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80235 - Operational Telecoms Project Engineer
This Operational Telecoms Project Engineer will report to the Operational Telecoms Senior Project Engineer and will work within Network Operations based in our Nelson Street, London office. You will be a permanent employee.
You will attract a salary of £76,229 per annum and a bonus of 3%.
If you are successful, you will need to undertake a medical and DBS reference check
Close Date : 19th March 2025
We also provide the following additional benefits
- 25 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays.
- Reservist Leave – Additional 18 days full pay and 22 unpaid
- Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
- Tenancy Loan Deposit Scheme, Season Ticket Loan
- Tax efficient benefits : Cycle to Work, Home & Tech, and Green Car Leasing Schemes
- Occupational Health support
- Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers’ products
- Discounted gym membership
- Employee Assistance Programme
Job purpose :
To deliver Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition (SCADA) projects, fault rectification and maintenance programmes within the Operational Telecoms Team, situated in the Networks Operations Business.
You will have a central role for developing and improving SCADA design, which will include the creation, establishment and improvement of standards and polices relating to SCADA and SMART Grid development across all three networks.
You will be part of a team that manages SCADA comms and control equipment across the three licence areas 24 hours a day to ensure 24x7x365 availability of business-critical infrastructure. Providing safe operation and positive impact on reduction of customer interruptions and customer minutes lost. You will also oversee the implementation of projects which will deliver our transition to a Distribution System Operator (DSO).
Dimensions :
Payroll costs : N / A
Annual Works Costs : Over £1M for SCADA projects or fault rectification expenditure.
Department budget : £4.2M
Staff : Responsible for Operational Telecoms Field / Workshop Technicians working on specific projects or fault rectification work streams. Staff will be allocated on an individual project basis.
Principal accountabilities :
Typical accountabilities for the Project Engineer will include :
Nature and scope :
Role Holder is responsible to the Ops Telecoms Senior Project Engineer, forming part of a team of technical specialists, responsible for the design, management and repair of UKPN SCADA equipment.
Ensuring all SCADA and SMART Grid projects are designed and built to UKPN specification. Developing testing programmes, ensuring successful commissioning of our technologies including the development of approaches for SCADA and SMART Grid operation.
Participate in the SCADA Standby Rotas, typically one week in every eight weeks.
Qualifications :
Health & safety requirements :
Competencies :
Measure of Success :
The Project Engineer often gets issued with a minimum amount of information and we are looking for you to use your judgement and expertise in the assessment of a situation.
Health & Safety Responsibilities
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 116Kg due to maximum safe working load of the safety equipment that is used.
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Salary : $76,229