Utilities Project Manager - #2192595

Job Opportunity: Project Manager – Utilities New Connections (BESS, Solar & Wind)

Location: Site-based across the UK, with 2 days a week in London

Salary: up to £ 85 000

Package

• Pension: 3.5% employer contribution, you match (7% total)
• Private health available
• 36 days’ holiday (including bank holidays and 3 fixed days at Christmas)
• Annual cost-of-living increase each April/May (3.5% this year)
• Discretionary performance increases
• Twice-yearly reviews and monthly one-to-ones

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to join a growing ICP and NERS-registered engineering and infrastructure delivery business, as it scales its newer energy unit.

This role owns projects from cradle to grave, delivering battery storage, solar and wind connections from 11kV up to 132kV. You’ll start on front-end bidding and tendering, then move onto site for delivery.

It’s an early-stage opportunity with real scope to shape the unit’s growth and progress with it.

Responsibilities

• Win work through front-end bidding and tendering.
• Advise the tender team on how projects would be delivered (pricing is handled separately).
• Lead mobilisation, delivery and wrap-up on site.
• Lead health and safety under CDM as Principal Contractor or Tier 2.
• Manage budgets, risk, change control and gross margin.
• Produce monthly progress reporting.
• Build relationships with supply chain partners, DNOs, IDNOs and other utility owners.
• Stay close to the market to hear about opportunities early.
• Help grow the business as the energy unit scales.

Requirements

• Proven utilities Project Manager with a new connections background, ideally in renewables (BESS, solar, wind).
• Experience of projects from 11kV to 132kV (11kV-only considered).
• Experience of work winning, bidding and tendering.
• Principal Contractor background.
• Practical on-site experience and strong technical knowledge.
• Strong communication with clients, senior management and site teams.
• Established supply chain relationships.
• SMSTS and/or NEBOSH.
• Comfortable travelling to sites and working in London a couple of days a week.

Desirable

• Multi-utility experience (water, gas or telecoms)
• Engineering, construction or PM degree (or equivalent experience)
• NEC3/4 or JCT knowledge
• Streetworks, NJUG or Energy UK involvement