Control Support Engineer

Control Support Engineer

Glasgow HQ, 320 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, G2 5AD

Starting salary: £53,280 - £66,600 per annum

Help us create a better future, quicker 

Join our OCC team as a Control Support Engineer, where you'll provide essential engineering support to the Control Room, helping to optimise operations and enhance service delivery across our electricity networks. 

What you’ll be doing 

• Carrying out activities to ensure that OCC Control Room delivers maximum efficiency for safety, network security and restoration of customer supplies. Including, but not limited to:
• Maintenance and optimisation of automation schemes, including reporting on defective schemes, successful schemes and savings
• Office based support to Control Persons to react to changes being driven externally (e.g. SOP updates, policy changes).
• Analysis, optimisation and documentation of processes inside Control Room
• Assist with interaction with Incident Controllers as required
• Emergency planning response – supporting PowerOn processes required for Control Room response to emergency situations eg OC6
• Update Controlled Documents as required.
• Storm role to be confirmed based on knowledge, skills and experience

What you’ll bring 

• Understanding of SPD 11kV & 33kV network running arrangements
• Knowledge of PowerOn
• HNC Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• Experience working on electricity distribution network or Control Room
• Knowledge of Fault Management Process.
• Understanding of electrical network principles
• Knowledge of SPEN business processes & working practices.
• Knowledge of Planned Outage Process.
• Understanding customer requirement and BMCS feedback.
• Ability to recognise improvement areas and build into operating plan.
• Ability to recognise quality updates and gaps for improvement.
• Positive and flexible attitude to work collaboratively with internal and external customers to deliver the best possible customer experience.
• Ability to identify improvements and make recommendations for changes to end to end processes.
• Positive and flexible attitude to do what is needed.
• Ability to be pro active and adapt to change.
• Ability to plan own workload and prioritise tasks appropriately.
• Able to plan ahead to ensure maximum benefit driven from value-adding activities.

What’s in it for you  

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.   

At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include: 

• 36 days annual leave 

• Holiday Purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave 

• Share Schemes 

• Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding  

• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases 

• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving 

• Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans 

• Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments 

• Life Assurance (4x salary) 

• Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support 

• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more 

 Why SP Energy Networks 

SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network – connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It’s a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland’s ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we’re taking it very seriously. We’re investing >£5.5 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation. 

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in. 

We are committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to [email protected]. 

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Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.

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