Outage and Works Schedule Planner

Fluid Recruitment; Upper Hutt; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Life and trauma insurance

Income protection

Well-being initiatives

Relocation support

Job summary

Wellington Electricity is seeking an experienced outage and works schedule planner to coordinate outages across sub-transmission, distribution, and LV networks. You will support a large works programme and ensure outages are planned efficiently, safely, and with minimal disruption.

Collaborating with a range of stakeholders, you will develop outage plans, switching instructions, and customer notifications while adhering to H&S and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience in outage planning or supporting major outage projects.
• Strong understanding of electrical networks in distribution or transmission.
• Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders and communicate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Plan effective outage programmes ensuring smooth workflow to Network Control.
• Develop switching instructions for sub-transmission, HV and LV networks.
• Notify customers of planned outages ensuring H&S and regulatory requirements.
• Implement contingency plans and risk management measures.
• Accurately record data and produce reports from databases.

Skills

Outage planning

Stakeholder management

Electrical networks knowledge

Project coordination

Tools

GE PowerOn ADMS

OMS

GIS

Catapult Load Management

Job description

Fluid Recruitment is proud to partner with Wellington Electricity in searching for its Outage and Works Schedule Planner.

The Role

Part of a skilled and diverse team, you will play an important role in scheduling and planning a range of network outages across sub-transmission, distribution, and LV networks. You'll be key in enabling the delivery of Wellington Electricity's large works programme while ensuring that outages are planned efficiently, safely, and with minimal network disruption.

Contributing to the wider Service Delivery team, you will also work collaboratively with a range of stakeholders to support overall network delivery by:

• Planning effective and efficient outage programmes while ensuring consistent workflow to Network Control
• Developing sub-transmission, HV and LV switching instructions
• Notifying customers of planned outages ensuring H&S and regulatory requirements are met
• Implementing contingency plans and risk management measures
• Accurately recording and inputting data into necessary databases and pulling accurate reports

About You

You may be in a similar outage and work scheduling role. Alternatively, you could bring field-based experience supporting major outage projects and be looking to broaden your career. In either case, you will have strong technical understanding of electrical networks, coming from a distribution or transmission environment.

With strong communication skills and the ability to work with multiple stakeholders, you'll enjoy collaborating effectively, taking real satisfaction from well-planned work.

The Opportunity

This is a great opportunity for an experienced outage planner or someone with relevant field experience looking to further develop your career within an evolving organisation, committed to future development and investment in its network.

Having moved into a brand-new office, you'll benefit from working alongside a state-of-the-art control room and as part of small, skilled and high performing Network Operations team. Further, you'll get to work with industry leading GE PowerOn ADMS, OMS, as well as digital tools such as GIS and the Catapult Load Management system.

A competitive remuneration package is on offer including:

• Annual bonus
• Life and trauma insurance
• Income protection
• Range of well-being initiatives
• Relocation support (if required)

About Wellington Electricity

Wellington Electricity is heavily investing in its network, moving towards their largest period of asset investment in many years. To deliver a larger works programme, preparing for a new Price Path, being able to adapt to customers changing needs, it has rolled out a refreshed delivery model. This is designed to improve visibility, coordination, and efficiency in both planning and delivering an increasing scale of work.

Wellington Electricity has been powering the lives, homes, and businesses of Wellingtonians since 2008 and is proud to be one of Aotearoa's most reliable lines companies.

Its mission is to own and operate a sustainably profitable electricity distribution business which provides a safe, reliable, cost-effective and high-quality energy delivery system to their customers

Playing an important role in the region's success, Wellington Electricity supplies a diverse range of customers including government agencies, major infrastructure providers and network security-sensitive customers.