Energy Early Careers: Graduate Programmes, Internships & Placements
Energy employers bring people in early through graduate and trainee programmes, internships and placements, working-student and thesis roles, and apprenticeships. This page counts those openings every week, employer by employer and country by country, from the careers sites of the energy employers we track.
For early-careers teams it shows what other energy employers are running and when their postings open. For students and graduates it shows where the openings are, in which functions, and which employers state pay. Each posting links to the employer's own site; we do not take applications.
3,011 open early-careers postings at 272 employers in 69 countries — last updated 6 October 2026.
By programme type
| Type | Open postings | Employers |
|---|---|---|
| Internships & placements | 1,837 | 207 |
| Apprenticeships & dual study | 476 | 61 |
| Graduate & trainee programmes | 394 | 96 |
| Working-student roles | 229 | 38 |
| Thesis projects | 75 | 13 |
Opened in the last 30 days
This count starts once we have tracked an employer for 45 days, so that a newly tracked site, where every posting looks new, does not inflate it.
Employers
| Employer | Open postings | Largest type | Top country |
|---|---|---|---|
| TotalEnergies | 230 | Apprenticeships & dual study | France |
| ABB | 176 | Internships & placements | United States |
| E.ON | 127 | Apprenticeships & dual study | Germany |
| Hatch | 111 | Internships & placements | Canada |
| Siemens Energy | 97 | Working-student roles | Germany |
| Constellation Energy | 96 | Internships & placements | United States |
| Emerson | 94 | Internships & placements | United States |
| RWE | 89 | Working-student roles | Germany |
| Dominion Energy | 80 | Internships & placements | United States |
| Bilfinger | 76 | Apprenticeships & dual study | Germany |
By country
| Country | Open postings | Largest type |
|---|---|---|
| Singapore | 114 | Internships & placements |
| Malaysia | 70 | Internships & placements |
| United States | 1,083 | Internships & placements |
| Germany | 540 | Apprenticeships & dual study |
| Canada | 240 | Internships & placements |
| France | 199 | Apprenticeships & dual study |
| United Kingdom | 81 | Internships & placements |
| Italy | 69 | Internships & placements |
| Spain | 54 | Internships & placements |
| Sweden | 32 | Thesis projects |
| China | 28 | Internships & placements |
| India | 26 | Internships & placements |
| Denmark | 25 | Working-student roles |
| Netherlands | 23 | Internships & placements |
| Belgium | 22 | Internships & placements |
| Australia | 18 | Graduate & trainee programmes |
| United Arab Emirates | 17 | Graduate & trainee programmes |
| Poland | 13 | Internships & placements |
| Switzerland | 12 | Internships & placements |
| Czechia | 11 | Graduate & trainee programmes |
121 postings state no country we could place.
By function
| Function | Open postings |
|---|---|
| Engineering | 861 |
| Not stated in the title | 785 |
| IT, data & digital | 304 |
| Trading, commercial & sales | 280 |
| Finance, accounting & business administration | 161 |
| Operations, maintenance & trades | 157 |
| HSE, quality & sustainability | 108 |
| Communications & marketing | 92 |
| HR & people | 83 |
| Project management & strategy | 83 |
| Geoscience & mining | 57 |
| Legal & compliance | 40 |
Read from the words in each posting's title; a title that names no function is counted as not stated, not guessed.
Does the posting state pay?
| Country | Salary listed | Postings read | Pay transparency law (October 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 22% | 786 | Required in some states (e.g. New York, Colorado, California, Washington) |
| Germany | 11% | 262 | EU Pay Transparency Directive: being transposed (due 7 June 2026) |
| Canada | 66% | 172 | Required in some provinces (e.g. British Columbia, Ontario) |
| France | 0% | 161 | EU Pay Transparency Directive: being transposed (due 7 June 2026) |
| Singapore | 0% | 77 | Not required |
| United Kingdom | 17% | 63 | Not required; common practice on UK graduate schemes |
| Italy | 0% | 37 | EU Pay Transparency Directive: being transposed (due 7 June 2026) |
| Spain | 0% | 34 | EU Pay Transparency Directive: being transposed (due 7 June 2026) |
| Malaysia | 0% | 21 | — |
| Denmark | 0% | 14 | EU Pay Transparency Directive: being transposed (due 7 June 2026) |
| India | 0% | 14 | — |
| Belgium | 0% | 11 | EU Pay Transparency Directive: being transposed (due 7 June 2026) |
| United Arab Emirates | 18% | 11 | — |
| Sweden | 0% | 10 | EU Pay Transparency Directive: being transposed (due 7 June 2026) |
| Switzerland | 20% | 10 | — |
Countries with at least 10 postings whose text we read. A baseline before the EU directive takes effect in each member state: we will show how it moves. For all energy postings, not only early careers, see our pay-transparency study.
What employers ask early-careers applicants for
| Skill, tool or certificate | Postings naming it | Employers |
|---|---|---|
| Excel | 504 of 1,959 | 82 |
| Python | 282 of 1,959 | 80 |
How this page is counted
A posting is an early-careers posting when its title names a graduate or trainee programme, an internship or placement, a working-student or thesis role, or an apprenticeship or dual-study place, in any of the languages employers use. A posting counts as open if we saw it in the last 21 days, and a vacancy listed in several places counts once. Every figure is a count of postings: one posting can stand for many places, so nothing here is an intake, a hiring number or a conversion rate.
These postings also count on the role pages for AI, digital & trading roles and technical roles. The page refreshes every Monday.
Running an early-careers programme? Paste a programme description for a hiring-feasibility brief. A peer benchmark of other energy employers' programmes — when they open, what they offer, what they pay — is on our roadmap.