About the Role
Base Location: Portsmouth
Salary: £58,630 - £68,098 and a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.
Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available
The role
An Operational Planning Engineer in the Network Management Centre (NMC) will be responsible for agreeing and planning all outage requirements on the electricity network up to and including 132kV (EHV), ensuring our Engineers are able to plan their work and operate the network. They conduct power system analysis and put in place contingencies in the event of a fault.
The role balances network access for both capital and revenue work while ensuring secure customer supplies and supporting OFGEM's incentives.
This is a key role within the control room monitoring SSEN's southern network which has over 3.1 million customers and is operational 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. As this role is critical to the control function, whilst there is flexibility on working hours, you will be required in the control room for most of your core hours.
You will
- Conduct power system analysis, mainly managing planned outages and faults on our network whilst ensuring our network is as secure as possible and minimise impact to our customers.
- Ensure SSEN's safety by mana...