Graduate Development Program, Associate
- Northborough, MA, United States
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About the Position
Ready to connect data, strategy, and real-world impact? As a member of the Workplan Development Team, you'll help shape the projects that power communities across New England. By analyzing historical and forward-looking data, you'll uncover trends, support key planning decisions, track project progress, and help ensure critical infrastructure projects are ready to move from planning to construction. You'll collaborate with teams across Asset Management, Engineering, Operations, and Project Management, gaining a behind-the-scenes look at how major energy projects are prioritized, planned, and delivered. Your insights will help guide resource and investment decisions while giving you exposure to key business priorities across the organization. Along the way, you'll build experience in project management, forecasting, resource planning, data analytics, and stakeholder engagement, all while growing your professional network and making a meaningful impact from day one.
What You'll Do
Analyze historical and forward-looking portfolio data from systems such as SAP and Primavera P6 to uncover workload, schedule, readiness, and resource trends. Compare planned and actual performance to identify resource gaps, project constraints, and opportunities to better align work with available capacity. Help develop and enhance resource planning models that support construction and engineering workforce decisions. Track project readiness and key milestones, supporting actions that keep projects moving forward and ready for construction. Create reports, dashboards, and actionable insights that help teams and leaders make informed planning, prioritization, and resource allocation decisions. Partner with stakeholders across Asset Management, Engineering, Operations, and Project Management to understand business priorities and share insights with technical and non-technical audiences.
What You'll Need to Apply
Bachelor or Master's degree from an accredited institution. Preferably in Business, Construction Management, Project Management, Business Analytics or a related field. Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across teams. Graduated between May 2026 and June 2027 Ability to begin the National Grid Graduate Program on June 7, 2027, or July 12, 2027 Valid driver's license required with a safe driving history that meets National Grid's Safe Driver policy Work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States (such as sponsorship for... For full info follow application link.
National Grid is an equal opportunity employer that values a broad diversity of talent, knowledge, experience and expertise. We foster a culture of inclusion that drives employee engagement to deliver superior performance to the communities we serve. National Grid is proud to be an affirmative action employer. We encourage minorities, women, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans to join the National Grid team.
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Skills
- Project management
- Forecasting
- Data analysis
- Stakeholder management
- SAP
- Primavera
- Prioritization