Expert in systemic protection requirements and operating concepts (m/f/d)

Expert in systemic protection requirements and operating concepts (m/f/d)

TenneT is growing in order to achieve its strategic goals: We are tackling the transformation of the energy supply. We are making the energy transition! Join us – with a job that really makes a difference! We are looking for a passionate expert in systemic protection requirements and operational concepts (m/f/d) in Bayreuth or Lehrte (near Hanover), maybe this is you?
The Strategy & System Design department at TenneT ensures a safe working environment and supports the implementation of the corporate strategy including CSR and strategic controlling. It evaluates long-term system requirements and develops the grid design. The department carries out analyses such as congestion studies and market studies, creates standards and frameworks for electrical planning and defines functional requirements. It also manages customer connections, develops market designs, oversees regulatory issues and manages strategic projects such as M&A. She manages the strategy implementation process and moderates portfolio meetings.
TenneT is a leading European grid operator. We are committed to providing a secure and reliable electricity supply – 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We are helping to shape the energy transition – for a sustainable, reliable and affordable energy future. As the first cross-border transmission system operator, we plan, build and operate a high-voltage and extra-high-voltage grid with a length of over 25,000 kilometers in the Netherlands and large parts of Germany and, with our 17 interconnectors, enable access to neighboring countries. With a turnover of 9.2 billion euros and total assets of 45 billion euros, we are one of the largest investors in national and international electricity grids, on land and at sea. Every day, our 8,300 employees give their best and ensure that more than 43 million end consumers can rely on a stable supply of electricity in line with our values of responsibility, courage and networking.

• As an expert in systemic protection requirements and operating concepts (m/f/d), you will play a central coordinating role in the safe and reliable design of the transmission grid. You will bring together the relevant specialist disciplines and ensure consistent and coordinated concepts.
• Technical coordination: In this position, you will be responsible for the technical coordination of systemic protection requirements, requirements for system automation and contribute to operating concepts for grid connections, equipment and grid expansion projects and ensure that they are implemented in terms of system technology
• Ensuring that requirements are met: You accompany grid expansion and connection projects from the perspective of system requirements and ensure that operational requirements, protection philosophies and aspects relevant to system management are integrated and coordinated at an early stage
• Moderating interface function: Through professional exchange with internal and external stakeholders, you moderate conflicts of objectives between planning, operation and asset strategy, derive viable solutions and translate these into uniform concepts
• Strategic view of the overall system: You are responsible for overarching system considerations with a focus on operational safety, selectivity and robustness of the overall system and assess the impact of concept decisions on operational network operation
• Comprehensive working groups: The structured, conceptual way of working and active participation in interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary working groups round off your job profile

• Electrical engineering background: You have successfully completed a degree in electrical engineering (university/university of applied sciences) with a focus on electrical power engineering, protection technology, grid operation or high-voltage technology or have a comparable qualification
• Relevant expertise in protection and operating concepts: You bring many years of professional experience in the field of protection and operating concepts of electrical grids in combination with knowledge of grid calculation tools, such as PowerFactory and PSCAD, as well as a deep, holistic understanding of systems
• Technical leadership: In your career to date, you have taken on responsibility in a leading technical role – e.g. as a technical lead or senior expert with an overarching mandate – and are used to taking on technical responsibility
• Strategic mindset: You are willing to get involved in specialist groups and overarching working groups. You will take on an integrating and moderating role, bringing together different professional perspectives and developing them into viable overall decisions
• Language skills: Very good German and English skills, a willingness to engage in interdisciplinary exchange and to participate in national and international specialist committees round off your profile

• Flexibility
• We are family-friendly and close to life
• We focus on people: our external partners provide you with support services for different phases of life – for example in matters relating to childcare, household services or care and work
• A 37-hour week with flexible working hours, flexitime account, home office option and 30 days’ vacation per year (+ days off on New Year’s Eve and Christmas Eve) allow you to organize your work individually
• Job details
• Attractive remuneration & social benefits
• Attractive remuneration : The salary is based on a collective agreement and includes a Christmas bonus, 14th monthly salary, various bonuses, capital-forming benefits and a company pension scheme
• A JobRad in the deferred compensation model can be used as an alternative to commuting to work and as a health promotion measure
• Personal development
• Recharge your batteries, promote health – not with fine words, but with concrete benefits: You can expect various courses offered in the company, cost sharing for sports facilities, counseling services and health checks by company doctors on site
• Our company restaurants contribute to a healthy and varied diet
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• Working environment
• Modern working environment
• Working environment with a campus feel: modern work equipment and ergonomic workstations as well as an open office concept make it easier for you to collaborate across teams on site
• In order to enable a healthy working environment even when working from home, we contribute financially to your office equipment