People

Our people make Transmission

Delivering a transition that is fair and sustainable is critically important work and it relies on the efforts of the people who work for SSEN Transmission.

We are committed to ensuring our people have the skills, knowledge and behaviours to manage and develop the Transmission network of the future, whilst also retaining the wealth of capabilities necessary to continue to deliver network reliability and value for billpayers, all while staying safe, healthy, and well.

The pace and scale of network growth requires a significant growth in the size of our workforce. That makes recruiting, retaining and developing our people an essential part delivering a network for net zero. Our Sustainable People Strategy has four ambitions – a healthy, happy, and safe workplace, the right people with the right skills, being one inclusive and engaged team, and empowered inspirational leaders.

As we look ahead towards the 2030s, these areas remain crucial to delivering on our sustainability ambitions and to supporting our people to thrive. There will be challenges such as increasing competition for skilled people to join SSEN Transmission, as well as opportunities like the chance to engage our team on sustainability like never before, and to develop the workforce of the future.

Our Priorities

Grow skilled workforce

We will nearly double the size of our workforce in the short- to medium-term. To achieve this, we will develop a Just Transition Workforce Plan. We will also build our capacity and capability in sustainability, delivering enhanced learning and development opportunities and refreshing our volunteering program to engage more people than ever before in activities that help communities and support our sustainability ambitions.

Drive inclusion and wellbeing

We will continue to deliver employee-led inclusion and diversity campaigns to engage and support colleagues across SSEN Transmission. At the same time, we will continue to improve the diversity of our workforce by strengthening our targets, and we will drive a wellbeing culture through alignment with global best practice whilst working with suppliers to do the same.