Are you ready to power the future with a summer job at the heart of the energy industry? Apply now and join us for an impactful summer 2025!
About the role
The Fortum Data Science & Optimization team is looking for a summer trainee who wants to work together with our data scientists and engineers. We work with several analytical applications, ranging from anomaly detection in power plants to the latest generative AI concepts. We work primarily in our AWS and Azure cloud environments with the full software development tool kit. As a summer trainee, you will take part in our projects helping other data scientists in their day-to-day work. You will be working most of your time in Python. To a large degree, it is possible to customize the tasks according to your experience and interests.
We offer you a perfect opportunity to start your data scientist career. As our current group is a good mix of talented juniors and highly experienced data scientists, there is no shortage of guidance. From a technical perspective, we have a wide range of applications, a sophisticated and constantly developing data infrastructure and huge amounts of data.
About you
We expect you to have a relevant education from a mathematical field, engineering, computer science or business studies. Optimally you would be pursuing your master studies or have recently completed them. Programming skills (Python or similar language) are a requirement, along with practical experience in machine learning (either through education or through well-documented personal projects).
Of particular interest is experience in time series analytics or natural language processing. Experience of SQL, cloud development and software development practices are an advantage.
Good communication in English is a must. Knowledge of Finnish or Swedish is an advantage.
We offer you
- You will receive an introduction to your tasks and be supported by your team.
- You will have a chance to work with interesting and diverse tasks and get responsibility.
- We offer flexible ways of working; working remotely and at the office.
- You will have an opportunity to familiarize yourself with our company, the energy business and the sustainable solutions that we are working with.
- We make it possible for you to network with other trainees.
- A job with a purpose, that can lead to a career with us. Many of our trainees continue after the summer, working part-time while continuing studies or as thesis worker.
Read more about Summer Energy, our recruitment process and previous summer trainees' experiences here.
Interested?
If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, send your CV through our recruitment tool by February 9th, 2025. For further information, please contact Kristofer Jakobsson, [email protected], +46725544428.
Apply as soon as possible! We start reviewing applications and reaching out to suitable candidates already during the application period. The job ad will be closed as soon as the right candidate is found.
Our process includes an assessment test and an interview with the hiring manager. The summer trainee period typically runs from May to September. Please indicate your availability in your application.
To be selected for the position, the applicant must go through background clearance and a health examination including drug testing.
We are Fortum
Fortum is a Nordic energy company. Our purpose is to power a world where people, businesses and nature thrive together. We are one of the cleanest energy producers in Europe and our actions are guided by our ambitious environmental targets. We generate and deliver clean energy reliably and help industries to decarbonise their processes and grow. Our core operations in the Nordics comprise of efficient, CO2-free power generation as well as reliable supply of electricity and district heat to private and business customers. For our ~5 000 employees, we commit to be a safe, and inspiring workplace. Fortum's share is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki. fortum.com