Lead EPC Project Manager in Birmingham

Shape the delivery of nationally significant infrastructure. As a Lead EPC Project Manager, you'll take ownership of the end-to-end development, sanctioning and delivery of a major project-driving progress against time, cost and technical requirements in line with the Network Development Process. This is a high-impact role where your leadership will directly influence successful outcomes across a complex EPC environment. Based from our Birmingham project office several days each week, you'll work closely with a multi‑disciplinary project team, contractors and key stakeholders to manage EPC contracts, ensure strong commercial and performance management, and proactively identify and mitigate risk throughout the project lifecycle. Your regular on‑site presence in Birmingham will be critical in enabling collaboration, pace and effective decision‑making. You'll also lead the way in ensuring health, safety and environmental standards are embedded at every stage, while delivering against regulatory obligations and meeting stakeholder and customer commitments. If you thrive in a delivery‑focused environment and want to play a pivotal role in major infrastructure projects with long‑term impact, this role offers the opportunity to really make a difference.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for end‑to‑end delivery, ensuring the project is managed safely, on schedule, within budget, and to the required quality standard.
• Develop, support, sanction, and deliver the optimal solution and best value to the consumer.
• Identify early signs of project deviation and implement timely corrective actions to maintain delivery against cost, programme, and quality objectives.
• Responsible for the management of the integrated programme: maintaining control of milestones, dependencies, and critical path to deliver agreed outcomes and protect key delivery commitments.
• Responsible for day‑to‑day risk management: identify, assess, mitigate, and actively manage project risk throughout the lifecycle.
• Lead, manage and challenge change and decisions; ensuring scope, cost, and programme impacts are assessed, controlled, and approved through robust governance.

Finance

• Lead financial management, ensuring accurate cost forecasting, budget control, and financial reporting throughout the project lifecycle.
• Utilising value engineering to reduce costs whilst remaining within scope.

Safety

• Fostering an environment where everyone, regardless of seniority, feels able to share their concerns.
• Displaying visible safety leadership and setting the tone of project safety, for example by conducting site visits and providing timely feedback on improvements.
• Ensuring visible and accessible communications are in place throughout the life of a project, such as safety charters and notifications of incidents and lessons learned; you will also share good practices and reinforce positive behaviours.
• Looking after the projects' safety, health, environment, security and quality obligations, adhering to all relevant internal and external policies and regulations.

Leadership

• 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 project partners; 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.
• When things aren't going to plan you will share your learnings, and when they are you will celebrate your team's successes.
• Mentoring members of your team and supporting their ongoing professional development.

Training and Development

• We take your development seriously and will provide all the training you need to succeed.
• If you don't already have qualifications such as NEBOSH and APM certification, we will pay for you to take them.
• We will also provide internal training in areas including finance, leadership, management and negotiation.
• You will have access to LinkedIn Learning's 16,000+ expert‑led courses too.
• We fully support mentorship and encourage a 70:20:10 approach to development: 70% on the job training, 20% mentoring and 10% formal training.
• The opportunities within National Grid are fantastic; for example, your next career step might be a Senior Project Manager.
• We offer a career, not just a job, and will support you wherever you want to go.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience of leading cross‑functional teams.
• Demonstrable experience of stakeholder management.
• Demonstrable experience of good time management.
• Proficient business writing and communication skills.
• Demonstrable experience of problem solving and an appetite for continuous improvement.
• Strong influencing and negotiating skills.
• A customer‑centric approach to delivering a high‑quality output.
• Proven track record in building strong, enduring and effective relationships with key stakeholders e.g. Government.
• Good Project Management skills including management of risk for delivery of projects to scope, time, cost, quality, safety and security of supply.
• Knowledge of business processes and governance.
• Working knowledge and application of CDM.
• Proficient understanding and experience of Safety and Environmental legislation, practices and policies.
• Proficient in Contract Management (NEC).

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. You’ll need a driving licence that allows you to drive in the UK, and there will be some overnight travel required.

Company Context

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. Whatever your role, wherever you work with us, you'll help us hit stretching targets and achieve our far‑reaching goal: to secure, clean energy that supports our world far into the future. Here, you will be at the heart of energy.

Benefits

• A competitive salary up to £68,000 dependent on capability.
• This role also attracts a market supplement of £4,500, which is pro‑rated into your salary each month.
• In addition to your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on personal and company performance.
• A competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution up to a maximum company contribution of 12%.
• Access to flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving.