Associate Transmission Network Engineer

Unlock your Superpower working on High Voltage Switchgear to support the efficient power flow of the HV Transmission System.

We’re looking for an engineer who has a background in working with high voltage switchgear to support variable scale high priority projects to ensure our fleet of switchgear assets are available to serve the power flows across England and Wales.

As the Associate Transmission Network Engineer, you’ll be responsible for interpreting asset performance data, providing first-line engineering support to operational staff, acting as the Technical Secretary for engineering investigations, coordinating technical assessments, conducting asset condition assessments and ensuring completion of follow-up investigations.

You’ll play a key role in incident analyses to support health reviews, recommending performance improvements and offering assurance on the status of transmission engineering. Your expertise will be crucial in supporting decisions about equipment and their suitability for service, including balancing demand and risk, serving as the focal point for the OEM collaboration and ensuring all asset faults are supported through to resolution within specified timescales. Additionally, you will manage external stakeholder relationships, whilst working closely with consultants and internal teams to drive consistency and value engineering. Your contributions will also be vital in assisting with the regular Asset Health Reviews, ensuring the reliability and performance of our critical infrastructure. This role requires national travel across England and Wales.

This role is based out of one of our National Grid offices, and we’d hope to see you at least two days per week but you’re welcome to be in the office more often if that would work best for you. We’re happy to discuss any additional flexibility in working patterns or requirements that you feel could help to make this job work for you!

What You'll Do

• Assist the ‘NG Principal Designer or representative’ (i.e. ‘Designer) where appropriate and dependant upon experience. To provide detailed engineering support in own field of expertise, to ensure cost effective and appropriate option selection for project detailed design and delivery, including coordination and resolution of technical issues from internal and external stakeholders.
• Support the development of standardised solutions for asset interventions.
• Technically manage external contracts, contractor and stakeholder relationships and direct framework consultants, to drive consistency and ‘value engineering’, working in partnership with wider NG teams as appropriate.
• Provide the design, with authorised support from a Transmission Network Engineer on a risk-based approach to the Occupiers Representative or Project Managers, so that projects can proceed to the next stage and to eventual commercial service.
• Working towards authorisation to enable the ability to discharge the roles required by the Network Engineering Manager across Primary and Secondary Technologies.
• Provide technical input and advice, dependant upon experience to the wider business by providing 1st and 2nd line technical support on secondary technologies.
• Author, develop, advise on, implement and maintain Work Specifications (both maintenance and refurbishment) as appropriate and ensure all lessons learned and best practice are incorporated as required.
• Coordinate technical investigations through the role of Technical Secretary, within scope of competency and progress to completion subsequent engineering investigations.
• Undertake audit and incident analysis in support of health of engineering and commissioning reviews and recommend performance improvements and providing assurance on the status of transmission engineering Version 2.0 June 2018.
• Work seamlessly with Development and Delivery teams to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of the NARMs Programme, whilst ensuring the execution of National Grid governance requirements.

What You'll Have

• Knowledge of site work in the area of engineering expertise, including proficient understanding of procedural requirements – particularly associated with NARMs schemes.
• Knowledge of design, extension and lifetime management of assets associated with area of engineering expertise.
• Understanding of ET Operations Policy and Procedure.
• Working knowledge of NG Safety Rules and National Safety Instructions.
• Working towards/appropriate competency/authorisations in line with Transmission Procedures & NG Electricity Transmission Safety Rules.
• Demonstrable increase of knowledge across 2 x Secondary Technologies.
• Experienced in effective communication skills, including the ability to make persuasive presentations to multi-disciplined teams / audiences.
• Knowledge of negotiation/contract management and influencing at all levels.
• Knowledge of building and maintain relationships internally and externally with key stakeholders.
• Knowledge of ISO9001 and the application of Quality Management Systems within NARMs projects.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At National Grid, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for everyone. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience or qualifications don’t match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for our growing business in this role or another one

What You'll Get

Salary range between £47,442 - £54,000 dependent on experience.

Plus:

• Annual Bonus (based on personal and company performance) and annual salary review.
• Competitive contributory pension scheme (we double-match your contribution to a max company contribution of 12%.
• 26 days holiday (plus the opportunity to buy more each year).
• Life Insurance at 10 x your basic salary.
• Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, exam fees and time off for study leave – relevant to your role.
• Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days).
• Access to apps which support health, fitness and wellbeing.
• Career development, ongoing training and support, career progression and plenty of opportunity to progress!

Further Information

This is a hybrid working role with circa travel required to other sites. The closing date for this vacancy is midnight 22 September 25, with interviews due to take place w/c 29 September 25 onwards. We encourage candidates to submit their applications as early as possible and not to wait until the published closing date. National Grid’s recruitment periods can and may vary. We reserve the right to remove this advert or close it to further applications at any point during the recruitment process.

About us

Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live. The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry. To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business

At National Grid, we work towards the highest standards in everything we do, including how we support, value and develop our people. Our aim is to encourage and support employees to thrive and be the best they can be. We celebrate the difference people can bring into our organisation, and welcome and encourage applicants with diverse experiences and backgrounds, and offer flexible and tailored support, at home and in the office. Our goal is to drive, develop and operate our business in a way that results in a more inclusive culture. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, the innovation from diverse teams & perspectives and business need. We are committed to building a workforce so we can represent the communities we serve and have a working environment in which each individual feels valued, respected, fairly treated, and able to reach their full potential.

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