Asset Specialist Overhead Lines

At TenneT, we work every day on the electricity grid of tomorrow. Our goal? A reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy system. As an Asset Specialist in Asset Standards, you play a crucial role in realizing this ambition. Ready to make an impact?

As an Asset Specialist Overhead Lines, you help determine how TenneT builds, renovates, and maintains high-voltage lines. With your specialist knowledge, you help build faster and cheaper while guaranteeing quality, so that the energy transition accelerates and remains affordable for Dutch society. You will enter a field in which you travel internationally, work closely with suppliers, and represent TenneT at institutions and universities.

You ensure that market solutions and project needs converge into standards for high-voltage lines. These standards are applied directly in onshore projects, thereby contributing to a reliable grid and a faster energy transition. The challenge for the coming years: maintaining the right balance between quality and acceleration, and ensuring that experiences from projects and regions are incorporated into what you develop.

• You develop standards. You align market solutions and project needs, thereby arriving at standard solutions for building, renovating, and maintaining high-voltage lines. You incorporate experiences from projects and regions into this, so that the standards are truly applied in practice.
• You develop and manage technical requirements and policies. You draft technical specifications and requirements for high-voltage lines and their components, approve them, keep them up to date, and communicate about them proactively. You translate safety risks of high-voltage lines into technical solutions, ensuring that no one ends up in an unsafe situation.
• You support procurement and contract management. You ensure that technical requirements are clear, evaluate quotes and suppliers on quality and suitability, and perform audits.
• You monitor quality and manage suppliers. You evaluate type tests, attend Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT), and work together with suppliers on the continuous improvement of components.
• You collaborate with project teams. You check studies and design reports, advise on technical matters during project execution, identify deviations, and propose solutions.
• You contribute to innovation and broaden your knowledge. You represent TenneT in national and international technical committees, collaborate with knowledge institutes and universities, and personally contribute to the latest developments in the field. The team previously delivered, for example, dynamic line rating.

You are part of the Asset Standards team and work together with four colleagues on the subject of high-voltage lines. Together, you work on innovative assignments and ensure that TenneT possesses future-proof and reliable high-voltage lines. You work independently and communicate smoothly with engineers, maintenance specialists, project teams, knowledge institutes, and suppliers.

At TenneT, we look for professionals who contribute to an effective and future-proof project organization. We expect you to have the right experience and skills to make a valuable contribution to our team and our mission. Therefore, we ask of you:

Hybrid working is the norm for us. You will get the opportunity to work from home. We also value meeting each other personally at the office. For this, your location is Arnhem, where you will meet at least 2 times per week. You will also occasionally work from one of our regional offices or project locations. Your workplace can therefore vary.

Please take into account that during your onboarding period, you will work at the office more often so that we can provide you with the right guidance.

To truly make a difference in this role, you recognize yourself in the following competencies:

• Managing complexity: you define complex technical issues clearly, even when information is incomplete or ambiguous. You view bottlenecks from multiple perspectives and sources, from projects, regions, and the market, and come up with practical solutions that fit within the asset management processes.
• Persuading: you present your viewpoints with conviction and good arguments and remain steadfast, without pushing excessively or making compromises too quickly. You prioritize team results and easily build connections within the organization, so that standards are broadly supported.
• Quality of decisions: you bring together information, experience, and various inputs to determine the best approach and ensure good decisions at the right time. You know when a decision lies with you, when to escalate, and you advise managers who are less technically proficient clearly and understandably about your field of expertise.

A UVO screening may be part of the selection process.

This role falls within the Asset Management Specialist job profile, so that it is clear to both you and TenneT which responsibilities, expectations, and growth opportunities belong to this position.

TenneT offers you the chance to contribute to a sustainable energy future. Together with colleagues, partners, and stakeholders, you will work on innovative solutions that make the energy transition possible. With us, you will get the space to develop your talent and work in an environment where your growth is central.

We offer you

• A permanent contract with a two-month probationary period, based on 32 to 40 hours per week.
• A salary in scale 9: €4,816 to €9,472 per month with 8% holiday allowance, 6% end-of-year bonus, and 70% pension contribution.
• A solid pension via ABP: we pay 70% of your premium.
• 43 vacation days per year.

All mentioned employment conditions apply to full-time employment, unless stated otherwise.

We attach great value to a good work-life balance and your personal development. Therefore, we offer flexible solutions such as:

• Hybrid working, including a travel allowance, internet allowance, and a home office allowance.
• Support for your vitality, with a contribution towards a sports subscription and health insurance.
• Development opportunities via the TenneT Academy, so that you can continue to expand your knowledge and skills.

We stimulate initiative and give you the space to come up with new ideas. Together, we ensure that the Netherlands stays in motion and is ready for the energy of tomorrow.