Industry Solution Specialist– Energy and Renewables

Fast Facts

• Knowledge: SCADA & HMI systems (zenon, Vivavis, Spectrum Power), project & account management
• Location: Salzburg, Austria
• Level: Professional

You can explain what IEC is - without PowerPoint and getting annoyed?

That's exactly what we're looking for. As an Industry Solutions Specialist at COPA-DATA, you'll work at the interface between market, customers, and product development. You'll drive our activities in renewable energy and supply-infrastructure sectors and build strong relationships with strategic customers. With your expertise and enthusiasm, you'll create real value — both internally and externally. You bring energy to every challenge.

Your Tasks

• Monitor market and technology trends in the energy sector.
• Provide technical and strategic support to key accounts (not commercial sales).
• Represent COPA-DATA at trade shows, conferences, and customer meetings.
• Create and maintain industry demos, white papers, and marketing content.
• Support tenders, requirements/specifications, and proof-of-concepts (PoCs).
• Liaise with Sales, Product Management, Marketing, and Technology teams.
• Deliver internal and external trainings and workshops.
• Build and maintain relationships with TSOs, DSOs, and other industry stakeholders.

Your Qualifications

• Education: HTL (technical college) or degree in Electrical Engineering / Smart Energy Systems.
• Minimum 7 years' experience in the energy industry (e.g., wind, solar, storage, industrial plants).
• Practical experience with SCADA/HMI systems and customer projects.
• Excellent English; German is a plus.
• Strong project and customer managment experience and confident presentation skills.
• Good communication skills, eagerness to learn, and interest in leadership development.
• You work in a structured, autonomous way and feel comfortable in fast-moving projects.
• Nice to have: PMP or IPMA certification, experience running industry events, and white-paper authorship.

Depending on professional experience, this position is at least classified according to the IT collective agreement in ST1/entry level. The final gross salary is in line with the market and is based on your training, qualifications and experience.

This position is part of the
Global sales / business development
team.

Which special skills/soft skills should I bring to the table?
Being extroverted is ideal for this job, as you will often appear and present publicly. You'll need a knack for the technical and be versatile enough to familiarize yourself with and build up expert knowledge in various areas within our company. All of this is on a global scale, so being open to working with other cultures is essential.

More information

Interested?

We are COPA-DATA, a global independent software development company. We solve highly complex tasks as per our motto:

There is always an easier way.

zenon is our successful software platform, developed for automation and digitization projects as well as to implement sustainability goals in production companies. You've probably enjoyed food or drinks, have taken medication or a ride in a car that was produced with the help of zenon. Or maybe your electricity provider works with our software? It's quite possible that we've already been connected, even if indirectly.

Benefits

• Flexible work times

Everything is possible. Stay fully flexible and balanced. Early riser or night owl? No matter. However, we firmly believe that collaborating is best done in person, especially when it comes to crucial solutions.

• Company pension plan

Benefits for today and tomorrow. COPA-DATA offers all employees a voluntary pension plan. It can be increased individually with your own, tax incentivised contributions.

• Health

Active and healthy. In addition to the occupational health care provided by our company doctor and occupational psychologist, we offer weekly Shiatsu. We cover a part of the costs. There are also discounted private health insurance rates by means of group health insurance.

• Home office

Easy planning with the option to work from home 2 days a week.

• Real work life balance

We strive for the best possible transparency. Our work policies ensure clarity, appreciation and fairness.

• Lunch allowance

A food allowance to suit your taste. The monthly top-up can be redeemed in all restaurants and at delivery and take out service Lieferando, both at work and at home.

• Company bike

Stay mobile, for the environment and for your finances. Take out a tax-deductible bicycle lease from It also keeps you fit.

• Further education/training

Stay at the forefront, always. We offer you selected cutting-edge further education as well as training opportunities, courses and coaching.

Your path to us

• CV Screening

A good CV speaks for itself. Ideally succinct, to the point and just like you.

• Meeting in person

We prefer to talk openly, in person and in detail. If things have to move quickly, we can meet online. That's all we need for a first impression. Sounds good?

• Trial Day

You'll get to know the people you're going to work with and the tasks you're going to work on. You'll get an idea of who we are and can show us who you are. Let's talk freely. We'll take our time, so we can find out together if we're a match.

• Signing the contract

Off to new shores together. Your onboarding will be tailored to you. We don't care about hitting goals immediately, but about seeing you grow alongside us.