Job Description
Overview
- End-to-End Project Delivery – Take full accountability for delivering EPC projects to specification, budget, and schedule, ensuring customer satisfaction at every stage.
- Leadership & Team Coordination – Lead and coordinate cross-functional teams including Engineering, Construction, Project Controls, Finance, EHS, Quality, and Contracts.
- Stakeholder Management – Build strong relationships with internal teams, clients, and external partners, ensuring alignment and effective communication throughout the project lifecycle.
- Financial & Commercial Oversight – Manage project budgets, monitor financial performance, and ensure effective cost control and resource utilisation.
- Risk & Issue Management – Identify, assess, and mitigate risks proactively, while managing claims, deviations, and root cause analysis to drive continuous improvement.
- Planning & Execution – Ensure all project activities are clearly defined, scheduled, and delivered in line with key milestones and contractual requirements.
- EHS Leadership – Champion a strong safety culture by embedding EHS into all project decisions and ensuring compliance with all regulatory and company standards.
- Quality Leadership & Assurance – Champion a culture of quality excellence by embedding quality requirements into all project decisions, ensuring deliverables meet contractual specifications, and driving continuous improvement through effective non-conformance management and compliance with GE Vernova’s Quality Management System.
- Tender & Delivery Support – Support tender validation by reviewing delivery models, commitments, risks, and opportunities.
Requirements
- Demonstrable experience delivering transmission projects within the UK market.
- Strong understanding of UK regulations, standards, and established ways of working.
- Experience through working on Grid substations with major UK network operators such as National Grid, SSE, or UK Power Networks.
- Degree in Engineering (or equivalent experience).
- Proven experience managing EPC or large-scale infrastructure projects.
- Strong understanding of project delivery across engineering, procurement, and construction phases.
- Experience working in complex, multi-disciplinary and international environments.
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and interfaces effectively.
- Strong commercial and financial awareness.
- Excellent problem-solving, organisational, and analytical skills.
- Confident communicator with strong stakeholder management capabilities.