Development Director

Overview

Lead delivery of customer connections, ensuring technical, financial and regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• financial forecasting
• customer engagement
• safety culture
• engineering excellence
• project sign‑off
• risk management

Tasks

-Responsibility for the appropriate monitoring, control and data associated with all investments within the portfolio, providing accurate and timely financial forecasting information to support customer securities, regulatory reporting and the business and capital plan. -Responsibility for managing a responsive service into our business, ensuring that engagement with customers from initial concept through to the provision of timely updates. -Responsible for driving a safety culture to achieve and uphold the highest levels of Health & Safety, actively embedding Safety by Design into our engineering solutions -Ensure that best practise is developed and shared across CC and wider ET, ensuring consistency for our customers, actively embrace innovation and drive a culture of engineering excellence in the solutions we provide. -Ensure that the portfolio is “set up” for delivery, aligning across NGET critical functions from Design Assurance, Asset Operations site and securing the necessary outage and resource to enable onward completion of the project. -Provide senior level sign-off for Major Projects/LRR projects, with appropriate level of technical and commercial challenge ensuring that projects are developed in line with the Network Development Policy. -Responsible for providing external support and guidance to strategically important customers and stakeholders, building relationships to understand their intent and help define the right technical solution and timescales for all parties. -Responsible for the recruitment, development, coaching and performance of the team. -Responsibility for the early project lifecycle up to project sanction to ensure all engineering activities are carried out across the portfolio, to ensure successful, timely completion and handover to Investment Delivery. -Determine a clear approach to regulatory alignment of the investments, ensuring time and best value solutions for NGET, Customers and Consumers (via OFGEM). -Provide oversight and mitigate all project risks, taken personal action to ensure portfolio level risks are adequately understood and mitigated. -Drive lessons learnt and seek opportunities to enhance our service provision to customers, managing the supply chain to achieve deliverables, challenging the status quo and seeking opportunities to standardise, reduce cost and accelerate connections into NGET.

Requirements

• riio
• power systems
• degree
• contract management
• senior level
• leadership

What You Bring

-Strong interpersonal and communication skills, capable of leading and influencing large, devolved teams, and gaining support and commitment from a wider operational group. -Clear understanding of the RIIO funding mechanism and the way National Gird delivers revenue under the regulatory framework -Customer management experience, able to influence customers and partner organisations. -Proficient technical knowledge of the Electricity Transmission System and the primary transmission assets, including knowledge of the NETS and Power Systems Concepts. -Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline with a considerable breadth and depth of proven experience in construction project, programme and contract management, CDM, Safety and Environmental Regulations. -Relationship management experience, driving engineering value and performance through major contracts -Significant experience working at a senior level within a construction / utilities environment. Executive experience leading large, complex programmes of work, enabling engineering teams to operate innovatively, effectively and efficiently. -Experience of leading change and business improvement within a complex organisation/programme or project.

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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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