Senior Project Manager in Edinburgh

Salary from £61,600 per year (negotiable based on experience) plus an excellent benefits package including – 15% annual bonus and Private Healthcare.

Career progression/development opportunities.

Location: Edinburgh Park

Closing Date: 28/01/26

Permanent / Full Time

Help us create a better future, quicker. As ScottishPower we know that our people are our strongest asset, so we’re always looking for individuals whose energy, intelligence and passion can help us reach our goals. At the heart of all business visions and activities are the people whose individual efforts and performance make it happen. We encourage our people to be proud of where they work, to share their ideas and to own their careers. We promote a safe working environment and push people to shape and progress their careers so that we grow our talent within the company.

Role

As a Senior Project Manager HVDC, you will manage the delivery of a portfolio of capital projects, ensuring that they are developed and delivered safely, without adverse impact to the environment, within budget, to a high-quality standard and within the required timescales. Project portfolio will be high-value and are expected to have a development and delivery phase of a 2-10 years’ duration. The Senior Project Manager HVDC will be required to work within the wider management team (across the SPT/NGET Joint Venture) and to undertake the full range of professional project management responsibilities for the EGL4 project through development, tendering, delivery and closure lifecycle.

What you’ll be doing

• Responsible for the project management of identified project(s) from development through delivery to handover and providing project management controls across all areas of the project.
• Accountable for the delivery of outputs, incentive metrics, milestones in line with business targets and effectively manage project risk and mitigate the impact of issues that may emerge.
• Identify and understand the potential interactions with other interface projects and develop initiatives which minimise the impact on deliverability.
• Manage interfaces with network outage planning to ensure the outage programme is fully informed by the requirements of the projects' investment programme.
• Creation of project plans and development of accurate capital expenditure forecasts and output projections on assigned projects, with accountability for project, contractual and financial governance.
• Provide input to the management of the relevant regulatory processes along with identifying, promoting, and implementing innovation, efficiencies and value engineering.
• Engage with all necessary internal and external stakeholders to promote effective communication and information sharing.
• Promote and implement external and internal stakeholder engagement and community liaison for projects, including compliance with the SPEN Landowners Agreement and Code of Conduct.
• Responsible for ensuring the scope is delivered within agreed programme and budget.
• Leading the client onsite teams ensuring compliance with all Health, Safety & Environmental regulations and Legislation.
• Perform a leading role in continuous improvement in HSQE performance against agreed performance indicators.
• Assist in the Contract and financial management of assigned contracts.
• Responsible for financial governance of project aspects including financial forecasting and budgeting.
• Responsible for ensuring development, management and review of accurate contract specific project programmes of work including multi staged activities and integrated programmes of work where key interfaces exist.
• Managing direct and indirect resources to ensure achievement of key sustainability environmental, planning, procurement, design, construction, commissioning and completion milestones.
• Ensure planning of progress, co-ordination interface meetings with the project team, client and contractors.
• Responsible for Team/Project Compliance with applicable project Quality Management Systems.

What you’ll bring

• Degree qualified or equivalent experience with expert project management incl. but not limited to; planning skills, risk & opportunity management, leading high performing teams, investment approval processes, financial forecasting.
• Significant experience of delivering infrastructure or transmission projects coupled with experience of working and leading multi-disciplined teams at a professional level.
• Experience in planning activities for complex and interactive technical projects which have a timeframe over multiple years.
• Ability to devise solutions to complex problems within large expenditure projects delivering on a timeline with commercial implications.

Minimum Criteria

• Significant experience in project managing large and/or complex transmission infrastructure projects.
• Degree in relevant Engineering Discipline or equivalent experience.
• Full and Valid Driving licence.
• Project management qualification.

What’s in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%. At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow.

• 36 days annual leave
• Holiday Purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
• Share Schemes
• Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding
• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
• Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support
• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more.

Why SP Energy Networks

SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network – connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It’s a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland’s ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we’re taking it very seriously. We’re investing >£5.5 billion into our transmission network, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation. Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in. We are committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting.