Project Manager (Power Transmission and Distribution)

-; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global infrastructure firm is looking for a Project Manager to oversee energy transmission and distribution projects in the UK. The role includes managing all project delivery stages, client-side support, and ensuring project quality and schedules. Ideal candidates should have experience in project management, particularly in complex energy projects, and possess strong communication and relationship-building skills. Opportunities for hybrid working are available.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Competitive salary

Diverse career pathways

Qualifications

• Experience in client-side project management.
• Knowledge of Transmission and Distribution projects.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of Transmission and Distribution projects.
• Provide client-side project management support.
• Manage subcontractors and project resources.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Relationship building

Education

Professional Qualification in Project Management or Engineering

Chartered Status with RICS or APM

Tools

NEC contracts knowledge

Job description

Company Description
Work with Us. Change the World.
At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

Job Description

We’re looking for passionate Project Managers to join our growing Infrastructure Project Management team in the UK, where you will have a key focus on energy transmission and distribution projects. Based in London or one of our South East & Anglia hub offices, with the added flexibility of hybrid working, you’ll have the chance to play a key role in delivering transformative projects across the country. This is an opportunity to work with our key clients on the cutting edge of energy innovation, while benefiting from AECOM’s global expertise and diverse career pathways.

Here’s what you’ll do

As a Project Manager, you will be expected to support a team to successfully manage and deliver capital investment projects, which could include asset health refurbishment or replacement of existing assets. This role involves providing client-side project management support during all stages of the project delivery lifecycle from option studies, option development, construction tender support through to NEC contract administration.

• Lead the successful delivery of multi-disciplinary Transmission, Distribution and Power Systems projects.
• Client-side project management, including stakeholder, H&S, risk, quality, schedule, and contract management. Ensure projects and commissions are delivered to the satisfaction of the client for quality, cost, and time.
• Support and manage the project team ensuring appropriate resources are provided on projects, meeting the client and business requirements.
• Actively manage subcontractors and resources remote from the core project team.
• Develop strong relationships with clients and members of the cross-functional team.
• Support business development opportunities with existing and new clients.

If you’re passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don’t just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?
Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Experience of working within a client organisation, either directly or through a co‑location/secondment arrangement.
• Prior experience of supporting and delivering Transmission and Distribution projects, or an experience of construction projects with an active interest in the field of Transmission and Distribution.
• Practitioner of NEC suite of contracts, particularly the Professional Services Contract (PSC) and Engineering and Construction Contract (ECC).
• Experience of working as part of integrated, multi‑organisation, collaborative teams.
• Infrastructure and project management experience, delivering complex projects.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Highly motivated with an excellent industry network.
• Relationship building skills – ability to build strong relationships with clients, teams and stakeholders as well as an ability to build and maintain networks of business contacts.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• A team player with a ‘can‑do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible.

Qualifications
• Professional Qualification – ideally Project Management / Construction Management / or Engineering Degree
• Chartered Status or actively working towards with the RICS, APM or equivalent institution
• NEC3 or 4 accreditation

Additional Information

For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to programme and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public‑ and private‑sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed. You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients. AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well‑being programmes to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We are the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long‑term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [e-mail] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.