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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