# System Planning & Design Engineer

Base Location: You'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in our Slough or Reading offices. Salary: SS09 £64,085 - £76,581 depending on skills and experience + car /car allowance + performance-related bonus and additional allowances + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family. Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available The role SSE Thermal owns and operates private electrical power networks in the UK comprising of a number of BSP, primary and secondary substations including 132kV, 33kV, 11kV and LV assets. Due to our sustained growth and future development pipeline, we are looking to grow our planning & design team to support our portfolio of new connection, network reinforcement and asset replacement projects. Some of your main accountabilities will include; Supporting the network team across system planning and design around activities for existing networks, development plans, and new network assets as required. Contributing to the asset management and investment program to improve the heath index, network safety and delivery the growth strategy for the network. Ensuring that electrical power distribution standards

- **Id**: 3830916
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sse-system-planning-design-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Reading, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T16:07:14Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T06:18:59Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4941
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Gym membership
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Power Grid, Wind Energy

## Company

- **Id**: 1808654
- **Name**: SSE
- **Domain**: sse.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sse-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Schema

## Salary

- **Min**: 64085
- **Max**: 76581
- **Currency**: GBP
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 103169

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T19:30:09Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 14
- **Reasons**: conf:5, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 103169
- **Is top pay**: no

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