Senior Project Manager

About us

At National Grid, we light up the world by harnessing the unique strengths of our people. Join us as a Senior Project Manager to be part of a team that's driving forward the energy transition, creating a brighter, more sustainable future for all. Unleash your superpower and bring energy to life.

This role is based in the Northeast of England and requires frequent travel across the Teesside, Wearside and Borders regions

Join us in an role where you will take the lead in fully integrating, optimising and managing a dynamic programme of work throughout the entire project lifecycle! Your mission will be to ensure that our projects are delivered on time and in line with National Grid's best practices and procedures. You'll play a crucial part in upholding our commitment to the highest Safety, Health and Environmental standards, making a real impact in our community and beyond.

Embrace the challenge and be part of a team that drives innovation and excellence!

• Lead, develop and performance manage a team to develop, sanction and deliver allocated major projects safely, to time, cost and specification.
• Manage key stakeholders to remove any blockers to the timely completion of the project.
• Ensure robust monitoring, control and reporting of all investments within the major project (including SHE performance, milestone progress, risk management) and provide accurate and timely financial forecasting information to support regulatory reporting cycles and the business and capital plan.
• Ensure that sanctioning, development and tendering strategies are agreed early in development, and that the engineered solution delivers the essential scope at an optimal cost.
• Challenge project teams to ensure project scope, designs and delivery solutions are innovative, efficient, fit for purpose and prevent creep.
• Deliver / arrange training and support across the department to increase technical, financial, programme and safety knowledge and understanding as required.
• Lead and embed positive safety culture and process safety within team to improve collective safety performance ensuring adherence to company policy, aims and objectives.
• Ensure that all essential documentation is completed to the highest possible standard, supporting the investment case and delivery strategy.
• Drive understanding of Regulatory requirements (RIIO) into project teams and ensure project documentation for regulatory purposes in place.
• Ensure that the construction programme accounts for all known delivery risks and CDM issues, including construction safety, health, environment and sustainability.
• Accountable for first level assurance across all team activities and responsibilities.
• Develop and share best practice across New Infrastructure and the wider business units
• Ensure that EPC Project Managers / Assistant EPC Project Managers are robustly positioned commercially on delivery, and coordinate and prioritise commercial / contractual support systems in place.
• Lead the system access, AO resource interface and commissioning interfaces to secure all necessary outages in a timely manner.
• If required, agree and implement a community consultation plan for the project with the Project Director and local authorities. Ensure a robust response management system is in place for the recording of the receipt and response to all statutory and public feedback.

Interpersonal, Supervisory or Management

• Leadership Qualities
• An excellent customer-centric approach that delivers on expectations
• Expert at engaging stakeholders and working collaboratively to remove blockers
• Experienced at developing teams and delivering high quality results

Technical or Specialist

• Competent in Project Management Skills
• Competent Management Experience / Commercial Acumen
• Understanding of RIIO mechanisms and the way that National Grid delivers revenue under the regulatory framework
• Accomplished knowledge and application of CDM, Safety and Environmental Regulations
• Knowledge of National Grid Procedures for developing and delivering projects
• Knowledge of the Electricity Transmission System.
• Experience of managing work and demonstration of successfully co-ordinating activities across a large portfolio of projects.

Financial Control - Experience Required

• Finance and cost control management experience on complex, high value projects
• Experience in change control on target cost and lump sum construction contracts.
• Experience in contracting strategies and procurement seeing contracts through the end to end project life cycle.
• Drawing on analysis and highlight reports from the commercial teams to make decisions for financial control

A competitive salary between £66,000 - £79,000 dependent on capability

As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus of up to 30% of your salary for stretch performance and a competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. You will also have access to a number of flexible…