Operational Support Analyst - Network Planning

Excited to work for a key Belgian player in the energy landscape?

The Belgian and European energy landscape is in full swing. Did you know that Elia Belgium plays a crucial role in this? As part of Elia Group, a European transmission system operator, Elia Belgium ensures the reliability and sustainability of the electricity supply in our country.

Side-by-side with your talented colleagues, you will play a part in building a sustainable, green and reliable energy infrastructure that stimulates economic growth and reduces our ecological footprint.

Only together can we make the biggest impact possible! We believe in the power of diversity: we are convinced that an inclusive and diverse work environment leads to more innovation, creativity and better results.

As Operational Support Analyst – Network Planning
, you play a key role in the operational processes of the Grid Development (GD) department. Teamwork is fundamental to this role as the successful candidate is required to work closely with engineers and other departments.

You provide technical and technical-administrative support in the conducting of grid development studies. These studies enable us to anticipate technical problems (voltage quality, overloads, short circuits, etc.) and identify the need for reinforcement of the grid or adaptation of operational practices. The ultimate goal is to guarantee a reliable energy supply for the Belgian market, taking customers’ and the community’s expectations into account.

You main responsibilities:

Technical support for grid studies

• Preparing grid models using Power Factory, incorporating:
  • Anticipated developments in the Belgian grid and abroad;
  • Data from distribution system operators (DSOs);
  • Customer load profiles;
  • Planned project commissioning.
• Performing grid calculations, working with experts to analyse the results and summarising these in reports.
• Consolidating and documenting projects arising from studies (e.g. single-line diagrams), ensuring they are consistent with other ongoing or future studies.
• Sharing information about new infrastructure with operational departments to anticipate short-term impact.

Management of external requests

• Monitoring generic mailboxes: receipt, initial analysis and forwarding of requests (short-circuit calculations, CAPAC and EOS connections).
• Ultimately, independent processing of requests for simple connection to the transmission system (EOS).

Technical-administrative support

• Participating in the encoding and updating of projects in Jira, which links grid development needs to projects in our portfolio.
• Using this tool to produce reports and, once experience has been gained, to scrutinise the data and ensure its quality.
• Coordinating the updating of national single-line diagrams.
• Providing ad hoc support to the team to cover various technical-administrative tasks.

• A bachelor’s degree with a technical/IT orientation (data management, electricity, statistics…) or equivalent experience
• Proficiency in French or Dutch; knowledge of the other national language is an asset
• Comfortable with IT tools and good command of MS Office (Word, Excel, Visio…)
• Ability to read a single-line electrical diagram
• Ability to work independently, conduct research autonomously, and ask questions when necessary
• Accuracy, attention to detail, and organizational skills
• Customer-oriented, autonomous, flexible, and a team player
• Experience in the energy sector is a plus
• Knowledge of IT tools related to electrical network management (e.g., Power Factory, Jira) and familiarity with data management tools (especially Microsoft Excel, Power
  
  BI, Python, SQL) is an asset.

• Salary: a competitive salary package, year-end bonus, double vacation pay, meal vouchers (€8 per working day) and a bonus based on group results.
• Insurance: group insurance, hospitalisation insurance and ambulant care for the whole family.
• Vacation: you will be entitled to 20 vacation days and 13 additional vacation days.
• Social fund: Year-end vouchers, birth and marriage allowances. We will also cover part of the cost of glasses, a dental prosthesis or other medical needs.
• Communication: you will be given an iPhone, a phone subscription…