Control & Monitoring Asset Strategy Mgr in Glasgow

Location: Glasgow

Salary: £66-82K (up to 20% bonus, private healthcare and 15% pension)

Permanent, Hybrid (2-3 days in office per week)

Help us create a better future, quicker

We are seeking an experienced and forward-thinking manager to take ownership of Control and Monitoring Systems strategy across a large-scale Transmission and Distribution network. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of digital energy infrastructure by leading a team of control systems engineers and asset management professionals, driving innovation, and influencing industry-wide change.

What you’ll be doing

In this role, you will define and lead the strategic direction for control and monitoring assets, ensuring policies, standards, and practices align with wider asset management objectives. You will play a key role in embedding digital technologies and data-driven insights into decision-making, enhancing asset visibility, performance, and risk management while supporting the transition to a more flexible, decentralised, and low-carbon energy system. Working across policy, regulatory and investment planning functions, you will develop compelling long-term strategies and lead the development of investment cases, ensuring the network remains resilient, efficient, and future-ready. You will also act as a critical interface with regulatory bodies, representing the organisation in industry forums and shaping the evolution of control systems and network monitoring standards.

The position offers the chance to influence complex, high-value decisions by developing robust asset risk and performance methodologies, defining asset management policies and strategies, supporting data-led investment strategies, and ensuring compliance with key regulatory frameworks, including cyber security requirements. You will collaborate closely with operational, digitalisation, and cyber security teams to deliver integrated solutions, while maintaining strong relationships across the wider industry and government stakeholders.

What you’ll bring

As a manager, you will inspire and develop a high-performing team, creating a clear sense of purpose and fostering a collaborative and innovative environment. You will bring a strong blend of technical expertise in SCADA and control systems, strategic asset management and policy development experience, and the ability to translate complex challenges into clear policies and deliverable plans. Your commercial awareness and influencing skills will enable you to drive value, manage risk, and position the organisation at the forefront of digital network transformation. This is an opportunity for a motivated professional who thrives in a strategic leadership role, is passionate about innovation in energy networks, and is keen to make a lasting impact on the future of control and monitoring systems within a rapidly evolving industry.

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 Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
• Payroll giving and charity matched funding
• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
• Count us in – pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving
• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
• Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
• Life Assurance (4x salary)
• Access to ‘nudge’ 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 processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to careers@scottishpower.com.