Senior Project Manager

Company: Morson Talent
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Location: Blantyre
Job Description:

Scottish Power Transmissions are looking for a Senior Project Manager to join their team in Blantyre or on a contract basis. Role: Senior Project Manager. Business: Scottish Power Transmissions. Duration: 12 month initial contract. Location: Blantyre office/hybrid style working. Rate: Inside IR35, Umbrella and PAYE options available. Hours: Full time, Mon – Fri.

A Senior Project Manager is the owner for a portfolio of SP Transmission Projects from project initiation, through the development phase and manages the handover to delivery team. To provide leadership and co‑ordination across internal & external stakeholder groups to ensure that projects are delivered within agreed timescales with strict adherence to regulatory and licence obligations, including guiding & developing large multi‑disciplinary teams. To coordinate & lead all areas of project management associated with the development of the allocated project portfolio.

What you’ll be doing

As a Senior Project Manager, you will manage a portfolio of capital projects, ensuring that they are developed safely, without adverse impact to the environment, to customer expectations, within budget, to a high‑quality standard and within the required timescales. Project portfolios will mainly be new build reinforcements with investment projects averaging in excess of £10m. Most projects are expected to take 4‑7 years to complete.

Within this position you will be:

  • Responsible for the project management of identified project(s) from development through handover to delivery and providing project management controls across all areas of the project.
  • Accountable for the delivery of outputs, incentive metrics, milestones in line with business targets and effectively manage project risk and mitigate the impact of issues that may emerge.
  • Identify and understand the potential interactions between the various proposed projects and develop initiatives which minimise the impact on deliverability.
  • Manage interfaces with network outage planning to ensure the outage programme is fully informed by the requirements of the projects’ investment programme.
  • Creation of project plans and development of accurate capital expenditure forecasts and output projections on assigned projects, with full accountability for project, contractual and financial governance.
  • Provide input to the management of the regulatory MSIP/LOTI process along with identifying, promoting, and implementing innovation, efficiencies and value engineering.
  • Promote and implement external and internal stakeholder engagement and community liaison for projects, including compliance with the SPEN Landowners Agreement and Code of Conduct.
  • Ensure development issues which are not able to be reconciled with the requirements of the overall investment programme is highlighted to management with recommendations for mitigating actions.

What you’ll need:

  • Degree qualified or significant equivalent experience
  • A Project Management background within electrical transmission projects
  • Experience and knowledge of contracts management, ideally NEC, SPT D&C, JCT & FIDIC
  • Experience and knowledge of procurement process in relation to large scale projects

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Posted: March 27th, 2026