⚡ Director of Project Delivery – Transmission (UK)
📍 United Kingdom | Full-time | Senior Leadership
We are seeking a Director of Project Delivery – Transmission to lead large-scale new build and upgrade projects across the UK. This is a high-impact leadership role for an experienced project director with deep expertise in transmission project execution, stakeholder engagement, and large capital programme management.
🌍 Key Responsibilities
* Take full ownership of transmission project delivery in the UK, ensuring achievement of schedule, quality, cost, and safety targets.
* Establish and oversee a comprehensive PMO system, including planning, risk, schedule, quality, contract, and financial control.
* Manage EPC contractors, design consultancies, suppliers, and subcontractors to ensure compliance with Transmission Owner (NGET/SSEN/SPEN) standards and HSE requirements.
* Drive cross-functional collaboration with sales, engineering, supply chain, and factories to ensure seamless order-to-delivery processes.
* Monitor progress against milestones using traffic-light reporting, and provide regular updates to the UK CEO and Group HQ.
* Lead client communications, manage variations, claims, and disputes to ensure customer satisfaction and positive cash flow.
* Build and develop a local delivery team, with responsibility for recruitment, training, and succession planning.
* Approve project spend, resource allocation, and safety incident investigations up to delegated authority level.
* Ensure organisational effectiveness in resource utilisation, both internal and contractor-based.
🎓 Experience & Qualifications
* Degree qualified in engineering, business, or a related discipline; advanced professional qualifications preferred.
* 15+ years of project management experience in transmission or power engineering.
* 5+ years delivering projects within the UK/European power market.
* Proven track record managing large-scale projects (£100m+ individual investment).
* Strong expertise in contractual management: NEC3/NEC4, FIDIC, PMI, Prince2 frameworks.
* Financial management of multi-hundred-million-pound projects, with focus on budget returns and early revenue.
* Extensive experience leading geographically diverse teams and engaging senior stakeholders across the supply chain.
* Strong knowledge of UK transmission sector regulations, CDM, and HSE frameworks.
* Skilled in value engineering, risk management, programme delivery, and project refinement to achieve business case requirements.
⚡ What We’re Looking For
* A strategic leader who thrives in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
* Proven ability to manage end-to-end delivery of large capital projects, balancing commercial, technical, and regulatory considerations.
* Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trust across Transmission Owners, EPCs, consultants, and regulators.
* Results-oriented, resilient, and driven to deliver in a challenging and evolving energy market.
💡 Why Join Us?
This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of the UK’s transmission infrastructure — delivering critical new build and upgrade projects that will enable the energy transition. You will lead a high-performing project delivery team, drive operational excellence, and have direct accountability for some of the most significant capital investments in the sector.