Senior Project Manager

Vattenfall; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy company in London seeks a Senior Project Manager to oversee multimillion-pound district heating projects. The role requires significant experience in project management, excellent communication skills, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion. Candidates must be able to lead cross-functional teams, manage complex technical projects, and possess relevant project management qualifications. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to a zero-carbon energy future.

Benefits

Good remuneration

Challenging international work environment

Opportunities for personal and professional development

Qualifications

• Proven multi-year experience in District Heating projects in a technical or commercial area.
• Experience leading project teams in the UK market.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to inspire teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage health and safety to industry best practices.
• Lead project team and ensure adherence to budgets and timelines.
• Develop and monitor contracts with suppliers.

Skills

Communication skills

Project management

Leadership

Negotiation skills

Education

Project management qualification (e.g: IPMA certification or similar)

Tools

Office 365 suite (Word/Excel Planner)

MS Project

Job description

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Do you want to work where change is happening and be part of shaping the future? Join Heat UK’s journey towards Fossil Freedom as our new Senior Project Manager

Vattenfall has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager to join our UK Heat team in London to develop and establish the extensions of our growing district heating assets.

Vattenfall UK Heat is responsible for the development and construction of the heat and power generating assets and the district heating grid in the UK region. The work in our international team is characterised by diversity, openness, and a high degree of cooperation. Respect in dealing with each other, our colleagues and business partners is just as important to us as having fun in our daily work.

In the position of Senior Project Manager you will strengthen our Project Management team which is part of the Scotlang regional business office. You will be responsible for development and realisation of multi-million investment projects in line with the outlined objectives, business drivers and the Vattenfall project management model and governance. You will be supported by a strong (local) project team and Vattenfall competence and resource pools, tools, and systems.

Your tasks and responsibility will be widespread:

• Reinforcing robust management of health and safety to industry best practice
• Continuous steering, planning, scheduling, managing, executing, and controlling the project with responsibility for budget, deadlines, quality, occupational safety, and risk management, from concept development, construction to the start of commercial operation of a new plant
• Development and controlling/monitoring of contracts with suppliers and service providers
• Coordination and determination of all relevant project results with the decision makers
• Proactive management of the critical path and, execution of subordinate tasks
• Reporting on key Performance Indices
• Leadership of the project multi-disciplinary team
• Resourcing and cost management
• Responsible for keeping the project running according to schedule, within budget with the highest standard of quality and safety with support and input of the team

Your profile:

Being the right candidate, you are characterised as structured and equipped with a sound judgment. You easily connect to people and your advanced communication skills are usable towards senior management as well as on work floor level. You are passionate about being part of the transformation taking place in the shift to a zero-carbon energy sector and are able to keep focus on what is important for Vattenfall. The job requires an orientation on international cooperation with technical, as well as business-oriented experts.

Next to this you are:

• High communication, and influencing skills, proficient at addressing Executive to team audiences.
• Able to take initiative and ownership of responsibilities and drive to completion
• High affinity with complex technical asset investment projects in the realization phase with the practical experience, solution orientation and confidence to steer your team and the contractors to successful completion.
• Confident and experienced in mastering critical project content (irrespective of it being technical or commercial) together with a Project Team and a wider team of experts in order to enable and/or maintain project success
• Someone eager to grasp the full picture of the company’s interests, prepare decision making correspondingly, able to manage a team which is paying close attention to details but still manages consideration and connection of details with the overall project picture
• Passionate about setting up something new, building new processes and setting new standards
• A promoter of diversity and inclusion in the workplace

Job Description

Do you want to work where change is happening and be part of shaping the future? Join Heat UK’s journey towards Fossil Freedom as our new Senior Project Manager

Vattenfall has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager to join our UK Heat team in London to develop and establish the extensions of our growing district heating assets.

Vattenfall UK Heat is responsible for the development and construction of the heat and power generating assets and the district heating grid in the UK region. The work in our international team is characterised by diversity, openness, and a high degree of cooperation. Respect in dealing with each other, our colleagues and business partners is just as important to us as having fun in our daily work.

In the position of Senior Project Manager you will strengthen our Project Management team which is part of the Scotlang regional business office. You will be responsible for development and realisation of multi-million investment projects in line with the outlined objectives, business drivers and the Vattenfall project management model and governance. You will be supported by a strong (local) project team and Vattenfall competence and resource pools, tools, and systems.

Your tasks and responsibility will be widespread:

• Reinforcing robust management of health and safety to industry best practice
• Continuous steering, planning, scheduling, managing, executing, and controlling the project with responsibility for budget, deadlines, quality, occupational safety, and risk management, from concept development, construction to the start of commercial operation of a new plant
• Development and controlling/monitoring of contracts with suppliers and service providers
• Coordination and determination of all relevant project results with the decision makers
• Proactive management of the critical path and, execution of subordinate tasks
• Reporting on key Performance Indices
• Leadership of the project multi-disciplinary team
• Resourcing and cost management
• Responsible for keeping the project running according to schedule, within budget with the highest standard of quality and safety with support and input of the team

Your profile:

Being the right candidate, you are characterised as structured and equipped with a sound judgment. You easily connect to people and your advanced communication skills are usable towards senior management as well as on work floor level. You are passionate about being part of the transformation taking place in the shift to a zero-carbon energy sector and are able to keep focus on what is important for Vattenfall. The job requires an orientation on international cooperation with technical, as well as business-oriented experts.

Next to this you are:

• High communication, and influencing skills, proficient at addressing Executive to team audiences.
• Able to take initiative and ownership of responsibilities and drive to completion
• High affinity with complex technical asset investment projects in the realization phase with the practical experience, solution orientation and confidence to steer your team and the contractors to successful completion.
• Confident and experienced in mastering critical project content (irrespective of it being technical or commercial) together with a Project Team and a wider team of experts in order to enable and/or maintain project success
• Someone eager to grasp the full picture of the company’s interests, prepare decision making correspondingly, able to manage a team which is paying close attention to details but still manages consideration and connection of details with the overall project picture
• Passionate about setting up something new, building new processes and setting new standards
• A promoter of diversity and inclusion in the workplace

Qualifications

To be successful, you should further bring:

• Proven multi-year experience in District Heating projectsina technical area (mechanical engineering, electrical engineering/ I&C, process engineering, civil engineering) or in a commercial area, in particular commercial project management and contract management
• Project management qualification (e.g: IPMA certification or similar qualifications)
• Proven experience in leading project teams in the UK market
• Excellent interpersonal skills: you are an inspirational leader, working in teams motivates you, and you are able to build a bridge between the project and all internal and external stakeholders relevant for success
• Negotiating skills, willingness to compromise and persuasiveness
• Good networking within the industry
• High degree of competence with software including: Office 365 suite (Word/ Excel Planner); MS Project

The successful candidate will need to have the right to work in the UK

Additional Information

Our offer
Good remuneration, a challenging and international work environment, and the possibility to work with some of the best in the field. You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues. We offer attractive employment conditions and opportunities for personal and professional development.

More Information
We welcome your application in English, no later than 10/08/2025. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website.

For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Adam Hammond via [emailprotected]

Commitment to Diversity

Vattenfall is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement forums and services to support all our employees.

We are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.

We look forward to receiving your application!