Your Role: Expert in Asset Management

As an Expert in Asset Management, you will play a pivotal role in building a state-of-the-art knowledge center within the Elia Group, focusing on advanced Asset Management practices.

You will drive and support the Group’s vision around condition-based, risk-based, remote, and predictive asset management, developing related processes, concepts, and IT tools.

Key Responsibilities

• Continuously improve Elia’s asset management concepts, processes, and methods (asset risk management, cost and performance management, maintenance and replacement policies, etc.).
• Ensure compliance with best practices in methods such as FMECA, conditional maintenance development, and business cases for asset life cycle cost optimization.
• Identify business impacts and transformation needs.
• Lead cross-functional enterprise projects to develop IT tools, data systems, and document management solutions to enhance asset management.
• Advise and challenge asset managers in drafting new maintenance and replacement policies, adopting a risk-based and cost-optimized approach.
• Contribute to Elia’s strategic partnership with the Spanish TSO REE.
• Train asset managers and stakeholders in asset management and risk management methodologies.

Your Profile

• Master’s degree or equivalent advanced degree.
• Basic knowledge of the electricity network operator’s activities.
• Experience in asset management is a plus.
• Ability to master risk management concepts and associated processes.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills with logical reasoning, creative thinking, synthesis, and the ability to tackle complex challenges.
• Ability to work on both a strategic level (long-term vision, models) and a practical level (implementation in business).
• Strong organizational skills, with attention to detail and multi-tasking abilities.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to bring different viewpoints together and translate them into actionable solutions.
• Proven experience with project management methodologies and tools.
• Successful experience driving change initiatives.
• Fluency in French or Dutch, and English.
• Knowledge of coding/SQL is an asset.

Offer

• Salary: a competitive salary package, allowance for representation expenses, year-end bonus, double vacation pay, meal vouchers (€8 per working day), eco-vouchers, sport & culture vouchers, bonuses based on individual and group results.
• Insurance: group insurance, hospitalisation insurance, ambulant care insurance for the whole family and also personal accident insurance.
• Vacation: You will be entitled to 20 vacation days and 5 additional vacation days, 6 local days, 4 exempt days (after 1 year of employment) and up to 5 long-service days (1 day for every 3 years in employment).
• Social fund: Year-end vouchers, birth and marriage allowance. We will also cover part of the cost of glasses, a dental prosthesis or similar needs.
• Communication: you will be given an iPhone, a phone subscription (for work and private use) and a laptop with internet reimbursement.
• Discounts: you will enjoy a 30% discount on your gas and electricity bill.
• Mobility: we will offer you a company car and public transport or a mobility budget.
• Elia shares: Elia will give you the opportunity to subscribe to shares with a discount of 16.66% on the average share price. 

Why Join Elia?

We offer you more than just a job:

• A dynamic and innovative environment, where your expertise contributes directly to shaping the future energy landscape.
• Unique opportunities for continuous learning and professional growth.
• A collaborative company culture where your input has a real impact.
• A competitive salary package, including attractive extra-legal benefits.

At Elia, you are choosing a career with a future full of opportunities.

Location

• Based at Léon Monnoyerkaai 3 – 1000 Brussels.
• Occasional travel to Berlin (a few days per month) is expected.