System Design Engineer (BESS) (f/m/d)
Workload: 100%
Help shape Axpo’s utility-scale battery storage portfolio across Europe. Drive early-stage technical design, ensure quality and consistency, and enable safe, cost-effective, and buildable solutions in a diverse, collaborative environment.
What you will do:
- Lead early-stage technical design for large-scale BESS projects across Europe
- Produce/review SLDs, mechanical layouts, and technical descriptions for authorities
- Translate Axpo technical standards into robust early design packages
- Coordinate and quality-assure external engineering partners across jurisdictions
- Optimize designs for safety, compliance, cost, and constructability; standardize realization
- Prepare permit-ready documentation and inputs for grid and authority interactions
- Align scope, risks, and timelines with country developers, realization engineering, and management
- Identify design risks and mitigations; document key technical decisions and assumptions
- Build a BESS technology hub: capture lessons learned; standardize templates/specs/workflows
- Support handover into procurement and construction; provide follow-through technical support
- Communicate clearly with stakeholders; travel to BESS sites in Germany and across Europe as needed
What you bring & who you are:
- Must-have: Degree in electrical, mechanical, energy engineering, or related; or state-certified technical engineer or UAS background
- Must-have: Deep understanding of BESS technology; strong early-design decision facilitation balancing tech, cost, schedule, permitting
- Must-have: Ability to manage and assure quality of external engineering in multi-country settings
- Must-have: Attention to detail, structured documentation habits, and an independent, proactive working style
- Must-have: Fluent English; strong interpersonal skills for pan-European collaboration
- Nice-to-have: Knowledge of contract frameworks for construction and operations; proficiency in another European language
- Nice-to-have: Experience preparing permit/grid application packages and standardizing design templates We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every criterion.
About the team: You’ll join a collaborative, international BESS team that values clarity, curiosity, and continuous improvement. We learn fast, share knowledge, and support each other to deliver safe, reliable, and scalable energy storage.
At Axpo Group, we are dedicated to fostering a culture of non-discrimination, tolerance, and inclusion. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications regardless of race and ethnicity, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, as well as socioeconomic, cultural, and religious background. We are committed to ensuring a respectful and inclusive recruiting process and workplace for everyone.
- Department
- Engineering / Technical professions / Construction
- Role
- Permanent position
- Locations
- Leipzig
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Employment type
- Full-time
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- Years of experience
- Employees
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Workplace and culture - Benefit from a modern environment, good social security and flexible working hours.
At Axpo, all employees have the freedom to develop their personal skills and potential and to remain true to themselves. Axpo lives a culture that is free of prejudices about age, gender, origin, education, religion, disability or sexual orientation. We promote uniqueness. Because uniqueness creates diversity. And diversity promotes growth and is our driving force.
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Your benefits
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Education
Do you want to reach the next level in your career? Axpo Germany offers you not only time and financial support for your education, but also a wide range of training and individual development plans.
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Your choice
At Axpo, we want you to have a perfect work-life-balance. If you want more vacation, you have the option to buy additional days each calendar year. You can also take advantage of our massage offers and reduced prices at the nearest fitness center.
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Bring a Talent
Do you want to introduce a friend or family member to the Axpo family? Axpo Germany offers a "bring a talent" programme, where you can receive a reward for each new recruit you introduce to the company.
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About Axpo Group
Axpo's ambition is to provide society with a sustainable future through innovative energy solutions. Axpo is the largest Swiss producer of renewable energy and an international pioneer in energy trading and the marketing of solar and wind power. More than 7,000 employees combine experience and know-how with a passion for innovation and the joint search for ever better solutions. Axpo relies on innovative technologies to meet the ever-changing needs of its customers in over 30 countries in Europe, North America and Asia.