OHL Capital Delivery Project Manager

Sse Enterprise; Inverness, Fort William; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

SSE’s Highlands Overhead Line delivery team is seeking a Capital Delivery Project Manager to lead safe, on-time delivery across LV/11kV/33kV networks from Inverness and surrounding areas. The role involves coordinating with design, planning and environmental teams, managing budgets and schedules, and ensuring governance compliance.

You will liaison with internal and external partners, drive programme outputs, monitor costs, and promote health and safety and customer service excellence.

Qualifications

• Experience in both people and customer engagement with a proven ability to deliver work safely, on time and within budget.
• A track record of meeting project timelines, quality and cost targets, with accurate and timely reporting of project progress and financial performance
• Experience developing project programmes, cost plans and resource schedules ensuring delivery of practical and cost-effective solutions.
• A working knowledge of a regulated environment, ideally within the electricity or utilities sector. Experience of working on OHL projects, or similar across LV, 11kV and 33kV networks is advantageous but not essential.
• Demonstrable experience delivering projects in line with governance processes, with a strong working knowledge of Construction (Design & Management) Regulations.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the safe delivery of projects to programme, cost and the necessary quality, using robust systems to support the project process.
• Lead the delivery of key project programme outputs, managing both internal and external stakeholders and coordinate with departments such as design and engineering, planning, environmental and consents.
• Co-ordinate works appropriately between internal and external delivery partners, ensuring we have the right mix of delivery to provide the most efficient outcomes.
• Provide support to both our customer and delivery partners to ensure the projects proceed efficiently, including facilitating and attending site meetings.
• Drive profitability and opportunity through excellent customer service, identifying areas of improvement to work collaboratively with the delivery partners and wider business.
• Apply and adhere to the Safety Management Systems, CDM regulations, best practices and follow governance processes for all projects where required.

Skills

People engagement

Customer engagement

Project delivery

Stakeholder management

Reporting & finance

Job description

SSE’s Highlands Overhead Line delivery team is seeking a Capital Delivery Project Manager to lead safe, on-time delivery across LV/11kV/33kV networks from Inverness and surrounding areas. The role involves coordinating with design, planning and environmental teams, managing budgets and schedules, and ensuring governance compliance.

You will liaison with internal and external partners, drive programme outputs, monitor costs, and promote health and safety and customer service excellence.