Project Development Engineer Higher Apprentice (Leeds)
NATIONAL GRID PLC
Leeds (LS15 8ET)
Closes on Tuesday 3 February 2026
Posted on 20 November 2025
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Summary
The apprenticeship programme takes approximately three years to complete, and you’ll spend your first 12 weeks being inducted onto the programme at one of our Training Centres.
- Wage
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£31,310 a year
- Training course
- Electrical power networks engineer (level 4)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday
9am - 5:30pm
38 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 September 2026
- Duration
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3 years
- Positions available
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2
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
Join our Higher Apprenticeship programme and gain hands-on experience supporting multidisciplinary teams in planning, developing, and delivering major investments. You’ll contribute to project setup, option selection, contract awards, and technical assessments to ensure safe, cost-effective solutions. Learn to work within regulations, stakeholder expectations, and support the RIIO-T3 business plan. Comprehensive mentoring and training will help you develop professionally and technically, setting you on the path to a rewarding engineering career.
These are jobs where you’ll be drilling down into the detail on specific subjects. You will be providing technical advice and engineering support for our assets across the entire network, making significant decisions and influencing their execution.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinate and support the scheme team and stakeholders during pre-construction, ensuring timely development and approval of investment solutions
- Help develop safe, efficient, least-cost solutions in line with regulations, and document all design and risk considerations.
- Assist with site assessments, cost estimation, tendering, and risk mitigation to enable effective project delivery
- Monitor and control financial forecasting and reporting for investments throughout pre-construction phases
- Ensure high-quality data management and apply lessons learned to optimise project scope, cost, and scheduling
Where you'll work
Crossgate House
Leeds
LS15 8ET
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
NATIONAL GRID PLC
Training course
Electrical power networks engineer (level 4)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
Training schedule
Electrical Power Networks Engineer Level 4.
You’ll need to be able to live away from home during your training; primarily at our Eakring Training Centre in Nottinghamshire. Typically, you’ll stay on-site from Monday to Thursday and return home for the weekend (Friday to Sunday). The amount of time spent at Eakring will decrease as you progress through the programme:
- Year 1 - around 75%
- Year 2 - around 50%
- Year 3 - around 25%
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- 3 other subjects (grade 4 and above)
- English Language (grade 4 and above)
- Maths (grade 4 and above)
A Level in:
- Any other subject (grade 4 and above)
- Maths or Physics (grade 4 and above)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Physical fitness
- Adventurous
- Safety awareness
- Resilient
About this employer
National Grid is at the heart of the energy future, and our people are at the heart of National Grid. We’re 30,000 colleagues strong. In the UK, National Grid don’t generate or sell energy – we join the dots to get energy from A to B. From making a cup of tea in the morning, to keeping the lights on in hospitals, our electricity network puts power in the hands of people. Without it, the world as we know it would grind to a halt. The world of energy is changing beyond recognition as we focus on building a cleaner, greener future. Working at National Grid, you won’t just be touching the lives of almost everyone in the UK – you’ll be shaping the way we use and consume energy for generations to come. Net-zero targets are transforming the way we work and increasing the scope of the positive impact we can make. Right now, we’re looking for apprentices to join us. Our people in Network Services work across a number of teams to keep the lights on for our customers. They might be helping a customer who has lost supply or supporting a developer building a multi-million pound project. They maintain a 24/7 service from faults and maintenance, asset replacement to new connections, working outdoors with underground cables, overhead lines and substations that operate between 230 and 132,000 volts, their work is critical to everything we do.
https://www.nationalgrid.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
- 26 days annual leave + statutory holidays - Competitive pension scheme (Double matched up to 12%) and Sharesave options - Employee Assistance Programme - Protective clothing and safety equipment supplied
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
Project Development Engineer.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
NATIONAL GRID PLC
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000000786.
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Closes on Tuesday 3 February 2026
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