Project Development Engineer Higher Apprentice (Leeds)

Join our Higher Apprenticeship programme and gain hands-on experience supporting multidisciplinary teams in planning, developing, and delivering major investments. You’ll contribute to project setup, option selection, contract awards, and technical assessments to ensure safe, cost-effective solutions. Learn to work within regulations, stakeholder expectations, and support the RIIO-T3 business plan. Comprehensive mentoring and training will help you develop professionally and technically, setting you on the path to a rewarding engineering career.

These are jobs where you’ll be drilling down into the detail on specific subjects. You will be providing technical advice and engineering support for our assets across the entire network, making significant decisions and influencing their execution.

Key Responsibilities:

Coordinate and support the scheme team and stakeholders during pre-construction, ensuring timely development and approval of investment solutions Help develop safe, efficient, least-cost solutions in line with regulations, and document all design and risk considerations. Assist with site assessments, cost estimation, tendering, and risk mitigation to enable effective project delivery Monitor and control financial forecasting and reporting for investments throughout pre-construction phases Ensure high-quality data management and apply lessons learned to optimise project scope, cost, and scheduling

Training:

Electrical Power Networks Engineer Level 4.

You’ll need to be able to live away from home during your training; primarily at our Eakring Training Centre in Nottinghamshire. Typically, you’ll stay on-site from Monday to Thursday and return home for the weekend (Friday to Sunday). The amount of time spent at Eakring will decrease as you progress through the programme:

Year 1 - around 75% Year 2 - around 50% Year 3 - around 25%

Training Outcome:

Project Development Engineer.

Employer Description:
National Grid is at the heart of the energy future, and our people are at the heart of National Grid. We’re 30,000 colleagues strong.  In the UK, National Grid don’t generate or sell energy – we join the dots to get energy from A to B. From making a cup of tea in the morning, to keeping the lights on in hospitals, our electricity network puts power in the hands of people. Without it, the world as we know it would grind to a halt.  The world of energy is changing beyond recognition as we focus on building a cleaner, greener future. Working at National Grid, you won’t just be touching the lives of almost everyone in the UK – you’ll be shaping the way we use and consume energy for generations to come. Net-zero targets are transforming the way we work and increasing the scope of the positive impact we can make. Right now, we’re looking for apprentices to join us.  Our people in Network Services work across a number of teams to keep the lights on for our customers. They might be helping a customer who has lost supply or supporting a developer building a multi-million pound project. They maintain a 24/7 service from faults and maintenance, asset replacement to new connections, working outdoors with underground cables, overhead lines and substations that operate between 230 and 132,000 volts, their work is critical to everything we do.

Working Hours :
Monday to Friday 9am - 5:30pm

Skills:
Communication skills,Attention to detail,Organisation skills,Customer care skills,Problem solving skills,Logical,Team working,Physical fitness,Adventurous,Safety awareness,Resilient