Graduate Major Connections Engineer

The Programme

The 2-year structured graduate programme will offer you the opportunity of 9 months rotational placements, relevant to your role, helping you better understand the role of UK Power Networks and its directorates. The second year will see you placed in your first supported role. Working towards the roles and responsibilities outline below, you will start contributing to your team's success and meeting objectives. Throughout the programme you will develop the knowledge, competencies and leadership skills through embedded training sessions to help you excel at UK Power Networks, along with mentorship from a senior leader.

Responsibilities:

• From an initial customer application and any subsequent clarifications you will work with teams collaboratively from across the wider business to develop a solution that exceeds the customer expectations.
• Develop your skills to make presentations both internally to senior management to gain approval for the solutions and external customers to aid their understanding of the proposals.
• Visit Customer and UK Power Networks sites with operational and construction colleagues to understand site conditions ensuring our plans reflect what needs to be delivered.
• Ensure compliance with our statutory and regulatory duties as part of the quoting and delivery phases of the project. This ensures the network is operated safely and our customers receive a reliable supply of electricity.
• Engage partners to ensure our plans meet their needs and that the needs of the network are met in the long term.
• To learn the techniques leading toward the management of a portfolio of schemes at different stages of the project life cycle simultaneously.
• Manage the financial control of the projects that you are responsible for during delivery and ensure any changes to the scope during delivery are captured and managed with the customer.

Personal Characteristics

• Work as a Team Player in a dedicated team of project managers and support staff
• Able to prioritise and manage multiple projects at the same time
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Willing to challenge and be different rather than accepting the status quo

What you'll need

• You will have achieved or be on target to achieve a minimum of an Honours bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering
• And / or an MEng in an Engineering or STEM related subject.

We're also looking for:

• Analytical and data minded individuals with some experience in assessing data or models.
• Driven individuals who are eager to learn, willing to adapt and are good at forming relationships
• The ability to understand complex concepts, apply new approaches and communicate them at multiple levels with impact.

Key areas of interest

Occasional business travel will be required across our region (East Anglia, London and the South East of England).