Project Engineer; Delivery

Project Engineer Salary from £45,400 per year – plus excellent benefits package and further career progression opportunities/support. Middlewich Permanent / Full Time

• Deliver district business plan outputs—for system performance, maintenance, and reliability in line with regulatory commitments (e.g. Customer Minutes Lost, Customer Interruptions).
• Plan, coordinate, and execute maintenance activities (preventive and corrective) across overhead lines, underground cables, and substations.
• Respond promptly to network faults, carrying out diagnosis, isolation, restoration, and repair activities.
• Produce and implement fault rectification plans; minimise customer interruptions during fault resolution and capital works.
• Ensure continuous system performance by analysing fault data, extracting insights, and implementing improvement measures.
• Record and report maintenance/fault activities accurately into corporate systems to ensure compliance and traceability.
• Deliver capital investment and fault-related projects with strict adherence to safety, regulatory requirements, and cost targets.
• Lead and promote an exemplary safety culture; maintain high standards of health & safety compliance across all activities.
• Coordinate with internal teams and external contractors to deliver planned maintenance and emergency fault repair works.
• Assist project planning to minimise planned and unplanned outages and align maintenance with business objectives.
• Drive continual performance improvement through analysis of outputs and feedback from internal and external sources.
• Integrate asset stewardship and ownership values through sound engineering principles and coordinated planning and delivery activities to improve integrity, safety, and longevity of the electrical network.

• Technical and operational experience in a relevant engineering role.
• Relevant operational authorisations are required.
• Project management experience is preferred but not essential.
• Ability to devise solutions to complex problems/challenges.
• Effective stakeholder and customer service engagement and management.
• Ability to communicate and present information effectively at all levels. Ability to manage competing priorities using sound engineering and financial judgement to determine optimal solutions.
• General contract, commercial and regulatory awareness with the ability to balance effective and efficient customer service and project delivery, ensuring maximum return on investment.
• Knowledge of the regulatory environment including relevant output and incentive mechanisms.
• Awareness and understanding of key business drivers and the external commercial context in which SPEN is operating. Proactively engage with internal / external workforce to ensure project objectives are met.
• Provide district-based training to support internal / external operational growth.

• Experience in a network and operational role
• Relevant operational authorisations
• Experience in a project delivery role
• Computer literacy
• Engineering or Project Management/Professional qualification or equivalent experience

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday Purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Schemes
• Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding
• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
• Healthcare benefit options including:
  Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique…