Senior Project Manager - Transmission & Distribution (UK)
- Full-time
- State/Province: Birmingham
- Business Group: DCS
- Legal Entity: AECOM Infrastructure and Environment UK Limited
- Business Line: Energy
- Work Location Model: Hybrid
- Operating Group: International
- Primary Location: UK - Birmingham - Colmore Plaza
Are you ready to join a talented project management team and shape the future of energy infrastructure?
The Transmission & Distribution department delivers project management, design and owners engineer roles for electrical power projects at transmission and distribution voltages across the UK and globally. The focus of the team is large‑scale grid infrastructure, grid connections, and private networks.
Due to a fantastic period of growth the team are looking to hire an experienced Senior Project Manager to work across our projects within the UK. The T&D team delivers HV design for electrical power projects at transmission and distribution voltage levels. The focus of this role is to project manage pre‑construction activities for high voltage infrastructure, grid connections, and private networks at voltage levels normally between 132kV to 400kV. Typical projects include feasibility, optioneering, Front End Engineering Design (FEED), detailed design and design assurance on existing or brand‑new substations and transmission infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Undertake project management role on medium to large size projects
- Oversee the work of one or more Project Managers and provide support as required
- Contribute to the client interface and build successful external and internal relationships
- Develop and manage integrated project plans, schedules, and budgets, including performance reporting, invoicing, and delivery against contractual requirements
- Lead design assurance and technical review processes across all engineering deliverables
- Participate in development of bid proposals
Benefits
At AECOM, you’ll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well‑being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work‑life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.
Qualifications
- Have the ability to work flexibly across multiple projects/ multidisciplinary projects
- Experience working within client interface environments
- Excellent communication skills and fluency in English
- Ideal (but not essential) to have exposure to working within energy infrastructure projects across the pre‑construction project lifecycle, feasibility to detailed design
- Have strong commercial, risk management and contractual skills and experience, e.g. NEC4
- Chartered Engineer Status (or working towards) or APM or similar registration
We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at [email protected] . At AECOM, we value everyone’s unique contributions and perspectives.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long‑term condition, who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.
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