Sector Hazards Manager - NESO

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About the Role

Reliable energy systems are fundamental to everyday life in Great Britain. They underpin homes, businesses, public services, and critical national infrastructure, and are essential to economic stability, public safety, and social wellbeing. As the energy system evolves through decarbonisation, increasing electrification, and greater interdependence across sectors, ensuring that it remains secure, reliable, and resilient is more important than ever.

Recent events, including the North Hyde substation fire and subsequent review, and the Iberian Peninsula blackout, have reinforced the importance of understanding and strengthening resilience across the whole energy system - not only today, but for the future.

The Resilience & Emergency Management (REM) directorate strengthens whole-energy-system resilience by being a catalyst for change - turning insight into coordinated, prioritised action that reduces risk and builds capability across the system. REM delivers this through analysis, assessments, reviews, emergency exercises, and plans that drive tangible improvements with our partners.

REM operates through a continuous improvement cycle that includes:
• Learning systematically about energy system risks and resilience
• Conducting prioritised assessments to generate insights and advice
• Translating insights into actions that drive tangible improvements

We are building our capability to maintain a strategic, system-wide view that integrates insights from NESO's analysis and outputs and translates them into prioritised risks, workplans, and engagement strategies. This enables each of our technical teams to focus on developing deep expertise and driving change in a specialist area.

These specialised topics could focus on a combination of particular:
• Time horizons (short-, medium-, or long-term)
• Resilience capabilities (anticipation, resistance, response, or recovery)
• Energy system elements (electricity, gas, or cross-vector systems)

This role is to lead the team that builds a clear understanding of how physical and environmental hazards affect Great Britain's energy resilience and how they interact with wider system risks.

This role can be based from Wokingham, Warwick or Glasgow and we continue to offer hybrid working from office and home. The role will also require travel to other NESO office locations.

Key Accountabilities

• Deliver the team's annual work programme on hazard and physical risk assessment in line with REM's broader risk and resilience approach.

• Work closely with the Strategic Resilience & Insights teams to connect hazard analysis with system-level trends, priorities, and foresight outputs.

• Ensure analytical findings are supported by robust technical understanding of the physical energy systems

• Translate analytical findings into clear, actionable recommendations for investment planning, policy development, and operational preparedness.

• Support the integration of hazard considerations into other REM teams' workstreams (e.g., supply adequacy, restoration readiness, interdependencies).

• Provide evidence, briefings, and updates on hazard-related risks and resilience improvements to NESO leadership, government, and industry.

• Build and maintain partnerships with government, regulators, network operators, and research organisations to align methodologies and share best practice.

• Manage, develop, and support a multidisciplinary team of analysts, modellers, and technical specialists to deliver robust, credible, and timely outputs.

About You

• Knowledgeable of the GB energy system, with relevant engineering, energy, or policy experience - or a willingness to learn and develop this expertise.
• Motivated by reducing the impact of physical hazards on consumers, communities, and national energy resilience.
• Collaborative and confident working with cross-sector partners and senior stakeholders.
• Experience in leading analytical or technical teams working on hazard, environmental, or infrastructure resilience.
• Skilled at translating complex data and modelling into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Strong communicator able to explain technical or probabilistic risk concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Deep understanding of hazard and physical-risk assessment methods and their application to energy or critical infrastructure.
• Proven track record of building and or leading high-performing teams is desirable.

Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At NESO, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for everyone. So, if you're excited about this role but your experience or qualifications don't match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for our growing business in this role or another one.

About What You'll Get

A competitive salary of circa £73,000 - £80,000 - dependent on experience and capability.

As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus of up to 15% of your salary for stretch performance, 28 days annual leave as standard, and a competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%.

You will also have access to a comprehensive benefits package tailored to support your well-being and professional success. From a competitive salary to flexible work arrangements, we promote your work-life balance. Enjoy fit for purpose wellbeing and lifestyle offerings, ongoing skill development aligned to our Purpose and Values, and be part of a supportive community that values your individuality and where you can belong.

About Us

The creation of National Energy System Operator (NESO) is driven by an urgent need to unify and optimise our approach to energy. A more integrated and coordinated strategy is needed to meet the unprecedented challenges of climate change, ensuring secure energy supply, and keeping costs manageable for consumers.

Join us and empower your potential, energise our team, and be part of something bigger.

Our energy, our future, together.

About The National Energy System Operator (NESO)In Autumn of 2024, the ESO transitioned to National Energy System Operator, or NESO for short. Previously denoted as the Future System Operator (or FSO), the new National Energy System Operator is the independent body responsible for planning Great Britain's electricity and gas networks and operating the electricity system.

The ESO, including all of its existing roles, are now at the heart of the new National Energy System Operator. As NESO, we will build on our existing roles, capabilities, and ways of working significantly to create an organisation the energy system and its users' need. Our new capabilities will enable us to look across vectors, including electricity, natural gas and hydrogen, and crucially consider the trade-offs between them.

The organisation is set up as a public corporation with its own Board of independent directors, with complete operational independence from government, the regulator and any and all commercial interest. As was the ESO, NESO will be licenced and regulated by Ofgem through price control agreements and obligated to identify optimal solutions to system operations and planning in the most sustainable, affordable and secure way for all.

The time to deliver is now. As part of our team, you won't just be touching the lives of almost everyone in Great Britain - you'll be shaping the way we use and consume energy for generations to come.

More Information

This role closes on 26/03/2026 at 23:59, however we encourage candidates to submit their application as early as possible and not wait until the published closing date as this can vary.

We work towards the highest standards in everything we do, including how we support, value and develop our people. Our aim is to encourage and support employees to thrive and be the best they can be. We celebrate the difference people can bring into our organisation, and welcome and encourage applicants with diverse experiences and backgrounds, and offer flexible and tailored support, at home and in the office.

We're committed to building a workforce that represents the communities we serve, and a working environment in which each individual feels valued, respected, fairly treated, and able to reach their full potential.

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