Workplan Delivery Manager (Transmission National Control Centre)
Warwick, GB, CV34 6DA
About the role
At National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) we are passionate about both operating our network safely and providing a highly reliable quality of supply for our customers. At the heart of achieving these outcomes is effective management of our network. The way we operate it, the way we plan it, is key to delivering an increased workload as we accelerate towards Net Zero.
The Transmission Network Control Centre (TNCC), is on the front line of the electricity transmission system, ensuring safety and system security standards are maintained at all times.
After a successful trial held in the outage season of 2024, the TNCC Workplan Delivery Team has been established permanently, and will increase its team size and associated accountabilities. This team collaborates with key stakeholders such as Asset Operations and Operational Planning teams.
The ambition is for this team to continue to grow as system access becomes increasingly difficult to secure and resources become increasingly spread as we head into delivering CP2030, whilst also managing the impact of transitioning to working across 2 Control Rooms on a new SCADA system.
As Workplan Delivery Manager you’ll lead a multi-disciplined team managing the Week Ahead and Current Week Workplan Delivery through the National Electricity Transmission Control Room. This will include all transmission outages and Commissioning Switching Programmes to enable delivery of multi-million-pound capital scheme works.
You’ll take ownership of reducing plan churn, holding stakeholders to account for delivery commitments, whilst identifying issues before they impact on the business and develop and implement solutions.
You’ll be based at our office in Warwick twice a week and this can be combined with hybrid working from home.
What you'll need
You’ll ideally have engineering knowledge and experience of operation of the transmission system and be capable of making operational decisions confidently and quickly, whilst maximising safe and efficient throughput.
You’ll have strong organisational and planning skills and experience of data analysis and developing and delivering performance related measures from data sets.
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills are essential, coupled with the ability to build relationships and work collaboratively across businesses. You’ll also have excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to make complex technical decisions within operational timescales.
You’ll have experience acting as a stakeholder single point of leadership contact and leading a team to deliver successful insight, able to understand risk and controls and to track and monitor these.
What's in it for you?
- Salary £63,000 to £81,000 per annum
- Up to 15% Annual Performance Based Bonus
- 28 days annual leave, plus eight statutory days
- Generous contributory pension scheme - we will double-match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%
- The option to buy additional or sell holiday days
- Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, exam fees and time off for study leave – so long as it’s relevant to your role
- Access to several flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few
- Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days)
- Access to a numerous apps which support health, fitness and wellbeing
More Information
This advert closes at midnight on 6th March 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.
Interviews are likely to take place w/c 10th and 17th March.
At National Grid we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace for everyone. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience or qualifications don’t 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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