TenneT is growing fast, and recruiting new talent is essential to our success! By joining us, you'll have the chance to make a meaningful impact on the energy transition. Essentially, you'll be contributing to a sustainable and green future. All this within a company culture that promotes innovation and values your ideas!
TenneT is known for its outstanding employment conditions. We continually focus on maintaining a healthy work-life balance. For example, with a full-time position, your employment benefits include an impressive 43 vacation days! And… you'll receive a permanent contract from the beginning!
We are looking for a Power System Advisor
- Salary range: €3,879 - €7,660 (Scale 8)
- As of January 1, 2025, you will receive a 7% increase in accordance with the collective labor agreement (CAO)
- The vacancy will close once we have found a suitable candidate
Your contribution to TenneT
The Power System Advisor focuses on continuously improving effective, efficient, and reliable solutions for grid simulation processes and policies within the System Operation department.
Therefore, you need to work independently and assess how well current systems and new developments are performing according to policy. You will be involved in policy issues, provide risk assessments, and offer guidance on possible solutions from a technical application perspective. You will also advise on optimizing the management and maintenance of the grid model within the application, including its monitoring and development, with a particular focus on the EMS system.
The EMS is the heart of the monitoring and control of the grids operated by TenneT. It includes various sub-functions such as SCADA, FVR, OTS, and real-time network applications (SE, CA, OPF) for performing real-time grid safety analyses. Control room operators use the EMS to monitor network status, execute switching actions, and conduct network security assessments.
- Develop and elaborate complex assignment in accordance with the wish of the clients;
- Responsible for providing solutions of the assignment and describing these results within the applications and network models used in SOP department;
- Optimize, advice, and provide guidance for managing, monitoring and developing the network models and the assumptions therein for EMS and any other network calculation tools;
- Contributing in increasing knowledge within and outside the team;
- Responsible for transferring the assignment results, its description, and coordinate them with the Functional Application Manager;
- Writing down the change proposals and coordinating the development of these changes;
- Make sure that Functional Application Managers have adequate level of knowledge with the advised solution;
- Participate in projects in which innovation and complex changes of new processes/procedures have to be elaborated.
Your profile and background
- You have a University degree in Electrical Power Engineering;
- Have experience an skill in handling computer models and have gained experience in using the resulted data is an advantage (e.g., EMS, PowerFactory, etc);
- You have knowledge of and affinity with high-voltage grids;
- You are a team player with strong communication and social skills, and you excel at sharing your knowledge with others;
- Knowledge of multiple disciplines or policy areas in the energy sector is an advantage
- You are analytical, driven, proactive, result-oriented and stress-resistant
- Proficient in English and Dutch, both written and spoken.
In our online-application-form you can apply within only some minutes as long as this job is posted. Afterwards we screen your application and get back to you as soon as possible. Our selection process consists of maximum two interviews.
Shannon Martina
People | Corporate Recruiter
+31 6 418 652 58
For questions regarding the position, please contact:
Richard Kok
Lead System Operations
richard.kok@tennet.eu
Our recruiting process
Our offer
This will be our challenge
System Operations secures the reliability by continuity of transport services, system services and market facilitation 24/7. Our reliability ranks among the highest in the world. This can only be sustained if we are a well-designed process driven unit. Process management, development and continuous improvement of processes and systems is therefore relevant.
Additional information
- The weekly working time is 40 hours
- Type of contract is indefinite
- Pay Scale 8 in accordance with the TenneT collectieve labor agreement (salary range €3879 - €7660,depending on relevant
knowledge, level, and work experience). - Job interviews for this position will be (partly) in English. Please send us your application document in English as wellTenneT is growing fast, and recruiting new talent is essential to our success!
Salary
3879 € - 7660 €
TenneT is a leading European grid operator. We are committed to providing a secure and reliable supply of electricity 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, while helping to drive the energy transition in our pursuit of a brighter energy future – more sustainable, reliable and affordable than ever before. In our role as the first cross-border Transmission System Operator (TSO) we design, build, maintain and operate over 25,000 kilometres of high-voltage electricity grid in the Netherlands and large parts of Germany, and facilitate the European energy market through our 17 interconnectors to neighbouring countries. We are one of the largest investors in national and international onshore and offshore electricity grids, with a turnover of EUR 9.2 billion and a total asset value of EUR 45 billion. Every day our 8,300 employees take ownership, show courage and make and maintain connections to ensure that the supply and demand of electricity is balanced for over 43 million people.
TenneT is an equal opportunity employer for ALL and is fully committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity to ensure that all applicants and employees are considered for recruitment, promotion and employment regardless of their ethnic origin, skin colour, religion or belief, gender, national origin, age, disability, sexual identity, marital/family status.
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