Lead HSE Offshore 2GW (m/f/d)

TenneT Overview

TenneT is growing fast to realize its strategic ambitions. We play a leading role in driving the energy transition. We are looking for a passionate Lead HSE Offshore 2GW (m/f/d) at our location Hanover who will contribute to this and that might be you?

Your contribution to TenneT

The Team Health, Safety & Environment Offshore 2GW provides HSE support to projects and operations in the 2GW project. It supports daily activities, helps in integrating HSE requirements in all steps of the project, can answer to specific HSE requests and perform HSE events investigations.

• As Lead HSE Offshore 2GW (m/f/d), you manage a team of around eight HSE professionals, ensuring a consistent approach and collaborating with other HSE teams to enhance TenneT’s HSE Management system.
• You set ambitious goals aligned with TenneT’s HSE strategies, leading your team to achieve them while ensuring members have the skills, training and resources needed to succeed.
• Clear priorities are established and communicated by you, keeping the team informed of changes, delegating tasks and managing resources effectively.
• Through coaching and inspiration, you foster a culture of collaboration, teamwork, and continuous learning within your team.
• Reporting to the Head of HSE Offshore Germany, you maintain regular exchanges with the 2GW department to deepen and consolidate shared learnings.

Your profile and background

• This position requires a University degree (FH/H) in Safety engineering, Environmental engineering or comparable qualification.
• You have several years working experience in general, in HSE and preferably in a leading position and you have taken part in the management of major projects and have demonstrable project management skills.
• It is desirable to have a Certificate as Expert for Safety (“Fachkraft für Arbeitssicherheit“).
• You have a strong values-based leadership mentality - demonstrably with a practical and theoretical background including encouraging a team culture of continuous learning and fostering open dialogues.
• You have well-developed networking skills to address different groups of employees and stakeholders, excellent analytical skills, a structured way of working, orientation on results and a well-developed conceptual approach.
• You have an active "hands on" mentality, you are dynamic, enthusiastic, intrinsically motivated and take responsibility and very good communication skills in German and English (both written and spoken).

Our offer

• We are family friendly and flexible
• Health - your basis
• Modern working environment
• Attractive remuneration and social benefits
• Personal development

This will be our challenge

The department Health, Safety and Environment ensures and supports HSE compliance for the units Grid Field Operations and Large Projects based on TenneT guidelines and principles. Furthermore, the team supports establishing a top class safety culture and environment in which it is possible for everyone to go home safe every day.

Additional information

• As of March 2025
• The weekly working time is 37 hours
• The position is unlimited
• Job interviews for this position will be (partly) in English. Please send us your application document in English as well.

Salary

94700 € - 113000 €

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