Repex Technical Administrator

**REPEX Technical Administrator**
**Competitive starting salary from £24,745 per annum**
**Up to 5% bonus**
**Permanent contract 40 hours per week**
**Located in Leeds**

We have an exciting opportunity for a **Technical Administrator** to join our team based at **Thorpe Park, Leeds** on a permanent contract.

As a **Technical Administrator**, you will assist in the design of NGN’s mains replacement, ensuring the programme achieves all required outputs for RIIO-GD2 and beyond. You will work in a team of technical design and planning staff delivering a range of network design activities to ensure the replacement programme is fit for purpose and compliant with relevant legislation, policies and procedures.

**Key accountabilities and responsibilities**
- Undertake network analysis for project designs taking into account overall security of supply, customer expectations and commercial considerations
- Liaise with operational teams following onsite investigations confirming asset size, material and locations
- Ensure all SAP systems are fully and accurately populated with project details
- Undertake network analysis for project resubmission when additional information is found on site and update construction drawing with the amendments
- Work with other departments to access governor settings, demand information and weather data

**What we are looking for**
No specific technical knowledge is necessary, as full training will be provided to ensure a robust understanding of the appropriate systems (including Synergi Gas, SAP, ArcMap the gas distribution network and replacement requirements) and techniques used to carry out technical administration activities.
- Management of internal customer and stakeholder relationships
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to liaise and negotiate with internal and external stakeholders in the development of project designs
- Ability to work to tight deadlines
- Strong team player with ability to work on own initiative

**What we offer you**
- A competitive salary of £24,745 per annum
- Up to 5% bonus
- Full training provided - this will be at Thorpe Park, Leeds (Monday - Friday, 0800 - 1630)
- 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday
- Free onsite parking at all our sites
- 25 days annual leave (plus recognised bank holidays and 2 half days over the Christmas period)
- SSP for first 7 calendar days then occupational sick pay
- A generous stakeholder 5/10 pension scheme
- Flexible benefits and salary sacrifice options... from discounts on a variety of UK attractions, gym membership, restaurant discounts, experience days...and much more
- An array of fantastic family
- friendly policies such as 6 weeks' paternity leave (for eligible employees) and 6 months' full pay for employees on maternity leave (for eligible employees), as well as shared parental leave and many more

We are... **Northern Gas Networks.** We deliver gas to 2.7 million homes and businesses in the North East, Northern Cumbria and much of Yorkshire. That’s around 6.7million individual customers. We don’t generate or sell the gas, but we transport it to homes and businesses in our region through a vast network of underground pipes. In fact, we own and maintain more than 37,000km of gas pipes - enough to stretch from Leeds to Sydney and back again. We cover large cities like Newcastle, Sunderland, Leeds, York, Hull, and Bradford, and our work extends to rural areas like North Yorkshire and Cumbria.

Our **Values **are at the heart of what we do. In addition to your key responsibilities, you will incorporate these into the daily life of your role. We areTrailblazing, Empowered, Heartfelt, Community Focused, Intellectually Curious and most of all we are Happy

Our **Equality, Diversity and Inclusion culture at NGN** is embedded in everything that we do. We will be delighted to hear from a diverse range of applicants, so we can continue to grow our great team of people. We are proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant, helping ex-services personnel back into employment, as well as being members of WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) and we are committed to delivering our ‘Opportunity Action Plan’ having signed the Social Mobility Pledge campaign, whereby we will establish our business as a ‘force for good’ in the communities that we serve.