Distribution Network Operations Management – Herten Municipal Utilities

In this key function, you will report directly to the management. With your approximately 55-person area – including 6 Direct Reports – you are responsible for the core networking tasks of the Herten Stadtwerke in the fields of electricity, gas, district heating, measuring station operation as well as network connections, street lighting and technical energy services. The function is linked to the transfer of relevant business obligations and the procura. As a member of the extended management circle, you actively shape the strategic orientation in central infrastructure and investment issues of the Hertener Stadtwerke. You are strategically and operationally responsible for the entire distribution network operation and ensure safe, economical and regular operation of the power, gas and district heating networks – regulatory requirements, aspects of work protection and emergency and crisis management are always thinking. Developing with energy transition, heat transition, decarbonization and digitalization Continue the network infrastructure in a sustainable manner, prioritize investments, control the knowledgeable and economic development of new and new construction work and make resilient technical policy decisions. You perform your direct management functions, take up the motivation and performance of your employees and develop them professionally and personally. You can also work with your team, professionally and in action – you are responsible for the organisational and professional development of the readiness system and are ideally available as a technical manager in event situations. As a technical key figure, you work closely with the management and relevant interfaces, represent your area to the outside and promote networks – strategically smart, cooperative and regionally responsible.

Their technical basis is a successfully completed engineering studies (Dipl. Ing. or Master), ideally focusing on supply technology or electrical engineering. You have several years of professional experience in the utility sector and in the network operation of a municipal works, a network company, a regional provider or a comparable infrastructural environment, as well as several years of leadership with budgetary and personnel responsibility. Regulatory framework conditions of network operation are familiar to you; also move safely in the basic features of AGFW, DVGW and VDE. Network and energy systems (e.g. Lovion, Felix or kVASy) can already be arranged in your logic, ready to learn and openly meet other digital control tools, e.g. for billing, controlling and planning processes. As a manager, you combine technical depth with soil adhesion, clarity and sense of responsibility. You do not lead from distance, but remain operationally connectable, take on visible responsibility and convince by team orientation and professional, respectful communication at eye level.

Look forward to a key role with real depth of action in a completely municipal municipal work that combines tradition with transformation will. You work in direct connection with the management, receive a high level of own design space and meet a culture that lives trust, pragmatism and cohesion. In addition to an attractive remuneration and a service car – also for private use – the position offers you the rare opportunity to substantially shape the technical future of a regionally deeply anchored infrastructure company. .