**About the Role**

SSE has big ambitions to be a leading energy company in a low carbon world. Following our commitment to invest £12.5 billion in low carbon projects over the next 5 years, our SSE Renewables (SSER) business continues to be at the forefront of our growth plans, and our ambition to build a world that's more sustainable and inclusive for you, your family, the community you live in and for generations to come. We are proud to be playing a critical role in the net zero transition, as we aim to more than treble the net capacity in operation to 13GW and grow renewable energy output five-fold to over 50TWh over the next 10 years.

**Base Location**: Contin

**Salary**: £25,703 - £29,879 - 45 hour working week. Salary depending on skills and experience + performance-related bonus + a range of other benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing.

**Working Pattern**: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available

Our Renewables Operations business has an opportunity for a Civil Craftsperson. Some of the key duties and responsibilities of this role are:

- Maintain the Civil Hydro Assets within our catchments.
- Responsible for carrying out a wide range of civil construction duties and activities, ranging from replacing or repairing concrete structures, pipelines and intakes, to the maintenance of buildings, roads, bridges and other assets within the Hydro Business.
- Working on the Hydro Assets involves working the majority of the time outside throughout the year, the role involves a level of physical work from hillwalking and general manual handling.
- The work involves regular travel and where necessary, working away from home may be required. As you will be travelling to different sites it is essential you already hold a full, current driving licence.

**What do I need?**

To be considered for this role, we would love you to have:

- Relevant experience in civil construction activities, in particular concrete works and shuttering. Any experience will be combined with relevant site training. An enhanced rate would be considered for a trade or craft in an appropriate construction discipline.
- Plant operation experience would be advantageous. Experience operating excavators on the catchment / hill is desirable.
- Safety is one of our key priorities so you should have the ability to risk assess activities throughout your working day and the ability to provide a level of supervision to the working party to work within our Health and Safety guidelines (training will be provided).
- An ability to achieve authorisation levels within SSE Generation System Safety Rules (GSSRs) will be necessary (training will be provided).

**About our Business**

SSEN Transmission owns and operates the electricity transmission network in the north of Scotland, transporting energy from where it is generated to where it is needed, providing a safe and reliable supply of electricity to the communities it serves. Home to some of the UK's greatest resources of renewable energy, SSEN Transmission is playing a critical role in the transition to a low carbon future, developing, building, maintaining and operating a network for net zero.

**What's in it for you?**

We offer an excellent package with 34 days annual leave entitlement. Enhanced maternity/paternity leave, discounted healthcare, salary sacrifice car leasing and much more, view our full benefits package on our careers site.

**What happens now?**

Before commencing your role with SSE, you'll need to complete our pre-employment screening process. This will consist of a criminality and credit check.

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