Project Coordinator

ScottishPower; Blantyre; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A major energy provider in Blantyre seeks a Project Coordinator to enhance customer service and manage projects. This permanent, full-time role requires strong stakeholder engagement and project management skills. Responsibilities include working with contractors and ensuring safety standards. The ideal candidate will have experience in the utilities sector and relevant qualifications. A comprehensive benefits package is provided alongside the competitive salary.

Benefits

36 days annual leave

Share Incentive Plan

Electric Vehicle Schemes

Health insurance options

Gym discounts

Qualifications

• Strong stakeholder and customer engagement skills.
• Knowledge of construction standards, health, safety, and environmental legislation.
• Experience in a project delivery role within electricity networks.

Responsibilities

• Provide customer service to stakeholders while ensuring safety and efficiency.
• Establish and grow relationships with contractors and stakeholders.
• Manage project milestones, customer engagement, and site surveys.

Skills

Strong stakeholder and customer engagement skills

Knowledge of construction standards

Experience in project delivery role

Experience with SAP

Ability to manage competing priorities

SVQ/NVQ electrical or engineering qualification

Job description

Project Coordinator

Salary £37,560 - £46,950 per annum plus strong benefits package and excellent career progression opportunities/support.

Location: Aspect House - Blantyre (office based with site visits throughout the district)

Permanent / Full Time (37 hours per week)

Help us create a better future, quicker!

At SP Energy Networks, we're shaping the future to meet the growing demand for electricity and low‑carbon technology. Our mission is to deliver safe, secure, and sustainable energy solutions for the communities we serve. People are at the heart of this transformation, and we're looking for talented individuals to join us.

We are recruiting a Project Coordinator to join our Distribution business within SP Energy Networks. Working as part of the Licence Programmes business unit, the Proactive Team plays a key role in modernising LV assets across the SPD licence area. We're looking for someone who can help us deliver proactive schemes that make a real difference to our customers and communities.

What You'll Be Doing

As a Project Coordinator, you'll provide gold‑standard customer service to internal and external stakeholders while ensuring safety, quality, and efficiency across all projects. You'll also establish and grow relationships with contractors, stakeholders, and customers to ensure works have minimal negative impact, maximise value add activities, and, where possible, complement local activities and aspirations.

You'll:

• Assign work to service partners and ensure clear scope and expectations.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders to drive Health & Safety, Quality, and Performance.
• Manage project milestones, customer engagement, and site surveys.
• Work closely with designers and quantity surveyors to ensure accurate surveys and BoQs.
• Monitor spend forecasts, raise POs, review PayApps, and track project progress.
• Provide weekly reports and future work plans to maintain steady workflow.

What You'll Bring

• Strong stakeholder and customer engagement skills.
• Knowledge of construction standards, health, safety, and environmental legislation.
• Experience in a project delivery role within electricity networks or the wider utilities industry.
• Experience with SAP and contract/SLA management.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and communicate effectively at all levels.
• SVQ/NVQ electrical or engineering qualification (or equivalent experience).
• Valid driving licence and willingness to travel throughout the district

What's in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we'll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower, we believe it's the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family's wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that – so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow.

That's why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
• Payroll giving and charity matched funding
• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes
• Count us in – pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
• Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to nudge' financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why SP Energy Networks

SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make‑up the transmission network – connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It's a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland's ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we're taking it very seriously.

We're investingover £5.5 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large‑scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you'll fit right in.

We are committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy‑related support. If you need support, please reach out to careers scottishpower.com .