Senior Project Manager

The Clancy Group; Newport; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction company in Newport is seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee multiple projects within their energy division. The successful candidate will manage projects from pre-construction through to delivery, ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards. Ideal candidates are experienced in NEC contracts, high voltage utilities, and project management within the energy sector. Join a firm that values innovation, diversity, and career development, offering benefits including competitive pay and a generous holiday allowance.

Benefits

Pension

Healthcare

Holiday allowance starting at 24-26 days

Employee benefits programme with retailer discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience leading projects in the energy sector is preferred.
• Strong negotiation and stakeholder management skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop multiple projects within the energy business unit.
• Manage all project work to ensure timely and successful completion.
• Coordinate with clients and stakeholders to meet key programme dates.
• Monitor project progress and provide regular updates.

Skills

Contractual experience (ideally NEC)

High Voltage and Utilities experience

Substation development and build experience

Demonstrable project management experience

Significant technical and practical experience

Detailed understanding of the power industry

Experience with Primavera 6

Experience with Excel data

Excellent communication skills

Job description

Senior Project Manager

£75,000 - £80,000 plus car/allowance

Newport

We are easy to do business with
We’re keen to hear from customer-focused people like you who want to join our Energy team

You will be responsible for leading and developing multiple projects within our energy business unit, as part of the pre‑construction phases, covering the development of the working methodology and sequencing. This includes managing feasibility studies, feasibility design, detailed design to allow projects to move successfully into construction.

Working alongside team colleagues and other Clancy departments or functions, your role will contribute to the following activities:

• Manage all designated project work to ensure successful completion in accordance with safety, technical and legislative policies and procedures, as well as delivering in accordance with P6 programme, cost and quality.
• Undertake site visits and attend kick off meetings for schemes, as well as monitoring progress and provide regular updates to both Clancy and the Client.
• Liaise and coordinate with our clients, senior management and associated stakeholders to meet key programme dates.
• Execute project execution plans associated with the proposed delivery strategy.
• Demonstrate visual leadership and promote both Clancy and Client behaviour, maintaining close and proactive working relationships with the Client.
• Manage and coordinate subcontractors involved and associated with the delivery of the works, ensuring they deliver to time, cost and quality.
• Closely monitor and collate all existing and found information throughout the pre‑construction phase, and ensure that these are captured and handed over to the delivery team following completion of the project.
• Support estimating team in production of construction programmes, prices, risk registers and initial key CDM / safety documentation.
• Support consenting teams in production of stakeholder management and consenting plans.
• Support commercial teams to ensure costs control is maintained throughout the lifecycle of the projects and administration of project commercials are maintained via NEC contracts.

We'd love to hear from you if you can demonstrate:

• Contractual experience (ideally NEC)
• High Voltage and Utilities experience (preferably DNO and Streetworks)
• Substation development and build experience which includes, civils, electrical, cabling, protection and RTS.
• Demonstrable project management experience in pre‑construction development and build projects.
• Significant technical and practical experience in projects management within DNO substations and highways.
• Detailed understanding of the power, transmission and distribution industry.
• Previous experience with working with Primavera 6.
• Previous experience with working with Excel data.
• Excellent communication skills and an ability to analyse problems and offer solutions.

Our Company

Every day we work smarter, greener and use our imaginations.

Our purpose at Clancy is simple – we make life better for everyone’s growing families. We play a vital role in providing fresh drinking water and power to millions of homes and businesses and so much more.

We are one of the biggest family owned construction businesses in the UK and we care about our people, our clients and the environment.

What Next

You apply, and we respond within two weeks (we know how annoying it is not to hear anything back)! If you don’t receive feedback within that timescale, please don’t be afraid to chase us – one of our values is to do what we say we will do!

Benefits

In addition to helping you reach your career goals, a competitive salary, pension, healthcare and holiday allowance starting at 24‑26 days per annum, we also offer perks including Clancy Xtras, our employee benefits programme with discounts for numerous well‑known retailers such as Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Currys PC World and Vue Cinemas, cycle to work scheme as well as an Employee Assistance Programme.

Clancy is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees. If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made for you to attend an interview, please do let us know and we will be happy to accommodate.

We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and Disability Confident Committed.