Information Management Work Placement/​Graduate Trainee

09/01/2025

Full-time, Fixed-term

Nottingham

£25,000

Information Management Work Placement/Graduate Trainee

Location: Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

Your responsibilities

To be part of the team that is responsible for the Information Management service provided to colleagues of Uniper Asset Services, both in the UK and Germany, and to the wider Uniper community.

Uniper is seeking to appoint a full time Graduate Trainee Information Management Assistant on a one-year fixed term contract. The post is for an applicant to carry out a year of work experience and training, prior to attending a postgraduate library course or a related field such as knowledge management, archives & records management or museums studies.

This is an opportunity to work in one of the few remaining energy industry libraries in the UK. It has a mission to preserve sector-related information and intellectual property while providing information services to support the energy transition and the decarbonisation of the company’s assets.

The successful candidate will have the chance to gain practical hands-on experience of working in a busy technical and engineering information service covering all aspects of service provision.

Your responsibilities:

Specific areas of work include:

  • Answering requests for information from colleagues
  • Cataloguing, photocopying and scanning documents
  • Day to day operation of the Library Management System
  • Filing and maintaining a large collection of company documentation
  • Ordering conference papers and journal articles
  • Supporting the delivery of a fortnightly newsletter
  • Updating the Information Management pages on the intranet

Your profile

It is essential that candidates have:

  • An Undergraduate Degree in any subject or a related field such as knowledge management, Archives & records management or museums
  • Demonstratable interest in pursuing a post graduate qualification in libraries, information or knowledge management.
  • Good IT and customer service skills
  • You must be enthusiastic, hardworking and flexible
  • Ability to work both as part of a team and independently as required
  • You must have an excellent attitude towards service delivery
  • Willing to learn and challenge yourself in a diverse environment

This role is not suitable for candidates looking for IT or software development experience

Desirable:

  • Previous experience working in a library, archive or information management role
  • Past experience of dealing with customers
  • Past research experience

Job ID:

87521

Application deadline:

01/01/2025

Do you have any questions?

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us by e-mail and we will get back to you:

career@uniper.energy

Please note: Unfortunately, we cannot consider applications by e-mail for data protection reasons. We would therefore like to ask you to apply exclusively here via our career page. The process is very simple and only takes a few minutes.

As long as our positions are online here on the career page, the application process is not yet complete and the positions are still vacant.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Your Uniper Talent Acquisition Team

Living diversity, fairness and inclusion (DEI) at Uniper

As an employer, Uniper is committed to diversity and equal opportunities. That's why we encourage applications from suitably qualified and suitable people regardless of gender, origin, disability, age, religion, ideology, sexual identity or marital status. We embrace inclusion and support flexible working.

What makes Uniper stand out as an employer

  • With a mix of digital and analog learning formats and topic-specific communities, we promote your personal and profossional development and lifelong learning.

    Further education

  • Experienced specialists and managers are happy to support you in strengthening your skills and advancing your career development.

    Coachings and Mentoring

  • Performance discussions, 360-degree feedback and employee surveys will help you and the company move forward, strengthen our collaboration and give you room to contribute your ideas.

    Open feedback culture

  • Safety and well-being are our top priorities. That's why we offer you regular free preventive medical checkups as well as a variety of learning impulses on occupational safety, health and well-being, and support programs.

    Health care

  • With our online exercise courses, sponsorship of your participation costs in central sports events and a large sports community, we offer you a healthy working environment.

    Sport and Fitness

  • You can enjoy a wide range of healthy and balanced meals in our canteen. In addition, you can participate in nutrition programs.

    Healthy nutrition

  • We take care of you and offer you a wide range of coverage beyond the legal requirements with our company pension plan, accident insurance, company health insurance and continued salary payments in the event of illness.

    Insurance and coverage

  • We pay capital-forming benefits and offer you a wide range of financial benefits through our corporate benefits program

    Financial benefits

  • We support you in balancing your private and professional life through flexible working time models, job sharing, sabbaticals and extensive offers in the area of child care and nursing.

    Work Life Balance

  • We provide you with free parking spaces.

    Free parking spaces

We are Uniper

At Uniper, we are pro-actively transforming the world of energy and at the same time securing the supply of energy. As a company operating internationally, we work in very diverse teams and offer our employees as much flexibility as is possible. Equity, mutual appreciation and respect are the core of our corporate culture. At our company you will have the opportunity to shape new technologies, work on solutions for a modern and future-oriented energy supply and actively design change processes.

Application process

Step 1

Online application

Have you found a suitable job posting? Then you can apply online right here. The application process is very simple and only takes a few minutes. Once we have received your application successfully, you will receive confirmation by e-mail immediately afterwards.

Your questions. Our answers.

Your application

Your general questions