Ilija Miljanić was born in 1963 in Nikšić, where he completed secondary school as an Assistant Researcher in Mathematics. He graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the University of Titograd, specializing in Structural Engineering, where he also completed his master’s studies in Construction Management and Technology and defended his master’s thesis on the topic “Selecting the Optimal Method for Demolishing Building Structures, Including Occupational Health and Safety and Environmental Protection Measures.”
He first gained work experience at the Bauxite Mines in Nikšić, where, from 1991 to 2016, he worked as a designer, supervising engineer and construction manager in civil engineering (building construction, road construction and hydraulic engineering), as well as reviewing projects and supervising structures in building construction. He also served as chief supervising engineer for works on the Grahovo–Risan and Šavnik–Žabljak highways and on the “Sozina” and “Ivica” tunnels, among others.
In May 2016, he joined “Sab Gradnja” LLC Nikšić, where until 2018 he worked as chief designer and supervising engineer on the construction of buildings. From March to August of that year, he was lead designer and supervisor of civil engineering structures at the Directorate for Development and Construction of Kotor. He then joined Bast LLC Nikšić, where he was lead designer and supervisor of civil engineering structures, a technical consultant for all construction projects, and a project supervisor and reviewer. From 2021 to 2023, he was a member of the CEDIS Board of Directors, and from July 2022 to February 2024, he served as Acting Technical Director at EPCG Solar Gradnja. Since March 2024, Ilija has been a member of the CEDIS Board of Directors and Coordinator for the Protection System in CEDIS’s Protection System Sector. He took up the position of Executive Director of the Montenegrin Electricity Distribution System on 7 August this year.
Ilija holds all licences for the construction and technical supervision of building, road and hydraulic engineering structures issued by the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism, as well as an endorsement from the Ministry of Transport and Maritime Affairs for complex road engineering structures and from the Ministry of Economy. He also holds authorisation to prepare technical documentation and construct buildings, and to review technical documentation and provide technical supervision of construction projects, as well as authorisation for complex engineering structures and to review such structures. He also holds authorisation from the Ministry of Economy for complex engineering structures, including transmission power facilities, underground power lines and substations rated at 35 kV and above, as well as complex engineering structures such as natural gas storage and transfer facilities with a capacity exceeding 1,000 m³, liquefied petroleum gas facilities, and oil and petroleum product storage and transfer facilities with a capacity exceeding 1,000 m³.
He has been an appraiser of immovable property (buildings and land) since 2002 and a court-appointed expert in civil engineering, listed on the register of experts of the State of Montenegro, since 1998.
Ilija speaks French.
