Utilities Project Manager

We are recruiting a Utilities Project Manager on behalf of an engineering and infrastructure delivery business operating as a NERS-accredited Independent Connection Provider (ICP).

This permanent position reports to the Operations Manager and offers the opportunity to lead utilities projects, coordinating teams and resources to deliver work safely, efficiently and to a high standard.

THE ROLE

You’ll own projects from cradle to grave, reporting to the Operations Manager:

• Win the work: front-end bidding and tendering will be a big part of the role early on, before you move onto site
• Shape the tender: advise on how the business would deliver a project and feed that to the tender team, so you need to understand the whole process, but you won’t be building the pricing
• Deliver on site: mobilisation, delivery and wrap-up, leading H&S under CDM as Principal Contractor or Tier 2
• Run the numbers: budgets, risk, change control and gross margin, with monthly progress reporting
• Build the network: supply chain partners, DNOs, IDNOs and other utility owners, and the industry contacts that mean we hear about opportunities early
• Help grow the business

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

Essential:

• Proven utilities Project Manager with a new connections background, ideally in renewables (BESS, solar, wind)
• 11kV to 132kV experience (11kV-only is acceptable)
• Experience of work winning, bidding and tendering
• Principal Contractor background
• Practical on site and technically strong
• Good with people up (clients, senior management) and down (site teams)
• Well connected, with supply chain relationships
• SMSTS and/or NEBOSH
• Happy to travel to sites and be in London a couple of days a week

Nice to have:

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

BENEFITS

• Pension: employer 3.5%, you match (7% total), pay more if you wish
• Private health available
• 36 days’ holiday: 25 days, 3 fixed days between Christmas and New Year and 8 bank holidays
• Annual cost-of-living increase each April/May (3.5% this year), plus discretionary performance increases
• Formal reviews twice a year and monthly one-to-ones with a line manager who invests in the team