Network Insights Engineer

81258 - Network Insights Engineer

This Network Insight Engineer will report to the Lead Network Insights Engineer and will work within the DSO Directorate based in our London office. You will be a permanent employee.

You will attract a salary of £80,574.00 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: 29/10/2025

We also provide the following additional benefits

• 25 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays.
• Reservist Leave – Additional 18 days full pay and 22 unpaid
• 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, Season Ticket Loan
• Tax efficient benefits: Cycle to Work, Home & Tech, and Green Car Leasing Schemes
• Occupational Health support
• Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers' products
• Discounted gym membership
• Employee Assistance Programme

Job Purpose

To support the delivery of UK Power Network's forecasting of supply and demand across its operating area. You will take an important role in producing key publications such as the Long-term Development Statement (LTDS), Week 24/50 and Network Development Plan (NDP) and other regulatory submissions such as the Load Index (LI).

As part of the Network Insights team you will engage with partners across the business and ensure accurate submissions are made, observing our licence conditions and our needs. You will also support the roll out and continued development of UK Power Networks' Strategic Forecasting System.

Deliver analysis, policies and projects required to support UK Power Networks' Distribution System Operator (DSO) strategy, including evolving and integrating associated business processes and ways of working. Alongside this Your role will involve engagement with the Regional Energy System Planner (RESP) to both align to their requirements and to ensure that UK Power Networks shapes future RESP outputs including regional energy pathways.

Principal Accountabilities

• Support the Lead Network Insights Engineer and Head of Network Strategy in developing and delivering the company and DSO strategy to help UK Power Networks to be proactive and forward-looking in facilitating the low carbon transition, whilst ensuring ongoing compliance with our regulatory commitments;
• Use new tools such as Artificial Intelligence to improve the processing of large datasets and to provide impactful insights for all partners;
• Ensure that UK Power Networks maintains compliance with its obligations under the Grid Code and its Distribution Licence;
• Technical analysis and preparation of data and documentation for the Long Term Development Statement (LTDS), the Planning Load Estimates (PLE), Week 24/50 submissions, Network Development Plan and other regulatory reporting including Load Indices and LV utilisation;
• Engagement with the network modelling team to ensure the network model is prepared and available to meet the requisite submission timelines;
• Carry out engineering analysis based on data and power system studies to inform engineering policies in the area of Distributed Energy Resources and their impact on the network;
• Contribute to the delivery of UK Power Networks Strategic Forecasting System (SFS)
• Technical analysis supporting development of the Distribution Future Energy Scenarios (DFES) or similar pathways feeding into the Strategic Forecasting System. This will also involve close collaboration with the Local Net Zero team to ensure that local and regional energy plans are covered in forecasts.
• Contribute to relevant Ofgem and industry consultations; and
• Analyse outputs from industry working groups and translate into action plans for internal implementation.

Nature and Scope

Electricity networks are seeing their biggest transformation since their beginnings. The DSO team is at the heart of it, a group of accomplished professionals with a range of skills in customer engagement, power systems, energy markets, data analytics, forecasting, ICT, and project management.

We are looking for someone who is a confident and effective communicator, able to work effectively across different teams within UK Power Networks and also represent UK Power Networks' externally.

Qualifications

Note if essential skills not met, this role would be offered at the lower salary range and grading as a development opportunity for a more junior candidate.

Essential qualifications

• Degree or equivalent experience in engineering or other quantitative discipline;
• An understanding of the principles of power systems engineering;
• An understanding of the characteristics of electricity distribution networks and how they are regulated;
• Knowledge of power system modelling packages, preferably with PowerFactory together with experience in data cleansing and analysis;
• You will have data and statistical analysis skills, preferably with experience of using AI;

• Experience working within a project management methodology and in particular understanding risk management and project planning techniques;
• You will deliver outputs to a high standard within given time constraints;
• You will use Microsoft Excel and potentially other software such as Power BI to digest data

Beneficial qualifications

• Postgraduate degree (MSc, MPhil, PhD) in science or engineering;
• Awareness of the smart solutions and new technologies that can be deployed on the distribution network in relation to current impacts that the connection of distributed energy has on UK Power Network's distribution network;
• Experience of project management in terms of working individually or in a team to deliver high-quality output against deadlines;
• Awareness of the requirements of Engineering Recommendations, in particular P2, is preferable, physical asset management practices and regulatory requirements;
• Understanding the impact of low carbon technologies (solar, wind, EVs, storage) are having on the distribution network;
• Experience with scripting programming languages such as Python and/or the ability to use AI tools such as Co-Pilot to process information

You should have the following qualities:

• Analytical skills
• Good team working skills;
• Good report writing skills - conveying complex issues simple on paper.

• Ability to communicate clearly and confidently at all levels of the organisation including presenting technical and financial arguments to internal and external audiences;
• Look for innovation and continuous improvement opportunities;

• Safety and environmental awareness

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. If you do not possess all relevant competencies for the core grade, it will be appropriate to appoint at a lower grade until they have developed the required competencies.

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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We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

If you have any queries in connection to this vacancy or your application, please contact us at careers@ukpowernetworks.co.uk quoting the vacancy reference number and a member of the team will get in touch with you as soon as possible.