LUT School of Energy Systems (LES): Summer jobs 2023 for students are available now!

 LUT School of Energy Systems (LES) offers summer jobs for students in May-August 2023. Jobs are located in departments of LUT Energy Technology, Electrical Engineering, Sustainability Science or Mechanical Engineering or the unit of LUT Voima platforms.

A summer job as a junior research assistant in the university provides a good basis for working as a teaching assistant or for post-graduate studies. Work experience from university is highly valued in companies offering Master’s thesis positions; these companies are also often the first employers after graduation.

The duties are related to different areas of competence in our units and may vary from preparation of lecture materials to assistance in research activities.

Examples of the duties: 

  • Development of laboratory work
  • Event planning
  • Making or editing educational videos
  • Data collection and conclusions from the collected data
  • Data analyses
  • Development of the learning environment
  • Preparation for the diploma thesis

The duties and salary of the junior research assistant are determined according to the applicant’s credit points at the time of making the work contract (2032,12 e/month – 2338,85 e/month).

The selection is based on the applicant success in studies: the grade point average and progress in studies (min. 55 credits/academic year). In addition, third-year students and above must have completed their Bachelor’s thesis before starting the summer job.

Please submit your

  • Application (motivation letter)
  • CV
  • Transcript of records

by filling out an online form (link below). The deadline for the applications is on Sunday 12 February 2023 at midnight (Finnish local time UTC +2 h). The file names of your attachments should be in the form: Lastname_file name, e.g. Lastname_CV. Please specify preferred laboratories/platforms listed below, attach also a short argument.

Further information here.


LUT School of Energy Systems (LES)

Energy Technology laboratories:

  • Thermal Engineering 
  • Thermodynamics
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Renewable Energy Systems
  • Nuclear Engineering
  • Bio-energy Technology

Electrical Engineering laboratories:

  • Electricity Market and Power Systems
  • Electrical Drives Technology, incl. Power Electronics
  • Control Engineering and Digital Systems, incl. IoT in Energy Systems and Cyber-physical systems
  • Renewable electricity generation and storage
  • Applied Electronics
  • Solar Economy

Sustainability Science laboratories:

  • Sustainability Science Lappeenranta
  • Sustainability Science Lahti

Mechanical Engineering laboratories:

  • Welding Technology
  • Laser Processing
  • Production Engineering
  • Machine Design
  • Steel Structures
  • Fiber composites
  • Packaging Technology
  • Machine Dynamics
  • Intelligent Machines

LUT Voima platforms:

  • MORE SIM; Modeling Reality through Simulation
  • GREENRENEW; Green Hydrogen and CO2 for Industry Renewal
  • INERCOM; Integrated Energy Conversion Machinery


Clean energy, water and air are life-giving resources for which we at LUT University seek new solutions with our expertise in technology, business and social sciences. We help society and businesses in their sustainable renewal. Our international community consists of 7 500 members. Our campuses are in Lappeenranta and Lahti, Finland. We are the world’s ninth best university for climate action.


Technical support for the online recruitment system recruitment@lut.fi

Application period starts: 2023-01-04 12:00Application period ends: 2023-02-12 23:59

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