Principal Project Manager, Onshore Wind

Locogen is a renewable energy company. Our vision is a world powered 100% by renewables; where everyone has access to affordable, sustainable energy and clean air. Our work is innovative and varied across Wind, Solar PV, Battery Storage (BESS) and Hydrogen.

We are looking for an experienced Project Manager with experience managing onshore wind projects with a particular focus on early-stage feasibility. You will be joining our consultancy division at a Principal level with the title of Principal Wind Consultant and working for a range of clients with various sizes and scopes of projects.

Day to day you will be leading, planning and delivering wind energy projects at early-stage design, feasibility and techno-economic analysis phases. You’ll be working with stakeholders, internal and external resources to keep things on time and on budget. You will also be supporting and mentoring more junior employees to help our team be the very best we can be.

Here’s some of the key parts of the role:

• Develop project briefs, maintain project objectives and define project scope, goals and deliverables.
• Define work packages and tasks for internal and external resources.
• Establish communication strategy with project stakeholders, monitor and report on project progress and maintain excellent communications throughout project delivery.
• Lead project meetings with internal and external resources and project stakeholders.
• Be the main point of contact for clients, partners and all consultants, suppliers and contractors on projects.
• Lead on the creation and maintenance of project management documentation, including project budget, programmes, risk register, change registers, progress reports etc., and implement projects in accordance with the project plan.
• Set expectations from the project team and manage, support and direct the project team (internal and external resources).
• Manage the project budget, schedule, scope, quality, risks, issues and changes.
• Report to stakeholders on project risks and issues, as well as providing solutions to resolve risks and issues.
• Track deliverables and ensure these meet the requirements set out in the project brief and project plan.
• Lead on quality assurance.
• Implement and manage change to meet project outputs.
• Close projects in accordance with our project management standards and industry best practice.
• Evaluate, assess and report on the results of the project.
• Provide leadership and mentoring to multi-disciplinary project teams, including deputy project managers and subject matter experts.

Skills and experience required:

• Project management experience of wind projects through early-stage design and feasibility.
• Good working knowledge of the UK Wind sector/market.
• Full UK driving license.
• Good working knowledge of engineering standards relevant to the design and construction of renewable energy projects (e.g. BS standards, Eurocodes, etc.).
• Experience in Energy Yield Assessments for wind projects would be advantageous, but not essential.
• Experience in UK grid and BESS projects would be advantageous, but not essential.

This role can be based in our Stockbridge (Edinburgh) office or can be undertaken in a remote/hybrid capacity depending on where you live. The office is dog friendly, modernly kitted out and has free parking.

We are a multidisciplinary team of friendly, innovative, and creative people who are passionate about renewable energy. We are informal, non-hierarchical, inclusive, open, and collaborative. Locogen is a place where everyone can grow and develop whilst doing innovative and interesting work. We love what we do and believe in empowering and trusting each other to deliver. We learn from our experiences, take accountability, and hold others to account. We are client focused and inspire each other to do the best we can. We like a chat and value communication with each other and our clients. We are a social bunch so there is always something going on – we have regular organised socials and get-togethers.

Some of our benefits:

• Fully flexible hours with no fixed core hours.
• 25 days holiday + 5 flexible bank holidays + 4 company closure days.
• Work from anywhere up to 60 working days per year (20 days per time).
• Ongoing professional and personal development opportunities – training, memberships and education costs.
• Private Health Insurance.
• Life Assurance, Critical Illness, and Income Protection options.
• Pension at 10% (5% employee/employer contribution split). Flexible for employees who want to opt out or contribute more of their salary.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity policies.
• Cycle to Work & EV Car Scheme.
• Dog friendly office.

No candidate will meet every single desired criterion. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you. We are not using recruitment agencies for this vacancy – please apply directly.

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