Network Resilience Manager

At National Grid, we light up the world by harnessing the unique strengths of our people. Join us as a Network Resilience Manager 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.

National Grid is hiring a Network Resilience Manager - This position is based from our Warwick office 2/3 days however we offer flexible hybrid working options.

As a Network Resilience Manager you will have overall accountability for creating, presenting and delivering the NGET Network Resilience Strategy across key risk and network operational areas and ensuring that the resilience management frameworks are in place.

The resilience of our Control Rooms, Systems, Networks, the capability of our people and the management frameworks and policies they work within are critical to ensuring that safety and system security standards are maintained at all times.

• Accountable for building strategic relationships with internal and external customers and stakeholders regarding resilience strategy and policy issues on behalf of NGET and for leading the agenda in our interactions with these organisation
• Ensure key risk areas for resilience are identified and control strategies agreed with the business
• Lead on ET Resilience Strategy and framework for ET accountable for creating, presenting and delivering the NGET resilience strategy and policies across key risk and network operational areas
• Accountable for proactively identifying, managing and reporting on whole network operational resilience and reliability risk to ensure NGET is delivering a safe and reliable network for our customers including site critically methodologies
• Accountable for system event follow-up investigations, internal management investigations and ensure learning points are understood and preventive actions initiated.
• Accountable for the development and continuous improvement of the Energy Not Supplied process.
• Accountable for ensuring continuation of ISO
  22301 Business Continuity Management certification and that Network Control Business Continuity Plans are in place and fit for purpose
• Accountable for ensuring across NGET that Electricity System Restoration assurance is provided across NGETs obligations and that Network Control people, processes and systems are Electricity System Restoration compliant
• Accountable for Climate Adaptation strategy ensuring we plan to ensure our critical networks are resilient and will adapt from the long term effects of climate change and that we plan, mitigate and respond to current climatic events such as storms, flooding etc

• Proven strong leadership capability with a track record demonstrating proven consultative, facilitation and decision-making skills, and the ability to build positive relationships at a senior level both within National Grid, key influential external stakeholders and customers.
• Excellent change management skills, able to construct and implement visions for the future across a multidiscipline team environment.
• Excellent collaborator, able to establish sound working partnerships across applicable lines of business at a senior level, both internally and externally, including DESNZ, Industry, other TOs and customers.
• Strong presentation and influencing skills.

• In-depth experience of the UK electricity industry, embracing both system operation and the wider commercial, regulatory environments and statutory/license requirements.
• A clear understanding of National Grid’s business objectives and its obligations to wider industry participants and regulatory authorities.
• Strong understanding of…