Project Manager

Project Manager role managing EPC projects to time, budget, and quality. Variable-location based with expected travel to Birmingham office and project sites.

Essential experience in project management and a degree in Engineering or Project Management.

Competitive salary range of £56,000 - £65,000 plus benefits.

Role involves managing project safety, health, environment, security, and quality obligations.

About The Role:

• Help manage allocated EPC projects to time, budget, and quality, hitting key milestones along the way.
• Use your project management expertise to deliver and oversee projects in line with established processes.
• Share lessons learned across the wider business to drive continuous improvement.

This role supports the Grimsby to Walpole Project and is variable-location based. You will be expected to travel to our Birmingham office 1-2 times per week, as well as to project delivery sites and other locations as required by project demands. As the project progresses, more frequent travel will be required to sites in the East of England.

This is an opportunity to work on complex projects within our Infrastructure portfolio, helping to shape the future of energy in the UK.

About You:

• The most important thing is that you’re excited about building the kind of infrastructure that will help make Net Zero happen.
• You will be working in a busy, buoyant environment with lots of variety and change.
• You’ll need to be resilient, driven, and good at prioritising and managing your own time, particularly when the unexpected crops up.
• The strength of a project depends on excellent teamwork, so you’ll have to be good with people too.
• You make decisions based on the greater good and carefully consider the communities you are working in.
• Experience of project management is essential.
• A background in engineering would be desirable but not essential.
• Degree in Engineering or Project Management.
• You are willing to travel as required.
• You have a UK driving license.

What You'll Do:

• Manage the design process and planning for construction.
• A key part of this role is providing oversight of the engineering design and technical aspects of assigned work packages.
• Integration of other project disciplines including consents, land, legal, regulation and communications.
• Manage key third-party, customer and technical interfaces, building strong stakeholder relationships to support successful project delivery.
• Working collaboratively with National Grid and partner colleagues.
• Ensuring programme activities are completed to achieve key milestones.
• Employing a robust risk management process, identifying both risks and opportunities and working with the wider team to manage the risks in a timely manner.
• Whenever a project requires changes, ensuring the project remains within governance.
• Hitting budgets to monthly, yearly and completion deadlines.
• Utilising value engineering to reduce costs whilst remaining within scope.
• Fostering an environment where everyone, regardless of seniority, feels able to share their concerns.
• Displaying a visible commitment to safety and setting the tone of project safety.
• Ensuring visible and accessible communications are in place throughout the life of a project, such as safety charters and notifications of incidents and lessons learnt.
• Looking after your projects’ safety, health, environment, security and quality obligations, adhering to all relevant internal and external policies and regulations.
• Leading in a way that ensures we deliver what we promised, and that everyone in your team is motivated to deliver results in the right way.
• Fostering a collaborative environment with the supply chain, including principal contractors; suppliers of services and plant; customers; landowners; and local authorities, residents and businesses.
• Creating an atmosphere of trust where no one is isolated and everyone’s opinions are welcomed, learned from, and used to improve things.
• Acting with fairness and honesty in your communications.
• Mentoring members of your team and supporting their ongoing professional development.

What You'll Get:

• A competitive salary between £56,000 - £65,000– dependent on capability.
• This role also attracts £4,500 market supplement.
• A job requirement car will be provided subject to business mileage covered within the role.
• As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on personal and company 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 benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

About Us:

The British Energy Security Strategy set out the Government's ambition to connect up to 50GW of offshore generation to the electricity network by 2030. Facilitating this ambition will require significant reinforcements to the onshore electricity transmission network. National Grid Strategic Infrastructure will make this happen.

Here at National Grid, we connect homes and businesses to power, making sure supply and demand match each other. We make sure the lights are on in schools, operating theatres, and sporting arenas; we're thousands of people working on behalf of millions of people.

Our investment in Strategic Infrastructure via the Great Grid Upgrade will mean more home grown power, greater energy security and a cleaner future. Here, you will be at the heart of energy.

More Information:

This role closes on 19th November 2026 at 23:59, however we encourage candidates to submit their application as early as possible and not wait until the published closing date as this can vary.

We work towards the highest standards in everything we do, including how we support, value and develop our people. Our aim is to encourage and support employees to thrive and be the best they can be. We celebrate the difference people can bring into our organisation, and welcome and encourage applicants with diverse experiences and backgrounds, and offer flexible and tailored support, at home and in the office.

We're committed to building a workforce that represents the communities we serve, and a working environment in which each individual feels valued, respected, fairly treated, and able to reach their full potential.

Please note that in most cases, National Grid is unable to offer sponsorship for employment under the UK points-based immigration system. As such, applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK without requiring sponsorship now or in the future under the UK points-based immigration system.