Long-Term Planner, Outage Planning

Overview

Plan and manage long-term outage schedules for NGET's 10‑year strategic plan.

Key Responsibilities

• outage planning
• plan optimisation
• risk management
• stakeholder engagement
• work plans
• zone ownership

Tasks

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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

Requirements

• high voltage
• asset management
• negotiation
• communication
• earned value
• stem

What You Bring

Knowledge on safe working practices, high voltage assets and systems, Asset Management practises and outage management would all be beneficial but not essential. 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 be an excellent communicator with the ability to actively listen and articulate concepts and risks to a variety of audiences. 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.

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Benefits

A competitive salary of £47,400 - £59,000 per annum 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. 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. -Access to numerous apps which support health, fitness and wellbeing. -Generous contributory pension scheme - we will double-match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12% -26 days annual leave, plus eight statutory days -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) -The option to buy additional or sell holiday days -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. -Annual Performance Based Bonus

About National Grid

-Plays a critical role in delivering electricity and gas to millions of homes and businesses. -Operates in both the UK and US, ensuring safe and reliable energy distribution. -Deeply involved in the development of renewable energy infrastructure, including wind and solar projects. -Key projects include cross-border power links to improve energy security and integrating low-carbon solutions. -Continually innovates to meet growing energy demand while reducing environmental impact. -Operates in both electricity and natural gas distribution across a vast geographical area in the US. -Invests in sustainability initiatives and clean energy infrastructure.

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