Regional energy and water utility serving 300,000+ customers across Hessen and Germany
RhönEnergie Gruppe operates as a municipally-owned energy and water provider anchored in East Hessen, serving roughly 300,000 residential and commercial customers across the region and broader Germany. The tech stack is heavily weighted toward SAP (IS-U, S/4HANA) and Microsoft enterprise tools (Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Azure), with active adoption of both platforms underway—a profile typical of utilities modernizing core billing, asset management, and operational control systems. Hiring velocity is steady across operations (39 roles) and engineering (28 roles), with a pronounced intern-to-mid-level skew, indicating investment in digital infrastructure projects and process automation tied to their stated focus on network digitalization and renewable energy integration.
RhönEnergie Gruppe is one of the top 20 energy and water providers in Germany, operating twelve subsidiary companies across electricity, natural gas, drinking water, heating, district cooling, public transit, and leisure facilities. The holding company is majority municipally owned (City of Fulda 40.9%, Fulda County 40.9%), with minority stakes held by Thüga AG (Munich, 17.5%) and Hersfeld-Rotenburg County (0.7%). The group employs approximately 1,000 people and delivers core infrastructure services to a region spanning East Hessen and nationwide commercial customers. Beyond traditional utility operations, the group manages renewable energy projects, e-mobility infrastructure, and public transportation services—a service footprint requiring integration of legacy billing and asset-management systems with modern grid monitoring and smart-grid technologies.
SAP (SAP S/4HANA, SAP IS-U for utilities billing), Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales, Power Platform (Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate), Azure, AWS, VMware, Windows/Linux, and GIS systems. Both SAP and Dynamics 365 are under active adoption.
Strategic digitalization of network operations, smart grid technology implementation, renewable energy integration, process optimization for network construction and billing, automated data transfer for controlling, and compliance certification projects. Focus areas reflect modernization of legacy utility infrastructure.
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