Steven Williams

• Successfully managed multiple projects simultaneously by prioritizing tasks according to urgency, resource availability, and alignment with organizational goals.
• Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
• Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
• Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
• Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
• Established effective communication among team members for enhanced collaboration and successful project completion.
• Managed risk assessments and implemented mitigation strategies to minimize potential issues during project execution.
• Developed comprehensive project plans with clear timelines, milestones, and budget requirements, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality results.
• Developed strong relationships with stakeholders through regular communication updates, fostering trust and confidence in the team''s ability to deliver results.
• Collaborated closely with senior management to align project objectives with strategic company initiatives, ensuring that efforts contributed to overall business growth.
• Provided detailed technical and operational direction in project challenges, consistently meeting deliverables according to deadlines.
• Mentored junior team members in project management best practices to enhance their skills and contribute to better overall performance.
• Negotiated and managed third-party contracts related to project deliverables.
• Delivered exceptional customer satisfaction by proactively addressing client concerns and meeting or exceeding expectations throughout the engagement process.

Secondment to the maintenance contract transition team. The team was established to develop new contract regions and new contracts that would meet Transpower's future needs.

The team had developed a framework working with our service providers that formed the basis of a transition plan to support the transition from the previous maintenance contract regions into the new contract regions. Primary risks included business continuity and ensuring key resources were secured into each contract region.

I was tasked with supporting Downer NZ into a new contract region essentially as a new electrical service provider to Transpower. Duties included,

• Adherence to the agreed transition plan
• Ensuring Downer's proposed structure and resources were right sized for the new contract region
• Ensuring tools and equipment secured to support the contract
• Support Downer in the development of systems and processes to manage all workflows safely
• Maintain a risk register, and ensure appropriate mitigations in place for areas that were not adequately satisfied during the transition phase. Escalate as required.
• Handover of the region to the maintenance teams for contract start

• Contract management and relationship management for the Ventia NS7 & NS8 station groups (now RSC4). Fostering a productive, collaborative relationship that ensure the best outcomes for the service provider, Transpower and New Zealand
• Customers and connected parties. Maintaining strong relationships and supporting our customer needs.
• Asset management. Working closely with internal and external stakeholders ensuring we manage asset risk and optimize the work plan and complete maintenance to best practice. Stakeholders include asset planning, service providers, operational engineering
• Network investments. Working with the investigations team, tactical engineers and our projects team to ensure investments and scopes are the right fit from an operate and maintain perspective. This involved early input at the concept stage and support to the project through to commission. Recent examples include the Judgeford Tee project and the Turitea wind farm project. I provide sound network knowledge and good judgement on what the solution needs to achieve
• Network risk & customer risk management. Work closely with many delivery managers across the business, ensuring network risk across maintenance and project activities is identified and managed, to ensure security of supply and recovery plans in place.
• Manage spend plan to budget. Ensure the work plan and associated activities are priced fairly, and the work is risk prioritized.
• Incident management. Manage system events and safety events on the network, working with operational engineering, RSM and service providers to identify the root causes, and ensure an environment of continuous improvement.

• Prioritized schedules to meet performance goals and KPI requirements.
• Engaged in both long and short-term project planning, strategizing for on-time, high-quality deliverables.
• Identify, maintain and report on Grid Performance financial statuses and requirements across all asset groups.
• Coordinate with Contractor staff in identifying new work for inclusion into the business plan, and provide data to Engineering to support policy replacements.
• Ensure outage requirement for projects and scheduled inspections work forwarded to the planning group for inclusion into the long range outage plan

• Ensuring delivery of maintenance and inspection programmes, ‘Current Year’ for the Overhead Line HV system for the South East England Area.
• Ensure Field Based staff has visibility of a rolling 12 week maintenance programme as per staff agreements.
• All statutory inspection and routines identified and scheduled to Field staff for delivery within agreed timescales.
• Ensure network access availability for outage related work.
• Building of a national maintenance and inspection Programme at the year ahead stage for hand over to the current year Planning Team for delivery.
• Work in conjunction with other departments to identify programmes and work at year ahead stage
• Management of overhead line faults and defects.
• Identification and requesting of outages for the management of trees near lines at a national level
• Identify and negotiate all outage related work, including access and resource relating to network maintenance.

• Undertake maintenance of Overhead Line HV system using Dead working techniques and Live Line
• Refurbishment works and thermal up-rating

• Undertake maintenance of Overhead Line HV system using Dead working techniques
• Completion of Inspection routines, statutory and non statutory
• QA and Safety inspection of all Contractor works on National Grid OHL assets
• Emergency response and rectification of faults and defects, ensuring safety of the public
• Involved in trialling of new maintenance techniques at National Grid’s Eakring Training College