The green sector is one of the few areas of the UK economy expected to grow throughout the economic downturn and ‘green collar’ jobs could help tackle the unemployment problem in many areas.
Renewable energy-efficient technology group ENER-G has launched a graduate programme that will contribute to the expected figures of over one million people employed in the green energy sector by 2015.
The UK low-carbon and environmental goods and services (LCEGS) sector is worth £106 billion and employs 880,000 people. The sector is expected to grow by four percent per annum until 2015.
Speaking at the launch of the graduate programme, ENER-G group Managing Director Derek Duffill said: “Industries in the green sector are chiefly engineering-based, requiring traditional engineering disciplines, and this is the founding principle of our graduate development programme.
“High-calibre engineers are at a premium and we believe the environmental technology sector will continue to generate explosive growth for many years to come. It offers the long-term career goals and financial rewards that ambitious engineers are looking for.
“Crucially, it also gives them an opportunity to design, develop, manufacture and operate the technologies that can make such a positive difference to society on a global level.”
ENER-G has more than 700 largely engineering employees worldwide, with companies in the UK, Hungary, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Norway and Poland, as well as joint ventures in South Africa, Mexico and Spain.
Ben Richardson, a 22-year-old graduate mechanical engineer, works as a Junior Applications Engineer for ENER-G. He said: “It’s good to work in a growing industry where there’s better job security and the added bonus of helping to save the environment."
ENER-G recently opened an additional factory at its headquarters in Salford, Greater Manchester. This has allowed the company to increase production of its combined heat and power and biogas generator units by 50 percent and create more jobs for engineers in the green sector.
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