About the role

National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) is at the heart of energy in the UK. The electricity we provide gets the nation to work, powers schools and brings energy to life. Our energy network connects the nation, so it’s essential that it’s continually evolving, advancing and improving.  In NGET we are passionate about both operating our network safely and providing highly reliable quality of supply for our customers. 

As Outage Plan Risk Officer, you’ll be part of our Network Operations and Intelligence department. This is a growing team, introduced to provide insights and facilitate effective collaboration between the departments within NGET. It’s an exciting and ambitious team, where you’ll get to understand how the whole business is running and performing.

 
Working with the team, you will provide a holistic view of risks against our outage plan. Reviewing and reporting on these, you will identify, escalate and manage key portfolio risks, thereby providing insight and assurance to National Grid staff and leadership on core business processes and outcomes.  

 
You will work with stakeholders, including Project Managers and Planners, to create better insights including critical path understanding and quantifying the impacts to risks and mitigations.   Using your knowledge of power system engineering, you will query the deliverability of what’s in the plan and understand whether our mitigations are acceptable, challenging teams on the mitigations when necessary.

In addition, you will be responsible for the following:

•    Define and operate a framework for making decisions, manage stakeholder relationships, and identify legitimate authority. 
•    Develop, produce and deliver regular and one-off management information to provide insights and aid decision-making, including ad hoc reports to support monthly KPI packs.
•    Partner with business sponsors to define success metrics and criteria. 
•    Develop dashboards using BI tools to provide insights to support decision-making from operational to Exec level to drive business improvements.  
•    Introduce automation to existing reporting landscape. 
•    Lead cross departmental collaboration on KPI and data sharing to drive business improvements. 
•    Document key risks, impacts and mitigation plans to provide increased visibility of delivery performance & risk management. 

This role is based in our offices in Warwick, and this can be combined with hybrid working from home.

What you'll need

With a technical knowledge and understanding of outage plans, you will ideally have an understanding of power system engineering.

You will also have knowledge in Excel, Power BI, as well as experience of communicating with multiple stakeholders using both written and verbal communication across the hierarchy.  

Excellent stakeholder management, time management skills and the ability to work to deadlines, are all essential as is the ability to prioritise work with minimal supervision. 

Numerate and computer literate, you will have a good knowledge and understanding of the Utility regulatory environment and ideally an understanding of how the NGET business operates and its challenges.

More Information

This role closes at midnight 21st June 2025, however we encourage candidates to submit their application as early as possible and not wait until the published closing date as this can vary. 

 
Don’t meet every single requirement? At National Grid, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace for everyone. So if you are excited about this role but your experience or qualifications do not 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.  

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