OHL Workforce Readiness Specialist

We’re looking for a passionate OHL Workforce Readiness Specialist to join our Overhead Lines – Safety and Engineering Team!

As a Workforce Readiness Coordinator, you'll play a key role in supporting the readiness and success of our Overhead Lines workforce. Providing tactical coordination and administrative support, you'll help maintain accurate role, recruitment, onboarding, training, and competence records while working closely with a diverse range of stakeholders.

You'll be responsible for consolidating workforce readiness data, managing action trackers and training matrices, and ensuring MyHub alignment so that all Overhead Lines roles are accurately reflected, maintained, and kept up to date. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to workforce excellence, support operational delivery, and help build a skilled, future-ready workforce.

This role can be based from any of our locations, and we support a hybrid way of working. We're also happy to discuss any additional flexibility or adjustments you may need to help make the role work for you.

What You''ll Do:

• Coordinate and consolidate existing and expected OHL operational and training requirements ensuring current information is brought together into a clear Workforce Readiness view.
• Work with Operations Managers to confirm strategic volumes for apprentices, direct hires, training scheme requirements, Project Lead nominations and SAP nominations.
• Use the Strategic Workforce Plan to operationalise modelled workforce requirements for OHL, including engagement with relevant stakeholders. Develop a consolidated recruitment forecast that defines what roles are required, when recruitment activity is needed and how demand aligns to operational plans working with Workforce analysts and recruitment.
• Build and maintain training matrices for all OHL roles, expanding existing operational role matrices to include wider OHL roles and capability requirements.
• Baseline current capabilities and develop entries covering technical competence, authorisations, experience and soft skills requirements.
• Develop a combined recruitment, onboarding and training plan, working with asset operations workforce strategy team and other stakeholders to bring existing information into one coordinated plan.
• Identify competence gaps by comparing current baseline competence against future capability requirements and operational demand.

What You’ll Have:

• Relevant operational, engineering, workforce planning, training or competence management experience within OHL or a comparable operational environment.
• Ability to develop workforce plans, training matrices, capability baselines, recruitment forecasts and competence gap analysis outputs.
• Strong planning and organisational skills, with the ability to bring together fragmented information into a clear and actionable delivery plan.
• Ability to influence and coordinate across multiple stakeholders without direct line management authority.
• Analytical approach to workforce modelling, capability baselining, competence gap identification and future-year demand planning.
• Clear communication skills, able to translate operational requirements into workforce, recruitment, onboarding and training actions.
• Collaborative working style, supporting alignment between OHL Operations, Workforce Readiness, training teams and senior decision makers.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At National Grid, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for everyone. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience or qualifications don’t match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for our growing business in this role or another one.

What You'll Get:

£48,374 - £56,000 dependent on experience.

As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on personal and company performance and competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. You will also have access to several flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

Further Information

The closing date for this vacancy is Midnight 2nd September 2026, with interviews due to take place w/c 14th September 26 onwards. We encourage candidates to submit their applications as early as possible and not to wait until the published closing date. National Grid’s recruitment periods can and may vary. We reserve the right to remove this advert or close it to further applications at any point during the recruitment process.

About Us

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

At National Grid, we work towards the highest standards in everything we do, including how we support, value and develop our people. Our aim is to encourage and support employees to thrive and be the best they can be. We celebrate the difference people can bring into our organisation, and welcome and encourage applicants with diverse experiences and backgrounds, and offer flexible and tailored support, at home and in the office. Our goal is to drive, develop and operate our business in a way that results in a more inclusive culture. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, the innovation from diverse teams & perspectives and business need. We are committed to building a workforce so we can represent the communities we serve and have a working environment in which each individual feels valued, respected, fairly treated, and able to reach their full potential.

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