Long-Term Planner, Outage Planning

About the role

National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) owns and operates the high voltage electricity transmission system in England and Wales. Our role is key in enabling the net zero transition by providing the electricity infrastructure needed to meet the UK’s ambitious targets. This requires us to ensure we optimise across the requirements of a broad range of customers and stakeholders while also considering the socio-economic and environmental implications of everything we do.

As Long-Term Outage Planner you’ll be part of our Network Operations and Intelligence (NOI) function. NOI is at the heart of the NGET business, providing end-to-end strategic, engineering and planning leadership to deliver strong business performance while meeting the needs of our customers and our sustainability commitments.

As part of the Strategic Planning Team, you’ll be responsible for owning zones of the long-term rolling plan which provides a forward-looking view of all works required to meet NGET’s future goals.

You’ll complete planning activities for the strategic 10-year plan of outages, creating deliverable work plans to establish delivery targets, liaising with internal stakeholders to understand planning inputs, investments and constraints.

Constantly managing and re-optimising plans based on changes, you’ll engage with relevant internal stakeholders and delivery teams to understand planning inputs, investments and constraints.  You will lead cross-functional collaboration to ensure a smooth delivery, proactively resolving escalations where required, and portraying ownership of allocated zones.

Chairing strategic meetings and communicating the plan to all key stakeholders, you’ll manage potential risks effectively, including key issues and quality, to ensure consistent transparency.

We’re flexible on where you’re based, but we would like to see you at our offices in Warwick, ideally once or twice a week or when required, and this can be combined with hybrid working from home.  There will also be the need for site visits occasionally throughout the year.

What you'll need

With the ability to negotiate, influence, challenge and resolve conflicts, you’ll be able to analyse complex scenarios and understand decision making processes. Patient and forward-looking, with the flexibility to adapt positively to significant change, you’ll be able to multi-task and prioritise workloads to tight deadlines, in short timescales, whilst working under pressure.

You’ll have a strong analytical, logical mind, with the ability to demonstrate schedule management, stakeholder management and earned value management. Previous experience in a planning role would be advantageous, otherwise have a STEM-based educational background.

You’ll be an excellent communicator with the ability to actively listen and articulate concepts and risks to a variety of audiences.

Knowledge on safe working practices, high voltage assets and systems, Asset Management practises and outage management would all be beneficial but not essential.

What's in it for you?

A competitive salary of £47,400 - £59,000 per annum

• Annual Performance Based Bonus

• 26 days annual leave, plus eight statutory days 
• The option to buy additional or sell holiday days 
• Generous contributory pension scheme - we will double-match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%
• Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, exam fees and time off for study leave – so long as it is relevant to your role
• 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.
• 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 numerous apps which support health, fitness and wellbeing.

More Information

This role closes at midnight on 27th October 2025 however we encourage candidates to submit their application as early as possible and not wait until the published closing date as this can vary.

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.

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