• Make sure you apply for a suitable job that really matches your profile and your aspirations: Check the expected skills (technical and personal skills, languages, education), the required experience, but also the geographical area, even the location of your future office.
• Take the time to write a good resume: a clear, neat, readable resume with just the right touch of originality.
• Stand out with an honest cover letter: Avoid letters based on templates found on the internet. Your letter doesn't have to be long or meet standards, but it should be written with conviction. The goal is to explain why you liked the offer, so say it in your own words!
• Prepare for your interview: find out about the company and what we do, have the job description in mind before your interview, and don’t hesitate to ask questions.

… And breathe! Be yourself: simply explain why this position is right for you. Rest assured, at Akuo, an interview is a discussion, not an interrogation!

Learning, progressing, and federating around innovative ideas to put them into action is what our Entrepreneurs by nature do every day.

Here, everyone has a chance, so if these objectives speak to you and you want to be a part of this great entrepreneurial collective, Akuo is the place where you will find bold missions and responsibilities that meet your expectations.

At Akuo, our cross-cutting jobs and projects are a real asset. New power plants are developed by a project team working in a matrix organization. Experts from the technical business lines or support functions work together to secure each stage of the project. As a result, and depending on their background and skills, each employee may be required to temporarily take on a role in a team on projects involving different geographical locations or different technologies.

While you can join Akuo as an expert in a particular Renewable Energy technology, the Group encourages command of several technologies, through internal training or experience in the field, so that staff can be assigned to a more diverse portfolio of projects.

The career paths of our employees are packed with examples of mobility from one business line to another, whether this involves moving to positions in connection with the different stages of a project’s development, or from one support function to another.

When you work at Akuo, you work with people from very different horizons and cultures.

And this wealth of diversity is a real source of motivation! Most of our employees are looking for this intercultural dimension, either through a position with international exposure or through a real experience working abroad. At Akuo, there is no shortage of opportunities to work in another country... and they come in various forms:

• Short-term missions: for the construction or commissioning of a new plant, for example, some employees may spend several weeks on site.
• Temporary missions: employees move to a new region for a period of 6 to 18 months, to support the launch of business in a new country or to transfer knowledge.
• Long-term missions: employees move to a new country with their families for several years.

Business Developer professions allow a renewable energy plant to develop from a simple idea into a solid and sustainable project, validated by all the public and private players involved in its implementation.

Exploration and prospecting, coordination of studies, research work and administrative approvals, relations with local residents, associations and local authorities: these are all missions associated with development professions. For its teams, Akuo regularly looks for talented new people for the following positions:

• Business Developer
• Project Developer
• Project Developer - Agrinergie ®

   

The teams in charge of Structuring and Execution (S&E) demonstrate substantial expertise, in response to the challenge that is the transition from project stage to the realization of an electricity production infrastructure on the ground.

Project coordination and risk management, contract negociation and management, procurement and supply chain management, supervision of construction on the ground, but also technical fields of expertise (civil engineering and electrical engineering): Akuo has a broad range of internalized professions. To meet these challenges, Akuo recruits :

• Project coordinator
• Civil works engineer
• Electrical engineer
• Contract Manager
• Logistics and transport manager
• Construction manager
• Site Manager

Complementary to Asset Management, maintenance is a fundamental activity that ensures the day-to-day supervision and maintenance of the Group’s power plants in order to guarantee their optimal efficiency.

Maintenance is undertaken primarily on the ground, via technical monitoring enabling performances to be optimized and assets’ life cycles to be extended by anticipating production stoppages as much as possible.

Quality, rigor and precision in all maintenance operations are essential attributes in this work on the ground.

The Akuo Group regularly recruits: 

• PV maintenance technician

• Asset supervisor

Our projects could not be completed without the wealth of professions our Group comprises. Akuo internalizes a broad array of expertise and know-how that is shared and transmitted at each stage of our projects:

• Legal and Compliance professions (business law, insurance law, corporate law, compliance)

• Finance professions (management control, consolidation, cash flow, taxation, accounting, etc.)
• Health, Safety, Security and Environment (HSSE) professions
• Human Resources professions (personnel administration, payroll administration, recruitment, training, talent management)
• Communication and Public Affairs professions
• And many more.

