Operational Planning Engineer Full Time

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.

What You’ll Need

• A minimum level 3 Electrical or Mechanical engineering qualification or the relevant experience in a previous role.
• You can demonstrate experience of prioritising and allocating various specialist resource with different skill sets to meet the requirements of multiple resource plans. You’ll be a people person able to work collaboratively with a large number of stakeholders from across the business. Competent in the use of Microsoft Office packages. Asset knowledge for the electricity transmission network is beneficial. A full UK driving licence is required.

What You’ll Get

• Up to £60,000pa + Benefits Package + Training and Development + Company car
• 26 days annual leave plus 8 statutory days.
• London Allowance dependent on location.
• 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%. 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 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 apps which support health, fitness and wellbeing.

Further Information

The closing date for this vacancy is Midnight 15 May 26, with interviews due to take place w/c 25 May 26 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.