Senior Development Project Manager

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Location:

For this role, we require successful applicants to be based from one of our Scottish locations and you'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in the office - Glasgow, Perth, Inverness or Aberdeen.

Salary: £59,800 - £89,800 (role dependent) + car/car allowance + performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available.

We have exciting opportunities for Senior Development Project Managers to join the Eastern Green Link 5 (EGL5) team, leading one of the UK's largest and most ambitious transmission infrastructure projects.

EGL5 will create a new High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) connection between Scotland and England, supporting the transfer of renewable electricity to key centres of demand and playing a critical role in the UK's transition to net zero. The project includes new HVDC converter stations, subsea cable infrastructure and associated transmission connections.

As a Senior Development Project Manager, you will lead complex project development activities, manage key stakeholder and supply chain relationships, and drive progress across critical work streams, helping to de-risk the project and prepare it for successful delivery. This is an opportunity to make a lasting impact on a nationally significant project that will support the future of the UK's energy network.

• Lead a team of Development Project Managers to progress the project development of EGL 5 through the optioneering and initial design phases, with an ability to develop the optimum project solution, deliver to timescales and manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Provide effective communication and management of all key internal and external interfaces across various project work streams in the development phase, including with our JV partners where appropriate.
• Develop, manage and report on project programmes to maintain project milestones and developing mitigation as required where issues are encountered for your project portfolio.
• Support the effective use of project management systems, risk management processes and large capital project governance, while ensuring CDM 2015 requirements are considered and implemented where relevant.
• Provide effective Health, Safety, Wellbeing and Environmental leadership. Ensuring compliance to all business health, safety, wellbeing and environmental policies and standards.

• Strong leadership skills with experience of developing, managing and reporting on significant infrastructure projects.
• Knowledge of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and other key relevant Health, Safety and Environmental legislation.
• Experience of the NEC3 Suite of Contracts, with a focus on the Engineering and Construction and Professional Services Contracts.
• Proven ability to support project development through the optioneering and initial design phases, with an ability to develop the optimum project solution, deliver to timescales and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with internal and external stakeholders at all levels, plus a degree level qualification and relevant professional membership, with project management qualifications desirable.

SSE's purpose is to be restless every day until we make electricity clean, affordable and available for all.

We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. This includes electricity transmission and distribution networks, onshore and offshore wind farms, hydro-electric power and flexible thermal generation. We…