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Gas Network Shift Operations Engineer
Salary from £40,109 plus a 26% shift allowance
Up to 10% bonus
37.5 Hours Per Week - working shifts covering our 24/7 operation
Based at our offices Doxford Park, Sunderland
Join our dynamic System Control Team at NGN’s Energy Management Centre (EMC), a 24/7 hub responsible for demand balancing and the safe, efficient transportation of gases from the various entry points onto the NGN networks, to the consumer. As a Gas Network Shift Operations Engineer, you’ll play a vital role in maintaining system balance, managing remote assets, and ensuring network resilience. Being a 24/7 operation, please be advised that you will be working a shift pattern.
As a Gas Network Shift Operations Engineer you will develop detailed knowledge of all NGN gas systems, our characteristics, behaviours, and how to develop the regular forecasts and balancing strategies necessary to maintain supply, and to publish this information to National Gas.
Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities
* Develop strategies that ensure system balance and gain sign off from the shift lead prior to publication
* Manage the remote plant and equipment associated with the daily balancing of the network, including offtakes, storage sites, valves and regulators to ensure that network capacity requirements are met
* Handle alarms generated by the network, analysing such in conjunction with the shift lead to raise faults and ensure an appropriate response is secured, based on the defined alarm response and assessment of prevailing conditions
* Manage the daily maintenance activity on the network both for planned and unplanned maintenance as well as non-routine activities to ensure that network capacity and resilience requirements are met
* Support the department during Network Gas Supply Emergencies or equivalent exercises to meet NGN statutory obligations
* Provide cover arrangements for the 24/7 function and additionally provide cover for the other functions working weekdays within the EMC
What we are looking for
* Degree-level education or equivalent within a technical discipline
* Ability to demonstrate technical knowledge and experience of successful project planning and co-ordination on a range of work types
* Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
* Effective communicator – written, verbal, and numerical
* Previous positive work / engagement with external stakeholders
If you are passionate about ensuring the safety and efficiency of gas networks we would love to hear from you!
Please Note: National Security Vetting is a requirement for this role.
What we offer you
* Salary from £40,109 per annum plus a 26% shift allowance
* Up to 10% bonus per annum
* 25 days annual leave (plus recognised bank holidays and 2 half days over the Christmas period)
* SSP for the first 2 calendar days then occupational sick pay
* Flexible benefits and salary sacrifice options... from discounts on a variety of UK attractions, gym membership, restaurant discounts, experience days... and much more!
* An array of fantastic family-friendly policies such as 6 weeks paternity leave (for eligible employees) and 6 months' full pay for employees on maternity leave (for eligible employees), as well as shared parental leave and many more!
We are... Northern Gas Networks. We deliver gas to 2.7 million homes and businesses in the North East, Northern Cumbria and much of Yorkshire. That’s around 6.7 million individual customers. We don’t generate or sell the gas, but we transport it to homes and businesses in our region through a vast network of underground pipes. In fact, we own and maintain more than 37,000km of gas pipes - enough to stretch from Leeds to Sydney and back again. We cover large cities like Newcastle, Sunderland, Leeds, York, Hull, and Bradford, and our work extends to rural areas like North Yorkshire and Cumbria.
Our Values are at the heart of what we do. In addition to your key responsibilities, you will incorporate these into the daily life of your role. We are… Trailblazing, Empowered, Heartfelt, Community Focused, Intellectually Curious and most of all we are Happy!
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion culture at NGN is embedded in everything that we do. We will be delighted to hear from a diverse range of applicants, so we can continue to grow our great team of people. We are proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant, helping ex-services personnel back into employment, as well as being members of WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) and we are committed to delivering our ‘Opportunity Action Plan’ having signed the Social Mobility Pledge campaign, whereby we will establish our business as a ‘force for good’ in the communities that we serve.
Next Steps - Please apply by clicking 'apply' and uploading your CV. We love to see how your experience and skills are transferable to this role so please ensure these are all included in your application. Once the advert has closed, we will be in contact within one week to let you know if you have progressed to the next stage. We are looking to hold interviews for this role beginning of September. We look forward to receiving your application for the role.
If you require adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process, we want to hear about how we can help. Any applicant that requires reasonable adjustments from initial application through to interview are asked to contact the Recruitment Team at NGNCareers@northerngas.co.uk
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