Project Manager

80877-Project Manager

This Project Manager will report to the Portfolio Manager and will work within Capital Programme – National Grid Portfolio based in either Bury St Edmunds, Stevenage or Colchester offices. You will be a permanent employee.

You will attract a salary of £80,574, car/allowance and a bonus of 3%. This role can also offer blended working after probationary period (6 months) - 3 days in the office and 2 remote

Close Date: 29/05/2025.

We also provide the following additional benefits

• 25 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays. 
• Reservist Leave – Additional 18 days full pay and 22 unpaid
• Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
• Tenancy Loan Deposit Scheme, Season Ticket Loan
• Tax efficient benefits: Cycle to Work, Home & Tech, and Green Car Leasing Schemes
• Occupational Health support
• Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers’ products
• Discounted gym membership
• Employee Assistance Programme

As the Project Manager in the EPN Investment Delivery team you will manage projects and provide construction assurance on a portfolio of, or individual projects from inception to completion. You will agree and implement the project delivery strategy, which includes forecasting resource and material requirements, monitor project costs and delivery, manage contractor performance and provide regular reports. The role also includes liaison with Design, Infrastructure Planning, Procurement, Supply Chain, Network Operations, Asset Management, National Grid and NESO.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Deliver projects / portfolio of projects from inception to completion to time, quality, cost maintaining the highest levels of safety and environmental management
• Ensure construction assurance through audits on quality of work, technical competencies, adherence to specifications, compliance with testing and commissioning procedures and safety and environmental procedures. Ensure that the required project completion data is completed and submitted for processing
• Produce delivery plans and ensure provision of direct / contract resources, materials and services to ensure that project programmes are maintained
• Manage commercial arrangements with contractors to ensure that contractual arrangements are met and that cost controls are in place
• Provide monthly reports including achievement, costs and forecasts
• Identify and manage the portfolio of projects delivery risks and provide early warning to mitigate and manage the level of risk exposure.
• Contribution and accountability on the assigned portfolio of projects for regulatory reporting requirements, including auditing of actual and forecast cost and output data.
• Liaise with key stakeholders such as National Grid, NESO, Infrastructure Planning, Design, Connections, Supply Chain, Network Operations, Procurement and Commercial Management and the DSO to ensure that projects are managed from inception to completion.
• Ensure that all work is carried out to provide very high levels of Customer Service e.g. minimise Customer Interruptions & Customer Minutes Lost, network risk, and customer complaints
• Ensure that all workers engaged on the projects / portfolio of projects are aware of all safety and environmental requirements
• Develop the project execution plan and present project governance approval papers
• Work with PMO to ensure P6 programmes are up to date to enable monthly reports to be produced, including achievement, costs and forecasts etc.
• Engage with Asset Management, Major Connections and Alliance PDD team pre Gate B approval to ensure correct scope and budget are mandated in accordance with the Alliance Governance & Delivery process.
• Work with UKPN Property & Consents team to secure landowner consents, planning permission and external stakeholder engagement.
• Ensure projects are notified and comply with CDM requirements and that they are delivered safely
• Deliver projects in compliance with UK Power Networks' 'Project Controls Handbook'.

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications and Experience:

• Experience managing construction and/or engineering projects of values in the region of £10m plus
• Ideally you will have a Degree in Electrical Engineering , or Civil Engineering all with a Project Management bias
• Experience with construction management best practice
• A safety qualification such as IOSH Managing Safely will be advantageous as will experience working with the CDM regulations and ISO9001 quality processes
• Knowledge and experience of Primavera P6, online project collaboration tools, Microsoft Project, and project management techniques
• A formal qualification from a recognised Project Management or construction professional body equivalent to APM PMQ or higher or a HNC in Electrical or Civil Engineering (or equivalent) with experience managing the development and construction of electrical distribution projects is the preferred requirement, however, applications from candidates with a lesser qualification and a record of accomplishment in either project management or electrical distribution infrastructure (design or construction) would be welcomed.

Nature and Scope:

The Investment Delivery team is part of the Capital Programme & Procurement directorate. The team is responsible for programme management of NAMP lines and new connections and work with framework contractors and National Grid to deliver the programme.

The role of a Project Manager in Investment Delivery is more biassed towards Project Management skills than operational skills, although some operational experience would be advantageous.

The Project Manager will coordinate and lead and a matrix structured multi-disciplinary, multi-contract project team, and provide the necessary direction, targets and project milestones to ensure use of resources.

The Project Manager will ensure that functions of the project delivery are in place. These include scopes of work, procurement processes, capital approval, resource planning (materials and people), project delivery, reporting and review.

The Project Manager role may have a portfolio that covers Major Connections and APP lines.

The Capital Programme directorate is planning to increase the Project Management competence in the team and therefore you will undertake a formal qualification in Project Management.

Health & Safety Responsibilities

Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment.

Employees will ensure they understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.

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