Communication intern
Function: Communication Intern
Education: Bachelor/Master
Hours: Part-time (24-32 hours per week)
Location: Culemborg, The Netherlands
Close your eyes and imagine wrapping up your internship, looking back over the past few months at QuinteQ…
From your first LinkedIn post to driving awareness in key sectors, you’ve mastered the art of turning technical insights into captivating stories that resonate. You’ve played a pivotal role in shaping QuinteQ’s digital presence—whether diving into SEO strategies, crafting compelling blog posts, or designing visuals that bring our brand to life. Your curiosity about energy storage? Let’s just say you’re now a flywheel expert, and your B2B communication skills are sharper than ever.
Reflecting on your journey, you are proud of how much you’ve achieved alongside our close-knit team. Does this sound like the internship for you? Check out the internship opportunity below and reach out to us!
THE JOB
As our Communication Intern, you will play a key role in shaping and communicating QuinteQ’s story, helping build awareness and credibility for our innovative flywheel technology in the energy transition. The most important—and challenging—part of this role is translating a complex technical concept into a clear, compelling story that resonates with our audience and sparks their enthusiasm. You will support online and offline communication efforts, contribute to marketing initiatives, and assist in growing our online presence through LinkedIn, the website and SEO activities.
Working closely within a small, dynamic team, your role will be varied and impactful, offering you the opportunity to use your skills and creativity to support QuinteQ’s communications strategy. Your contributions will support lead generation, brand positioning, and the cultivation of trust in our product within the construction and port industries.
Together with you, we want to achieve the following goals:
- Build brand awareness and thought leadership
- Excite and engage clients and stakeholders for future product launch
- Generate leads for pre-sales
- Position the QuinteQ brand using our USP’s and brand identity
- Engage and expand our network in the relevant industries (ports, construction)
- Improve our online visibility through (basic) SEO
Hence, your responsibilities will be:
- Assisting in content creation, including blog articles and social media posts
- Initiating basic SEO efforts, including keyword research and on-page optimization
- Assisting with event-specific marketing, focusing on key sectors like construction and harbor operations
- Support to create visually engaging material
YOU ARE…
…an enthusiastic communicator who enjoys working in a technical field. We are looking for someone who takes initiative, is detail-oriented, and can juggle multiple tasks. We don’t expect you to know everything already about flywheels or the energy transition, but we do expect you are willing and eager to learn. You have a proactive ‘can-do’ attitude, enjoy creative projects, and are eager to dive into varied communication and marketing tasks.
We are looking for the following qualities:
- Background in Communications, Marketing, Journalism, or a related field
- Affinity with engineering, sustainability, innovation & science
- 0-3 years relevant experience, ideally with knowledge of digital marketing
- Strong writing and content creation skills, with a certain professionalism suitable for a B2B company
- Basic understanding of SEO principles
- Fluent in both English and Dutch, both written and spoken
Nice to have:
- Experience with social media management and content scheduling tools
- Basic graphic design skills (Canva, Adobe Suite)
- Familiarity with WordPress
- Familiarity with keyword research tools like Google Keyword Planner
- Familiarity with marketing analytics tools (Google Analytics)
WHAT YOU’LL GET
- An opportunity to contribute to the global energy transition by supporting the development and communication of sustainable energy solutions.
- Exposure of several communication and marketing projects in a high-tech, innovative environment
- Opportunities for personal development and hands-on learning
- A casual working environment in a close team of colleagues
- Experience in working in a start-up where boldness is required, as you can expect an increasing amount of responsibilities.
- Market-conform salary
HOW TO APPLY
Please email your CV and motivation to Timo Pauel: timo@quinteqenergy.com
ABOUT QUINTEQ
Founded in 2019, QuinteQ is a young ambitious high-tech company. QuinteQ is developing, producing and selling the most advanced kinetic battery in the world. The flywheel technology was originally designed by the Boeing Company and has been licensed to QuinteQ under a worldwide exclusive license agreement. Since 2019 QuinteQ is building the company and improving the technology from the Netherlands and in this new phase we continue building the businesses.
