About TenneT
TenneT is growing to achieve its strategic goals: we are driving the energy transition and shaping the future of power supply in Europe. Join us in a role that truly makes a difference!
Your Contribution at TenneT
GIS Maps & Planning Documents: Create, edit, and update GIS maps and planning documentation for infrastructure projects.
Geospatial Analysis & Visualization: Prepare geospatial data, visualize key information, and conduct spatial analyses—for example, related to transmission corridors, protected areas, or land parcels.
Geospatial Data Management: Integrate geospatial data from diverse sources, validate plausibility, and maintain project-specific data structures.
Data Preparation & Digitization: Prepare GIS data for project meetings, coordination discussions, and presentations; support digitization and structured archiving of planning information.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Project Support: Work closely with teams in project management, planning, permitting, and environmental affairs, facilitating effective communication among stakeholders.
Your Profile
Academic Background: Currently enrolled in a bachelor’s or master’s program in Geoinformatics, Geography, Urban/Regional Planning, Environmental Planning, Surveying/Geomatics, Civil Engineering, or a related field.
Practical Experience: Prior experience (e.g., as a student assistant or intern) with databases, FME, Python, or automated GIS workflows is advantageous. Basic familiarity with ArcGIS Online and/or ArcGIS Pro is a plus.
Language Skills: Strong written and spoken German skills.
Digital Competence: Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
Work & Social Skills: Structured, independent, and reliable work ethic; interest in infrastructure planning, grid expansion, and the energy transition; strong analytical and spatial reasoning skills.
Our Recruitment Process
Our Benefits
Flexibility
We are flexible and life-oriented
We understand the need for flexibility to balance academic commitments with work. That’s why we offer flexible working hours between 6:00 and 19:00 (no core hours) and the option to work remotely.
Attractive Compensation & Social Benefits
Competitive Pay
Transparency and fairness are essential to us as an employer—including compensation. For student assistants, the hourly rate is €16.25. For mandatory or voluntary internships, the monthly allowance is €2,238.00.
Physical & Mental Health & Personal Development
Health – Your Foundation
Healthy and affordable meals in our company restaurants (at our Bayreuth and Lehrte locations)
Various in-house wellness programs and partial cost coverage for gym memberships
Consultation services and health checks by our on-site occupational physicians
Preventive health information sessions
Modern Working Environment
Modern Campus-Style Workplace
Up-to-date equipment and tools
Ergonomic workstations
Well-equipped meeting rooms and communication solutions enabling seamless collaboration across locations and borders
Our Department: Build AC
The Build AC department implements AC construction projects across geographically organized regions. It provides project management and engineering services in construction, permitting, crossings, and logistics, and supports quality and document management as well as project war rooms. The unit coordinates regional and national activities with stakeholders and defines clear performance goals and OKRs to implement strategic objectives for AC grid expansion.
Additional Information
Start date: February 1, 2027
Weekly working hours: 18 hours
Contract duration: Initially 12 months
Compensation
€707 – €2,616 per month
IDE, AI & More About TenneT
As a signatory of the Diversity Charter, TenneT believes that only with diverse perspectives and experiences can we innovatively drive the energy transition forward. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, ethnic background, disability, or age. In roles where women are underrepresented, TenneT actively seeks to increase the female workforce and explicitly encourages qualified women to apply. We also welcome applications from non-German citizens.
We particularly encourage applications from people with disabilities. If you indicate your severe disability (or equivalent) in your application, we will forward it to our representative for severely disabled employees for support as per §178 SGB IX.
As part of our recruitment process, we use AI as a supportive and recommendatory tool to make our processes faster and more efficient. Automated decisions are never made at any stage.
TenneT Germany is Germany’s largest transmission system operator, managing critical infrastructure for reliable and affordable electricity supply. It is one of the largest investors in onshore and offshore power grids in Germany.
Strategically located at the heart of Northwest Europe’s energy hub, TenneT Germany connects north and south, offshore and onshore, Germany and Europe. With over 5,000 employees, the company builds, operates, and maintains Germany’s largest transmission grid—spanning more than 14,700 km and connecting over one-third of the EU’s total offshore wind capacity.
Connecting the North Sea, one of the world’s largest renewable energy sources, is central to this mission.
Our Growth
Growth is driven by rapidly increasing electricity demand, requiring a flexible and expanding grid architecture.
Lighting the way ahead together
Recruiter
Melisa Kacar
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People
Stephan Kroll
Execution 3
Fachlicher Ansprechpartner (Technical Contact)
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Build AC
Licensing & Environment