Energy & Power Design Manager - Lead Complex Infra

Jacobs; Exeter; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Well-being benefits

Global volunteering and giving program

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex energy infrastructure projects in the UK, including transmission/distribution, renewables, and low-carbon technologies. You will manage scope, schedule, cost, and HSSE targets across lifecycle stages, coordinating cross-functional teams and external partners.

You will interface with clients, run governance reviews, and support NEC/JCT contract administration while maintaining risk registers and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven experience delivering energy, power, utilities, or major infrastructure projects.
• Strong understanding of project lifecycle from design to handover.
• Experience managing stakeholders (clients, designers, regulators).
• Working knowledge of NEC contracts (especially change management).
• Competence with PM tools and risk reporting.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of complex projects across transmission & distribution, renewables integration, generation, and low-carbon technologies.
• Deliver projects through all lifecycle stages to meet scope, schedule, cost, quality, and HSSE targets.
• Plan baselines; develop WBS, schedules, budgets and risk/contingency; manage change control and reporting.
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams and coordinate supply chain partners and OEMs.
• Interface with clients; run progress reviews, gateways, and steering groups; capture stakeholder requirements.
• Support contract administration (NEC3/NEC4/JCT), procurement, RFIs/RFPs, tender evaluation, and compensation events/variations.
• Maintain risk/issue registers, own mitigations, and support audits (HSE/CDM, technical, readiness, quality).
• Coordinate permits, interface with statutory bodies, land access, and environmental commitments.
• Drive constructability reviews, commissioning plans, site logistics, and interface management.
• Use digital delivery tools (CDE/BIM, PM tools) for planning and reporting.
• Capture lessons learned and contribute to bids and portfolio governance.

Skills

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Lifecycle understanding

Education

Engineering/PM/Construction degree or equivalent experience

Tools

MS Project

Power BI

Job description

Jacobs is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex energy infrastructure projects in the UK, including transmission/distribution, renewables, and low-carbon technologies. You will manage scope, schedule, cost, and HSSE targets across lifecycle stages, coordinating cross-functional teams and external partners.

You will interface with clients, run governance reviews, and support NEC/JCT contract administration while maintaining risk registers and ensuring regulatory compliance.