Energy & Power Design Manager: Lead Major Infrastructure

Jacobs; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free medical cover

Digital GP service

Enhanced parental leave pay

Employee assistance programs

Parental programmes

Reimbursement for professional dev/mem

Matched-funding for volunteering

Paid volunteering time

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking a senior project professional to lead multi‑disciplinary teams on energy and infrastructure programs in the UK. You will manage scope, schedule, cost, risk, and HSSE targets through all lifecycle stages, coordinating clients, suppliers, and regulators.

Strong experience in NEC contracts and PM tools is required, with a focus on delivering on time and within budget in a hybrid working model.

Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential.
• Proven experience delivering energy, power, utilities, or major infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of complex projects or workstreams in transmission, renewables, generation, and low-carbon tech.
• Deliver projects through lifecycle stages (Appraise/FEED/Design/Procure/Construct/Commission/Handover) within scope, schedule, cost, quality, and HSSE targets.
• Plan and control baselines, schedules, budgets, and risk/contingency; manage change control and reporting.
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams (design, consents, environmental, commercial, construction) 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 evaluations, and variation management.
• Maintain risk/issue registers, mitigations, and support audits (HSE/CDM, technical, readiness, quality).
• Coordinate permits, regulatory interfaces, land access, and environmental commitments.
• Drive construction readiness, commissioning plans, site logistics, and interface management.
• Use CDE/BIM and PM tools (P6, MS Project, Power BI) for planning and reporting.
• Capture lessons learned and contribute to bids and portfolio governance.

Skills

Communication skills

Delivery of energy/infra projects

Project controls (scope/schedule/cost)

Stakeholder management

NEC contracts knowledge

Leadership of multi-disciplinary teams

PM tools (MS Project, risk registers)

Tools

MS Project

P6

Power BI

Job description

Jacobs is seeking a senior project professional to lead multi‑disciplinary teams on energy and infrastructure programs in the UK. You will manage scope, schedule, cost, risk, and HSSE targets through all lifecycle stages, coordinating clients, suppliers, and regulators.

Strong experience in NEC contracts and PM tools is required, with a focus on delivering on time and within budget in a hybrid working model.