“An oasis of calm to work in perfect serenity”

Akuo is fortunate to be located in pleasant premises designed to provide our staff with a work environment enabling them to thrive and ensuring their well-being and safety.

We are committed to guaranteeing living spaces where staff can share these moments with their colleagues in a friendly atmosphere, a prerequisite for team cohesion and each person’s well-being at work.

Cafeteria, terrace or rooftop are all places where we enjoy meeting up for a break or a discussion over coffee.

And because a project’s pace can sometimes be frenetic, Akuo also provides its staff with a rest area in its head offices where they can recharge their batteries between two folders.

The dynamic environment we operate in encourages us to continually enhance our know-how and to develop our skills and expertise.

This is why every year, in liaison with the Executive Committee and our managers, we draw up a specific training plan to support the Group's strategic orientations, accompany each employee's individual progress (new job, mobility, evolution of assignments) and gain insights into the key skills that will be required tomorrow to meet new challenges.

More than 90% of our employees thus receive training via external courses customized to our teams and in-house training via the Akuo Akademy – a network of more than 40 in-house trainers offering courses in all our fields of expertise. Our training catalogue currently comprises 40 technical training programs covering topics such as solar power, wind power and storage, but also project financing and legal aspects associate with projects.

Managing a team isn’t necessarily a skill you acquire during an academic course. Furthermore, at Akuo, management meets very strong values. We thus support each manager’s development in liaison with our leadership model.

At Akuo, every new manager participates in a specific course lasting a few months to help them understand our leadership model, a program supplemented by several hours of individual coaching.

Throughout the year, the entire managerial community is given the opportunity to participate in workshops, conferences and think tanks to enhance and develop their practices.

Telecommuting is now the norm. At Akuo, we are convinced that it allows everyone to achieve a better work-life balance, which is a factor of self-fulfillment and well-being.

With operations in several regions of France, and in several countries around the world, Akuo employees may also have the opportunity to spend a few months working in another office in France or in a new country, or even to settle there permanently, depending on their personal advancement and on the development of the Group’s activities.

This change of situation is subject to a specific validation process, based on criteria of synergy between the job and the proposed location, as well as performance and seniority.

Thanks to an extensive training catalog, Akuo has several courses to offer, not only conventional courses for learning new skills or career advancement, but also training in soft skills to encourage leadership, initiative and self-confidence, etc.

In order to go further and share their experience, employees who volunteer are trained to teach their own discipline. This fosters real transfer of knowledge, which is a great asset for the company and proves the commitment of our staff.

The maintenance technician is responsible for the performance, follow-up and quality of power plant maintenance, which consists of maintaining and repairing the power generation facilities to guarantee optimal production.

Maintenance technicians at Akuo work on a variety of facilities, on the ground, on roofs, on "tracker" parks whose panels follow the path of the sun, and also on floating solar and agrivoltaic plants. A maintenance technician has several roles:

• He or she participates in planning preventive maintenance and monitoring predictive maintenance while also implementing corrective action.
• He or she drafts maintenance and repair reports and contributes to the development of procedures.

Finally, the maintenance technician manages any contractors on site and monitors spare parts. The maintenance technician carries out a wide range of tasks, and must have a complete, cross-cutting view of a site's maintenance.

A PV Technology Expert at Akuo is not only a technical expert, he or she also plays a role in advising, supporting and training project teams on solar technology as a whole, to guarantee the technical and economic performance of our future solar plants.

The role of a PV Technology Expert includes:

• Providing support on decisions impacting solar projects;
• Analyzing new markets and emerging technologies;
• Developing new solar offers and drafting technical and commercial proposals,

The PV Technology Expert ensures the sustainability and improvement of the Group's PV activity, by maintaining a good level technical and internal expertise.

A Contract Manager at Akuo works in the Structuring & Execution department. Within this large team of experts, a Contract Manager is responsible for managing and coordinating and steering the technical and commercial aspects of the Group’s contractual strategy.

A Contract Manager is involved up to the commissioning of a plant, providing high level expertise and support in contract management and negotiation, for example for EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) contract. He or she is also responsible for developing processes and tools to ensure the implementation of best practices in contract management. A Contract Manager embodies and deploys the Contract Management culture within the Group and enhances that culture through dialogue and feedback shared with their team and with the other Group business lines.