About The Role

Climate change is the challenge of a generation, and the time to act is now. Join us and you won’t just be touching the lives of almost everyone in Great Britain – you will be shaping the way we use and consume energy for generations to come.

The Balancing Costs team is a new team being set up within National Control in response to the rapid increase in balancing costs in the last three years. The team will be accountable for:

• Ensuring the ESO has a coordinated plan to manage balancing costs and work with other teams to ensure that this is implemented, providing the narrative on this plan to internal and external stakeholders.
• Leading Balancing Cost related improvement activities within and across the ESO; managing and prioritising the backlog of improvement ideas.
• The Balancing Costs Data scientist will support this newly established team in the following ways:
• Work with large internal and external databases to mine, clean and analyse data, and creating exploratory tools or models, using python and SQL
• Identify trends and insights which with enable the team to deliver on the objectives of the balancing costs strategy.

• Ensure integrity, accuracy, and transparency across all the aspects of the data use. Assure quality control for all the processes and data and improve overall quality by enhancing optimisation, tooling, and testing.
• Communicate findings by creating clear, concise, and visually appealing data dashboards and visualisations accompanied by clear commentary on its impact and potential to internal stakeholders.
• Construct customer-facing reporting tools to provide insights and metrics.
• Collaborate with the team to evolve and build the balancing costs strategy based on the findings of your analysis.
• Identify areas of innovation and improvement in how we collect and utilise data to form an improved view of balancing costs
• Collaborate with internal teams on all data analytics going on across the ESO that is related to balancing cost.

This role will be based in Warwick or Wokingham. We continue to offer hybrid working from office and home. This is a full-time role, and we offer flexible working arrangements.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide the analytical evidence and insights needed to support delivery of the ESO’s strategic commitments on balancing costs under our RIIO2 business plan
• Provide new cost infographics that will form the content of Internal Balancing Costs Hub with the possibility of being published externally
• Grow and improve the data analytics capability within the team and in the wider ESO

About You

• Excellent data extraction and analytical data science skills: whether in Python, C/C++, SQL, or other programming language
• Some knowledge or experience using data lakes e.g., Azure
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) including data visualisation techniques.
• Ability to problem solve and innovate with complex and incomplete datasets
• A team player and eager to learn

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the heart of who we are and what we do. Our commitment to these values is unwavering and they are central to our mission. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, communities and industries and we are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that you require.

What You'll Get

This role offers a competitive salary between £48,000 - £60,000 per annum dependant on capability. As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on personal and company performance and a 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, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

About Us

As the Electricity System Operator (ESO) for Great Britain we are in a privileged position. We sit at the heart of the energy system, balancing electricity supply and demand second by second. We keep the lights on and the electricity flowing directly to where it’s needed.

We are also thinking about where our energy will come from in the future and how we will operate a greener and cleaner system. One of the goals we have set for ourselves is to be able to run a zero-carbon electricity system by 2025. This will be instrumental in helping the UK meet its wider zero-carbon target.

More Information

This role closes on April 16th, 2023, at 23:59, however we encourage candidates to submit their application as early as possible and not wait until the published closing date as this can vary.

At National Grid ESO, 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.

We're committed to building a workforce that represents the communities we serve, and a working environment in which each individual feels valued, respected, treated, and able to reach their full potential.

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