Job Description

BESS Asset manager | Full-time – Part time | Hamburg (or Munich) office - Hybrid

About Return
Return is the leading European independent energy storage provider, committed to revolutionizing the energy sector. Return has offices in Hamburg, Munich, Amsterdam (HQ), Madrid and Brussels. Return offers innovative, sustainable solutions to store and intelligently manage energy, ensuring power is used efficiently when and where it’s needed most. With a growing presence across Europe, Return is at the forefront of the energy transition, integrating large-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) to support grid stability, renewable energy integration, and Europe's net-zero goals. Driven by a team of experts, Return aims to provide reliable energy storage that powers the future of clean energy.

To support our continued growth, we are looking for a Germany-based Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) Asset Manager to join our asset service team. The team's goal is to provide our customers with reliable, predictable and efficient storage capacity. This means having our operational processes running smoothly and learning from our assets at the same time. Answering questions such as: what technology performs best for our use case? How can we run the batteries in the most efficient way? What is our contracting strategy to achieve optimal performance with a lean team?

Your Role
As Asset Manager, you work on a variety of subjects, ranging from rapidly scaling up our organization and optimizing working processes, and projects to determine the best maintenance strategy for our BESS locations, to optimizing battery usage patterns. Major responsibilities include:

• Lead asset performance, and reliability optimization projects

• Contract and supplier management, including service suppliers, grid operator and permit enforcer

• Play a pivoting role in bringing new locations online

• Build the foundation of our asset management team in Germany

• Represent the asset management team in projects in their development and contracting phase

• Be responsible for (a part of) stakeholder communication

• Contribute to the day-to-day operations of our assets

Preferably Hamburg based. We also have an office in Munich.

Your profile

Few persons will fit a profile completely. Please do get in touch when you think you are the right person for the job, but your profile does not fully match the profile description.

General profile

• MSc or BSc degree in engineering, economics, renewable energy, or related field

• 5+ years of working experience

• Strong analytical skills

• Proactive, curious, and eager to learn

• Good communication and interpersonal skills in different levels and cultures

• Interest in renewable energy and energy storage

• Fluent in German and English
  

Nice to Haves

• Familiarity with BESS, grid-connected assets, and/or energy markets

• Understanding of technical, legal, or financial aspects of energy assets

• Experience in asset management of physical assets (hardware)

• Experience with data analysis (e.g. in Python, Matlab, SQL)

• Proficiency in Spanish

Our Offer

• A unique opportunity to grow with a mission-driven company

• Exposure to cutting-edge energy technologies and projects

• Supportive and collaborative team environment

• Professional development opportunities

• Regular optional team events

• Competitive salary and benefits package
  
  

Application process
Our hiring process is swift but thorough:

• Introductory call,

• Face-to-face meeting with two or more team members,

• Brief call with senior management,

• Call to discuss practical details such as financials.
  
  

No recruiting

We do not work with recruitment agencies or external recruiters for our hiring process. Applications should be submitted directly through our careers page.