Specialised electrical equipment is used to carry vast amounts of electric power from the power stations located across the country through to our customers (cities, factories, airports, event stadiums, hospitals, our homes, our families, you and me) This task requires a pool of highly skilled engineers to make this happen, and that is where you come in!
The equipment that we are speaking about makes up what we will call the “Transmission System”. The transmission system has been around now for many years and some of it is naturally getting older to the point where it will either need fixing or replacing altogether. The reason that we fix or replace the equipment is so that every time you switch on your television, computer, toaster or a multitude of other everyday appliances and gadgets they come to life because you and the team of engineers that work with you have helped make it all happen!
So once you complete the two-year Foundation Engineer Programme, within Electricity Network Investment (ENI - based at Warwick) you are likely to be involved in:
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Examining the best ways to fix or replace our old equipment that is getting close to the end of its life.
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Designing equipment fixes and recommending replacement strategies.
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Recommending methods of running our older equipment in a gentle and safe manner so not to cause injury to people, damage to nearby equipment or pollution to our environment should it fail unexpectedly.
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Performing electrical power flow studies so that we can calculate the amount of power stations needed to meet the countries electrical needs at any given moment in time.
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Investigating the different faults that happen on our equipment, finding out what went wrong with it and recommending how to prevent it from maybe happening again.
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Working with other engineers from different departments to find ways that we can maintain and further improve the transmission systems efficiency and reliability for the benefit of society – for the benefit of you and me.