of a new open-source turbine wake modelling package to predict turbine interaction losses for offshore wind farms

**The Analysis Services team**:
The Analysis Services Team work closely together to ensure that we offer the highest quality service to our clients. We work on both pre-construction and operational wind farms. All our analysts have solid numerical ability, good technical judgement and carry out work involving some or all the following tasks:

- Analysis and interpretation of measured wind data
- Analysis of long-term trends using reference meteorological data
- Modelling of wind flow over wind farm sites using CFD and mesoscale models
- Calculation of long-term wind farm energy yield, including consideration of energy yield losses such as wake effects, turbine performance and environmental constraints such as noise
- Written and verbal communication of complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Effective teamwork to deliver projects on time and to budget

Our working environment is open plan, allowing junior staff immediate opportunity to work closely with experienced senior staff. You will work closely with analysts to support our work and contribute to developing new tools or knowledge to improve our processes.

**About you**:
To excel in this role, you’ll need to have:

- Strong interest in renewable energy
- Beginning the final year of an engineering or scientific degree course in Autumn 2024
- A-Level, higher or equivalent in Maths
- Advanced computing aptitude including data handling and analysis. Ideally including Python.

If you also have relevant previous work experience or education in the renewables industry or a background in fluid dynamics, you’ll definitely have an edge. Excellent communication skills and the flexibility and enthusiasm to thrive as part of our expanding team will also come in handy.

**Duration**:
The internship will last for approx. 3 months with an ideal start date in June 2025. The start date is flexible to suit your availability.

**Remuneration**:
For the duration of the internship, you will be treated as though you are a full-time K2 Management employee. You will receive a competitive salary and accrue annual leave.

**More about K2 Management**:
K2 Management is a technical consultancy focused on wind and solar projects around the world. We use our extensive expertise to support our clients in their efforts to develop and operate energy projects that achieve the best possible return on investment. Our reputation and track record mean we are involved in the most exciting and influential renewable energy projects at the cutting edge of energy transition and decarbonization.

As of November 2024, we have become part of Ramboll, an international architecture, engineering and consultancy company. This enables us to come together as a world-leading renewables