Senior Project Manager - Marine Cables

Base Location

For this role, we require successful applicants to be based from one of our Scottish locations and you'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in the office – Aberdeen, Inverness or Perth.

£58,100 - £87,100 + car /car allowance + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available.

SSEN Transmission Offshore Delivery Team are currently recruiting for a Senior Project Manager to deliver various subsea HVDC (High-Voltage Direct Current) link projects as part of the Accelerated Strategic Transmission Investment (ASTI) portfolio before 2030 regulatory deadlines to directly facilitate Scotland's ambitions to meet Net‑Zero.

As the scale of our portfolio of projects is already large and is likely to grow in the coming years, there will likely be opportunities for career progression within the business. Due to the nature of the project packages, experience of subsea construction activities associated with marine cable installation is particularly desirable.

This role will involve regular travel to support key meetings with appointed contractors as well as to provide regular on‑site and vessel mobilisation leadership presence ensuring compliance with Health, Safety, Environment and Wellbeing standards.

• Accountable for the delivery of the Marine cables package as part of the wider HVDC project including a focus on safety, health and wellbeing of all personnel, environmental aspects of activities being managed as well as compliance with our framework behaviour charters and the CDM regulations.
• Planning, Monitoring, and Control of projects or packages in line with Project Execution Plans to ensure that these are executed to cost, schedule and quality.
• Responsible for all commercial aspects of delivering your package including NEC contract management, ensuring that any disputes are escalated as appropriate for resolution. Accountability to the business for the budget, forecasting and delivery of the project / package within this. Packages will be more than £100m in value.
• Ensuring the use of recognised project management processes, reporting, methods, techniques and tools, in particular the application of our Large Capital Projects (LCP) Governance Framework Manual.
• Providing on and offsite leadership to demonstrate our core values. Leading large multidisciplinary teams, ensuring these are highly competent, well‑motivated, and organised to deliver consistent excellence. Take line management and mentoring responsibility for your direct reports to ensure they perform to their required duties and are given all available opportunity to develop.

• A proven track record of leading and safely delivering projects or programmes of work to cost, schedule and quality in the Transmission, Subsea construction, Energy, or other relevant industry.
• An engineering or project management qualification/degree or equivalent experience within subsea construction or electricity transmission fields is essential.
• Thorough engineering or construction knowledge and understanding, including the associated environmental and safety legislation e.g. the CDM 2015 regulations.
• Commercially astute, with sound knowledge and experience of administering, and managing NEC Contracts is critical.
• Experience of the governance, forecasting, reporting, and management requirements for project and/or programmes of work in a regulated environment, with prior delivery budget responsibilities of over £20m.
• Effective Safety Leadership and People Management skills to manage a team.

SSE’s purpose is to provide energy needed today while building a better world of energy for tomorrow. We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. Our Transforming for Growth investment plans see us investing £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure across the five years to 2030.

SSEN Transmission own and operate the electricity transmission network across the north of Scotland. We transport energy from where it is…