Network Planning Engineer, Gas & Heat
Stadtwerke Potsdam GmbH
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Potsdam • Germany
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About the role
- Help shape the energy future actively! As a strategic network planning engineer, you will develop the gas, heat and H2 networks of tomorrow.
- You will create innovative concepts, optimize network structures and make a decisive contribution to the heat transition — technically, sustainably and future-oriented.
- Strategic network planning & concept development: You will develop forward-looking target network plans for district heating systems up to 125°C and 16 bar operating pressure, and produce network development plans and regional planning in the context of the energy and heat transition.
- Network modeling & analysis: You will create and update runnable network models using modern calculation and simulation software and continuously assess network conditions and faults.
- Optimization & efficiency improvement: You will derive measures for the technical, commercial, regulatory and ecological optimization of the networks.
- Innovation & new technologies: You will advance new specialist topics, e.g. the development of H2 network strategies, and actively help shape the networks of the future.
- Project involvement & key figures: You will support the planning, construction and maintenance of the networks and provide decision-relevant commercial and technical metrics.
Requirements
- Education: You have a completed technical degree (Fach-/Hochschulstudium) in process engineering, supply/utility engineering, energy engineering, environmental engineering or a comparable field of study.
- Experience: Ideally, you have several years of professional experience in the construction or operation of heat distribution systems (not mandatory).
- Knowledge: You are well acquainted with relevant laws and regulations as well as technical codes and standards. In addition, you have experience in network calculation (e.g. STANET) and are familiar with GIS.
- Personal qualities: You demonstrate strong commitment, initiative and the ability to work independently.
Benefits
- Meaningful work: You make a direct contribution to the energy transition in Potsdam.
- Work–life balance: Family-friendly and flexible working hours (38 hours per week) and the possibility of remote work.
- Compensation: Collective agreement pay according to AVEU with a 13th-month salary and a performance-related special payment plus an electricity discount.
- Time off: 30 days of vacation, Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve additionally off, company shutdowns between holidays and offers for sabbaticals.
- Mobility: Subsidy for the VBB or Germany ticket (Deutschlandticket).
- Health: Employee swimming sessions, coverage of optional occupational health check-ups, height-adjustable modern workstations, sports and employee events, and more.
- Development: Diverse personal and professional development opportunities.
- Shopping: Discounts in online shops via a Corporate Benefits portal.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
network planningconcept developmentnetwork modelingnetwork analysisoptimizationefficiency improvementH2 network strategiesheat distribution systemsnetwork calculationtechnical codes and standards
Soft skills
commitmentinitiativeindependence