Outage Planner Review

This role involves managing outages on the English and Welsh transmission system, ensuring that maintenance and faults can be attended to as fast as possible.

This apprenticeship comes alongside a foundation degree in power systems engineering. The main skills acquired involve analysing circuit diagrams in addition to stakeholder management, ensuring that all clients can be kept happy in addition to getting relevant work complete in a timely manner.

This job comes with several challenges, having to balance university work alongside the job itself, but it could not be any more rewarding. Being able to slowly work your way into a job while also getting to learn about the industry alongside colleagues is an excellent experience where the company looks after us very well.

Organisation is typically well done, however on occasion due to the split between job training, company training, and university work it would be wrong to not mention there could be some level of improvement between the communication of all teams. Despite this the company does ask us for feedback on a regular basis can clearly puts this into effect.

The team I have been placed into is very supportive being able to help me whenever I'm struggling with work. The company also sets up a buddy system with apprentices in the year above to ensure another relevant person to support you. While university support isn't the most consistent, this shouldn't fall onto the company.

Plenty of support including training courses at the company's training centre are offered. The protection module on our course is infamous for being the most difficult, but also has the highest level of support included to ensure we can all gain a good level of understanding before taking any exams.

While some topics don't always seem relevant, they do all at least lean into some level of competency around the business.

There are plenty of in company benefits such as an on site gym, several different discounts, opportunities to join in work teams for sports, employee resource groups and other volunteering opportunities. I am yet to see a company that has the same level of benefits as National Grid does to their team.

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The work balance is outstanding, being able to go into the office or work remotely. In addition to several benefits like outstanding pay, constant support and a very well made training course.

Be yourself, it's a generic thing to say for applications but company's want to see you for who you are. Furthermore, brushing up on maths would be really helpful for Grid's engineering roles.