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Student employee for Asset Management Operations

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Interested in energy trading? Monitor critical assets, solve operational challenges, and create value for energy producers and asset owners in a student role with real responsibility.

The job

Here’s what the job entails

In this role, your primary responsibility will include covering the operational shift, monitoring our assets such as CHPs, batteries and renewables assets. You will act as the link between all our customers’ assets and the power market, maintaining continuous dialogue with asset operators to ensure seamless operations.

More specifically, your responsibilities include:

  • monitoring real-time activity of our assets to ensure accurate dispatch, including external communication, system surveillance and ad-hoc problem solving

  • taking part in covering the 24/7 shift for our asset management. The team covers three shifts on a rotation of 07:00-15:00, 15:00-22:00 and 22:00-07:00. The latter is currently covered via an on-call shift

  • providing critical problem solving to ensure continuous reliability of our services

  • supporting on ad-hoc tasks and projects

The team

Meet the team

As our new Junior Asset Operations specialist, you will join our Asset Management Operations team, where we operate Danske Commodities’ Asset portfolio. Our core function is to ensure stable operations and restore asset and trading activities when unexpected incidents occur. We continuously balance internal development opportunities with our customers’ expectations. The team is currently on a growth journey, with a growing number of asset portfolios, and we are looking for a new team member to take part in the operational shift scheme.

We are a team of 10 specialists within Asset & Trading Operations, and we are a dedicated and motivated team that always seeks to maximise value for both our business and the asset owners who trust us with their assets.

You will join an ever-evolving energy trading industry and play an important role in the daily operation of our Asset Management business — ensuring that systems and daily nomination processes are always working as intended and assets are responding as expected.
Your qualifications

But enough about us… over to you!

As you will be working with critical power grid systems and data that require great attention to detail, we are looking for someone who is well-structured, precise and motivated by taking responsibility and helping ensure reliable operations for our customers. Since the team covers a wide range of tasks, and supports each other in getting the job done, it is important that you have a positive attitude where no job is seen as too big or too small.

Furthermore, we imagine that you:

  • are currently enrolled in an education within Business, Engineering or similar

  • can work approximately 15-20 hours per week (most of the shifts will be evening shifts from 14:45-22:00)

  • are motivated by delivering excellent customer service, monitoring processes and creating value for our customers

  • are proficient in Danish and English – both written and spoken

Please note that prior knowledge of the energy sector is not required for this role.

We offer

We’ll take good care of you

At Danske Commodities, we take great care of our people. Joining us means you’ll get a lot of great perks – including social events, cultural experiences, tasty food and benefits to better your health, your life and your future.

Here are some of the benefits we offer our employees:

Shape your development tailored growth plans, 100+ DC University courses & Harvard Learning access

100+ yearly events from office parties to DC Sports events, CS:GO team, student network & more

Global career paths as part of our parent company, Equinor’s 20,000-strong international network

Flexible work lifeto fit with your studies

Unlimited paid child’s sick daysbecause family comes first

Night/weekend compensationget rewarded for off-hour shifts

Free tickets & discountsculture, family fun, hotels, restaurants & more

Organic meals light breakfast, lunch, snacks, dinner & take-away

Barista caféhigh-quality coffee, always on us

On-site wellnessstate-of-the-art gym, physio, chiro and massage therapy

New HQ in the heart of Aarhuswith stunning views, inspiring architecture and close to public transport

…. and much more

The process

Recruitment process and relocation

You can read more about our recruitment process here. Please note that if you are an international candidate, we will reimburse travel expenses in connection with potential interviews and support you with the relocation process.

About us

What we’re about

At Danske Commodities, we trade energy across 40+ markets and deliver solutions for energy producers and large-scale consumers.

Our people work together to find value in everything we do and deliver it. For our partners. And for the energy system as a whole. Together with our parent company Equinor, we operate on a scale few trading houses can match.

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Our organisation is flat with an open-door policy. We expect you to care. About your work. About your colleagues. And about the difference we make.

Aspiring chefs, beekeepers, runners, parents, gamers – we’re proud of our diversity of ideas. What binds us together is that we all find average genuinely uncomfortable and want to do something about it.

We’re big on trust and providing the freedom for you to thrive. Together, we’ll make sure you’ll be the best version of you. Because happy employees perform better and we’re in this for the long run. No matter the stage in life you’re in, we’ve got you.

Join us. You'll love Mondays.

A workplace like no other

In 2025, we moved into our new headquarters in the heart of Aarhus – a workplace built for the precision, focus and collaboration that define how we work. With state-of-the-art facilities, our own barista café, a modern fitness centre and views worth coming in for.

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