Location – Middlewich
Salary from £44,000
Closing Date – 05/01/2026
Help us create a better future, quicker
The Maintenance / Faults Delivery Engineer ensures the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of SP Energy Networks' electricity distribution infrastructure. This includes both planned maintenance and rapid response to faults to minimise customer impact. You will also deliver district business plan outputs in line with financial, regulatory and business plan objectives whilst optimising return through incentive mechanisms.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Deliver district business plan outputs—for system performance, maintenance, and reliability in line with regulatory commitments (e.g. Customer Minutes Lost, Customer Interruptions).
* Plan, coordinate, and execute maintenance activities (preventive and corrective) across overhead lines, underground cables, and substations.
* Respond promptly to network faults, carrying out diagnosis, isolation, restoration, and repair activities.
* Produce and implement fault rectification plans; minimise customer interruptions during fault resolution and capital works.
* Ensure continuous system performance by analysing fault data, extracting insights, and implementing improvement measures.
* Record and report maintenance/fault activities accurately into corporate systems to ensure compliance and traceability.
* Deliver capital investment and fault-related projects with strict adherence to safety, regulatory requirements, and cost targets.
* Lead and promote an exemplary safety culture; maintain high standards of health & safety compliance across all activities.
* Coordinate with internal teams and external contractors to deliver planned maintenance and emergency fault repair works.
* Assist project planning to minimise planned and unplanned outages and align maintenance with business objectives.
* Drive continual performance improvement through analysis of outputs and feedback from internal and external sources.
* Integrate asset stewardship and ownership values through sound engineering principles and coordinated planning and delivery activities to improve integrity, safety, and longevity of the electrical network.
What You’ll Bring
* Technical and operational experience in a relevant engineering role.
* Relevant operational authorisations are required.
* Project management experience is preferred but not essential.
* Ability to devise solutions to complex problems/challenges.
* Effective stakeholder and customer service engagement and management.
* Ability to communicate and present information effectively at all levels.
* Ability to manage competing priorities using sound engineering and financial judgement to determine optimal solutions.
* General contract, commercial and regulatory awareness with the ability to balance effective and efficient customer service and project delivery, ensuring maximum return on investment.
* Knowledge of the regulatory environment including relevant output and incentive mechanisms.
* Awareness and understanding of key business drivers and the external commercial context in which SPEN is operating.
* Proactively engage with internal / external workforce to ensure project objectives are met.
* Provide district-based training to support internal / external operational growth.
Minimum Criteria
* Experience in network and operational role
* Relevant operational authorisations
* Experience in a project delivery role
* Computer literacy
* Engineering or Project Management/Professional qualification or equivalent experience
What’s In It For You
As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.
Benefits
At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:
* 36 days annual leave
* Holiday Purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
* Share Schemes
* Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding
* Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
* Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
* Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
* Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments
* Life Assurance (4x salary)
* Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support
* Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more
Why SP Energy Networks
SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network – connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It’s a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland’s ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we’re taking it very seriously. We’re investing >£5.5 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.
Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.
We are committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to careers@scottishpower.com.
Mobility
Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.
IMPORTANT
Advert will close at 23:59 GMT the day before Job Posting End Date below
January-5-2026