As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead a team responsible for the design and delivery of an allocated programme of work across the full project lifecycle to ensure that projects are delivered to the agreed plan, in accordance with relevant National Grid practices and procedures and always operating to the highest Safety, Health and Environmental & Quality standards. This includes early engineering contracts and Engineering, Procurement and Construction contracts. You will also support the team in the Development Consent Order for LionLink. You will work across a cross‑functional team which will include project managers, external partners and wider team of land, external affairs, legal and consenting experts to ensure the delivery to agreed schedule, budget and quality expectations. You will drive understanding of the process into the project team ensuring lessons learned from each stage are reviewed and shared across Construction. The role is a hybrid position with our base office in Warwick; we'd expect you to be in our office twice a week and the rest from home. A job‑requirement car is provided and travel to sites in Suffolk, West Midlands and East Anglia is required.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead, develop and performance manage a team to develop and deliver allocated projects safely, to time, cost and specification.
* Manage key stakeholders to remove any blockers to the timely completion of the project.
* Ensure robust monitoring, control and reporting of all investments within the major project (including SHEQ performance, milestone progress, risk management) and provide accurate and timely financial forecasting information to support regulatory reporting cycles and the business and capital plan.
* Ensure that project governance, development and tendering strategies are agreed early in development, and that the engineered solution delivers the essential scope at an optimal cost.
* Challenge project teams to ensure project scope, designs and delivery solutions are innovative, efficient, fit for purpose and prevent creep.
* Deliver / arrange training and support across the department to increase technical, financial, programme and safety knowledge and understanding as required.
* Lead and embed positive safety culture and process safety within the team to improve collective safety performance ensuring adherence to company policy, aims and objectives.
* Ensure that all essential documentation is completed to the highest possible standard, supporting the investment case and delivery strategy.
* Drive understanding of regulatory requirements into project teams and ensure project documentation for regulatory purposes is in place.
* Ensure that the construction programme accounts for all known delivery risks and CDM issues, including marine construction safety, health, environment and sustainability.
* Accountable for first level assurance across all team activities and responsibilities.
* Develop and share best practice across Interconnectors and the wider NGV business unit.
* Ensure that Project Managers / Assistant Project Managers are robustly positioned commercially on delivery, and coordinate and prioritise commercial / contractual support systems in place.
* If required, personally undertake role of Project Manager for allocated complex projects.
* If required, agree and implement a community consultation plan for the project with the Project Director and local authorities.
* Ensure a robust response management system is in place for the recording of the receipt and response to all statutory and public feedback.
Key Competencies & Qualifications
* An excellent customer‑centric approach that delivers on expectations.
* Expert at engaging stakeholders and working collaboratively to remove blockers.
* Experienced at developing teams and delivering high‑quality results.
* Competent in Project Management skills.
* Competent Management experience / Commercial Acumen.
* Knowledge of project delivery in marine environment, including seabed surveying techniques and offshore construction.
* Accomplished knowledge and application of CDM, Safety, Environmental Regulations and marine codes of practice.
* Knowledge of project delivery within a regulated environment such as utilities or oil and gas.
* Knowledge of the Electricity Transmission System.
* Senior Project Manager within Cable Management: knowledge of marine stakeholders such as Crown Estate, Marine Management Organisation, Trinity House, fisheries organisations and European equivalents; experience from major infrastructure or large‑scale construction projects including successful submissions and consenting processes.
Benefits and Compensation
A competitive salary between £66,000.00 and £82,000.00 per annum, dependent on capability. In addition to your base salary, you will receive a bonus of up to 30% based on personal and company performance and a contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. You will also have access to a range of flexible benefits including a share incentive plan, salary‑sacrifice car and technology schemes, employee assistance lines, and matched charity giving.
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