Innovation Engineer

About Us

At National Grid, we light up the world by harnessing the unique strengths of our people. Join us as a Associate Innovation Engineer or Innovation Engineer to be part of a team that's driving forward the energy transition, creating a brighter, more sustainable future for all. Unleash your superpower and bring energy to life.

We are currently expanding our team with multiple opportunities across different Innovation Engineer levels, offering both permanent and fixed-term contract roles. We will work with you during the selection process to determine the role, level and contract type that best matches your skill set and background.

This role is designated as hybrid
, with an expectation of one or two days per week in the Warwick office. Requirements may vary based on business needs and company policy.

As an Innovation Engineer, you’ll be right at the centre of this work - researching, trialling, and deploying new ideas that make a tangible impact. You’ll take ownership of a diverse portfolio of projects, from concept through to delivery, ensuring they drive measurable value for the business.

We’re looking for engineers with curiosity, creativity, and a passion for making a difference.

This is more than just a technical role. It’s an opportunity to influence the future of the UK’s energy system, tackle climate challenges head-on, and work on projects that matter. You’ll join a supportive, forward-thinking team with the flexibility of hybrid working and the chance to grow your expertise in a range of disciplines.

• Exploring and prioritising new ideas and supporting the development of innovation strategies.
• Developing strong business cases and deployment plans for project sanctioning.
• Leading technical research, development, and demonstration projects across a given portfolio.
• Driving the strategy for your given innovation portfolio, working with senior leaders and sponsors to shape the right innovation opportunities and projects.
• Building strong relationships across the energy ecosystem - from colleagues to suppliers and external innovators.
• Embedding innovation into business as usual and delivering value from innovation.
• Championing an innovation culture across NGET.

• A background in innovation, with knowledge of high-voltage or transmission environments.
• Experience in one or more of our innovation portfolio areas: substations, overhead lines, underground/offshore cables, power systems, sustainability, resilience, data/digital, customer connections. For these roles experience in customer connections, power systems, data/digital is preferable but not essential.
• Experience developing technology-based solutions and deploying them into operational settings.
• Strong commercial awareness and stakeholder engagement skills.
• The ability to think strategically and define future innovation needs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in project, stakeholder, and supplier management.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Associate Innovation Engineer
- Competitive salary between £47,000 – £54,000 dependent on capability

Innovation Engineer
- Competitive salary between £54,000 – £63,000 dependent on capability

As well as your base salary, you will receive

• 26 days holiday, plus eight statutory days, an option to buy extra holiday days, and the option to holiday swap up to 3 bank holiday days
• An annual performance incentive
• A generous pension scheme, double matched up to 6% of your salary each month. For every £1 you contribute we’ll put in another £2, so if you put in 6%, we’ll add 12% giving a total of 18% to your pension pot
• Life insurance at 10 times basic salary
• Employer funding towards a portion of your Private Medical Insurance.
• You will also have access to a number of flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

The closing date for this vacancy is 5th August. However, we encourage candidates to submit their applications as early as possible and not to wait until the published…