Powering the community

Transmission has a crucial role in connecting our growing network of renewable energy and transporting it across the country. A role on our transmission engineering graduate programme will work towards helping us to achieve this and you can expect to join our engineering teams to make an impact across design, operations, maintenance, and construction. Graduates add value to a number of our teams including; Project Engineering, HVDC, Power Systems, Offshore/Onshore Development and Delivery, all whilst being a part of a wider graduate cohort and working on major projects with our key business leaders.

In week one, you will meet other SSEN Transmission graduates and network with our current and previous graduates, Directors and Managing Director. You’ll travel to key development sites across Scotland to gain better understanding of the Transmission network and lifecycle - adding value to active projects by creating key reports, making key design decisions, using innovation to transform the network and implementing these changes. You’ll take a lead role in organising and attending SSE graduate conferences and be involved in supporting engagement activities from primary schools up to universities.

The placements last between one to six months, developing your knowledge and building your network in areas such as project engineering, operations and maintenance, system planning and the control room.

Your second year will develop your technical knowledge and involves placements in areas such as transmission planning, project development, technical support and construction to develop your wider understanding of the business and Transmission lifecycle. You’ll go on site visits across Scotland to experience SSEN Transmission projects and use knowledge and experience gained to support strategic decision making. You’ll also get to play an important part in the creation and delivery of engagement activities from primary schools up to universities.

There will be strategy focused away days with your fellow Transmission graduates with the opportunity to network and socialise with each other and business leaders, as well as the opportunity to be a buddy for any new incoming graduates.

Upon completing your engineering graduate programme in SSEN Transmission, you will be a valued part of one of our specialised teams. Our previous graduates have secured roles as Substation Project Engineers, Overhead Line Project Engineers, Civil Project Engineers and HVDC Project and System Planning and Investment Engineers. Following completion of the programme, graduates in their permanent roles have worked on creating and implementing reporting tools, leading on key aspects of large projects and impacting strategic decision making within SSEN Transmission.

SSEN Transmission has published ambitious plans for the future of the north of Scotland electricity transmission system. With the region home to some of the UK's greatest resources of renewable energy, SSEN Transmission will be at the forefront of the country's fight to tackle climate change, connecting up more renewable energy and transporting it across the country. SSEN Transmission plays a critical role in the transition to a low carbon future, developing, building, maintaining and operating a network for net zero. Vital to net zero ambitions, the network transports huge quantities of clean, green renewable power over a quarter of the UK land mass, across some of its most challenging terrain. As the way we live our lives changes, billions of pounds of investment will be required to meet energy demands now and in the future. Through a fair, balanced and considered investment programme, SSEN Transmission is committed to improving network reliability and enabling the transition to net zero.