Careers
Culture
Our Company Culture
Since our founding in 2014, CoolGreenPower has largely been a remote company with our employees working either at customer locations or from their home location.
Our company culture starts with the interview process. In the first interview, we seek mutual understanding that both the company and the candidate are interested in working together. We discuss both the company and the opportunity the candidate is applying for. We are both seeking a fit. If the company grants a second interview, there is often a small 1-2 hour challenge that is provided to candidates that gives them the opportunity to demonstrate their capabilities to the company. For intern positions, there are only two interviews before a decision. For permanent decisions, there are typically 4 interviews, depending upon the seniority of the position. The company will typically make a decision on a candidate within 2-3 days after the completion of the final interview in the process. Once a candidate receives an offer letter, they have no more than 1 week to consider the offer. The company often maintains more than 1 acceptable candidates in case an offer is rejected by a candidate.
For those applicants who accept offer letters, the next step is to complete the new employee hiring packet. This consists of an I-9, W4, state tax form (e.g., M4 for Massachusetts), Direct Deposit, and MNDA (if not already signed previously).
Getting off to the right start is critical, so orientation and training is a priority for a new employee. Given our remote company culture, we have always provided a virtual environment that all employees use to engage, collaborate, and communicate as though they were in a physical office. This consists of an Office 365 Business essentials subscription including
Email and Calendaring (Outlook)
Word Processing (Word)
Spreadsheet (Excel)
Presentations (Powerpoint)
Online Meetings / Instant Messaging / Video Conferencing (Teams)
Knowledge Repository / File Storage (Sharepoint / One Drive)
Automated Workflows (Power Automate)
A key part of new employee orientation is talking about our knowledge management system. Our knowledge management goals include:
offer our employees a rich set of knowledge to learn from and build expertise
speed up the transition of knowledge and work product from previous to new employees, especially student interns
reuse / leverage existing company assets and avoid duplicated work
a repository for employees to contribute revised or original company work product for the benefit of others in the future
enable faster and better-informed decisions for all employees
Our orientation includes:
walkthrough of the CoolGreenPower knowledge management system
First-week schedule
Overview of role and responsibilities, initial projects, other projects that intersect with role
Check-in schedule
Weekly status report and time planning / tracking
General work styles and how best to work together
Training is a combination of on-the-job and formal (online and/or classroom). Microsoft offers on-demand training of all tools available in the CoolGreenPower Virtual environment. Certain roles will use specialized software and many times online training is available on-demand. Sometimes training is pre-recorded and sometimes live. Live training is often recorded, so the employee can replay at a late date.
Internal Communications is frequent and open, enabled by the virtual environment. Periodic check-ins with your supervisor can be easily scheduled. Employee town halls tend to happen once every 2-3 weeks, either virtual or in-person when possible.
External Communications is a combination of inbound and outbound communications. We offer
Public website (www.coolgreenpower.com)
Partner portal, accessible from our public website with an authorized ID and password
Social media including LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram
Gia, our conversational chatbot, available 24x7x365
Office telephone and Live chat, available during extended weekday hours (7AM – 7PM EST)
Our leaders lead by example, living our core values:
Customer Centric. We put our customers at the center of everything we do.
Gritty. We are passionate and committed to our vision and mission.
Aware and Adaptable. We pay attention to the world around us, and ourselves. We embrace change.
Equitable and Inclusive. We build teams, cultivate leaders and create a company that’s the right fit for every person inside of it.
Stewards. We invest in a better future; our people, our community, our environment.
When an employee leaves the company for any reason, we support them for their future employment. We provide references, upon request by potential employers, even while still employed by CoolGreenPower. We keep in touch with company alumni with periodic newsletter.
Internship Experience
The Internship Experience
CoolGreenPower student internships enable students to accelerate building skills and expertise that they subsequently leverage to obtain permanent positions. Their first full-time employers post-graduation include AECOM, Gridspan Energy, National Renewable Energy Lab, National Grid, Eversource Energy, Raytheon, Oracle, RDK Engineers, Ivys Energy Solutions, Vanderweil Engineers, AeroVironment, E-Green, Medullan, Sparkfund, Commissioning Agents, Essence, Urban Corps, and Biscom.
Massachusetts Clean Energy Internship Program
Since 2015, CoolGreenPower has participated in the Massachusetts Clean Energy Internship program hiring more than 40 interns. The program helps provide CoolGreenPower with a talented pool of young professionals, with MassCEC providing stipends for interns during fall, spring and summer sessions.
Our interns receive exceptional experience contributing to high-level projects that they wouldn’t otherwise come anywhere close to at a big company. We organize work into projects that are all critical to the company’s future success and that help our interns to develop a massive breadth of skills. Our interns “wear many hats” and continuously move between concurrent projects according to their own prioritization.
Our interns work alongside CoolGreenPower leaders, technicians, consultants, and each other. CoolGreenPower has a flat organization structure, meaning there are no levels of middle management between our interns and our leadership. For those projects that have a customer facing element, our interns are often the primary interface with the customers.
Our interns have direct access to the CoolGreenPower Knowledge Repository. Here we store research, working documents, final deliverables, and other valuable information. Everyone in the company is involved in knowledge management. CoolGreenPower, our customers, and our partners benefit a lot when our people share, innovate, reuse, and collaborate on what they learn.
Most work by interns is remote, rather than at the CoolGreenPower headquarters location in Concord, Mass. We provide you an Office 365 account and use online collaboration tools such as Microsoft Teams and Sharepoint to regularly stay in touch. We also schedule periodic face-to-face meetings once every 2-3 weeks. If travel is required, it is reimbursed. We encourage you to use public transportation and or ride share services. If you have your own vehicle, we reimburse for mileage.
Some interns have returned to intern again with CoolGreenPower during a subsequent semester. For these interns, we adjust the role and its responsibilities to create opportunities for building new skills. A second internship benefits both the student and CoolGreenPower as this minimizes the learning curve and enables the student to have an immediate impact. Due to the requirements of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Internship program, there must be at least one semester between internships.
Our interns do meaningful work. We want our interns to wake up every day looking forward to working at CoolGreenPower and making a difference. Following the program, our interns leverage their new skills, exposure to emerging technologies, peer network, and enhanced resume to drive them towards future success. On a regular basis, our interns ask us to be a reference to future employers, and we are happy to do this.
“Empowering company with start-up vibe.”
“Excellent experience contributing to a growing company in the green energy sector.”
“You truly feel like an equal employee in the rapidly growing space of energy efficiency technology.”
A Day in the Life of an Intern - by Grace Pacelle, Summer 2019
Work With Us
We are now interviewing for Summer 2024 Student Internship positions. All positions are 40 hours / wk for 12 weeks.
Software Engineering / Back-End Developer Intern – Summer 2024 (Paid-Remote)
If you would like us to keep you aware of future opportunities, please email your resume and type of position you are most interested in to hr@coolgreenpower.com
If you have not yet enrolled in the Massachusetts Clean Energy Internship program, click the button below to get started.
Permanent Positions
CoolGreenPower does not have any open permanent positions at this time.
However, if you would like us to keep you aware of future opportunities, please email your resume and type of position you are most interested in to hr@coolgreenpower.com.
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