Operational Planning Engineer

natgridProd

20h • $0 - $60,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Unlock your Superpower as a Planning Engineer with National Grid, expand your industry knowledge and play an essential role in developing the electricity transmission network to enable the UK to meet its climate commitments and net zero targets. This role is flexible on location across London, comes with a company car as travel is required, hybrid working with a mix of home, office and site. You’ll join a team who are a passionate, diverse and responsible for building and managing an optimised operational plan (Year ahead) for our site-based engineering teams. We do this by ensuring we secure sufficient access to the electricity transmission network and allocating specialist engineering resources to deliver major infrastructure projects, new customer connections and engineering works to make our network safe and reliable to meet our business targets. The work you’ll plan for is time critical and can change quickly so it's an excellent opportunity for you to innovate, lead, and deliver the required resources at the right time for projects and engineering work requirements for 50 sites across our London region for the year ahead. Essentially you are the main driver for ensuring substation engineering works go ahead, this also includes national prioritisation of resource shortfalls and movements collaborating with other planners. You’ll organise and chair monthly planning and performance meetings with Zonal Operational Managers to discuss system access (outage), resources and key performance indicators as you’ll be monitoring and reporting on them.

Requirements

• A minimum level 3 Electrical or Mechanical engineering qualification or the relevant experience in a previous role.
• Demonstrated experience of prioritising and allocating various specialist resources with different skill sets to meet the requirements of multiple resource plans.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a large number of stakeholders from across the business.
• Competent in the use of Microsoft Office packages.
• A full UK driving licence is required.

Nice To Haves

• Asset knowledge for the electricity transmission network is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Building and managing an optimised operational plan (Year ahead) for site-based engineering teams.
• Securing sufficient access to the electricity transmission network.
• Allocating specialist engineering resources to deliver major infrastructure projects, new customer connections and engineering works.
• Making the network safe and reliable to meet business targets.
• Driving substation engineering works to go ahead.
• National prioritisation of resource shortfalls and movements, collaborating with other planners.
• Organising and chairing monthly planning and performance meetings with Zonal Operational Managers.
• Discussing system access (outage), resources and key performance indicators.
• Monitoring and reporting on key performance indicators.

Benefits

• Company car
• 26 days annual leave plus 8 statutory days.
• 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%. Totaling 18%.
• 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.
• Access to flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree