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Location: Glasgow, Perth or Inverness Salary: £62,700 – £94,100 depending on skills and experience + car/cash allowance + annual bonus Permanent | Full Time Hours with flexible working patterns available | 37 hours per week About the Department Transmission operates under licence as Scottish Hydro Electric (SHE) Transmission plc, responsible for the transmission of electricity in the north of Scotland. We own and maintain the 132kV, 275kV and 400kV electricity transmission network in our licence area. Our network comprises of underground cables, overhead wooden poles, steel towers and electricity substations, and it extends over a quarter of the UK land mass across some of its most challenging terrain. Our Role You’ll lead a large strategic high value project of up to £700 million within Transmission with the aim of delivering safely, to time and budget in a consistent manner with effective financial, quality and risk management. Developing and maintaining strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, you’ll engage effectively to ensure that there is consistency in the way we deliver projects across the portfolio and that senior management have sufficient visibility of the project to maintain confidence in delivery and resolution of issues. You’ll lead, manage and develop a large project team, ensuring that a strong, competent and capable team are in place and engaged and motivated to deliver. Your Skills and Experience Commercially focussed with significant high value project/programme management expertise and understanding of major projects delivery, you’ll demonstrate understanding and experience of financial planning for large capital projects. With a strong knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and practices, you should have experience of large project Joint Venture agreements and relationships. You’ll have experience of leading and motivating a team of multi-disciplined individuals, setting clear goals and objectives and measuring performance against them. With the ability to challenge project teams and key stakeholders to ensure robust project performance, you’ll have strong communication and negotiation skills and be at ease working in high pressured environments. You should have the ability to step back from the detail and focus on the key issues required to ensure project delivery. This role will involve travel and overnight stays to project sites across Scotland. Our Benefits We’re committed to ensuring we offer our people a great place to work, with competitive salary, contributory pension plan and benefits package.  Why not watch our short employee benefits video to see what else is on offer?  Next Steps For more information about this role, or to discuss any adjustments you require to submit your application please get in touch at sse.resourcing.team@sse.com About SSE We all have different skills here at SSE and that’s what makes us stand out.  We all take pride in a job well done and share the belief that an inclusive culture is key to our success and vision for the future.  Above all, safety is at the heart of everything we do at SSE and we live by the mantra ‘if it’s not safe, we don’t do it’. SSE is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.      

Enterprise Distributed Energy (Reading) Salary circa £29,500 The opportunity This year we are delighted to offer a number of graduate opportunities focussed on business/commercial disciplines at various key locations across the UK and Ireland. This is an exciting opportunity to really put your learning into practice, and develop practical skills in an environment where you'll be fully supported and encouraged to be your best. Due to our size and diversity, we can offer you a structured yet challenging development programme where you'll have the support of a Graduate Programme Manager and a business mentor to assist you in reaching your full potential. The programme will support your career development into a permanent role with SSE that reflects your experience and passion. We are SSE A number of our employees from different parts of the business and locations across the UK and Ireland offer an overview of what drives us at SSE - from award-winning customer service and generating green energy to giving back to the community. What will I do on the programme? Working within a diverse, dynamic and growing business, you'll have the chance to learn about commercial management, proposal preparation, business development, bid and project management and business sector support. With opportunities across our Commercial and Business Development teams you'll experience the end-to-end process from bid preparation and submission, right through to contract award, contract execution, and ultimately asset management. Major Projects – Overview Major Projects work across all the Distributed Energy sectors to assist on identified and specific projects that require a wider breadth and more resource than your regular project.  The focus is on a consideration of projects of high value, involve multi-technology requirement and or high complexity, or something with high strategic relevance for Distributed Energy.  Major Projects could have build timelines of over 10 years, so providing an appreciation of the scale of projects.  Projects of this size require a specific and dedicated core team to manage, however also need  to work collaboratively across the wider Distributed Energy matrix teams for assistance to win and deliver the project.  Major Projects core skill requirements include, commercial, contract, bid, programme and project management. What do I need to join? For this programme, you'll ideally have a minimum of a 2:2 degree in an engineering or related science, business planning, commercial, finance or related degree discipline.  We'd love you to have practical work or project experience that reflects your passion for business, as well as demonstrable experience of working in a team. You'll also be comfortable working to and setting stretching individual targets and using your own initiative to overcome challenges. You should have an interest in the energy sector, and show alignment with SSE's core values. We also ask that you have a flexible approach to work locations and be genuinely committed to developing a career with us – as we are with you. SSE welcomes applications from all nationalities. Individuals requiring a work permit in order to take employment in the UK must secure that themselves and at their own expense. That process can take some time and so successful candidates should take the required steps to facilitate securing the required permission in good time. Our Benefits We're committed to ensuring we offer our people a great place to work, with competitive salary, contributory pension plan and benefits package. About SSE We all have different skills here at SSE and that’s what makes us stand out. We all take pride in a job well done and share the belief that an inclusive culture is key to our success and vision for the future. Above all, safety is at the heart of everything we do at SSE and we live by the mantra ‘if it’s not safe, we don’t do it’. SSE is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

TRANSMISSION HVDC GRADUATE PROGRAMME - INVERNESS Salary: circa £29,500 - to be confirmed The opportunity This year we are delighted to offer graduate opportunities for those with engineering disciplines across the UK and Ireland.   Due to the size and diversity of SSE, we can offer you a structured and highly challenging development programme where you'll have the support of the Graduate Programme Manager and a business mentor to assist you in reaching your full potential.  The programme will support your career development into a permanent role within SSE that reflects your experience, qualifications and passion for the energy sector. Depending on the programme you choose, you could be involved in a broad and diverse range of exciting projects across the UK and/or Ireland.  All roles are likely to involve some travel to other SSE sites to gain practical exposure to a wide range of business areas, therefore a full UK driving license would be an advantage but is not essential. Different parts of the business and locations across the UK and Ireland offer an overview of what drives us at SSE - from award-winning customer service, generating, transmitting and distributing green energy to giving back to the community. What will I do on the programme? Working as part of our multi-disciplined engineering teams, we have a range of opportunities for engineering graduates to support projects across our Transmission business.  We're at the forefront of some really high profile projects which are ensuring our transmission network is structurally sound, operating safely and efficiently and providing sustainable and reliable energy to all. You could be working on projects similar to the development, installation and commissioning of the new Caithness-Moray HVDC link, the reinforcement of HV transmission substations , and the development of new HVDC subsea links - connecting some of the remotest parts of Scotland and it’ s Islands to the mainland  Transmission system for the first time. What do I need to join? For this programmes, you'll ideally have a minimum of a 2:2 BEng in either Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical, Civil, or Energy-related degree. We'd love you to have practical work or project experience that reflects your passion for engineering, as well as demonstrable experience of working in a team. You'll also be comfortable working to and setting stretching individual targets and using your own initiative to overcome challenges. You should have an interest in the energy sector, and show alignment with SSE's core values. Our benefits We’re committed to ensuring we offer our people a great place to work, with competitive salary, contributory pension plan and benefits package.

Location: Havant Salary: £35,850 – £47,346 Salary Basis: Permanent | Full Time, 37 hours per week The Role The NOC Engineer ensures that the network is monitored, and all alarms are diagnosed and dealt with in a timely manner.  They will also ensure that customer faults are investigated, and the relevant engineers are engaged to resolve the issue, and that customers and management receive regular status updates. Your Skills and Experience You will be experienced in diagnosing faults, fault resolution and will be responsible for ensuring faults are resolved within SLA. Strong communication skills are critical to ensure that customer expectations are managed. You should also have a high degree of confidence in working to your own initiative and possess exceptional time management and organisational skills with the ability to prioritise and coordinate tasks. A fantastic team ethic is required to ensure the workload is managed effectively and SLAs are met. You should also have a high level of understanding of ticket management including raising and updating tickets, through to creating and running reports is also important. Demonstrable experience in the following technologies within a Network Operations Centre are required to perform this role: - Experienced in all aspects of networking L1-L3 - Working knowledge of LAN WAN MPLS, OSPF, BGP & DNS - Wide knowledge of Cisco networks, routers and switches - Working knowledge of the 7750 SR product family and the 7210 SAS SX whilst using NSP including NFM-P (5620 SAM) It would also be advantageous but not essential if you had experience of: - SDH (Turin, Nokia) & DWDM (Ciena, Infinera, Sorento) - Experience in site event management (Access/ Mains Power /UPS /Generator /Air Con / Security) - Nokia NRS, MEF and Cisco qualifications Our Company The Enterprise Division comprises four companies: Contracting, Rail, Telecoms and Utilities. The SSE Enterprise Projects and Operational Support Team support the entire Enterprise division leading the deployment of best practice in assurance, project management, engineering and in handling strategic projects. SSE Enterprise Telecoms operates a 13,700km private telecoms network, with 265 Points of Presence and connectivity to over 80 commercial data centres that span the UK. With its extensive telecoms engineering experience, the company provides commercial security with unrivalled in-house engineering resource to Service Providers, Large Enterprises and the Public Sector providing a competitive range of leading-edge Ethernet, Cloud Connect, Optical Networking and Co-location services. Our Benefits We have an excellent benefits package as part of our offering. Here’s a few highlights; - Generous holiday allowance (you can even buy additional holidays) - Group Pension Plan - One day paid volunteering - Tailored internal development opportunities Next Steps Just click the Apply button to submit your application, it doesn’t take long. For more information about this role, or to discuss any adjustments you require to submit your application please get in touch via sse.resourcing.team@sse.com If you’re successful, we’ll conduct some pre-employment checks.