Lead Planner, Outage Planning

About us

National Grid is hiring a Lead Planner, Outage Planningfor our Outsourced Construction division in Worcester, MA. This is a hybrid role (MA, CT, RI, NH, VT, ME) with visits to the office approximately 1-2 times a week.

Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live. The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry.

To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business.

Job Purpose

To lead the development and delivery of outage plans to minimize risk and ensure overall security.

Key Accountabilities

• Review the established project outage assessments & requirements as outlined in project engineering scope documents and construction plans.
• Organize an outage kick-off meeting at the site, or in conjunction with other planned site visits, along with various follow-up meetings to establish scope, conceptual work plan and schedule.
• Coordinate outage requirements with other area outage requests to resolve and minimize any outage conflicts. Confirm the plan alignment with other on-going projects within and outside of National Grid.
• Provide Outage Plan and Drawings, including Visio & Excel sheets.
• Confirm plan alignment and feasibility with Transmission & Distribution Outage Coordination.
• Work with the project team to facilitate development of viable emergency restoration measures and plans along with realistic restoration time estimates.
• Review outage plan with all stakeholders (iterative process) and ultimately seek out team approval.
• Upon project plan approval, distribute detailed outage plan for TOA development and submittal.
• Ensure timely plan submission according to the Outage Coordination Playbook and Transmission Operating Procedure TOP-08.
• Monitor and control the outage plan. Manage changes for sudden or unexpected events which may require re-sequencing and re-submittal of the Approved Outage Plan for re-approval and TOA modifications.

Supervisory/Interpersonal- Experience Required

• Foster a collaborative environment focused on achieving outcomes and building relationships, both internally and externally to execute tasks and projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in an engineering, construction or business discipline and/or 5 to 8 years significant equivalent experience in the electricity construction management environment with 3 to 5 years in the utility management.
• Experience in construction with focus on construction methods, cost control, safety, environmental, quality and service, and performance.
• Demonstrated knowledge and application of Safety and Environmental rules.
• Ability to assess potential conflicts by reviewing construction drawings and provide solutions to the project team.
• Must be able to work in a cross functional role to develop a construction plan with inputs from the various operations groups, project management, engineering, and dispatch control room.
• Analytical Thinking: Sees relationships between work plans, safety issues, constructability, and spend vs. efficiency reports identifying several likely causes or consequences of a situation.
• Strong demonstrated skills in the following areas: Written and oral communications, including developing and executing communications through various mediums including verbal presentations, emails, PowerPoint, conference calls, and other appropriate methods
• Organization and management of multiple tasks / priorities to deliver high results
• Displays commitment to safe and productive work environment through consistent actions, beliefs and personal conduct.

More Information

Salary: $111,000 - $141,700 a year

This position has a career path which provides for advancement opportunities within and across bands as you develop and evolve in the position; gaining experience, expertise and acquiring and applying technical skills. Candidates will be assessed and provided offers against the minimum qualifications of this role and their individual experience.

National Grid is an equal opportunity employer that values a broad diversity of talent, knowledge, experience and expertise.  We foster a culture of inclusion that drives employee engagement to deliver superior performance to the communities we serve.  National Grid is proud to be an affirmative action employer. We encourage minorities, women, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans to join the National Grid team.  

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