Job at a glance
As a Network Design Engineer, you will play a key role in the planning and design of the distribution network, ensuring network security, reliability and long-term asset performance. You will undertake network analysis, develop solutions for customer connections and reinforcement projects, and help deliver safe, efficient and cost-effective designs that support both customer and business objectives.
Lead the assessment and delivery of customer connection requests, ensuring compliance with regulatory and licence requirements. Produce and review network designs and quotations for new connections, reinforcements and network alterations. Carry out network analysis and modelling to identify optimal technical solutions. Manage third-party Point of Connection and design approval activities across the licence areas.
Apply sound engineering principles to enhance network performance, safety and asset longevity. Identify and implement innovative technical, procedural and commercial solutions. Build strong relationships with customers, stakeholders and delivery partners. Promote a strong safety culture and ensure safe-by-design principles are embedded throughout all activities. Support and mentor less experienced engineers, graduates and trainees.
Strong knowledge of distribution network design standards up to 33kV. Experience using network analysis and modelling tools. Understanding of the regulatory framework and customer connection processes. Ability to develop practical engineering solutions to complex challenges. Commercial awareness and an understanding of balancing customer requirements with network and business needs. Excellent stakeholder management, communication and presentation skills.
Ability to manage competing priorities and make sound technical and financial decisions. Experience operating within a utility, power or infrastructure environment. Minimum Criteria Engineering qualification or equivalent industry experience. Proven experience in a network design role. Knowledge of network construction and operational practices. Strong IT and system skills. Full UK driving licence preferred.
What's in it for you At SP Energy Networks our focus is on harnessing technology and innovation to create the networks of the future. Our team is building a dynamic network to meet the changing demands for electricity and increasingly, renewable electricity - safely, securely and sustainably in the communities we serve. At SP Energy Networks, we know people are central to building a better future, quicker and we are seeking new talent to join our team.
What you'll be doing, Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more Why SP Energy Networks SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England.
We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network - connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It's a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland's ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we're taking it very seriously. We're investing £5.5 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy.
With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation. Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve.
It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you'll fit right in. We a