Senior Project Manager – Renewable Infrastructure & Finance

Elgin Energy; Greater London; On-site; GBP 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Elgin Energy in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced Senior Construction Project Manager to fulfil the Client/Employer’s Representative role across solar PV, BESS and related projects. You will coordinate finance, legal, engineering, procurement, construction, operations and advisers from FID through COD and handover to Asset Management.

The role emphasizes lender/investor governance, contract administration and clear, decision-ready reporting to SPV boards and shareholders.

Qualifications

• Degree in project management, construction management, engineering, or similar.
• Extensive experience in infrastructure, renewables, power, energy storage or comparable capital projects, with significant project and contract management responsibility.
• Direct experience working on project-financed projects, including lender due diligence, funding drawdowns, lender technical adviser processes and ongoing lender/investor reporting.
• Strong understanding of the Client/Employer’s Representative role and experience representing an owner, SPV, sponsor or employer in the delivery of complex contracted projects.
• Extensive experience administering FIDIC, EPC, ICP and construction management contracts, including notices, variations, claims, payment mechanisms, completion tests, liquidated damages and contractual close-out.
• Demonstrable ability to lead multidisciplinary internal teams and align finance, legal, engineering, procurement, construction, operations and external adviser inputs around delivery milestones within a standardised delivery framework.

Responsibilities

• Fulfil the Client / Employer’s Representative role for allocated projects, ensuring Elgin’s SPV, governance, commercial and contractual obligations are actively managed from FID to COD and handover.
• Lead project and contract management on project-financed assets, coordinating lender processes including conditions precedent, drawdown evidence, lender technical adviser queries, lender reporting, waivers and consents and funding milestone submissions.
• Administer and manage high-value EPC, ICP and related project contracts, including notices, variations, claims, payment applications, completion milestones, liquidated damages, defects and close-out obligations.
• Maintain disciplined project controls across programme, budget, cash flow, risk, actions, decisions and change, ensuring transparent reporting to senior management, SPV governance bodies, lenders and investors.
• Act as the primary project coordination point between Elgin’s internal project team, finance, legal, procurement, engineering, construction, operations, route-to-market and external advisers, ensuring that all workstreams operate from one integrated delivery plan, one risk position and one set of decision requirements.
• Lead and manage multidisciplinary internal project teams within Elgin’s agreed delivery framework by setting priorities, clarifying accountabilities, managing dependencies, aligning workstreams to project milestones and escalating decisions in a timely and structured manner.
• Manage the relationship and reporting cadence with project finance lenders, equity investors, shareholder representatives, lender technical advisers and other key finance-facing stakeholders, including preparing and presenting clear, decision-ready updates for shareholder forums and related governance meetings.
• Oversee contractor, owner’s engineer and technical adviser interfaces to ensure delivery evidence, technical outputs and contractual positions support Elgin’s funding, governance and employer obligations.
• Proactively identify commercial, contractual, programme and financing risks, develop mitigation plans and ensure issues are escalated with clear options, recommendations and decision requirements.
• Support tendering, contract negotiation and commercial strategy by ensuring delivery arrangements are bankable, financeable, contractually robust and aligned with lender/investor expectations.

Skills

Project management

Contract management

Lender reporting

Stakeholder engagement

Risk management

Financial acumen

Education

Degree in project management, construction management, engineering, or similar

Tools

Microsoft Office

Project controls software

Job description

Elgin Energy in the United Kingdom seeks an experienced Senior Construction Project Manager to fulfil the Client/Employer’s Representative role across solar PV, BESS and related projects. You will coordinate finance, legal, engineering, procurement, construction, operations and advisers from FID through COD and handover to Asset Management.

The role emphasizes lender/investor governance, contract administration and clear, decision-ready reporting to SPV boards and shareholders.