National Grid

Day to day role includes me going into work checking my emails/admin work. After this learning about my job role and simulating my job on the scada system as well as completing uni work at the same time

As a Project Development Engineer in the Asset Operations department, my role encompasses a diverse range of tasks and responsibilities. These include working on a portfolio that focuses on the Repairing and Refurbishing of assets within a substation. I...

As a Substation Apprentice I spend the majority of my time chasing logbook jobs. This entails calling engineers around the country asking them if I may join their working party. I also have completed training courses at the training centre and finished a...

Running studies including thermal studies, fault levels and voltage studies. Conducting customer offers.

I will be training to join the TNCC after I have completed my training

As a control engineer I will be in the TNCC dealing with outages, alarms and other planned work which will be delegated to me from the senior control engineer. I will be at the heart of real time control of the high voltage electricity transmission system...

I am a Network Outage Planning Engineer Apprentice and I am learning to plan power outages 'for the current year ahead' (short term) which allows the physical 'National Grid' infrastructure to be worked on.

My role so far has involved a lot of training, this includes university study and training at national grids training facility in Eaking. The training provided has been excellent and well taught. I have also spent time in the National Grid main office in...

carrying out maintenance on hv equipment and attending training at national grid training centre eakring

as a planning engineer my role is to organise outages and assign work orders for the year ahead to be handed off to the current year team to carry out.

As an outage planner within the operational planning department, I will be responsible for planning and implementing the current year outages in order for the electricity grid to keep up and running. I am office based and work with internal and external s...

My current role is in the Analysis and modelling team, in this role I help look after the database for the system that Control room engineers use to maintain the power system. As part of the apprenticeship I get to experience a few different teams, so bef...

Using data systems to plan outages for maintenance/repair/commissioning of assets years ahead, which is to be passed onto the current year outage planners to complete checks to ensure the outage can go ahead.

My role as an apprentice involves a lot of enjoyable training either at the National Grid training facility at Eakring or Aston University, in addition to time on job completing projects and shadowing other members in my team. My team works on replacing a...

on the job learning was spent in the office on placements with various teams throughout the business. other training was spent in Eakring training centre learning other aspects of the industry (such as general fitting, H&S at work, and first aid). academi...

I split my time between in office work days based at Warwick, Aston University, and National Grid's training centre based in Eakring. While training we receive industry leading teaching regarding our future role. We also attend Aston University to get a F...

The job consists of a exciting balance between high level training courses at Eakring training academy, carrying out a HNC qualification at Loughborough college and then using this knowledge on site at substations to be able to work with HV electricity an...

As a substation engineering apprentice, my day to day activities include overseeing the protection and safety from the system for a large multitude of assets on the substation. From an operational standpoint this can include both in the office and out of...

Maintaining the equipment involved in the transmission of electricity across the country.

On site a day to day basis consists of online working which is online training courses or writing up about a job or planning and creating a safe workspace for a maintenance repair to be taken place. During training a typical day consists of a standard col...