Manager Technical Systems (f/m/d) (m/w/d)

Manager Technical Systems (f/m/d)

For the department Technical Systems, you will take a key role in shaping a newly established organization that drives technical excellence across our operations. You will lead specialist teams in Mechanical, Automation, and Electronics, and build a new Logistics team that sets standards across three regions.

This position offers you the opportunity to create structures from the ground up, bring clarity to complex processes, and foster a culture of collaboration and trust. You will work closely with the Head Operations, ensuring technical integrity and operational performance go hand in hand.

Your profile and background

• You hold a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Automation Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or similar.
• You have proven leadership experience in technical organizations and solid project management skills.
• The strong ability to build new structures, create transparency, and drive change is necessary for this role.
• A qualification or willingness to take on operator responsibilities (e.g., GVEFK) is a strong advantage.
• You embrace your passion for developing people and teams and demonstrate ownership by proactively identifying, driving, and delivering key topics.
• Your hands-on mentality combined with strategic vision as well as your analytical mindset and curiosity drive you to challenge the status quo.
• You are fluent in German and English.

Your contribution to TenneT

• Team Development: You build and continuously develop high-performing teams in Mechanical, Automation, Electronics, and Logistics. You are challenged to create ONE team by merging two existing organizations and fostering a strong sense of belonging.
• Leadership: You empower your teams through coaching, feedback, and transparent communication and assume defined operator responsibilities in line with legal requirements.
• Strategy: You co-create and drive the regional strategy in alignment with corporate goals and represent the region in all technical matters and decisions.
• Standardization: You define and implement logistical standards across multiple regions and promote and facilitate cross-regional standards (technical and process) and ensure their successful rollout. You analyze processes, identify improvements, and lead collaborative change. Furthermore, you establish strong stakeholder relationships in close cooperation with region management.
• Operational Excellence: You ensure technical integrity and reliability of systems in alignment with operational goals. To do so, you collaborate closely with Head Operations and Operations Manager to secure seamless execution and readiness for future assets. You establish clear governance and control mechanisms for your domain and drive effective subcontractor management for all technical agreements in your region.
• Safety & Compliance: Foster a strong safety culture and guarantee compliance with all regulation.

Our offer

We are family friendly and flexible. Flexible working hours without fixed times and home office options allow you to organize your work individually. Our external partners also provide you with support services for various phases of life - for example, in matters relating to household services or care and career.

Attractive remuneration and social benefits. We offer great benefits such as a salary based on our Collective Labor Agreement, an annual bonus and excellent pension scheme.

Health - your basis. Because we think it is important that you are healthy and feel good, we offer all kinds of great extras: we provide various opportunities to work out via our Always Energy program which offers a wide range of opportunities to indulge in sports (organised training for different sports, competitions and events). And you will receive a sports allowance if you are a member of a sports club.

Modern working environment: Modern IT-tools, ergonomic workstations, very well equipped conference rooms and communication solutions that enable cross-location and cross-border collaboration.

This will be our challenge

The Field Operations DC unit executes field operations including maintenance, overhaul, and small projects for offshore and HVDC assets. It manages asset data, documentation, and standardized DC engineering services. The unit plans and oversees operations & maintenance, monitors assets, manages faults, and ensures technical and organizational readiness of new assets. It continuously improves maintenance and logistics strategies and provides detailed engineering expertise to support other execution units.

IDE, AI and more about TenneT

As a signatory to the Diversity Charter Germany, we at TenneT are convinced that we can only drive the energy transition forward innovatively with different perspectives and experiences. Therefore, we welcome all applicants - regardless of gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, ethnic background, disability or age. TenneT aims to increase the proportion of women in positions where they are underrepresented. For this reason, we expressly encourage qualified women to apply. We also welcome applications from people without German citizenship.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities. If you indicate your (severe) disability in your application, we will forward your application to our representative for disabled persons so that they can support your application in accordance with paragraph 178 SGB IX.

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