OHL Engineering Data Manager

Powering resilient networks through trusted, high‑quality data—transforming Overhead Line insights into confident, future-ready decisions.

We’re looking for an OHL Engineering Data Manager to join our Overhead Line team.

The OHL Engineering Data Manager is responsible for the end-to-end management, analysis, and presentation of all Overhead Line (OHL) Condition Monitoring data for National Grid Electricity Transmission. The role ensures the organisation maintains a robust and accurate understanding of OHL asset condition, enabling effective risk management, investment prioritisation, informed engineering decision-making, and long-term system resilience.

The position provides technical leadership, develops analytical standards, drives data quality, and ensures stakeholders across Operations, Asset Management, Network Engineering, and Capital Delivery receive clear, timely, and actionable insights.

This is a Variable Base with hybrid working and regular travel to project sites, and offices depending on team requirements. We’re happy to discuss any additional flexibility in working patterns or requirements that could help make this role work for you.

What You'll Do

• Own and develop Condition Monitoring (CM) standards, processes and governance frameworks, ensuring alignment with technical policies, safety rules, and engineering assurance requirements.
• Provide authoritative leadership across all CM activities, ensuring consistent application of methods and alignment with national priorities.
• Approve, challenge and quality assure all CM analytical outputs, ensuring accuracy, traceability and defensibility for decision making.
• Lead complex investigations into asset deterioration, structural behaviour, emergent risks or technology performance issues, producing evidence-based recommendations.
• Lead the national CM delivery programme across tactical (multiyear) and operational (within year) timeframes, ensuring efficient use of resources, outage windows and inspection opportunities.
• Lead the introduction and scaling of new monitoring technologies, automation and AI augmented analytics.
• Drive continuous improvement in CM processes, data quality, workflows, and digital tools, ensuring the function remains at the forefront of industry practice.

What You'll Have

• Professional Registration: IEng (or evidence of working toward).
• Level 4 qualification or equivalent industrial experience.
• Strong understanding of ISO9001 and engineering governance.
• Significant technical experience in condition monitoring, inspection methods and degradation behaviours.
• Strong understanding of engineering governance, and assurance processes.
• Demonstrated leadership capability, including team management, coaching and technical direction.
• Experience managing quality assurance of engineering outputs, including compliance with standards such as ISO9001.
• Strong communication skills - able to organise, manage and disseminate critical information.
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Office and appropriate programmes.
• Excellent administrative and organisational skills - able to organise own and others time effectively.
• Significant indirect financial influence through CM contracts, technology procurement, and data quality affecting NARMs and investment planning outcomes.

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

Up to £75,000 dependent on experience.

As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on personal and company performance with on target being 15% (with a maximum of 30%) and a competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. You will also have access to several flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

Further Information

This is a hybrid working role with travel required. The closing date for this vacancy is midnight 6 July 26, with interviews due to take place 13 July 26 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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