Day Shift Engineer: Gas Network Balancing & Resilience

Northern Gas Networks; Sunderland; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus up to 10%

25 days annual leave plus bank hols

Occupational sick pay after 2 days

Pension scheme (contributory)

Flexible benefits and salary sacrifice

Family-friendly policies (paternity/m)

Job summary

Northern Gas Networks (NGN) seeks a Day Shift Engineer for the Energy Management Centre in Sunderland. The role supports 24/7 demand balancing, manages remote assets and ensures network resilience, with a focus on safe gas transportation and published balancing strategies.

You will develop knowledge of NGN gas systems, participate in forecasting, alarms handling, and maintenance planning, while complying with National Security Vetting requirements and contributing to emergency response readiness.

Qualifications

• Degree-level technical qualification would be beneficial, although applications are equally welcomed from candidates with relevant technical or operational experience
• Ability to demonstrate technical knowledge and experience of successful project planning and co-ordination on a range of work types
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Effective communicator – written, verbal, and numerical
• Previous positive work / engagement with external stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Develop strategies that ensure system balance and gain sign off from the shift lead prior to publication
• Manage the remote plant and equipment associated with the daily balancing of the network, including offtakes, storage sites, valves and regulators to ensure that network capacity requirements are met
• Handle alarms generated by the network, analysing such in conjunction with the shift lead to raise faults and ensure an appropriate response is secured, based on the defined alarm response and assessment of prevailing conditions
• Manage the daily maintenance activity on the network both for planned and unplanned maintenance as well as non-routine activities to ensure that network capacity and resilience requirements are met
• Support the department during Network Gas Supply Emergencies or equivalent exercises to meet NGN statutory obligations
• Provide cover arrangements for the 24/7 function and additionally provide cover for the other functions working weekdays within the EMC

Skills

Problem solving

Analytical skills

Effective communicator

Stakeholder engagement

Project planning

Education

Degree-level technical qualification

Job description

Northern Gas Networks (NGN) seeks a Day Shift Engineer for the Energy Management Centre in Sunderland. The role supports 24/7 demand balancing, manages remote assets and ensures network resilience, with a focus on safe gas transportation and published balancing strategies.

You will develop knowledge of NGN gas systems, participate in forecasting, alarms handling, and maintenance planning, while complying with National Security Vetting requirements and contributing to emergency response readiness.