Interface Manager

JERA Nex bp; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

JERA Nex bp is seeking an experienced Interface Manager to support the delivery of large-scale offshore wind and EPCI projects. You will coordinate interfaces across packages, govern decisions, and drive change processes within a matrix organization.

Reporting to the PMO Manager and working with Package Managers and technical specialists, you will ensure decisions are documented, approved, and traceable throughout the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, or a related discipline.
• Experience in offshore wind, energy, marine, infrastructure, construction, or other complex multidisciplinary projects.
• Proven experience coordinating multiple stakeholders, contractors, and technical disciplines.
• Strong understanding of project governance, change management, and risk management processes.
• Excellent facilitation, communication, stakeholder management, organizational skills, and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Lead the full implementation and continuous improvement of the project Interface Management Procedure.
• Identify, coordinate, and help resolve interfaces between project packages, contractors, and stakeholders.
• Maintain interface registers and ensure actions, agreements, decisions, risks, and issues are tracked and escalated where required.
• Technical decision coordination.
• Coordinate cross-package decisions and contribute to the preparation of decision packages and governance reviews where required.
• Ensure technical decisions are formally resolved, documented, approved, and traceable.
• Act as process owner for the project's Management of Change (MoC) process.
• Coordinate change assessments across technical, cost, schedule, scope, and risk disciplines.
• Ensure changes are assessed, documented, and processed in line with project governance, procedures, and thresholds.
• Coordinate scope alignment, ownership, responsibilities, and deliverable demarcation across project packages.
• Maintain project scope management tools and documentation.
• Ensure HSE, technical safety, regulatory, and compliance considerations are addressed in interface discussions, involving specialists where required.
• Responsible for coordinating licenses, training and setting up of the software tools within the interface management procedures in the project.

Skills

Interface management

Stakeholder coordination

Project governance

Change management

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering or related

Tools

Interface management tools

Project management software

Collaboration platforms

Job description

Join us as we work to unlock the value of offshore wind! JERA Nex bp is a new joint venture between JERA, Japan’s largest power generation company, and bp, one of the world’s leading energy companies. Established to unlock the potential of offshore wind across the globe, our talented team, exciting pipeline and solid capital commitment give us the potential to become one of the world’s most successful offshore wind companies.

We entered the market with a portfolio of operational and development assets, alongside the resources, capabilities and resilience to deliver offshore wind energy at scale.

Why this role matters

We are looking for an experienced Interface Manager to support the successful delivery of large scale offshore wind and EPCI projects.

In this role, you will coordinate and govern interfaces between all (technical and non-technical) project packages, support decision-making, align scope boundaries, and manage project change processes in a structured and transparent way.

Working closely with Package Managers, Project Leadership, PMO functions, and technical specialists, you will help ensure that interfaces, decisions, and changes are aligned, documented, and effectively governed throughout the project lifecycle.

You will work within a matrix reporting structure, reporting functionally to the Head of Project Controls at corporate level and reporting to the PMO Manager on your assigned projects.

In this role you will

Interface Management

• Lead the full implementation and continuous improvement of the project Interface Management Procedure.
• Identify, coordinate, and help resolve interfaces between project packages, contractors, and stakeholders.
• Maintain interface registers and ensure actions, agreements, decisions, risks, and issues are tracked and escalated where required.
• Technical decision coordination
• Coordinate cross-package decisions and contribute to the preparation of decision packages and governance reviews where required.
• Ensure technical decisions are formally resolved, documented, approved, and traceable.

Management of Change

• Act as process owner for the project's Management of Change (MoC) process.
• Coordinate change assessments across technical, cost, schedule, scope, and risk disciplines.
• Ensure changes are assessed, documented, and processed in line with project governance, procedures, and thresholds.

Scope Management, Demarcation & Coordination

• Coordinate scope alignment, ownership, responsibilities, and deliverable demarcation across project packages.
• Maintain project scope management tools and documentation.
• Ensure HSE, technical safety, regulatory, and compliance considerations are addressed in interface discussions, involving specialists where required.
• Responsible for coordinating licenses, training and setting up of the software tools within the interface management procedures in the project.

To be successful in the role you will bring

Essential

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Project Management, Construction Management, or a related discipline.
• Experience in offshore wind, energy, marine, infrastructure, construction, or other complex multidisciplinary projects.
• Proven experience coordinating multiple stakeholders, contractors, and technical disciplines.
• Strong understanding of project governance, change management, and risk management processes.
• Excellent facilitation, communication, stakeholder management, organizational skills, and attention to detail.

Desirable

• Experience within EPCI project delivery environments.
• Knowledge of interface management methodologies and tools.
• Familiarity with project management software and collaboration platforms.
• Understanding of HSE and regulatory requirements within large infrastructure projects.

What you can expect from us

Working at JERA Nex bp means being part of a global leader in offshore wind, where innovation, collaboration, and sustainability drive everything we do. You’ll enjoy:

• A collaborative and inclusive work culture, with space for team-building and social activities
• Flexible working hours and the opportunity to work from home, with regular in-person connection
• Opportunities for career growth and professional development in a fast-growing international company.

As we build our company, we are driven by

• Care for each other and our world – we leave egos at the door, are inclusive, collaborative and open to new ideas
• A spirit of ingenuity – we are pioneers and innovators making the impossible possible
• A commitment to unlocking value from offshore wind – we aim to make offshore wind sustainable, affordable and accessible to the countries & communities we serve.

About JERA Nex Bp

JERA Nex bp is a purpose-built offshore wind company committed to unlocking the power of offshore wind by developing high-quality, competitive projects.

A 50:50 joint venture between JERA Co. and bp, JERA Nex bp is an end‑to‑do developer, owner and operator with more than fifteen years of experience in operating offshore wind projects.

Headquartered in London, with offices across Europe, Asia, and Australia, JERA Nex bp has a portfolio of operational and development projects across nine countries, and draws on a rich heritage of pioneering offshore wind in Asia Pacific and the North Sea.