Lead Asset Management Maintenance Onshore

Your contribution to TenneT

TenneT, Target Grid and Maintenance. Our grid will at least double in size and incorporate a variety of techniques like HVDC onshore and an increase of cables in general. The challenges: resources will not double in size, opex for maintenance neither from an affordability perspective, the availability outage windows are yet challenging and the grid will be stressed increasingly with increased load to maximally reduce congestion. The solution is clear: data driven and risk based maintenance. Extracting data from a variety of sources as input for decision-support -or making is the only way to successfully ensure the availability of our Target Grid, with transparency on the risk implied by these decisions.

We need you as a Lead on this journey! The Maintenance Onshore NL team within the Performance Unit Asset Management is looking for an inspiring Lead. The team has solid roots inside and outside Asset Management, is undisputed and currently consists out of 4 different nationalities. Specialist knowledge varies from primary and secondary equipment to data science, all required to fulfill our destiny.

As Lead, you will manage a challenging and diverse package and lead the M-ON team of 17 strategists and, depending on variable workload, a number of project managers. Together with these colleagues your responsibility is to ensure that the network is optimally maintained and maintainable. The strategists look for innovative ways to mitigate these risks in the long term and ensure that the grid is maximally utilized. You will manage a wide variety of stakeholders which consists out of almost every other department within TenneT, but also external stakeholders like regulator ACM and the DSO's. Are you the driver behind initiatives which may incorporate e.g. AI into the field of maintenance?

Your responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 17 strategists with different areas of expertise;
• Driver of utilizing innovative thinking to maximize utilization of installed base assets;
• Managing an array of internal and external stakeholders;
• You're a proponent of data driven and risk based solutions, including AI;
• Focussing on achieving short- and long-term objectives in line with management year plans;
• Actively contributing to a (socially) safe workplace for yourself and colleagues. For you, safety is a logical fact that is anchored in your thinking and working;
• Able to market developments and achievements of the team.

Jouw profiel en achtergrond

• Completed Master degree and minimum 5 years' of relevant work experience in leading teams;
• You're analytically strong, aware of the environment and have good judgement skills;
• Able to 'build bridges' between different internal departments and external parties;
• You take responsibility for what needs to be done;
• Excellent English language skills and communicative/socially you're very skilled.

This will be our challenge

Asset Management ensures TenneT's sustainable and future-proof asset base. Thanks to our expertise of Asset Management in the technological field, we are able to facilitate. Our Innovative and data-driven approach promotes the energy transition and ensures security of supply.

AI and more about TenneT

Since we use AI as part of our recruiting process, we would like to create transparency and clarity at this point. The AI serves exclusively as a supporting and recommending tool to make our processes even faster and more efficient. At no time are automated decisions made. 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. Lighting the way ahead together.