Senior Consultant for Energy Economics and Hydrogen (m/f/x)

About Us

With some 2000 employees, Fichtner is Germany’s leading independent planning and consultancy enterprise. We are global players and tackle challenging projects in more than 100 countries. Among our clients are companies from the sectors of central utility supplies and waste management, international development and commercial banks, investors, public administrations, and energy-intensive industrial enterprises. We offer our clients a unique combination of engineering consultancy with classical management consultancy.

Your Tasks

In our challenging projects, you will be deployed in a variety of ways according to your personal strengths. You will independently handle projects, lead the team and be the first point of contact for our clients. We will develop the main focus of your work together with you according to your individual skills and goals from among the following areas:

• Developing national hydrogen strategies and roadmaps as well as deriving recommendations for action in politics, economy and society.
• Monitoring the energy and climate policy discussions at national and international level on regulatory issues, such as the certification of green hydrogen or the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).
• Preparing market and potential analyses as well as concept and feasibility studies along the various elements of the value chain for hydrogen and its derivatives.
• Performing strategic monitoring and assessment of global market developments in the hydrogen segment and related areas of the energy sector.
• Conducting techno-economic analyses and assessments of policies, business models, project portfolios, and existing facilities and infrastructures (due diligence).
• Carrying out and managing consulting projects on various issues from the field of project and business development in the context of decarbonization, sustainability and sector coupling.

Your Profile

Education: You have successfully completed a degree in business administration, industrial engineering, engineering, or a similar subject.

Experience: Due to your career background, you are already familiar with managing projects and employees.

Motivation: You are interested in tackling the technical and economic aspects of hydrogen projects and are enthusiastic about topics relating to the future of the energy sector.

Knowledge: Through relevant, practical experience, you are familiar with both the technical and economic aspects of energy, and ideally you already have knowledge in the field of hydrogen.

Skills: You have the necessary methodological expertise to process and communicate complicated topics in a concise and appropriate manner.

Abilities: You have quick comprehension, analytical thinking as well as an independent and proactive way of working.

Personality: You enjoy learning new things by sharing with others and are able to impress us with your creativity, communication skills, ability to work in a team, and assertiveness.

Languages: A very good command of German and English round off your profile.

Corporate Benfits

• We provide an environment that unites enduring value with innovative capability
• Culture of staff appreciation, equal opportunity and attractive career prospects in an international job environment with staff originating from more than 40 nations
• Long-term development opportunities, with our staff’s average length of service standing at 10 years
• Wide degree of latitude, flexible working hours and the ability to work under your own responsibility
• Comprehensive fringe benefits, workplace health promotion, e-bike leasing, company get-togethers and communal sporting activities
• Conveniently located offices with company car park and very good connections to public transportation
• An office canteen with a choice of freshly prepared menus
• A comprehensive and thorough induction with the possibility to participate in training and further education programs as well as languages courses in a company whose support you can always rely on and a working environment that promotes job satisfaction