Senior Project Manager - Hydropower

Stantec; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading consultancy as a Senior Project Manager in Hydropower. You will manage significant projects across the UK, ensuring timely delivery and high quality outputs while collaborating with diverse teams. This role offers the chance to impact sustainable energy solutions globally.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Pension plan

Free private medical insurance

Discounted gym membership

Flexible working arrangements

Industry leading training and development

Qualifications

• Degree qualified and working towards Project Management qualification.
• Experience managing large hydropower projects with fees over £500k.
• Core project management skills in cost, schedule, and risk.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex multi-disciplinary hydropower projects.
• Ensure project objectives are met on time and within budget.
• Conduct client-facing concept and detailed designs.

Skills

Project Management

Cost Management

Risk Management

Stakeholder Management

Education

Degree in relevant field

APM’s PMQ / ChPP or PMI’s PMP

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The Opportunity

Stantec is working on many of the world’s largest, complex and most exciting dams and hydro projects. Due to our ongoing success we are rapidly growing and seek an experienced Project Manager to join our dynamic team, working on the design and development of cutting-edge dams, hydropower and pumped storage hydro solutions. This role can be based anywhere in the UK.

The Opportunity

Stantec is working on many of the world’s largest, complex and most exciting dams and hydro projects. Due to our ongoing success we are rapidly growing and seek an experienced Project Manager to join our dynamic team, working on the design and development of cutting-edge dams, hydropower and pumped storage hydro solutions. This role can be based anywhere in the UK.

It is a great opportunity to join a growing multi disciplinary team involved in projects as varied and different as Coire Glas in Scotland, Koysha in Ethiopia, and Dinorwig in Wales, as well as supporting many of the UK water companies with inspections, remediation and development of new dams and reservoirs.

We have developed a strong reputation within the sector as a leading, progressive and forward-thinking consultancy, focused on delivering high quality outputs to ensure the client achieves their outcomes and business benefits. Read more about our work at; Stantec Hydropower & Dams

We are looking for a PM who can lead these, often large, complex and multi-disciplinary projects, often involving significant risk and the need to work with multiple stakeholders.

Your role will include traditional advisory, Owner’s Engineer, client facing concept design, contractor facing detailed design, remediation and troubleshooting, installation support and Lender’s engineer / insurance / due diligence support. You will proactively lead the team to successfully deliver our objectives on time, to budget and to the appropriate quality.

This is an exciting opportunity for a project manager who is passionate about sustainable energy and eager to make a significant impact in the industry.

About You

You will be degree qualified and hold or be working towards an appropriate Project Management qualification such as APM’s PMQ / ChPP or PMI’s PMP.

You will have manage large hydropower projects, or have demonstrable experience leading major complex water and/or energy sector projects (fees in excess of £500k on projects with a construction value well in excess of £10m).

You will be hands-on and foster great team dynamics and working relationships and be emotionally intelligent when it comes to your own, your teams and your clients’ feelings, concerns and wellbeing.

You will bring extensive demonstrable core project management technical skills such as cost, schedule, risk, stakeholder, resource, governance management.

Experience working within a contractor organisation or on the consultancy side of large Design and Build projects would be advantageous but is not essential.

Most importantly, you will embody and support our values of client focus, designing with community in mind, collaboration and service excellence.

Why Join us?

• Our People Culture: We're a close knit team and very proud of our friendly and collaborative environment
• Growth: Our Energy team is growing rapidly and we have exciting plans for the future - we want you to be part of it!
• Awards: Stantec were awarded the International Consulting Firm of the Year and Best place to work - Large Consulting Firms at the 2024 NCE awards as well as being consistently recognised in the top 10 Corporate Knights most sustainable companies in the world.
• Great Benefits: Competitive salary, pension plan, holidays, free private medical insurance, discounted gym membership and lots more
• Flexible working arrangements
• Great projects and frameworks across all of our sectors
• Industry leading training and development as well as paid for professional subscriptions
  
  

To hear what our team have to say about working in the Energy group, click here:- Stantec Energy Team

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About Stantec

The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.

Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is a crucial key to our success. If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply.

At Stantec we want you to perform your best at every stage of the recruitment process and are committed to ensuring it is accessible to all. If you need any support or require adjustments to be made then please contact careers.UK& [email protected] and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

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