Matthew Goode Email & Phone Number

Manchester, Gb

Manchester Area, England, United Kingdom

Added responsibility on top of the asset programme manager role, to include performance and controls. The Asset Investment role begins the process of business planning (a continuous process) whereby the business plan is created/adapted to consider new information that our data reveals. Making informed decisions to deliver efficient and cost effective asset interventions across all operational asset types. Performance and controls then follows these interventions through from inception to delivery to financial reporting. This also includes strategic planning for our customer operations department.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Owner of the NW investment business plan, circa £180m per year and management of the NW investment portfolio and asset plan. I manage the team of asset engineers to deliver a deliverable, costed, efficient and well rounded asset investment plan for the GD2 price control. Decision making for our asset intervention is based on risk, budget restraints, business targets and optimum replacement intervals,Particular focus on Capital Expenditure across the gas asset classes.

North West England

Management of a team of project supervisors to deliver North West capital projects and maintenance programmes of work. Encompassing management of financial sanctioning and tracker of spend against delivery.

Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

I am responsible for the management and delivery of multiple capital expenditure work streams across the North West within the Operate and Maintain department. This includes; • asset replacement, remediation and upgrades;• management of pipeline and structure inspections;• installation of pipeline access deterrent measures; • putting contractors to work safely and evaluation of contract submissions.

Northern Branch

Chair of the Northern Branch, facilitating committee meetings and an event calendar. Including Karting and the Northern Branch Dinner amongst other Webinars and presentation evenings.

North England

Deputy chair of the Northern Branch, supporting the chair.

North Of England

Organising and hosting events for the 'Young Persons' in the North of England alongside the main branch activities. Created a Professional Development Network Committee. Building and improving the current PDN network in the North of England, to aid with developing the next generation of industry leaders. Meeting with the Northern committee, providing a voice for the under 35's and engaging with the huge network that the guild has, to put on meaningful, worthwhile and interesting events. When I first started with the guild, there was no representative for young professionals, and no network to pull them together. In the small time I have been with the guild I have grown that network to over 10 of us, with plans to grow this through more events.

Manchester, United Kingdom

My final placement within the graduate programme here at National Grid, which I requested to be within the operational directorate of the business. My role sat under the operate and maintain umbrella, within the projects team who undertake many of the annual programmes of work for network strategy and also reactive adhoc projects that come in. During this time I was keen to get a hands on experience of what our engineers do day in day out. For this I spent 4 weeks working with a team who were carrying out replacement of assets on our AGIs and inspections on kit across the north west. Being on an operational gas site was great for my understanding and allowed me to fully take in how our business works. The Asset Health Trial that was being undertaken by a colleague was a great opportunity to be involved in a new and exciting method of working and allowed me to see the contract management side of project management which I had not experienced yet. After this on the job experience I settled down into my role of coordinating projects such as the painting programme and further asset replacement on sites across the north west. As an extra to my day job I was lucky enough to be involved in organising Work Inspiration Week as part of the Employability Program which is run in the head offices of National Grid. Inviting around 20 students from local schools to come for a whole week and experience life in a company like our own. Alongside my graduate colleagues we organised and coordinated visits to some of our operational sites, a sustainability centre and also our offices. Here we taught the students about our business and about working life in general, all to concluding in some presentations about their time in the business.

Hinckley

Within our CMAC (contract management and control) department I was responsible for a portfolio of projects focused on improving our customer satisfaction through minimising the number of excavations we have to dig in the customers property and garden. This portfolio of projects allowed me to get real experience of programme management and reporting on multiple projects. Although I was only in this role for 6 months I was able to carry out workshops with senior leadership and key stakeholders to get a great understanding of how these projects will work in the business. I organised and lead multiple workshops with these stakeholders and delivered a portfolio of projects that would have real business value and prevented 1000's of excavations from being carried out on customers driveways and gardens. This placement highlighted my enthusiasm for projects and influenced my choice for final placement and my career aspirations.

Hinckley

My first placement on the National Grid graduate scheme. Working alongside a team of network analysts to get to the root cause of our pressure problems within our network (and our connections to independent gas transporters), come up with a solution and coordinate the implementation of this solution. During my 6 month placement I learnt to use our modelling software at an advanced level to analyse the effects of our operational equipment on our network and to use this and other systems of data to recreate the faults. This could be used to diagnose the issue and get the solution to operations to fix. Alongside these jobs I worked on multiple reinforcement and conditioning replacement program solutions.

Leicester, United Kingdom

During my summer at university I secured a temp role at National Grid, in the Gas Distribution Business Unit. I worked with a great team on the High Rise Building surveys project, where my initial role included entering the data into a database but evolved and developed as I helped out with extra tasks for the team to reach targets. Over the weeks I improved my knowledge of how the business works and really enjoyed communicating with fellow employees to get the tasks finished on time.After the summer of working in the Hinckley Office, I continued to work remotely in this role part time whilst at university at weekends.

Earlswood, West Midlands

At the Limes Country Lodge I worked as a waiter and bartender. The venue has its own restaurant, hotel rooms and wedding lodge. I worked part time while I studied for my A levels and then worked during the holidays while back from university. My responcibilities included managing room bookings, taking and serving food and drink orders and taking part in the smooth running of wedding services and events. In my time at the Limes I was awarded the first 'employee of the month' award and became a valued member of the team.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Physics, 1St Class

During my time at the university of Liverpool I studies a variety of physics modules, these included quantum mechanics, particle physics.

High School

I achieved 3 B grade A- levels (Maths, Physics and Chemistry) and a B in AS-level Geography.

Education record

11 GCSEs of A*-C including Maths, English, Sciences and French.