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This is an exciting opportunity to join National Grid Electricity Transmission.
What you'll do
When you join our 18-month Graduate Development Programme, you’ll be part of a team that works with all other teams across National Grid Electricity Transmission (ET) to ensure that we keep the focus on safety as we build our energy network for the future. Within this role you’ll have opportunities to learn and get involved with lots of activities across ET, championing safety at all times. You’ll be exposed to all aspects of safety at ET which covers everything from safety from our electricity system and construction activities to ensuring a good behavioural safety culture. As part of our graduate scheme, you will also complete broadening placements so you can gain a wider understanding of our business.
You’ll also
- Actively support the drive on safety performance across ET
- Support and influence leaders and managers to take full accountability for safety leadership in their part of the business
- Support / lead on allocated projects to drive continuous improvement in our safety performance
- Develop your understanding of safety legislation so you can support colleagues across ET to ensure compliance with safety legislation
- Undertake analysis of data to provide insightful management information to the ET business
About You
You’re proactive, curious, and able to work both as part of a team and autonomously on projects.
You’ll have a minimum 2.2 degree and have a valid full UK Driving Licence at least three months prior to start date as you’ll be out and about as part of this role.
What You'll Get
You’ll get exposure to large scale industrial process operation and engineering including collaboration with different engineering and maintenance disciplines and will gain good understanding the importance of safety the business and of safety engineering early in design. This experience can be transferred around the business.
You’ll develop technical skills to solve safety and environmental engineering, design and operational problems, and own, manage and implement improvement projects developing project management and delivery skills.
We are proud to offer a starting salary of £30,278 (Bachelors) or £31,379 (Masters).
As a first step to your career in the energy industry, our Graduate Programmes are like no other! You’ll gain an insight into how we work at National Grid, understand what a career with us can offer, and receive some great rewards and benefits:
- £2,000 bonus, once joined and started on programme
- 25 days holiday
- £2,400 payment on successful completion of the programme
- Up to £200 per month accommodation allowance as you move around the business, and additional annual leave for when you move between placements plus assistance with moving personal belongings
- Cost of living allowance (inner London, Metropolitan and Outer Metropolitan areas)
- Other benefits include pension and share-option schemes, Flexible Benefits, close mentorship and regular feedback, accreditation by the IMechE, IGEM and IET, and volunteering opportunities.
National Grid is committed to the personal development of our staff. Joining us, you’ll be supported as you develop a wide range of leadership, business, and technical skills through structured training and on the-job experience. You’ll work closely with your line manager to establish and navigate through a Personal Development Plan that is tailored to your needs.
About Us
National Grid is at the heart of the energy future, and our people are at the heart of National Grid. We’re 30,000 colleagues strong. In the UK, National Grid don’t generate or sell energy – we join the dots to get energy from A to B. From making a cup of tea in the morning, to keeping the lights on in hospitals, our electricity network puts power in the hands of people. Without it, the world as we know it would grind to a halt.
The world of energy is changing beyond recognition as we focus on building a cleaner, greener future. Working at National Grid, you won’t just be touching the lives of almost everyone in the UK – you’ll be shaping the way we use and consume energy for generations to come.
