EHV Field Engineer

This EHV Field Engineer will report to the Lead Field Engineer and will work within Network Operations based in our locations in SPN (Distributed Working) - Canterbury/Kingston/Strood/Croydon/Crawley office. You will be a permanent employee, To work as part of a team to deliver the 33kV and 11kV Primary Inspection & Maintenance programme within the South East geographical areas. This includes liaison with customers, network operations and control, networks planning and management of field staff and management of contractors.

• Ensure safety management throughout all responsibilities
• Responsibility for delivery of all construction, maintenance and fault works to time, cost and quality
• Ensure staff comply with all procedures and work to a high standard of quality
• Daily planning, coordination and real-time responsibility for the efficient utilisation of resources together with the South East Region scheduling team
• Communicate with HV/LV control - submission of HV/LV switching log, complete HV/LV network operations in accordance to distribution safety rules and procedures.
• Support and provide technical support to field staff
• Manage and resolve any contract actual issues, with the support of Contract Management.
• Produce Risk Assessments and Method Statements for the safe delivery of projects work.
• Complete quality assurance checks of works completed and to rectify any quality issues identified.
• Communicate with and manage relationships with our customers to meet their expectations wherever possible.
• To be prepared to assist other sections e.g. organisational changes, system emergencies as determined by your experience.
• You will encourage participation in an agreed standby arrangement for responding to safety/emergency network incidents following the 2012 PMSNF Standby Agreement.

Nature and Scope:
You will be an important contributor to the team and manage the delivery of the 33kV/11kV Primary Inspection and Maintenance work within a geographical area. The work will predominantly deliver the plant maintenance on the 33kV network, but will also include supporting the 33/11kV overhead, 33/11kV protection and 11kV distribution plant maintenance programmes within the region. Together with the scheduling team, Field Staff Supervisors and Field Staff, you will deliver an excellent service to our customers.

This service must ensure we meet the requirements of our Guaranteed Service Standards.

Notes for Candidates:
An EHV Field Engineer will deliver works on plant, underground cables, and overhead lines up to and including 33kV. This includes preparation and execution of switching schedules. Additionally, it includes issuing safety documents to others. We do not deem employees who only hold a SAP Manage competency for Plant Maintenance as a Full SAP. Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations.

This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment. Employees will ensure they understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.

Employees need to be aware that for some craft and operational roles that work at height, or use fall arrest devices, there is an upper weight limit of 116

Kg due to maximum safe working load of the safety equipment that is used.

• HNC Electrical Engineering (or equivalent)
• Up to and including 33kV SAP authorisation on the SPN network, You must attain the IOSH Managing Safely certificate within 12 months of appointment.
• IT literate including SAP.
• Knowledge of UKPN Inspection &…