Senior Project Manager – Utilities and Energy

Senior Project Manager – Utilities and Energy

We are looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead the delivery of complex utilities and energy infrastructure across major UK development and infrastructure programmes.

This is a high-impact role for a delivery-focused project professional who can manage stakeholders, challenge programmes, coordinate contractors and drive projects safely from construction through to commissioning and handover.

You will work as part of an integrated team combining project management, commercial management, technical advisory and regulatory expertise across electricity, water, wastewater, gas, telecoms, heat networks and emerging utility infrastructure.

Role overview

As Senior Project Manager, you will act as the client’s representative, taking ownership of utility delivery across complex programmes. Strong electricity infrastructure experience, particularly 11kV–132kV and above, would be highly advantageous.

Key responsibilities

• Manage multi-utility infrastructure projects through construction, commissioning and handover.
• Lead delivery across major developments including data centres, industrial, logistics, manufacturing and mixed-use schemes.
• Coordinate clients, contractors, statutory undertakers, DNOs, IDNOs, ICPs, local authorities and other stakeholders.
• Drive programme performance, project governance, reporting, risk management and change control.
• Review contractor programmes, identify critical path risks and develop mitigation actions.
• Support commercial monitoring, PMO reporting, executive dashboards and project controls.
• Maintain strong client relationships and escalate delivery risks early.

Candidate profile

You will bring strong experience in the planning, procurement and delivery of multi-utility infrastructure, with particular strength in electricity networks, substations, transmission and distribution, contestable and non-contestable works, and regulated utility environments.

You should be confident coordinating utility providers, contractors, design teams and senior stakeholders, with strong programme management, governance, reporting, risk, change control and project controls experience.

Essential experience

• Extensive experience delivering utility infrastructure projects.
• Strong HV or EHV electricity infrastructure experience.
• Experience managing contractors through construction and commissioning.
• Excellent programme management, PMO and project controls capability.
• Strong stakeholder management and reporting skills.
• Commercial awareness and experience managing multiple projects.

Desirable knowledge

• NEC, JCT or FIDIC contracts.
• CDM Regulations, NRSWA, Highways Act and utility permitting.
• DNO/IDNO processes, National Grid delivery, street works coordination, commissioning and energisation.

This role would suit someone from a major contractor, ICP, DNO, utility consultancy, client organisation or infrastructure developer who is ready for greater client exposure and responsibility.

The ideal candidate will be

• Delivery focused, organised and proactive.
• Confident leading meetings and managing senior stakeholders.
• Calm under pressure and comfortable in fast-paced environments.
• Collaborative, commercially aware and willing to challenge where needed.

Ready to make an impact?

If you are a confident Senior Project Manager with a passion for delivering complex utilities and energy infrastructure, we would like to hear from you.

Why apply?
A Sunday Times top 100 employer, this company will provide you with a flexible, friendly and creative environment in one of their UK offices to develop your skills and challenge yourself. They will support you to innovate, collaborate and build a meaningful career. Their strong network of people and knowledge will help expand your horizons and give you access to a variety of interesting projects across the UK and potentially further afield.

Employees are rewarded with competitive salaries, opportunities to purchase shares in the business and many other benefits including:

• 28 days holiday + bank holidays (option to purchase up to 5 extra days per year),
• Company pension scheme,
• Health Insurance
• Life Assurance,
• Bicycle Purchase Scheme,
• Health Screening,
• Employee Assistance Programme,
• Dental Cover,
• Professional Memberships plus many more benefits.

Despite our best efforts it is not always possible to respond to every application individually due to the high volume of responses we receive on each vacancy

Only candidates who are short listed will be contacted for this particular role and if you have not heard from us within 7 days please assume that you have not be successful. However, we will keep your details on our database, and will contact you when other suitable positions come in.