Senior Project Manager LPN DCD

This Senior Project Manager LPN DCD will report to the Programme Delivery Manager and will work within Network Operations, Distribution Capital Delivery based in our London offices. You will be a permanent employee. You will attract a salary of £99,127 and a bonus of 3%. This role can also offer blended working after probationary period (6 months) – 3 days in the office and 2 remote.

Benefits:

• 25 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays.
• Reservist Leave – Additional 18 days full pay and 22 unpaid.
• Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%).
• Tenancy Loan Deposit Scheme, Season Ticket Loan.
• Tax efficient benefits: Cycle to Work, Home & Tech, and Green Car Leasing Schemes.
• Occupational Health support.
• Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers' products.
• Discounted gym membership.
• Employee Assistance Programme.

Job Purpose:

The role of the Senior Project Manager within the Distribution Capital Delivery team is for managing a geographical team. This team ensures the delivery of distribution projects as set out in the annual investment plan. Asset Management produces the annual investment plan. We require all programmes and projects to deliver safely, to quality, on budget, on time and to customer service standards. You will lead the LPN DCD team of Project Managers, Work Planners, and Project Support in delivering a portfolio of projects and programmes from creation to completion. Also, the Senior Project Manager is responsible for the commercial management of contractors used to deliver LPN Network Planning projects including those working together with Capital Programme. The Senior Project Manager will support the Programme Delivery Manager with regards to budgeting and cost provision for their team. You will manage their budgets and expenditures following current Financial Authorisation Limits (FAL) empowered by the company. You will have the variety of being both technically and commercially challenging. It carries the responsibility for managing functions such as safety and customer service for the Distribution Capital Delivery activity. You will support Procurement and Contract Management. This includes the delivery of professional services and engineering contracts. You will also support Asset Management in developing delivery plans/strategies and budgets for future years. The role will support Network Operations in responding to system emergencies and providing daily assistance. The Senior Project Manager agrees and implements the project delivery strategy, allocating works to the project managers, and monitoring the performance of both LPN Network Ops delivery teams and contractors. You will forecast resource and material requirements, monitor overall portfolio/project costs and delivery, manage contractor performance, and provide regular reporting.

Dimensions:

The Distribution Capital Delivery team delivers the regulated settlement (ED1 & ED2) with the Asset Portfolio Plan for the three licence areas, with a team based in each region. As part of this team the Senior Project Manager will deliver a portfolio of projects spread across several areas within the Asset Portfolio Plan. The value of the portfolio will vary depending on the content. It will be in the order of £3-5M per annum, with a significant volume being medium to large value Network Planning schemes. These schemes will be circa up to an exceeding £1M each per annum. The number of direct reports (Project Managers, Work Planners, SAPs, and Project Support will be @3-4).

Principal Accountabilities:

• Ensure that you maintain a high standard of safety management throughout all responsibilities and that UK Power Networks defines parameters within which you maintain safety performance.
• Promote the Incident and Injury free philosophy.
• Lead a team to deliver projects from creation to completion to time, quality, cost, whilst maintaining the highest levels of safety and environmental management.
• Manage the coordination and performance of several Project Managers.
• Close liaison with the Network Operations Area Managers and Lead Engineers to ensure the maximum utilisation of staff will be an important aspect of this role.
• Provide technical and management leadership to the team of Project Managers across all project management disciplines.
• Ensure construction assurance through site safety audits on quality of work, technical competencies, adherence to specifications, compliance with testing and commissioning procedures and safety and environmental procedures.
• Ensure that the required project completion data is compliant with policy and submitted within specified timescales for processing.
• Produce an overall delivery strategy and ensure provision of project managers, direct/contract resources, materials and services to ensure that project programmes are maintained.
• Manage the commercial arrangements with contractors to ensure that contractual arrangements are met and that cost controls are in place.
• Work with the appointed contractor management team to ensure utilisation of contractor resource.
• Ensure escalation of related issues and contractor performance to the Programme Delivery Manager.
• Responsible for the continuous improvement in productivity of our direct resources and contractor partners.
• Must aim to remove any barriers preventing the efficient delivery of work in Distribution Capital Delivery and across all Directorates.
• Produce forecasts for overall cost, commitment, milestone progress, resources, materials, and contracts.
• These forecasts ensure you meet expenditure plans and source delivery of critical items and personnel promptly.
• Additionally, they ensure you align with UK Power Networks procedures.
• Work with partners such as Asset Management, Distribution Planning, Supply Chain, Network Operations, Procurement and Contract management to ensure that materials and delivery contracts are in place to deliver the programme.
• Lead the team in ensuring high levels of safety and customer focus.
• Support the Programme Delivery Manager in the ongoing development of the team to ensure delivery of the asset portfolio plan.
• Ensure continuous development of the Project delivery team's knowledge and skill base training & staff development.
• Ensure design and construction compliance with CDM.
• Perform daily management of contractors and conduct regular reviews with contractors of safety, forecasts, delivery, and costs.
• Ensure staff comply with Company procedures and complete work to the required standard.
• Management and resolution of customer complaints for both internal and contractor resources.
• Deputise for the Programme Delivery Manager.

Qualifications:

• A HNC or equivalent qualification is mandatory.
• A safety qualification such as IOSH Managing Safely and experience working with the CDM regulations and ISO9001 quality processes.
• A formal Project Management qualification such as APMP or Prince 2 (Foundation & Practitioner).
• Knowledge of Microsoft Project, the Microsoft Office suite of applications (Excel, PowerPoint and Word, with an emphasis on Excel) and project management techniques would be an advantage.
• A working knowledge of SAP including (Project Management, Works management, Finance and Asset Management modules) or experience with a similar Enterprise Management IT system is desirable.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel to site and DCD meetings.

Nature And Scope:

The Distribution Capital Delivery team is part of the Network Operations directorate. The team manages the programme of the Asset Portfolio Plan. It works with the term and framework contractors to deliver the programme. Also, the team requires the internal UK Power Networks resources to deliver certain aspects of the programme. The role of a Senior Project Manager in Distribution Capital Delivery is more biased towards Project Management, Personnel, and contract management skills. Although the role still requires site-based activities, these include safety visits, site previews/surveys, planning and coordination of works, and construction assurance. The Senior Project Manager will ensure that important functions of the portfolio delivery are in place. These include scopes of work, procurement processes, financial approval, resource planning (materials and people), project delivery, reporting and review. The Senior Project Manager will report to the Programme Delivery Manager and will work within the LPN region, although there may be some requirement to work across regions depending on the type of work being managed. The Senior Project Manager will support the team requirements and may therefore have the Programme Delivery Manager reassign priorities. The Senior Project Manager's role is to deliver the requirements of the portfolio and thus the Asset Portfolio Plan in a safe, efficient, compliant, and cost-effective manner. You will manage the projects/portfolio to ensure value for money and to update the data used in the development of the Asset Portfolio Plan.

Health & Safety Responsibilities:

Managers and supervisors carry both legal and company responsibilities for ensuring the health and safety of their employees, those under their control and those who might be affected by the work undertaken, i.e. public, visitors and employees of other organisations. This includes briefing individuals working for them and ensuring there is the necessary understanding, competence and application of requirements to work safely and without harming the environment. Employees will ensure they understand the health and safety risks involved in their work activities and their responsibility to apply the controls needed to manage those risks to acceptable levels. Similarly where work activities can have an adverse impact upon the environment, and where there are legal requirements, employees will understand those impacts and the controls they must ensure are applied.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Where applicable, this role is subject to safer recruitment processes and robust pre‑employment checks.