Engineering Assistant

Reference Number - 79916

This Engineering Assistant will report to the Civil Asset Strategy Manager and will work within the Asset Management directorate based in our Crawley office. You will be a Fixed Term Contract (15 months) employee.

You will attract a salary of £37,165.00 and a bonus of 3%. This role can also offer blended working after probationary period (6 months) - 3 days in the office and 2 remote.

Close Date: 06/12/2024

We also provide the following additional benefits

• 23 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays
• Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
• Tenancy Loan Deposit scheme
• Tax efficient benefits: cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Occupational Health support
• Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers products.
• Discounted access to sports and social clubs
• Employee Assistance Programme.

Job Purpose

The Asset Management Directorate's primary role is to help ensure UK Power Networks is equipped to solve the regulatory challenges of RIIO ED2 and beyond. Our ambition is to be regarded as the industry leader, and we are looking for talent with the vision and energy to lead the change.

Background

You will work as part of a diverse team, delivering asset and network plans for all civil and building works and understanding and reporting on important environmental and risk issues that will support our vision to achieve the best Performance.

The Asset Management function develops investment plans and programmes to improve the performance and maintain the condition, of a regulated asset base of £4billion with an MEAV of £28billion serving 8 million customers through a network of 137,000km of underground cable, 90,000km of overhead lines and 82,000 sub-stations.

The Asset Strategy team develop, implement, and oversee the delivery of asset life cycle strategies and plans that deliver the best performance in asset management. This includes developing a suite of leading asset modelling capabilities, ensuring network assets comply with relevant legislation and development of the annual, medium and long term asset replacement and defect management programmes that ensure target asset health indices are achieved.

The team assesses the condition of all civil and building assets and putting in place investment programmes to ensure asset health is maintained with regulatory targets, identifying refurbishment, replacement and maintenance interventions that allow cost outperformance in achieving asset health targets.

You will need to build relationships with teams across UK Power Networks and its contractors. The role therefore requires the ability to communicate clearly and confidently.

Principal Accountabilities

• You will assist with analysis and monitoring of civils data, including continuous development of systems, processing and reporting capabilities
• Raise and processing of work orders and projects using SAP
• Collate monthly and ad-hoc reporting packs and power BI dashboards, requiring liaison with multiple partners
• Help create and develop asset refurbishment, replacement, inspection and maintenance programmes.
• Update the Asset Strategy Intranet page
• Provide real time asset management response and technical support.
• Support the collation and production of regulatory reporting tables.

Qualifications

• You will understand assets owned and operated by UK Power Networks.
• Experience of engineering preferred, supported with a qualification in related subjects.
• Data management/data auditing skills.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft applications, including Word, Excel and Power point
• Experience using SAP and PowerBI is desirable.

Should you not have the full range of essential skills, qualifications and competencies listed above, there may be an opportunity for further training to equip you appropriately.

Health & Safety Responsibilities

Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment.

Employees will ensure they understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.

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