Grid & Transmission Planning Engineer Jobs in Energy: Demand, Pay & Skills
Part of Plutarch’s ongoing analysis of skill demand in energy hiring — last updated 5 October 2026, based on 59 tracked postings.
As of 5 October 2026, Plutarch tracked 59 unique open Grid & Transmission Planning Engineer postings at energy employers. 12 postings disclosed annual pay, with a United States median of USD 135,000.
Open roles for Grid & Transmission Planning Engineer are concentrated in the United States, with smaller clusters in Qatar, Singapore, the United Kingdom and Canada. The title list is broad, mixing network engineering, transmission and interconnection planning, and general planning functions across several industries, which suggests this role family label captures a wide range of underlying jobs rather than one narrow specialty. Senior and lead-type titles form the largest single group, roughly matching the group with no stated level, while early-career titles are a small minority.
Open postings
Where
- United States · 24
- United Kingdom · 7
- Qatar · 4
- Singapore · 4
- Canada · 3
- Other or not stated · 17
Seniority
- Early career · 3
- Level not stated in title · 28
- Senior, lead, staff or manager · 28
Disclosed pay by country · annual
| Country | Lowest to highest employer midpoint | Median | Postings stating pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD 118,000–250,000 | USD 135,000 | 12 of 21 |
Directional, not conclusive. Each figure is the midpoint of a salary range an employer disclosed in a public job posting, derived from public market sources and rounded to the nearest thousand. Samples are small, so a country appears only when at least 5 open postings disclose annual pay. At these sample sizes, do not compare one role’s median against another’s — the difference between them is smaller than the error on either.
How many employers state pay
- United States · pay stated in 15 of 21 postings we could read
- United Kingdom · pay stated in 4 of 6 postings we could read
- Qatar · pay stated in 0 of 2 postings we could read
- Singapore · pay stated in 0 of 4 postings we could read
- Canada · pay stated in 2 of 3 postings we could read
Counted from the same open postings as above, leaving out postings whose text we could not read for pay. Pay disclosure tracks local pay-transparency law more closely than employer policy, so a low rate is not evidence that employers here pay less.
Who is hiring
| Employer | Open postings |
|---|---|
| National Grid | 5 |
| QatarEnergy | 4 |
| Worley | 3 |
| Antora Energy | 2 |
| Bloom Energy | 2 |
| Crusoe | 2 |
| Dominion Energy | 2 |
| ExxonMobil | 2 |
| Freeport-McMoRan | 2 |
| Nadara | 2 |
| Saudi Aramco | 2 |
| Seatrium | 2 |
| Other employers | 29 |
How these roles are titled
The titles employers use for this role, most repeated first. Titles shown without a count appeared once.
- Senior Network Engineer · 5 postings
- Planning Engineer · 4 postings
- Senior Planning Engineer · 4 postings
- IT Network Engineer · 3 postings
- Network Engineer · 3 postings
- Grid Engineer · 2 postings
- Operational Technology Network Engineer · 2 postings
- Commercial Asset Planning Engineer
- Contract - Senior VFX Network Engineer
- Gas & NGL Planning Engineer
- Graduate Intern - Electric Distribution Grid Planning Engineering
- HPC Network Engineer
- Infrastructure Facilities Planning Engineer
- Intermediate Natural Gas Pipeline Capacity Planning Engineer
- Intern - Transmission Engineering
What employers ask for
Skills and tools named in the text of 35 open postings we could read in full, most named first.
| Skill or tool | Postings naming it | Employers |
|---|---|---|
| Python | 6 of 35 | 6 |
| Excel | 5 of 35 | 4 |
| SAP | 5 of 35 | 3 |
| Power systems / grid | 4 of 35 | 4 |
| Cybersecurity | 4 of 35 | 3 |
A skill counts when the posting names it anywhere — requirements, role description or the employer’s own introduction. A skill is shown only when at least 3 postings from at least two employers name it. Postings whose full text we did not read are left out of these counts rather than counted as asking for nothing.
Patterns in the job titles
- Network engineering combined with planning or operations
- Transmission and interconnection engineering
- Maintenance planning engineering
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What the postings suggest about filling this role
The heavy weighting toward senior, lead and principal titles points to a market where employers are mainly competing for experienced talent, which tends to be harder to source and slower to fill than entry-level roles. The wide spread of adjacent specialties under one title umbrella also means candidate pools are fragmented by sub-domain, which can narrow the usable pipeline for any single opening. A small graduate and intern presence offers some easier-to-fill entry points, but it does not offset the dominant demand for experienced staff.
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