National Grid

My first role was in the Security and Awareness teams, my day to day duties varied from making resources for communications with the company, doing awareness presentations to different areas of the business and running virtual escape rooms. I have just st...

The Role of a craftsperson is to carry out work on national grid assets as determined by outages making equipment available. This includes maintenance, refurbishment and inspection of equipment used for the transmission of electricity. It is a hands on mu...

My job role currently varies day to day. Despite Covid-19 I am managing to have interactions with all members of my team. I have been given responsibility to look into the topics which interest me and generally understand how National Grid as a company op...

Defined under framework as: Any Electrical Power Plant & Equipment and Protection System requires testing and commissioning to confirm that the installation and operation of new and refurbished protection plant & equipment comply with manufacturers’ spec...

The role involves completing quality training ranging from University foundation degree (assignments & essays & exams), attending Training courses (industry wide courses & exams) to In-house training (placements & logbooks & projects). In hindsight the ro...

It's easier to split this up into two parts, one as a "student" and the other as a trainee whilst on site. As a student, being put through a foundation degree, our day to day life is typical of al other students, learn, revise, exams and assignments. On...

I maintain, repair, refurbish and install substation equipment. This could involve maintenance work, repair work, refurbish work, or just routine work around site.

Currently, writing my university assignments, and working on learning my role. Its office based with the occasional site visit. My team and I deal with problems on the energy network and finds solutions to when assets fail. Discovering how they failed and...

My time is split between training at the academy and on site experience. At the academy, the day starts at 9am and courses usually run until 4.30 which can vary between practical and theory. On site, I can access the calendar to see what work I am planned...

Depending on the week I will either be at National Gird's training centre, at university or working on site. When on site I help in the maintenance, operation and testing the the transmission network, helping to keep the lights on and bring energy to life...

Working with a mentor through jobs, with him giving us a step by step guide which we work through. If there's any questions or anything we get stuck on he helps and explains it thoroughly. Every day is something different to get us used to all the differe...

My weeks vary between training, university or working. At study I am studying a foundation degree in power engineering. For work, i work within PMC where i am learning to be a project supervisor where i will be quoting jobs and planning jobs.

My role as an instrumentation technician is to monitor and maintain systems that support the operation of Gas re-pressurization and transmission. I work at Carnforth compressor station where my role entails working with pressure, flow, temperature, teleme...

Due to covid much of my daily job role has been achieved whilst at home. I typically spend most days working on university assignments, company projects and research. Occasionally we'll go up to the national grid training centre in Eakring where we'll lea...

My apprenticeship involves a mix between being on site gaining knowledge of every day work while also completing college work and achieving good qualifications there. Another major part of the apprenticeship is the excellent training provided at the train...

Maintenance of the gas pipelines and compressor station. At the moment it is online learning from the college that is done via Microsoft Teams. We also travel to National Grid's training site in Eakring to do manual training on tools and the gas pipelines...

I work in the Overhead Line Construction Procurement team at national grid, my daily role consists of supporting various projects and activities within my team. This includes interacting with external suppliers when tendering projects and liaising with th...

Utilising power engineering knowledge gained through university and training programmes to assist in various teams across national grid ESO. This involves utilising specialist computer programs and tools, and basic instruments. Day to day tasks involve pr...

My role is that of an Apprentice Substation Craftsperson. In this role we effectively look after the HV Transmission equipment found in a substation,up 400kV. I enjoy the work i do on a daily basis and i would recommend the company to anyone, i really fit...