National Grid

Building and repairing overhead lines, working on customer premises and working in a team.

Being on site, carrying out many a variety of different tasks from completing risk assessments, wiring and running cables between plant/equipment, maintaining plant with different insulation and keeping site clean/tidy.

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

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

To maintain and service substation equipment and to learn about the equipment in depth.

On site I am either working as part of a team or by myself either on outage work maintaining, refurbing or repairing HV Substation Equipment or Carrying out site repairs or routine work. For the first few years this would be under personal supervision unt...

apprentice craftsperson learning how to fix equipment on the electricity network

My role involves attending regular training at Eakring training centre, attending site where I will assist other craftpersons in maintenance, repair, routine and admin jobs. Through my first year at National Grid, I spend a lot of time completing a portfo...

When training, a normal day will be about 9-4:30. This includes at least a 30 minute lunch and a number of breaks throughout as well. Training takes place at a place called Eakring and they provide all food and accommodation for when you need to stay over...

When there is outage work I am always busy carrying out essential maintenance on the high voltage equipment. This is can be rewarding and enjoyable as there is a good team spirit with the other workers. However, depending on the area you are based in ther...

I will work on a substation and my role is to be a substation craftsperson. Being a substation craftsperson means I will be looking after the assets on a substation. For example one of the tasks I may be assigned to could be maintenance on an asset such a...

I am an apprentice, so i have to shadow experienced craftspersons and take part in various jobs in order to satisfy the requirements on my log book. At times i am also frequently training at the national grid training center in Earking, where we learn ski...

The Apprenticeship includes lots of hands on maintenance and installation of HV electrical equipment up to 400Kv, about half of the 3 years is dedicated to training courses including city and guilds and practical training skills.

My Job role at the end of my apprenticeship is to work in a high voltage substation maintaining and servicing the equipment. As an apprentice it involves a mixture of coming up to national grid's training academy at Eakring to carry out courses and other...

good job, maintaining plant and equipment to operational standards, follow the correct work processes and procedures, see different areas of work i.e. pipelines, compressors, terminals, AGI's etc communicating with suppliers, raising permits, working wi...

I am an apprentice training to be an electrical and instrumentation technician within gas transmission. I am currently in my final year of the apprenticeship scheme which is four years in total. On site my role is to maintain the safety, integrity and eff...

As an apprentice my days mainly consist of learning and training. This ranges from health and safety and policies to the equipment I will be working on. This training is either completed online due to COVID or at the training centre.

My job role will involve maintaining, repairing and fitting assets on various substations around the Staffordshire area.

I'm currently in training to become a substation craftsperson, my role will be to complete maintenance and refurbishments on all substation plant and apparatus. Im currently training and learning a variety of skills to be able to complete the apprenticshi...