Operational Safety

Operational Safety & Quality Insight Lead

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.

Your role

• As Operational Safety & Quality Insight Lead, you play a key role in strengthening the organization’s Safety and Quality performance by turning data into actionable insights.
• You design, develop, and continuously improve data-driven monitoring systems and dashboards to support both operational execution and strategic decision-making.
• You act as the link between data, business, and leadership, ensuring that critical Safety & Quality priorities are translated into clear, reliable, and high-impact performance indicators.

Your responsibilities

• As Operational Safety & Quality Insight Lead, you develop and structure the Safety & Quality insight framework by defining a data strategy aligned with SQI priorities, establishing robust reporting governance, and identifying the key KPIs linked to safety performance and quality outcomes. You also define clear performance monitoring roadmaps for both the short and long term.
• You design and manage dashboards tailored to both operational teams and management, ensuring clear, reliable, and actionable insights aligned with business priorities, while continuously improving the visualization and usability of reporting tools.
• You analyze data to identify trends, risks, and performance gaps, investigate the root causes of safety or quality issues, and translate complex data into clear insights and fact-based recommendations to support decision-making and performance reviews.
• You foster data-driven decision-making by working closely with SQI teams, operational stakeholders, and support functions, capturing business needs and translating them into relevant analytical solutions while promoting a strong data-driven culture.
• You ensure data quality and integrity by monitoring data across systems, implementing validation mechanisms, defining standards, and driving the continuous improvement of data reliability.
• Finally, you support tool and capability development by acting as a key user of reporting solutions, facilitating user adoption, identifying automation opportunities, and contributing to the evolution of the SQI data ecosystem.

Your Profile

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience
• Strong experience in data analysis, business intelligence, or performance monitoring
• Proven experience with BI tools (Power BI, etc.)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to translate data into clear business insights
• Good understanding of operational processes
• Experience in Safety and/or Quality is a strong asset
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and business stakeholders
• Autonomous, proactive, and results-oriented

What’s in it for you?

• This role offers a unique opportunity to grow at the crossroads of data, operations, and strategy, with a direct impact on Safety and Quality performance. You will gain strong visibility across the organization by working closely with operational teams and management, while shaping how data is used to drive decisions.
• It is an ideal position to develop a cross-functional understanding of the business, strengthen your analytical and influencing skills, and play a key role in building a data-driven culture with a tangible impact on operational excellence.
• You will play a central role in embedding data at the heart of operational excellence.

Our offer

• Salary: a competitive salary package, allowance for representation expenses, year-end bonus, double vacation pay, meal vouchers (€10 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